On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, John Smith wrote: > 2009/11/18 Liz <ed...@billiau.net>: > > it needs to be able to run open source stuff > > Almost all phones can run open source software, you'd need to be more > specific about what you want to run and find out if that or something > similar runs on the platform. i like being able to choose exactly which apps are on the freerunner obviously i want decent gps and mapping apps i am not really into playing music, videos, browsing the net from the phone ( my phone bill is about $5 to $10 a month - its a nuisance item which i have to have because i have to answer it
> > > have some decent battery life (that's the freerunner's downfall) > > Most phones can swap batteries and you can buy higher capacity after > market batteries, for example the HTC dream does about 6 hours of > constant GPS usage on the 1100mAh battery it came with, but for $50 I > got a 2450mAh battery. > > > and does not need to have a camera > > It's actually quite difficult to get a phone without a camera these days. i knew that > > > GSM band > > I don't think you can get anything but GSM based phones in Australia > any more, Telstra ditched CDMA for UTMS etc, these days it's more of a > case of if you need 3G data in regional areas then you need a 3G > handset capable of 900Mhz for Optus and Voda, or 850Mhz for Telstra. i'm using vodafone, because being able to get out of range is a good excuse not to answer the thing. -- Is this really happening? _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
