Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:53:34 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dialup modem (some off topic stuff) Message-ID: <2.0-1971224-395-A-OEWW@smtp-server.mmcable.com>
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Doug Young wrote: > From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> >> Nokia seems to be doing something better than Ericsson. I've got one >> of the bitsy fashion phones (because it's the only one available > with >> IR modem capability except for Ericssons) with no external antenna, >> and it's usable in places the Ericsson - with a small external > antenna >> - wasn't. Of course, the Ericsson was pretty much junk anyway, which >> is why I got a Nokia and gave away the Ericssons. > > I have a number of GSM phones around here (up to 5 years old.) NONE > of the ones more than 13 months old that are still functional are > Nokia. That's better than I saw with the Ericsson. They were all unusably unreliable after 3 months. Six failing in a year is enough to convince me to avoid them. The only problem I had with a 9000 in two years of use was breaking the faceplate when I raw into a wooden chair arm with it - and that was just cosmetic, the phone worked fine. It also worked for intermitent use while waiting for replacememts for the peice of junk. That was when I noticed it had better reception than the Ericsson - even though the Ericsson had an analog mode. > After the problems with their DataSuite product & a number of bad > experiences > with Nokia warranty claims they don't have much chance of selling > their particular > brand of trash anywhere I have influence. I also had good luck with the supprt folks, but the communicator line has it's own support group. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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