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Unofficial Sprint Mogul ROM 3.49, WM 6.1, threaded SMS

Bob Wang — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:54:43 GMT

http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=162980

If you don't have a RAR extractor, try open source:

http://peazip.sourceforge.net/

change to simply everything plan?

pb — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:11:53 GMT

sorry, STL

On Mon, 12 May 2008 03:14:59 +0000, Larry wrote:

>pb wrote in news:a8df241dn0r6nbssmi8bcvsuffssf48c43@
>4ax.com:
>
>> hi all, currently have a 700 minutes for $70 plan not including the 2
>> additional phones. total bill is $9x.xx
>>
>> why wouldn't i want to convert over to the "talk/ message/ direct
>> connect 900" for $70?
>>
>> tia,
>> parker
>>
>
>It would help if we knew where you live to compare alternatives.....

Protect yourself against Operation Sudden Fall

Jim.Weafer@dea.gov — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:45:03 GMT

Law enforcement is now intercepting text messages,
as proven by Operation Sudden Fall in San Diego.

http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states.../sd050608.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/e...bn06sdsu2.html

Don't let your personal SMS/text messages fall into
the wrong hands. Encrypt your messages with one
of these:

http://www.CryptoSMS.org
http://www.CryptoSMS.com
http://www.FortressMail.net/fortress_sms.htm
http://www.Cop2p.com/encrypted_sms.html

Be Safe, Be Encrypted, **** the Police!!

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using a Pantech PC-5740 as a modem ?

bobbymoose2008@gmail.com — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:47:29 GMT

bobbymoose2008@gmail.com wrote:

> On May 9, 9:37*pm, DTC wrote:
>> bobbymoose2...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Anyone setup an aircardPC5740as a modem for DIAL IN connections? *I
>>> can get it to dial out to any phone number I want...no problem. *I
>>> want to be able to call the aircard and have it pickup like a modem.
>>> Of course the aircard has it's own phone number. *I've tried
>>> hyperterminal under WindowsXP and no luck.
>>> I want to put a PC at a remote location and dial into it.
>>
>> The problem is a call to the telephone number associated
>> with the aircard's data account will simply ring to a non-existent
>> termination.
>>
>> So its not going to even work the way you want it to. Since you
>> already have an internet connection, would a remote desktop
>> approach work for you?
>
> Thanks for the reply DTC
> Actually, Remote Desktop is exactly what I would like to use. Problem
> is I don't have an internet connection at the remote site.
> What I want to do is place a computer in a location where there is no
> other means of internet connection other than the aircard. I can
> connect to the internet in that location with my existing PC5740.
> Since I already have this card and dataplan I was hoping there was a
> way to use it. I can not simply leave it connected because the
> connection will eventually time out.
> I know I can use a device such as the Airlink's Raven-X which is
> basically always on and connected but I was hoping to use what I
> already have.
> Interestingly, if I dial my aircard's number while it is powered off
> the call immediately rolls over to voicemail. If the card is on (not
> connected just powered on) the number will ring about 6 times then it
> rolls over to voicemail. I was looking for a software solution to
> tell the aircard to 'pick-up' an incoming call much like an analog
> modem does.

As an alternative, could you set the scheduler on the remote PC to dial
up the Internet connection at predetermined times?

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Dutch

Losing bluetooth connection on Pearl

Scott — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:15:59 GMT

Anybody having a problem maintaining the bluetooth connection between your
bb Pearl and wireless headset? Mine disconnects intermittently while
traveling. I usually have to manually re-pair the two, sometimes as often
as every couple of minutes. I've used the headset with two other phones
without a single problem.

I'm trying to figure out if this is one of the known glitches with this
model or if I missed some setting. Other than this one inconvenience, I
absolutely love the phone.

Anyone using a sprint wireless broadband modem with linux?

Rick — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:55:51 GMT

Rick wrote:

> Has anyone ever heard of a successful modem implementation with Ubuntu?

If Ubuntu doesn't have a native driver for it, you may be able to get it
working by installing the Windows driver with NDISwrapper...

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Dutch
Sprint/Motorola RAZR V3m
tethered to PCLinuxOS 2008

Sprint Nextel and Clearwire merge WiMAX networks

DTC — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:28:36 GMT

http://tinyurl.com/6glvzc

[quote]
After months of rumors and speculation, the deal that the mobile WiMAX
industry has been hoping for finally became a reality. Sprint and
Clearwire announced that they will be combining their WiMAX businesses
and creating a new company that will include a $3.2 billion investment
from Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks
and Trilogy Equity Partners.

