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General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:39:11 +0200, Per R�nne wrote:
> 
> > I consider updating my old m130 to a smartphone, namely the Treo 700p,
> > but I do have a few questions:
> > 
> > Is it possible to use it as a radio receiver {especially FM and DAB}? I
> > know it is possible to listen to radio through /streaming/ from the
> > internet, but that sounds quite expensive in use. And of course podcasts
> > are possible, downloaded from computer to smartphone. But genuine radio?
> > 
> > And on the headset that comes with the phone. It seems to be connected
> > to the smartphone through a wire. And - is it the usual kind of headset
> > like the one I'm using on my present {old} Nokia 3410 mobile phone with
> > an ear-speaker that drops out of the ear all the time?
> > 
> > <http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,,18163,00.html>
> > 
> > with a HDC-5 (with remote button) headset
> > 
> > <http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,8764,21422,00.html>
> > 
> > It will make life much easier to combine a palm pda {I use it witdh
> > DateBk6, powerOne Graph 4.2.3 with full set of financial templates
> > added, A-lex English-English and the Duden-Oxford German-English-German
> > dictionaries} with a mobile phone + a tiny radio especially if it is a
> > DAB radio.
> > 
> > To-day, I go around with three different devices ;-(.
> 
> There is no radio in the 700p, it can play MP3s and you can store them on
> the SD card. The headphone that it comes with is pretty much a throw away,
> you could get a bluetooth headphone if you want.

OK.

> I've just moved up from the 650 to the 700p. EVDO makes a huge difference,
> e-mail, web browsing and ssh are all very satisfying on the 700p, on the
> 650 they were usable but they were painfully sluggish.

I don't know whether EVDO can be used in Denmark; simply put I've never
heard about it before. But I do crosspost to a couple of relevant Danish
newsgroups, and make a FUT to the groups to make sure that the palm
newsgroup isn't overcrowded with irrelevant article {if anybody replies
from the palm group just remove the FUT}.

And then I give a link to the Danes:

<http://www.evdoinfo.com/EVDO/Info/What_is_EVDO_2005021237/>
-- 
Per Erik R�nne
http://www.RQNNE.dk