On 12/16/06, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Without SIM card is the keyword. There are people got into trouble, especialy in the mountains and they didn't made an emergency call because their GSM network was not strong enough. Only a few GSM user does know that then it help to remove the SIM card to do a emergency call with any GSM network.
In Australia they're considering banning 000 (emergency number in AU) calls from mobile phones without SIM cards. Apparently they've had tens of thousands of calls from such phones, but not a single one is genuine and most calls come just after school ends - so probably kids playing pranks. I don't think they've blocked this yet, but I'm not sure.
On the longterm an OpenMokophone with thuraya.com satellite module could be interesting :) Phoning somewhere on a sea with an OpenMoko phone.
I'd rather have Thuraya use OpenMoko for their phones (isn't that the point of this?). The 5020 isn't out yet, but is planned for Windows CE. Is there time to save them? Ben _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
