Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 10:39:45 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com>, Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nokia 8210 Message-ID: <20010701103945.52418@localhost> In-Reply-To: <15166.54673.844511.933936@kitab.cisco.com>; from Richard Johnson on Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:47:29AM -0700 References: <F42AOCh8qKLycUtfOEb00010e13@hotmail.com> <993882324.14678.0.camel@percible.alfred.cx> <15166.54673.844511.933936@kitab.cisco.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:47:29AM -0700, Richard Johnson wrote: > I've been looking at this and would like to clarify my understanding > on this point. You can only use the special Nokia serial cable and > gNokii with Nokia phones which support data connections and then only > if you're in a part of the country where you are getting digital > service. Maybe everything in Europe is GSM (digital) everywhere and > there's no Analog, so this isn't an issue? In the US GSM is not very > widely available at all, other services such as TDMA and CDMA are more > prevalent and older style Analog connections are what you get if you > get outside of the larger cities at all. I this situation, a PCMCIA > modem connecting to your cell phone is absolutely necessary if you > want to guarantee you can use it *everywhere*. You've summed up the situation pretty well there :-) Europe is almost exclusively GSM -- there area few older analogue networks still running but I believe most of them will be switched off quite soon, if they haven't already. Almost everyone (if not every*where*) in Europe will have GSM coverage. As for the phones, most of the high-end Nokias, and handsets from other manufacturers, emulate a standard modem, so while you need a special cable to plug into the phone, you don't need gNokii or anything else to make use of it -- it looks just like any other serial port device. Most of these handsets will also talk IrDA. My Nokia 7110 is an example of such a handset. Older models, like the 5110, don't have the modem emulation and need special software to use them for data connections. If you're going to be using mobile data a lot, I'd definitely recommend a higher-end handset (Nokia 6xxx or 7xxx, or one of the Ericsson Rxxx). That should 'just work' with any device with a serial or IrDA port. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010701103945.52418>