Re: No more FreeRunners in the USA? (was: community Digest, Vol 194, Issue 6)

2010-07-31 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Joshua, My experience with the 900 Mhz phones is that they work most of the places that people go. The 850s seemed to be in places where you wanted large physical coverage or in hard environments. 850s seemed to be used by companies at the seashore, in mountains, etc. 900 phones worked fine for

Re: No more FreeRunners in the USA? (was: community Digest, Vol 194, Issue 6)

2010-07-31 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 3:01 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote: > i have a 900 on t-mobile. have never had any issues with it. gsm that is.. not nokia. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/c

Re: No more FreeRunners in the USA? (was: community Digest, Vol 194, Issue 6)

2010-07-31 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Wow. Is that it for GSM-850 FreeRunners, then? > I wonder... what kind of coverage could one expect, in the US, > using one of the GSM-900 ones? I've looked at the maps, of course, > but somehow I have trouble believing that they're sho

No more FreeRunners in the USA? (was: community Digest, Vol 194, Issue 6)

2010-07-31 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Nashvin Gangaram writes: > > There is a list of Distributors here: > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributors > > There only seem to be 2 in North America (1 out of stock), ... and the other being a `special order'. Wow. Is that it for GSM-850 FreeRunners, then? I wonder... what kind of cove

Re: community Digest, Vol 194, Issue 6

2010-07-30 Thread Nashvin Gangaram
Hi Jason There is a list of Distributors here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributors There only seem to be 2 in North America (1 out of stock), but perhaps one of the other distributors sells GSM 850 handsets as well... Regards, Nashvin On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:09 PM, reconfig...@gmail.

Re: community Digest, Vol 194, Issue 6

2010-07-30 Thread reconfig...@gmail.com
Hi, I live in New York City and have been aware of Open Moko for a couple years. I had seen the possibility of purchasing a handset in the United States about a year ago but now that is not an option. Can anyone tell me information about the future of this situation...will there be handsets availa