[aklug] Re: 3G news

While the N900 looks cool it's a little spendy. I'm thinking Droid at the m=
oment. It should be much better then a black berry. I'm thinking black berr=
y is going to go under. They don't have any applications that are wowing. E=
mail is cool but phones can do so much more then email these days.=20

I'm assuming the droid will work with Linux a lot better then a black berry=
. That's one reason I'm switching. The other is the wasted internet connect=
ion on my black berry. I pay a lot for the data plan and all I get with it =
is email. I could surf the web but it's such a pain I almost never do it.=
=20

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@eeinternet.com>
To: aklug@aklug.org
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:43:08 PM (GMT-0900) Auto-Detected
Subject: [aklug] Re: 3G news

On Sunday 20 December 2009, Marc Grober said something like:
> One of the carriers will have to offer it for under $300 for it to
> have any market penetration....
>
> Meanwhile after a week of Meg plus my iPhone is down to 60kbits-
> arrgghhhhh!
>
> On Dec 20, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Damien Hull <damien@linuxninjas.tv>=20
wrote:
> > I want the Nokia N900. I'm assuming that's what you're talking
> > about. Looks cool but others are talking about the Android phones.
> > I don't think many people know about the N900. I would be surprised
> > if it was slower.
> >
> > If I had $700 laying around I would have one by now...

No carrier will offer it, most likely. Carriers view phones like the=20
N900 as too open. They can't lock it down to confine you to their idea=20
of what their network should be used for.

But Damien is right: if I had an extra $700, that would certainly be a=20
cool phone to have.

j

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