Sprint made sure they tethered it with a wireless data plan- I'm going back a number of years though to the first generation one. Before I dumped the phone I tried using it with just a voice plan and it was worthless. No 3G data network = no use. I'm not aware of any custom firmware out there, maybe someone else is? -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Jeremy MountainJohnson wrote: > >> Most people say I should get an iPhone or an Android phone; unfortunately >> I don't want one. I tried a similar smart phone a couple years back, the >> Linux based Palm Pre, and found it to be over kill, a big distraction, and a >> waste of money (factoring in the device and monthly plan). > > > I bought a Palm Pre when it came out in June 2009. It's a pretty good > device, but I wasn't blown away. I still have it. My carrier is Sprint. > I'm paying something like $75/month, including taxes, etc. That's $900 per > year and quite excessive, I think. I also think the Sprint people have done > a lousy job with some aspects -- previous Palm phones (e.g., Treo 600) could > do a lot of things that were lost with Palm Pre, such as syncing > *everything* with a computer, and I think Sprint is to blame for the > undesirable changes (I have to back up to their "cloud," but not everything > is backed up). > > I do have a question: Suppose I drop my plan. What can I then do with this > Palm Pre? It does have Linux inside and I've been able to use that to copy > files out of the device. It has WiFi. But what exactly stops working if I > drop my plan? Do apps fail even if I'm using WiFi instead of Sprint > networking? Do any of you have any experience with this? > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list