Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-12 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Ben Burdette [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070210 19:47]: Unfortunatly, It looks to me like T-Mobile is currently not interested in letting its pre-paid customers use GPRS to go anywhere outside their Silly T-Zones walled garden. Let me guess. This contains such things as weather reports, news

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 23:04 -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote: Unfortunatly, It looks to me like T-Mobile is currently not interested in letting its pre-paid customers use GPRS to go anywhere outside their Silly T-Zones walled garden. Let me guess. This contains such things as weather

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-10 Thread Ian Stirling
kkr wrote: Le vendredi 09 février 2007 à 20:33 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : snip For example, imagine an application that uses GPS location information to determine your car's proximity to your favorite grocery store on your way home. When you get to within 5 miles of the store, your Neo

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-10 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Ian Stirling writes: In most cases, the fact that you're going past the store is pretty irrelevant to the need for groceries. Or, for most of us on the way home, the fact that you weren't going to be near the store has nothing to do with the fact that you are now going by the store...

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-10 Thread Ben Burdette
Unfortunatly, It looks to me like T-Mobile is currently not interested in letting its pre-paid customers use GPRS to go anywhere outside their Silly T-Zones walled garden. Let me guess. This contains such things as weather reports, news headlines, ringtones, ... All available for a

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-10 Thread Jason Elwell
You should not have any problem getting GPRS to work as long as you are using their regular service. AFAIK, only their PREPAID service has the access to GPRS restricted. -Jason On Saturday 10 February 2007 12:40, Ben Burdette wrote: Unfortunatly, It looks to me like T-Mobile is currently

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-10 Thread Shawn Rutledge
Unfortunatly, It looks to me like T-Mobile is currently not interested in letting its pre-paid customers use GPRS to go anywhere outside their Silly T-Zones walled garden. Let me guess. This contains such things as weather reports, news headlines, ringtones, ... All available for a small

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-09 Thread Ian Stirling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mary... I've been looking into this issue in a related way. One of the biggest opportunities for the Neo will be writing mobile oriented data retreval and sync applications using gps/GPRS. For example, imagine an application that uses GPS location information to

RE: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-07 Thread a.tomkins3
If you are in the UK, Tescos do a cheap pay as you go SIM; http://www.tesco.com/mobilenetwork/shop/?page=simcards Maybe WalMart do the same in the US? Al - Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit

RE: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-07 Thread Redvers Davies
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:05 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are in the UK, Tescos do a cheap pay as you go SIM; http://www.tesco.com/mobilenetwork/shop/?page=simcards Maybe WalMart do the same in the US? There are various pay-as-you-go services in the US. $20 (10UKP) will buy you a GSM

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-07 Thread Derek Pressnall
Tmobile has a fairly acurate street by street coverage map on their web site. On 2/6/07, Ben Burdette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I'm thinking seriously about getting a neo1973 when they become available. I called the local T Mobile office and asked them whether I could borrow a phone to see

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-07 Thread Ben Burdette
If you are in the UK, Tescos do a cheap pay as you go SIM; http://www.tesco.com/mobilenetwork/shop/?page=simcards Maybe WalMart do the same in the US? There are various pay-as-you-go services in the US. $20 (10UKP) will buy you a GSM cellphone and 60 minutes of talk time (With no ID or

RE: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-07 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Redvers Davies writes: The one that I have does use a SIMcard and they roam onto some GSM network which it doesn't identify. My guess is certainly cingular since its the only GSM network available in my area[0]. I'm curious -- which one do you use? Were you able to get just a sim card from

RE: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-07 Thread Redvers Davies
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 08:41 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I'm curious -- which one do you use? Were you able to get just a sim card from them, or did they insist on giving you a phone? They insisted on giving you the phone and looking at it you would need to keep the phone in order to maintain

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-07 Thread Knight Walker
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:25:30PM -0700, Ben Burdette wrote: So, I'm thinking seriously about getting a neo1973 when they become available. I called the local T Mobile office and asked them whether I could borrow a phone to see how the signal strength is where I live. They said I could

Re: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-07 Thread michael
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Mark McClellan wrote: On 2/6/07, Ben Burdette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I'm thinking seriously about getting a neo1973 when they become available. I called the local T Mobile office and asked them whether I could borrow a phone to see how the signal strength is where

RE: T-Mobile finagling advice?

2007-02-06 Thread Graham Auld
What country are you in? If it's UK then you shouldn't have much of a problem with signal unless you're in the wilds of Scotland :-) Most if not all of the network providers also provide sim only options for contracts or pay as you go services, not usually heavily advertised but avaliable none