Kragen Javier Sitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cell phone handsets? Mine cost $38 in Quito, and apparently it's locked to > the carrier! I'm surprised they can get away with that (and in particular > not telling me when they sold it to me) but perhaps it shouldn't surprise me.
You can unlock your phone from the carrier without much trouble. I don't remember details but it is legal in the UK, not sure about elsewhere. > (The other problem with handsets, of course, is that the politics of control > embedded in their design are diametrically opposite to what I want to > promote. In a sense, handsets are The Enemy.) I completely agree with you, though I missed the original post. I wish for a peer to peer wifi that has many miles of range. Then you can use an ad-hoc network with voip. > Not at the low end, although you can run Pippy or some Schemes on the Treos, > and Symbian Python on the Symbian phones. So far I don't know of any phones > that can compile their own operating systems. The Nokia 770 (not a cellphone) runs maemo, a derivative of Debian. I've thought about this a lot lately, and the only solution I see is to sell a software radio handset with as wide a range as possible and let people implement their own protocols, whether they be wifi, gsm, or whatever. Basically, forget the wireless protocol standards, don't worry about trampling your neighbor's signal, make it easy to develop and deploy new encodings, and see what protocols emerge from the chaos. -- I've tried to teach people autodidactism, | ScannedInAvian.com but it seems they always have to learn it for themselves.| Shae Matijs Erisson
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