A bad experience dealing with AT&T Wireless

Joe — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:38:35 GMT

On Tue, 13 May 2008 02:00:24 +0000, Larry wrote:

> CellGuy wrote in
> news:17cmnlmmahub8.1tb7ygjt7qjql.dlg@40tude.net:
>
>> I worked as an engineer with Bell Labs (the R&D arm of AT&T) right out
>> of college and can support this statement. All equiment we designed
>> and built was to meet an operating life of 20 years minimum. The
>> Bell telephones used at home and in phone booths also met this
>> standard. They were built like a brick. Service was great, and call
>> clarity was excellant.
>>
>> Then our government broke up AT&T, and the downhill slide began.
>> Cheap imported phones were allowed on your home lines, introducing
>> service quality degradation. Competition spurned cost cutting on
>> both the hardware and customer support side. We all know the state
>> of the landline telephone service today. No wonder most young people
>> don't even get a landline phone, what with the costs of owning one.
>> Nuiscence charges, stupid taxes, and charges for options like
>> voicemail that cellular carriers offer for free.
>>
>
> How'd you get an engineering degree without learning how to spell?
> What university was that, anyways?
>

"Equiment" was a typo and I have been known to misspell "excellent"
University of South Carolina? .

> Didn't anyone at Bell Labs notice??

No, we were all too busy figuring out ways to screw our customers.

Check out the "new" Touch

Roger 2008 — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:20:44 GMT

I have seen many videos on this amazing phone but what I hate is that this
phone won't be available to us until the end of summer. It brings me to why
I think Sprint is in trouble. They show us this phone but they make you wait
forever to get it. If the Diamond is going to be made ready to go in Europe,
why can't we get the same? I get tired of seeing lots of videos on phones
coming soon to the USA but already being enjoyed overseas. I think they just
need to speed that process. They could make a lot more money putting those
amazing phones like the HTC Diamond or the Samsung Instinct out in the USA
much earlier. Now instead, I have to wait until the end of summer to enjoy
this phone and it irks me a bit because with the features on these phones,
my summer could have been more interesting. But I will wait for the Diamond.
That phone looks amazing.
"Roger 2008" wrote in message
news:3YWdnX_A1eBo_7_VnZ2dnUVZ_oSunZ2d@giganews.com ...
> An Overview of the HTC Diamond
>
> HTC have unveiled the HTC Diamond, the latest in their Touch series of
> smartphones. Running Windows Mobile 6.1, the HTC Diamond features a VGA
> touchscreen, 7.2Mbps HSDPA/HSUPA, WiFi b/g and GPS. It also has HTC's new
> TouchFLO 3D interface, a slick overlay for WM6.1 that adds CoverFlow-syle
> navigation to contacts, images, video and music.
>
> http://htc-diamond.com/
>
> My only question is, why couldn't they give it Wireless N?
>
>
>

Big Tech Inks WiMax Deal With Sprint, Clearwire

carcarx — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:09:53 GMT

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/31002.php

Another Blow to Sprint Nextel

Fritz Wuehler — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:49:50 GMT

"On May 5 came news that Sprint's subscriber exodus will
accelerate as phone company Qwest Communications (Q) switches to
Verizon Wireless to provide mobile-phone calling to more than
800,000 of its subscribers. The decision to drop Sprint is just
the latest blow for a cellular company that has stumbled almost
continuously since its $35 billion acquisition of Nextel in
2005..."

Business Week article: http://www.starturl.com/Sprint

T-Mobile + Sprint/Nextel

ps56k — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:34:37 GMT

At 07 May 2008 18:35:20 -0500 The Bob wrote:

> > I never said it'd be easy! ;-) Seriously, though, Cingular managed
> > ok back when they were TDMA east of the Rockies and GSM to the west,
> > so it can be done, apparently...
>
>
> True, but that was because they were originally TDMA everywhere and did
an
> overlay with GSM starting on the east coast.

I was really referring to the pre-conversion days, when Cingular was formed
by the combination of SBMS (TDMA), BellSouth Mobile (TDMA), and PacTel (GSM)
they ran the two separate networks for years. I always found it ironic
when traveling in the west with my SBMS-market TDMA phone, that I had to
roam on AT&T or Verizon when the air above me was filled with unusable
Cingular signal!

