On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Orlando Andico wrote: .. > No. Current GPRS phones use WAP 1.2 browsers. But since the connection is > permanent, and not metered by the minute, the experience is much smoother. > > Allegedly GPRS should be metered by the MB. It's about $50 for 20MB in the > US. That translates to 7.7KB/peso. Which is still much cheaper than SMS > (160B/2.50 peso).
To be more specific, GPRS or General Packet Radio Service allows a 40.2kbps connection, PERMANENT. So the best way to use it is have a Bluetooth+GPRS phone, notebook with Bluetooth PCMCIA, and you've got The Real Deal Mobile Internet. .. > > 3. What is the cheapest good enough Nokia GPRS phone? How much is > > it selling today? Is today the right time to buy one? > > There is only one Nokia GPRS phone -- the 8310. I would not buy one, > because the functionality is rather limited and it has a reputation for > falling apart easily. To be more specific, 8310 is Nokia' first GPRS phone. Knowing Nokia, it's gonna be buggy as hell (remember the 7110?) I would go with an Ericsson. The first GPRS phone from Ericsson was the R520m, so the current Ericsson phones are second-generation already. I'm leaning toward the T65 because the T68 is too expensive (color screen). But the T68 is a technological tour de force. IMAP and POP3 client built in. It can download your mail AND you can compose mail on it. But it costs 21,000 in Greenhills, about 23,000 in Semicon. -- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
