Re:T-Mobile finagling advice?
I have T-mobile prepaid, but went into Cingular yesterday to get my 'free phone', which I use on their prepaid plan. T-mobile's prepaid is better, by the way. I am in US. Cingular/ATT's TDMA service is being discontinued end of march in this area. Cingular wants us to switch to GSM. The 'free phone' with rebate offered as bait to TDMA customers. The free phone is a Motorola. I do have a Nokia with my T-Mobile that can be unlocked. I plan to unlock my Nokia and try the Cingular SIM in it. I now have a SIM for both Cingular and T-Mobile...ready to try in the Neo. If I brought in an unlocked phone, I was told by the Cingular rep., that I could get the SIM without having to purchase a phone, but that only the calling function would work on the unlocked phone...none of their other functions. Not really sure what that means other that I could only call out and receive call in. I am guessing that with the open Neo, it would not matter...Right? Mary ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re:T-Mobile finagling advice?
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 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 uses the GPRS to access a personal website page where your spouse keeps a grocery list. If there are any items on the list, the application downloads the and alerts you via your bluetooth earbud. 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. If anyone has any insight into T-Mobile's awareness of the Neo and if they realize that they have a terrific opportunity ahead to network enable this amazing phone, I'd sure like to hear about it. Yes, and I'm one of those people that believe that Contracts are for Suckers! Alan McSwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message: - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:03:00 + To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re:T-Mobile finagling advice? I have T-mobile prepaid, but went into Cingular yesterday to get my 'free phone', which I use on their prepaid plan. T-mobile's prepaid is better, by the way. I am in US. Cingular/ATT's TDMA service is being discontinued end of march in this area. Cingular wants us to switch to GSM. The 'free phone' with rebate offered as bait to TDMA customers. The free phone is a Motorola. I do have a Nokia with my T-Mobile that can be unlocked. I plan to unlock my Nokia and try the Cingular SIM in it. I now have a SIM for both Cingular and T-Mobile...ready to try in the Neo. If I brought in an unlocked phone, I was told by the Cingular rep., that I could get the SIM without having to purchase a phone, but that only the calling function would work on the unlocked phone...none of their other functions. Not really sure what that means other that I could only call out and receive call in. I am guessing that with the open Neo, it would not matter...Right? Mary ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community mail2web LIVE Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re:T-Mobile finagling advice?
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 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 uses the GPRS to access a personal website page where your spouse keeps a grocery list. If there are any items on the list, the application downloads the and alerts you via your bluetooth earbud. 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. If anyone has any insight into T-Mobile's awareness of the Neo and if they realize that they have a terrific opportunity ahead to network enable this amazing phone, I'd sure like to hear about it. Yes, and I'm one of those people that believe that Contracts are for Suckers! Alan McSwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message: - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:03:00 + To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re:T-Mobile finagling advice? I have T-mobile prepaid, but went into Cingular yesterday to get my 'free phone', which I use on their prepaid plan. T-mobile's prepaid is better, by the way. I am in US. Cingular/ATT's TDMA service is being discontinued end of march in this area. Cingular wants us to switch to GSM. The 'free phone' with rebate offered as bait to TDMA customers. The free phone is a Motorola. I do have a Nokia with my T-Mobile that can be unlocked. I plan to unlock my Nokia and try the Cingular SIM in it. I now have a SIM for both Cingular and T-Mobile...ready to try in the Neo. If I brought in an unlocked phone, I was told by the Cingular rep., that I could get the SIM without having to purchase a phone, but that only the calling function would work on the unlocked phone...none of their other functions. Not really sure what that means other that I could only call out and receive call in. I am guessing that with the open Neo, it would not matter...Right? Mary ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re:T-Mobile finagling advice?
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 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 uses the GPRS to access a personal website page where your spouse keeps a grocery list. If there are any items on the list, the application downloads the and alerts you via your bluetooth earbud. 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. If anyone has any insight into T-Mobile's awareness of the Neo and if they realize that they have a terrific opportunity ahead to network enable this amazing phone, I'd sure like to hear about it. Yes, and I'm one of those people that believe that Contracts are for Suckers! Alan McSwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message: - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:03:00 + To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re:T-Mobile finagling advice? I have T-mobile prepaid, but went into Cingular yesterday to get my 'free phone', which I use on their prepaid plan. T-mobile's prepaid is better, by the way. I am in US. Cingular/ATT's TDMA service is being discontinued end of march in this area. Cingular wants us to switch to GSM. The 'free phone' with rebate offered as bait to TDMA customers. The free phone is a Motorola. I do have a Nokia with my T-Mobile that can be unlocked. I plan to unlock my Nokia and try the Cingular SIM in it. I now have a SIM for both Cingular and T-Mobile...ready to try in the Neo. If I brought in an unlocked phone, I was told by the Cingular rep., that I could get the SIM without having to purchase a phone, but that only the calling function would work on the unlocked phone...none of their other functions. Not really sure what that means other that I could only call out and receive call in. I am guessing that with the open Neo, it would not matter...Right? Mary ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community mail2web LIVE Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Re:T-Mobile finagling advice?
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 uses the GPRS to access a personal website page where your spouse keeps a grocery list. If there are any items on the list, the application downloads the and alerts you via your bluetooth earbud. snip I really like this idea :-) She must be added on the wiki not to be lost! ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re:T-Mobile finagling advice?
Ben Burdette writes: snip My question is, has anyone been through this process before, what's the best way to find out how the service is? I don't know anyone that has a t mobile phone (maybe that should tell me something). And the other thing is, how would I get the neo1973 onto the t mobile network? would I have to get their cheapest phone and then remove the sim card to use in the neo1973? Is it possible to get the sim card without buying a t mobile phone? Based on what a T-Mobile salesdroid told me, it isn't possible to get their service without a phone. So my plan is to do as you suggest: get their (actually, I haven't fully researched the GSM providers in my area, so they may not be T-Mobile when the dust settles) cheapest phone, move the sim chip. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
