[nylug-talk] Fwd: Re: [linux-58] OpenMoko & the Neo1973 (iPhoneKille

[Marco Romeny]

On 9/14/07, Sunny Dubey <sunny at opencurve.org> wrote:
> On Friday 14 September 2007 02:36:45 pm Ajai Khattri wrote:
> > Judging from the variety of ways you can buy and use cell phones in the
> > EU, this looks to be a good thing.
>
> Only if the phone manufacturers themselves would agree on how to deal with the
> SIM chip.  Sometimes its helpful to keep all your contacts/etc on the SIM,
> sometimes it isn't.  Different phones like to have different conventions used
> for storing what where, and its never the same.  (Swapping my SIM from my
> Motorola Crappr to my Sony Erricson wasn't smooth.)

That's where bluetooth and syncml comes in to the picture -- of course
you sync it with your
desktop PIM before changing handsets.

What is sad about the US GSM operators is that they offer such crappy
phones with their plans.  There's no sexy phones at all in there...
where's all the nokia e- and n-series?  the sony ericssons?  Sure,
that only means you go get your own phone from an independent store,
but that also brings with it no service or support for the phone in
the US.

Also, no 3G here is getting painful....  EDGE just doesn't cut it.

>
> What annoys me is how so many phones revert to a default settings the moment
> SIM has been changed ... but its clear they kept a whole lot of other useless
> settings on the phone.
>
> --
> Sunny Dubey
>
>   mail:  sunny at audiowiki.org
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