In case anyone in or traveling to the New Hampshire Seacoast area, this
weekend, at&t finally turned on 3G here.

Consumer Reports January '09 issue rates cell phone coverage in 23 markets.
Out of the 23 markets Verizon is #1 among readers in 20 of them which are:
Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Denver, Detroit, Jacksonville,
FL. , Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, NY, ...

When I go to
http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer/
and put my address in, the map shows a solid dark blue for data, but for
phone service, my neighborhood is a light orange patch surrounded by a

Activate Wi-Fi from the settings icon on your iPhone
Select "attwifi" from the list of available networks
Enter your 10-digit mobile number and check the box to agree to the
Acceptable Use Policy. Tap 'continue'

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/NASA-Tests-Interplanetary-Inter
net/?kc=EWKNLEND11222008STR3
...but can you imagine what the roaming charges will be?  ;-)

Q: Why is charging of Motorola phones so slow on the travel charger?
A: The standard travel charger packaged by Motorola with many current
phones puts out insufficient power for fastest possible charging and for
continuous use while charging.

Hello, I am wanting to get my daughter a new phone for Christmas and was
wondering if anyone could recommend a good touch screen phone without going
all the way to an I-phone or something like it, I don't mind the phone
itself but don't want to have to pay the extra 40 dollars a ...

I am looking at the iPhone and one thing where it seems to fail vs. Windows
Mobile is Outlook sync.  I have STANDALONE Outlook 2003 which I use as a
client for several POP3 accounts, and I want to sync my Outlook Inbox and
some folders to my phone, like I always have been able to ...

Net loss of more than 1 million subscribers last quarter.
New limiting credit agreement with Chase. ie, not allowed to
have a dividend.
"The company anticipates "continued pressure" on its monthly

On Nov 18, 12:32 am, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:

Mobile operators are just a little more than commodity-pushers - the
pipes and billers for services others own. They will be perpetual
percentage-cut taking middlemen, until someone discovers how to cut
them out of the chain. That someone will be the next Google. That

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/technology/18check.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200810/ai_n30946155
TSA says Continetal was first.
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Drawbacks like the lack of a physical keyboard and copy/paste
functionality don't seem to be hurting the iPhone too badly in the
enterprise market.
A recent study by J.D. Power and Associates recently found that among