Just come back from a 6 day/~3000km drive holiday up the coast of Western Australia - looks like GSM is almost obsolete with 3 g coverage in many places, but no GSM at all (or weirdly, the FR reports "SOS only" when it looks like 3G only is present when on the 3G SIM :( Talked to some truckies in a pub and they all had 3G signals, GSM had none in the town (Telstra - town was Northhampton, largeish regional centre) - they said they never use GSM these days as coverage is miserable.
So the FR is now obsolete - but is it possible to use the FR with an external 3G dongle? - I know it works for data from previous posts here, but can you make voice/sms calls from an external 3G dongle? If not, what is a viable, relatively open phone with similar capabilities (but better quality, and actually works reliably!) to the FR? BillK * We also took a Treo650, a nokia, an LG and an unknown phone on the 3 network. FR - two major crashes requiring full reboot, one when a call came whilst using TangoGPS full screen - the others annoyingly, and it was noticed by my better half they "Just Worked", unlike the FR :( -- William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> Home in Perth! _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community