I'm visiting South Carolina next month - Sumter, Charleston and
Columbia.  I checked out the map of GSM coverage in these areas and it
does not look promising for roaming.  Will I be able to roam or will I
be without cell phone service while in SC?  I'd love comments from GSM

I am a longtime Verizon Wireless customer.  I am keeping a close eye on
the Treo line (600 and 650).  I do not have either, but I have friends who
do.
I feel Verizon charges a lot for data.  Tmobile is much friendlier, but I

Please forgive me if this is too rudimentary a question:
Is every phone that is advertised as a "quad band" phone truly capable of
850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz ?
I would like to get my dad a phone, but I don't know a thing about GSM.

Do you also have trouble remembering what you did do at certain periods of
time ? Or do you just want to know what you were doing at a certain moment ?
The mobile phone offers many advantages, e.g. through the number of your
mobile and a date we can point out where you were at ...

When I receive a SMS message it has a date and time attached.  Is this:
the time set on the sender's phone at the time it was written
the time set on the sender's phone at the time it was sent
the network time it was received by the network of the sender

    The Philippines uses 900/1800 according to the guy in the
Nokia store.
    I bought a Nokia 6230, which is a tri-band GSM phone using
850/1300/1800 I think.  What happens if I try to use this phone over

A friend's in India at the moment, and I'm trying to work out if I
should be able to send him texts from the UK (O2) and if he would be
able to send them back to me.
His number starts 98378 - from what I've read that's enough to work out

Hi'
I have bought the USB SIM-Doctor 10in1 here:
http://www.gsm-technology.com/index.php/en_US,details,id_pr,683.html
It works just fine, and now I need some extra SIM cards for it.

is better to buy li-polymer 3.6V 1200 mAh
or
li-polymer 3.7V 1200 mAh
thx...

Hi, there
My P800 start but freeze on the welcome screen
Anu idea ?
Thanks in advance

we use a embedded board with a tellit GSM862 GSM Modem.
With this modem we sen SMS to some cellular phone.
One combination makes a weird problem .
SMS -> Nokia 6310 -> OK

I am polling my GSM modem for new messages every 10 seconds...
and it works fine for some 5 minutes or so and returns OK.
after that it starts returning funny charracters. Character that looks
like

I plan to travel to the UK and Australia this summer and WAS planning to get a
V551(Cingular, my service) phone,, pull the SIM and pick up pre-paid SIMs as I move..
Because of the hassle, I am now looking for a tri-band(900,1800,1900) phone off eBay as my
"over seas" phone.. It ...

Can somebody help me?
I'm looking for a link to configure a Motorala for gprs and wap.
It seems that, unlike Nokia an Ericson, they don't have a direct link... Or
is it that hard to find?

I have set up my new SonyEricsson 910i smartphone to sync with Outlook via
Bluetooth.  All works fine except an Outlook / Windows security dialogue box
appears asking me' for permission'  to allow access to Outlook for a user
set period of time (1 to 10 minutes).  This is most ...