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Article #410Re: Prediction on the future of cellphones
From: David Preece
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 22:01
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 22:01
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Snoopy wrote: >>> nonono.. GPRS is the way to go... :) > Are you talking about worldwide satellite phones? No, GPRS is like an 'always on' Internet connection to your phone - you get charged by the packet to transfer data, not by time. At $22/Mb it strikes me as one of the stronger reasons why Microsoft must not be allowed to put software on phones. Dave -- Unix is like living in a teepee: No windows, No Gates, Apache in house.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108c83,cb464f807cdeba4d X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public X-Google-Thread: 106e5e,cb464f807cdeba4d X-Google-Attributes: gid106e5e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-07 14:59:02 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!telocity-west!TELOCITY!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!news02.tsnz.net!not-for-mail From: David Preece <dpreece@deletethis.paradise.net.nz> Subject: Re: Prediction on the future of cellphones Newsgroups: nz.comp,aus.computers Followup-To: nz.comp Reply-To: dpreece@deletethis.zedkep.com References: <3cd7b485.4388559@news.caverock.net.nz> <pan.2002.05.07.11.58.06.121111.461@orcon.dor.dor.net.nz> <%2SB8.104131$o66.301661@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <3cd842cd.1265222@news.caverock.net.nz> Lines: 16 Organization: - User-Agent: KNode/0.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-ID: <F6YB8.1248$A07.192980@news02.tsnz.net> Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 10:01:01 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.79.83.91 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tsnz.net X-Trace: news02.tsnz.net 1020808741 203.79.83.91 (Wed, 08 May 2002 09:59:01 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 09:59:01 NZST