To quote MS'es Treo 700W gloat. You have one other wish left. :lol:[/quote]
1. Gomadic doesn't sell a RAZR cable yet, and I doubt their software works with VZW EVDO. Seems like a dialup-only solution to me.
2. Buying a PDA phone to tether another PDA - I'll have to hire a manservant to carry all these gadgets. Also, BT tethering is crippled on all VZW phones (except for some Blackberry, but Blackberries suck, so there ). 0X
3. The Semsons adapter only works with 16 bit cards. EVDO PC cards are all 32 bit. (and did the Semsons adapter ever graduate from Vaporware School?) imp:
To quote MS'es Treo 700W gloat. You have one other wish left. :lol:
I'm already blue-tethering my pda to my smtp5600. Getting a verizon phone seems like a guessing game at best as to which phones can tether and which ones wont.
I'll probably have to settle for another phone with Edge or the forward looking HSPDA (sp?)
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1. Gomadic doesn't sell a RAZR cable yet, and I doubt their software works with VZW EVDO. Seems like a dialup-only solution to me.
2. Buying a PDA phone to tether another PDA - I'll have to hire a manservant to carry all these gadgets. Also, BT tethering is crippled on all VZW phones (except for some Blackberry, but Blackberries suck, so there ). 0X
3. The Semsons adapter only works with 16 bit cards. EVDO PC cards are all 32 bit. (and did the Semsons adapter ever graduate from Vaporware School?) imp:
1. Gomadic is simply a cable. No software...The Razr might not support serial connections thus no cable.
2.The UTStarcom is almost the same size as my current phone. YMMV.
3.Thanks for the tip on 32bit cards. I hadn't considered that. I know two guys in my local user group with CF to PCMCIA adapters. They are available on Ebay.
4.How about a battery powered backpack stomp box
Trying to keep it pocketable and as close to instant-on as possible, otherwise I'd just get a small laptop.
Steve, I agree, it is a lot of money, but I'm looking at this from the "in the realm of the possible" more than "should you do it". Frankly, $50 a month for wireless broadband is a tad much when you are already paying $30-$50 for cable/ADSL at home.
At the moment, there is no price point where one can say, "I can do this". After a pocketable, instant-on, EVDO/HSDPA-capable device or solution is available, we can worry about the price.
Point taken. It's just that it seems to me that, given the state of our technology, it has been possible for quite a while. We have pocketable PCs, and we have instant-on capability. We can fit the full Windows OS onto a single chip. I believe the only thing stopping these companies from doing it is how much they want to spend on the solution, and how much profit that means they'll take home.
Think about this: How does "instant on" make that device cost twice as much as a larger and more powerful laptop, and four times as much as a basic PC? Granted, it's not quite that simple, but even so, those numbers just do not make sense to me.
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