With a rooted droid, you could set it up as an access point and access the
net through it from your laptop. That might work a bit better, but I'm sure
the iphone has apps that turn it into an access point. As for updating your
iphone via a free wifi connection like thos offered by various coffee
houses. That should be very workable. I don't see why the phone would see
it as anything other than just another wifi network. Sure, the download
might not be swift, but you can try various ones till you find one that
works well enough.
-Mike
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Edward Craig <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can see that with Android/Ubuntu/Clearwire. T-mobile is a bit
> limited in range (OK, coming from AT&T perhaps not) you might go with
> Droid/Verizon?
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Harald Sundt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The iPhone Nomad - Is He or She Possible?
> >
> > I have a goal. You might say I'm looking for the silver lining in a storm
> > cloud.
> >
> > Over the next six months I'm going to have to wind down my financial
> > lifestyle to the point I live in a camper trailer behind my car. Enough
> said
> > about that. What I really am looking at is the fact that I use my iPhone
> as
> > my telephone and my Internet as well as writing already. I have a laptop
> > that is a dual-boot one side being Fedora 11 and the other side being
> > Windows XP. My thinking is that I can keep my iPhone updated on Windows
> and
> > use Skype for my telephone existence with e-mail being the way people
> > contact me more formally.
> >
> > But this notion of a nomad lifestyle brings up several questions. First,
> > using an iPhone with Windows means that you have less functionality in
> > relationship between the operating system and the handset. What is it
> that
> > Windows won't be able to do for my iPhone that the Macintosh operating
> > system can. (Trading my laptop in for a Macintosh lap top is not an
> option
> > in my financial situation)
> >
> > Secondly, this means that I am way to be dependent on the “E”, “3G” and
> > Starbucks type WiFi for all my networking needs. Can I update the
> software
> > on my iPhone through a Starbucks type WiFi connection? I'm sure it's
> going
> > to take longer than on broadband, but is it even possible?
> >
> > Thirdly, I'm not even sure whether Fedora 11 and Windows XP can update
> over
> > WiFi.
> >
> > And the whole business of people calling me if I have to use Skype alone
> is
> > a mystery so far.
> >
> > Perhaps if I had just a cheaper landline that phone number could reach me
> > over the AT&T network and have really slow updates. But that itself would
> be
> > depending on being able to hang onto my home, and eventually I will
> almost
> > certainly have to move to my camper trailer.
> >
> > So you see I have some logistics problems here, and I have a sneaky
> > suspicion I'm not even seeing some real pitfalls. But I'd like to ask
> anyone
> > who has experience in any of these areas to help me orient myself, and in
> > return I plan to write a kind of article about the whole thing and put it
> > out there somehow because I think that there will be a lot of us out
> there
> > someday.
> >
> > Don't cry for me Argentina, after all, if you have an iPhone by
> definition
> > you are one of the really lucky ones in this world of 6.7 5 billion
> people.
> >
> > Leo Rivers December 16, 2009 9:16 AM Cottage Grove, Oregon 2009©
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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