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opposed to CDMA) is that the network providers have much less control over
the handheld devices. I feel like as long as it has a valid SIM card from
any GSM carrier, it should work.
In the same sense, shouldn't the iPhone work with T-mobile (or any other GSM
carrier), if you have a T-mobile SIM card? I'll admit that I'm on Verizon
so I'm not too sure about how the SIM cards work.
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On 1/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww at beww.org">beww at beww.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:08 AM, Dylan Semler wrote:<br><br>><br>> Speaking of phones, if one wanted to take that route, I've been<br>> following the OpenMoko[1] project for a bit now. A fully open source<br>
> mobile phone complete with a VGA (640 x 480) screen and a GPS. I'd<br>> expect you could get it to sync and do pretty much anything you could<br>> think of regarding using it as a PMP. The only downsides is that it's
<br>> not out yet (ETA of March) and it doesn't have WiFi. Future<br>> generations of this device look promising.<br>><br>><br>> [1]www.openmoko.com<br>> <a href="http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/announce/2007-January/">
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/announce/2007-January/</a><br>> 000000.html<br>><br><br>Any mobile phone has to operate on somebody's network, and the<br>problem with a lot of the fancy units (like the iPhone) is that they
<br>want to lock you in to a particular vendor, usually not the best one<br>for you.</blockquote><div><br>From my understanding, one of the reasons that the OpenMoko is GSM (as opposed to CDMA) is that the network providers have much less control over the handheld devices. I feel like as long as it has a valid SIM card from any GSM carrier, it should work.
<br><br>In the same sense, shouldn't the iPhone work with T-mobile (or any other GSM carrier), if you have a T-mobile SIM card? I'll admit that I'm on Verizon so I'm not too sure about how the SIM cards work.
<br></div><br></div><br>-- <br>Dylan<br><br>Type faster. Use Dvorak:<br><a href="http://dvzine.org">http://dvzine.org</a>
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