On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 13:20 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Actually, speaking as someone who imports electronic components and
> peripherals for prototype systems from the US all the time, I do know
> what to expect when I import.
Good, then you know that you provide Customs (via the shipping
Cancel the last thing I said. I moved to the US and for some unknow
reason my brain mixed the two countries laws.
You declare the items on the outgoing section of your quarterly VAT
return. You get the money back as a refund against VAT your company
charged (assuming you're VAT registered).
Re
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:47 -0500, Erik wrote:
> 8. I'm not even sure that you can have a data plan without a voice
>plan. Seems like at the very least you might not get the
>smartphone rebate if you don't get the rebate.
Both Cingular and SunCom (who have GSM roaming in my area) do data
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 14:19 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Usenet was (well, is, but it has been dying for a long time)
at 3.2Tb of data a day it's far from dead.
> The bad part was that the flood
> fill mechanism means every site in the network has to carry *all*
> traffic even if no one local
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 08:41 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> I'm curious -- which one do you use? Were you able to get just a sim
> card from them, or did they insist on "giving" you a phone?
They insisted on giving you the phone and looking at it you would need
to keep the phone in order to maintain
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:05 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you are in the UK, Tescos do a cheap pay as you go SIM;
> http://www.tesco.com/mobilenetwork/shop/?page=simcards
> Maybe WalMart do the same in the US?
There are various pay-as-you-go services in the US. $20 (10UKP) will
buy you a G
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 10:32 -0700, Knight Walker wrote:
> >
> > http://www.projectblackdog.com/
>
> Yeah. Too bad that company is going under. :)
I actually have two of these and I love them. I lost faith in the
company and they lost my support because I have yet to see them announce
their com
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 16:14 -0800, Elliot F. wrote:
> The best point that Robert made in his original post was
> that there are out of band methods of alerting the phone that a new
> message is available (call from known number or SMS message.) As far as
> I know, this is how current "push" ema
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 23:49 -0800, Elliot F. wrote:
> Google talk has a persistent connection between the client and the
> server. With a persistent connection, pushing data is pretty easy.
We have to use a persistant connection as most GSM networks use private
address space and NAT. This mean
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 18:51 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
> On 1/27/07 7:12 AM, "Mary Stovel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the design of the Moko which seems to have a
> > nice place to put a lanyard.
> Which will come in the box ;-)
It last, the purpose of the mysterious hole is made clear!
Sem
I keep seeing people say that the only Cellphone companies that will
support OpenMoko are Cingular and T-Mobile. I feel like I need to
correct thi.
Cingular and T-Mobile are not the only GSM carriers, they are the only
NATIONAL GSM carriers.
In fact, there are 62 GSM based carriers in the Unite
Sorry, I have to completely disagree with you.
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:21 +0100, Tomasz Zielinski wrote:
> I'm affraid of using interpreted and dynamically typed languages in
> embedded environment, like cellphone. Especially when using GSM API --
> it's much easier to omit bug in interpreted la
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 11:51 -0500, Dean Collins wrote:
> Hmmm well I'm not an expert so whatever you say however from my
> understanding it is the server that notifies the handset that there is
> email available for it not the handset polling the server.
Thinking laterally, since handsets are NAT'
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 10:12 +0800, Ben Lau wrote:
> I also think that it should come with none of any scripting language
> beside shell script and Javascript (by web browser). Python/Perl is
> too huge.
It's a balance. Size utilization against use. So, the questions I
would ask if I were a propo
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 13:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here's another idea, this one less than half-baked, but I trust this community
> to help identify the flaws, seek the gems, and see if anything remains that is
> useful.
This will be the first application I will develop. I love it - Th
> > But what should the software for the phone be programmed in, Java
> > or C++ or what? or since its Linux smartphone can I do either?
Perl :-D
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On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 08:58 +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> I see more and more people using it as phone. Personally I find the design
> ridiculous (big, crufty software) and never quite understood the use of push
> email anyway...
Push email is important when you are relying on email for timely
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