There is going to be bluetooth on the phone. The range is small, but
the possibility of a bluetooth to wifi adaptor might be interesting...
Maybe something small enough to clip on a belt. Then connect to it
through bluetooth and have it connect to wifi and redirect network
traffic.
I am sure its possible.. Has anyone ever heard of anything like that?
Thanks,
--Tim
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 9:15, Rob wrote:
Hi... I just stumbled across this project yesterday while getting over
my disappointment at the announcements that the iPhone would be a
closed system - not a surprising announcement at all, but disappointing
nonetheless. Anyhow, I'm pretty fired up about this project now that
I've come across it. I've been hoping for a truly open phone for
years, thanks for making it happen.
It's a shame it won't have wifi, as that would make the device
incredibly useful to me... It would be amazing to be able to make VoIP
calls when a 802.11 is available, and data plans from celphone carriers
in Canada are really expensive. There's wireless all over downtown
Toronto now though, and it would be great to have a phone that could
use it. The combination of gps and wireless would make it possible to
do some pretty cool stuff with maps. I'm sure it's been said ad
nauseam, but this would really be an amazing product with wifi. I'm
just sayin', is all...
Anyhow, even without wifi I'll probably be lining up to buy one of
these things even if only to show that there is a market for an open
phone - I'll hope there's wifi in v2.
In the meantime, I was thinking about how I could get around the lack
of wifi last night and something occurred to me... Would it be
possible with this phone to set up a PPP dialup server on my machine at
home, and get dialup access to the internet by calling my home number?
This would be a lot cheaper than downloading via GPRS because Canadian
wireless carriers are all apparently run by a bunch of jerks. Would
any extra hardware (eg: a modem) have to be built into the phone in
order to get PPP dialup access this way, or could it just be done
through software? If hardware is needed, is it too late to consider
adding it to the specs?
There any other non-obvious options for Internet access with this phone
that don't involve GPRS? I suppose IP over Avian Carriers would
work...
I apologize if this has come up on the list before, I didn't read every
message.
--Tim
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