On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 23:04 -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote: > > > Unfortunatly, It looks to me like T-Mobile is currently not interested in > > > letting its pre-paid customers use GPRS to go anywhere outside their Silly > > > T-Zones walled garden. > > > > Let me guess. > > This contains such things as weather reports, news headlines, ringtones, ... > > All available for a small per-use-fee? > > No I've got a Linux phone with Opera on it, and it works just fine on > TMobile in the US to access any web site. I'm guessing that since the > phones they sell are locked down to just the TZones crap, that's why > they offer such a low price for GPRS, because most users won't take > much bandwidth. But actually you can do anything that the phone will > let you do.
That's good news; however, seems that T-Mobile could change that policy if users do start using a lot of bandwidth. Hope they and other carriers see enough of a trend and market in new open-source and open-design devices to support it rather than to build the garden wall higher. Phil _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community