Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:33:41 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Which cell phone?
>Which cell phone would be best suited to use w/a 50CT to connect to the Net (if >that's possible)? I have Verizon Wireless at the moment, any cell phone chosen must >work on their system. - Louis Well I can't say for Verizon because I'm in Australia and using the Telstra network but I'm using a Nokia 8210 with very great success with my Libretto 50CT running Win95 ... just installed the drivers (only www.nokia.com ie. the USA site seems to have the drivers though), made a new DUN entry for my ISP and off I went. Actually, it even worked when I was accessing the net through the Telstra WAP gateway which I thought was interesting (as in the laptop accessing WAP through the phone, the phone itself doesn't have WAP capabilities itself and treats the WAP call as a normal data call) ... latencies were good (IRC pings about 2-5 seconds or so to US DALNet servers which is on par with 56k dialup round here), reliability and speed in terms of IR transfer seems excellent (very little dropping out even as I moved the phone and lappy from one place to another and even when it did it picked back up pretty quickly). Of course, don't expect to get any INTERNET speed over 9600, thats about the limit on your bog standard GSM network (the Altavista search page takes all of 10 seconds to load though which isn't bad though). You learn to surf without the images damn quick when you're on a cellphone ;-) The other nice thing about the 8210 is that the infra-red port is on the SIDE of the phone and not the TOP (ie. not like the 6110 or whatever that one with the Bluetooth battery pack is) ... I can actually lay the phone sideways against the back of the Libretto instead of having it point out the back and (potentially) forget about it and push it off the end of the table. The 8210 also works great on my Palm IIIxe as well (which is what I initially got it for) plus in general its a very good phone anyway ... reception is excellent, speaker is nice and clear and battery life is very good ... its NOT for you if you have big fingers though - its a very small phone (if memory serves right its one of the smallest non-flip phones on the market) so if that's you, go to your phone store and try it out first. - Raymond ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
