* Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> [011117 00:40]: > Quoting Scott Dier (dieman+tclug at ringworld.org): > > I cant wait to get off of sprintpcs, get a gprs/bluetooth phone, and > > have the palm bluetooth addon after I finish out a year of CDPD service > > per my at&t wireless contract. (I use it to read sites on the way to > > work, slashdot on the bus!) > Woah. What provider gives the above? I mean what company? Right now I've got a novatel minstrel CDPD modem hooked into a Handera 330 Palm Pilot. (www.novatelwireless.com, www.handera.com) The CDPD service is from AT&T Wireless Data Services for $30/mo flat rate. (http://www.attws.com/bus/sm_biz/ps/data_serv_main.jhtml) (its $54.99 for laptops, suck.) I currently use Handspring's Blazer 2.0 browser. My next generation in about a year or so is going to be getting a GPRS phone such as the Motorola T193, which does GPRS but supposedly will have bluetooth in the future. My *hope* is that I can use bluetooth from the palm to the phone to interact over GPRS. The Palm platform will have a SD/IO bluetooth card this winter for $150. The phone is available via voicestream wireless. Motorola has said they will ship bluetooth add-ons for their phones, but I'm not sure which ones yet. So in theory, I should be able to pull out my palm, and interact with the network while my phone stays in my pocket. (www.voicestream.com, http://commerce.motorola.com/consumer/QWhtml/t192.html, http://canada.motorola.com/asp/english/pcs/bluetooth.asp, http://www.palm.com/roe/about/pr/0106072.html ) (the last link has a paragraph outlining this also) Supposedly SprintPCS is going to do 144kbps next year sometime also, so perhaps I'll stay with sprintpcs. I've got until January/Febuary to figure it out. I might break my AT&T contract if its not horribly bad either, if I can get a data plan for one of these phones for a palm for 5-10MB for a decent price. (one yr contracts suck) -- Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> <sdier at debian.org> http://www.ringworld.org/ #linuxos at irc.openprojects.net So I ran up to him, and the exchange went something like this: Me: Oh my god! You're Larry Niven! Him: Oh my god! You're Wil Wheaton! -Wil Wheaton, in a Slashdot interview