> But your post gave me an interesting thought. ATT Wireless, Verizon,
> Cingular, T-Mobile and Alltel all ran dual technologies at some point in
> their lifetime while going from analog to digital platforms. The only
two
> major carriers to not have any experience running two technologies at the
> same time? That would be Sprint (digital from day one) and Nextel
> (always iDen). Maybe that explains the integration problems.

Good point! ;-) (Although, AFAIK, T-Mo's always been GSM, back to
Voicestream, Omnipoint, Aerial, etc.)

But kidding aside, generally the examples you mentioned (AMPS-to-TDMA or
AMPS-to-CDMA) were overlays with full backwards compatiibity with the old
technology, so users "upgrading" never LOST coverage as a result.

Contrast that with (old) AT&T conning (um, I mean "encouraging") customers
to switch from their excellent AMPS/TDMA network to their then still
unfinshed GSM network- many users lost coverage in many areas, as well as
losing a ton of roaming coverage.

The confusing part of operating two completely incompatible networks is
educating customers (and employees!) about the network differences - back
in the AT&T TDMA/GSM fiasco, now with Sprint/Nextel, and perhaps with a
future "T-Sprint", you have the problems of separate coverage maps, perhaps
separate rate-plans, etc. depending on equipment chosen. How do you
(easily) explain to a customer that his CDMA phone works in East Cupcake,
Nebraska, but his wife's GSM phone on the same family plan can't? Or why
your buddy's T-Mo phone works all the way up and down Route 66, but yours
cuts out completely between exits 7 and 17?

Hybrid GSM/CDMA phones would be an answer, but like with old AT&T, that
adds to confusion, and limits phone selection vs. other carriers ("why do
you only sell these two phones that work on your whole map? ALL of
Verizon's and AT&T's phones work on theirs...")

Like I said- it wouldn't be easy or pretty, but long term it might make
sense- after the 700 MHz auction, T-Mo, and to a lesser extent, Sprint, are
very "spectrally challenged" compared to Verizon and AT&T, limiting future
capacity. Together Sprint and T-Mo can be a strong third player, while
separately they're probably always going to be marginal sideline players,
subsisting on whatever market share slips out of Verizon's and AT&T's
fingers.

Qwest sees the handwriting on the wall

Ron — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:24:05 GMT

Dennis Ferguson wrote:

> Yes, that's correct. In fact the Consumer Reports survey covers
> three markets where Verizon is a 1900 MHz carrier: Miami, Tampa
> and Dallas. Verizon's coverage is rated no worse there than anywhere
> else in the country. And a couple of the very worst coverage scores in
> that survey are for AT&T in Washington, DC and Boston, where AT&T is a
> cellular operator.

Last time I was in South Florida (where I am originally from) in
December 2006, I roamed onto AT&T AMPS with my Verizon phone out in the
Everglades. Kind of amusing that the AT&T GSM customers had no coverage
at all out there, nor did the Verizon customers with digital-only
phones. Now of course, presuming AT&T turned off both of their AMPS
network, Verizon and AT&T have equal coverage out there, which is none.

But as to the reason Verizon is not hampered by 1900 MHz in those
markets, it's probably because you don't have the kind of local
opposition to towers you have out West.

Nokia resumes own production of cdma phones (cdma is vibrant)

carcarx — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:39:18 GMT

On 2008-05-05, Todd Allcock wrote:
>>
>> Nah. Motorola still make a decent CDMA phones. For many, many years before
>> they outsourced to Pantech, Nokia CDMA phones SUCKED ASS and Nokia showed
>> no interest in making them work properly. (Been there, done that.)
>
>
> Yeah, Nokia built a bunch of crummy CDMA handsets, particularly when they
> insisted on using their own chipsets to avoid using Qualcomm.

Of course, Moto DOES have their own issues. If you want me to rant for an hour,
ask me about what happened last year when I sent my PEBL in for repair.

But still, talk of Nokia bumping Moto out of the market is premature, at best.

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Re: Too bad so sad - Sprint told by Feds to vacate wireless channels,its network crippled!

Jerome Zelinske — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:11:14 GMT

Sounds like you are talking about nextel's network, not Sprint
PCS'. No real loss.