Charles <fort514@mac.com> wrote in news:060720081002547355%fort514
@mac.com:
> Exactly the Nokia tablet is not a phone. It would not suit my
purposes.
> I also want to be able to get e-mail where Wi-Fi is not available.
> Which means cell data. I want a pocket sized device like you describe
> plus one that is an iPod too, so I can dispense carrying that device
> around too. I checked out the Sprint device yesterday and it won't
meet
> my needs. I am sure it will meet the needs of others. It is great
there
> are choices. The iPhone seems to come the closest for me. But I am
> can't say for sure without owning one.
>
His statement about not being able to connect without wifi is not true.
The N8xx tablets all have Bluetooth DUN to connect to your sellphone
data through a capable sellphone. My N800 tethers to a ROKR Z6m on
Alltel EVDO at about 1Mbps for internet on the road. Mounted in its
suction cup windscreen mounting bracket so I can see the various mapping
softwares' picture, it downloads on-the-fly the map tiles for Maemo
Mapper, for instance, over the link. I also listen to one of my fav
internet radio stations on the road using Streamtuner, which feeds the
links for Shoutcast or Xiph to mplayer for radio and TV stations. To
listen to Cowboy music, you must listen to a proper radio station in
Cowboy Country. That'd be KSEY in Seymour, TX, one of the few real
radio station left run by humans, not corporations.
www.radioksey.com
give a listen..(c;
Steal your kids portable game player and carry it around all next week.
Every time you want to use a phone, hold it up to your ear opened up as
it's about the size of an iPhone. Now, make the actual call with your
tiny sellphone you're using now. Doesn't that feel better and less
conspicuous than the Gameboy? With a dual-unit setup you have a CHOICE
whether to carry along the computer part....or NOT. If you're going
shopping, for other than FruitFone accessories, you wouldn't, given a
choice, carry the FruitFone. If you're going for groceries, you
wouldn't, given a choice, carry the FruitFone, either. If you're going
anywhere that might endanger the expensive FruitFone with water,
overheating, physical abuse...given the choice....you'd have left it in
the car or at home, such as cleaning out the gutters on that rickety
ladder and getting all dirty. With a normal sellphone, you drop it in
your pocket and don't give it a second thought. It's only $50, after
all. With the FruitFone, N800, expensive Blackberry, WinMo
PDA....you're endangering a MUCH MORE FRAGILE device with water and dirt
and SCRATCHES TO THE SCREEN....and thinking twice about that $600
replacement cost if you bust it. Replacements are NOT going to be $199
when it falls off the ladder onto the driveway being big and kicked out
of your pocket by bumping it against the ladder step. THIS is why I
think the much more intelligent choice is a SEPARATE fragile computer
device and a cheaper sellphone you can replace with a refurb that's not
so fragile tucked away in your back pocket. The two device scenario
just makes more sense. It's not always appropriate to be carrying
around a miniature laptop, no matter how cutesy it is.....because you
MUST have that sellphone for comms....With two devices, you're never
forced to.
You can get email on your sellphone, if it's that important. Read it on
the sellphone and leave it on the server so that it will automatically
download to the tablet when it's more appropriate to use that, after you
come down off the ladder. Y/N messages are still easy from the
sellphone's crappy email client...same as now.
Cut out an exact cardboard replica of the FruitFone and test it for
appropriateness for a week or two and see how sick of being forced to
carry it around in places you wouldn't you get. If you can tolerate it,
great! Buy it. But carrying it around for 10 minutes at ATT is no test
of your meddle to tolerate carrying around a big fragile tablet all the
time just so you can answer the phone. Think, man, THINK!!
iPhone Killer for the CDMA crowd - well at least Sprint
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