Question
So I order the Samsung Saga with a data plan, wireless plan and voice plan - a least it has an MU discount. Questions:
1) will I really need to carry a laptop much
2) do I need a cable modem anymore
3) can my Samsung modem run my wireless router, so that I can run two laptops at home
OK, stop laughing, as I am sure there is something ridiculous in these assumptions.
Looking forward to asking all these types of questions in person sometime soon. I am in DC from the 2-6, but doubt there is anyway to visit with my conference responsibilities.
Response:
There are trains to Fredericksburg (1hr north of RIC, commuter and Amtrak from DC). That is where Jesse used to live, and when my brother was here, we took the train to DC so we did not have to worry about parking.
Is the laptop to read email or to write email? What length? Attachments?
Laptop needed for attachments and long emails, I would not write this answer on a phone, unless I was waiting on something, or a passenger.
Most data plans don’t allow for ‘PAM’ (Phone as Modem) as have notes in the contract specific to this. If it allows for PAM, you probably have a limit. Believe it or not, Sprint says that I do more than 10G of data a month. I don’t believe it, but I have yet to reset my router to check. Yes, I download updates, and emails, but we have not downloaded movies in a long time, and I don’t download big stuff at home because it is running around 0.5, and at school I sometimes can get up to 60 if I am lucky, but usually, 2-10 speeds.
The way I have our data card set up is that it is plugged into a computer, which ‘calls’ sprint, and that is the wireless side of things, and then that computer is connected to the wireless router, and does ICS (Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing) and gives the router an IP address. The router in turn, then gives out the new addresses for the home network (print server, file server, laptops, camera).
With a ‘tethered’ PAM system, you would not have internet at the house unless you are home. You most likely would be running at 2X dialup speeds on the network due to the fact that the fastest Bluetooth runs is 0.115M (that I know of). A physically connected USB may run faster, but probably not, companies really don’t like PAM.
Depending on the phone, you most likely could not answer the phone during a data session.
We can run, according to Sprint, 3 laptops, I am not sure how they specify that value, but my guess was that the ‘host’ computer was to be sharing WIFI and Ethernet. I don’t recall any documentation from SPRINT on how to share, but also I am supposedly to now be limited to 5G/month, and like I said I am doing 11-12GB easy. But there is also the rumor that Business accounts don’t have the limit, and when I setup the DataCard it took longer because they set it up under the Missouri Business Plan, as far as I can tell. It has a Missouri Phone number, but was activated in Virginia, and I have not been told to stop downloading files.
Verizon, Alltel, ATT, Sprint all have this 5G limit. Comcast, Charter have limits too, but not as strict. I have never heard of limits on DSL.
I sent DB info on syncing Outlook with Google with your phone (Saga might be different). But since it is running mobilePC, you can just use activesync and get everything that way (momentary lapse of memory).
Opera browser is very much like Netscape
If you are getting in style with a new phone, you should prepare for the handsfree laws that are sweeping the nation
http://www.driveblue.com/
16GB microSD is ‘brandNEW’ so the price is excessive ($100) but you can get 8GB for $20
http://www.pricewatch.com/
--Besure to get microSD not miniSD
USB/Parallel printer adapter to bluetooth (print from phone)
http://sewelldirect.com/
Not sure what connection to internal GPS they allow you, so you can get an external one:
http://www.geeks.com/
In a wifi zone? Don’t want to use voice minutes, use VOIP. GizmoMobile. I have Gizmo linked to my GrandCentral number. Grandcentral(Google) is then forwarded to home/office/cell.... I think that is how it works. Not sure, I have it, but don’t use it. We waste something like 500 minutes each month (why not change contract? Remember the fact that I am not being charged for overage on my dataplan... Okay back to you). Or you can do Skype. JB uses Skype a lot when he goes overseas I notice. Or there is also (was?) aimphone, which is connected to your AOL account.
http://gizmo5.com/pc/
Www.Grandcentral.com
Www.skype.com
http://www.aimphoneline.
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