I can see that with Android/Ubuntu/Clearwire. T-mobile is a bit limited in range (OK, coming from AT&T perhaps not) you might go with Droid/Verizon?
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Harald Sundt <h_su...@efn.org> wrote: > The iPhone Nomad - Is He or She Possible? > > I have a goal. You might say I'm looking for the silver lining in a storm > cloud. > > Over the next six months I'm going to have to wind down my financial > lifestyle to the point I live in a camper trailer behind my car. Enough said > about that. What I really am looking at is the fact that I use my iPhone as > my telephone and my Internet as well as writing already. I have a laptop > that is a dual-boot one side being Fedora 11 and the other side being > Windows XP. My thinking is that I can keep my iPhone updated on Windows and > use Skype for my telephone existence with e-mail being the way people > contact me more formally. > > But this notion of a nomad lifestyle brings up several questions. First, > using an iPhone with Windows means that you have less functionality in > relationship between the operating system and the handset. What is it that > Windows won't be able to do for my iPhone that the Macintosh operating > system can. (Trading my laptop in for a Macintosh lap top is not an option > in my financial situation) > > Secondly, this means that I am way to be dependent on the “E”, “3G” and > Starbucks type WiFi for all my networking needs. Can I update the software > on my iPhone through a Starbucks type WiFi connection? I'm sure it's going > to take longer than on broadband, but is it even possible? > > Thirdly, I'm not even sure whether Fedora 11 and Windows XP can update over > WiFi. > > And the whole business of people calling me if I have to use Skype alone is > a mystery so far. > > Perhaps if I had just a cheaper landline that phone number could reach me > over the AT&T network and have really slow updates. But that itself would be > depending on being able to hang onto my home, and eventually I will almost > certainly have to move to my camper trailer. > > So you see I have some logistics problems here, and I have a sneaky > suspicion I'm not even seeing some real pitfalls. But I'd like to ask anyone > who has experience in any of these areas to help me orient myself, and in > return I plan to write a kind of article about the whole thing and put it > out there somehow because I think that there will be a lot of us out there > someday. > > Don't cry for me Argentina, after all, if you have an iPhone by definition > you are one of the really lucky ones in this world of 6.7 5 billion people. > > Leo Rivers December 16, 2009 9:16 AM Cottage Grove, Oregon 2009© > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > -- Edward P. Craig "Think this through with me. Let me know your mind" Hunter/Garcia _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
