When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around
3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, and now I wonder: what do people do
with GPRS? Do they have better deals from their carrier, or do they use
their bandwidth *very* sparingly? If so, what tools do they use?
Stefan
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around
3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, and now I wonder: what do people do
with GPRS? Do they have better deals from their carrier, or do they use
their bandwidth *very*
When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around
3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted,
well, i pay 24¢/mb. simyo, germany.
with my treo 650 i mostly used it to look for the next available train,
when german railways spoiled my plans again ... and an occasional call to
google
here in germany it isn't so expensiv.
you can have 200MB for 10€ or a flat rate for 25€
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra schrieb:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around
3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, and
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around
3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, and now I wonder: what do people do
with GPRS? Do they have better deals from their carrier, or do
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Alastair Johnson wrote:
GPRS and 3G data rates in the UK vary hugely between supplier and call
plan. On the prepay SIM I'm testing with 1 uk pound gets me 'unlimited'
use for a day, though they're likely to suggest I change if I exceed
250MB, and I'm not supposed to use
Still people seem quite happy to pay for text messages. Work out the
cost per kB on those ;-)
That's what I meant by what tools do they use.
I guess you can try and use some kind of POP setup so you can download
your emails (with extra help to skip attachments or large emails): that
could
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 04:47:52PM +0100, Alastair Johnson wrote:
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around
3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, and now I wonder: what do
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:12:12 -0400, Stefan Monnier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around
3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, and now I wonder: what do people do
with GPRS? Do they have better deals from their carrier, or do they use
their
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:47:52 +0100, Alastair Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around
3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, and now I wonder: what
With my old camera phone I actually would write short messages on paper and
send a photo, so it'd be free. (I'm just perverse that way)
WOOOHAHAHAHAHAAA!!! :-)
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Running on Mandriva Linux 2008 and
Joel Newkirk wrote:
What irritates me the most is that I have unlimited
data, but T-Mobile still charges me $0.15 per text message since I don't
pay the $5 or whatever per month for a messaging bundle. Most
irrititatingly, though, if the message has an image or sound file attached,
the
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Joel Newkirk wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:54:45 +0100, Arigead [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Don't want to hijack the thread this stems from Re: [2008.9] Wifi very
unreliable but I mentioned there that external links from a wiki might
not be the best
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:14:05 +0100, Arigead [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Wiki Instructions:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GPRS#Option_1:_With_GSM_multiplexing_and_with_a_GUI
Finally got this GPRS sort of working :-)
I put together a shell script of the steps I've taken to get this far. A
lot
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Benedikt Schindler wrote:
Arigead schrieb:
[...]
From a clean flash of a 2008 Daily from last week:
Om2008.8-gta02-20080903.uImage.bin
Om2008.8-gta02-20081007.rootfs.jffs2
And executing the commands
echo nameserver 208.67.222.222
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Sarton O'Brien wrote:
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 00:54:45 Arigead wrote:
Configuring libdbus-glib-1-2
Collected errors:
* Package libgobject-2.0-0 wants to install file
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
But that file is already provided by
Don't want to hijack the thread this stems from Re: [2008.9] Wifi very
unreliable but I mentioned there that external links from a wiki might
not be the best idea and that I was having problems with external GPRS
instructions linked from the relevant wiki page.
Continued at the bottom of this:
Arigead schrieb:
[...]
From a clean flash of a 2008 Daily from last week:
Om2008.8-gta02-20080903.uImage.bin
Om2008.8-gta02-20081007.rootfs.jffs2
And executing the commands
echo nameserver 208.67.222.222 /etc/resolv.conf
echo nameserver 208.67.220.220 /etc/resolv.conf
echo arch base
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 00:54:45 Arigead wrote:
Configuring libdbus-glib-1-2
Collected errors:
* Package libgobject-2.0-0 wants to install file
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
But that file is already provided by package * libglib-2.0-0
Maybe the above is not a problem but if you've
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:54:45 +0100, Arigead [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Don't want to hijack the thread this stems from Re: [2008.9] Wifi very
unreliable but I mentioned there that external links from a wiki might
not be the best idea and that I was having problems with external GPRS
instructions
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