New mobile provider advice sought
Jan. 20th, 2007 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zdashamberThe hosting change went swimmingly, so far as I can tell. The new host offers SquirrelMail as a webmail option, and it rocks hard... I can tag every one of my email addresses with a color, and then see at a glance which ones are getting spam. Yay! Like, the Amberlist-only address gets an occasional spam. Because it's a simple adaption of my main address, which gets spam? Is a puzzlement.
Also, SquirrelMail shows the Chinese spam in Chinese characters, and the South-East Asian spam in South-East Asian characters... Spiffy! :D
Anyway, now my inbox is a rainbow of data, which is pretty and also useful. Yay!
So, next up is changing my mobile carrier to something that doesn't drop calls while I sit unmoving in my house. (Freeging Sprint.) My roommates aver that Cingular and Verizon get good reception in our house... Both have websites that look like crap with Firefox. Both offer the same plans for the same price, though Cingular's might not have free Nights and Weekends (their website is confusing in addition to looking like crap). I'm leaning towards Verizon, but I'm interested in hearing people's tales of woe.
What I want from a cell phone is that it allows you to text in Morse Code. Morse is faster than SMS, and also cooler. How many people formented prison rebellions by tapping out SMS on the pipes in their cells? How many people connected with other remaining settlements after the nuclear apocalypse using SMS? How many people adrift at sea sent their Maydays in SMS? Damn straight. Morse would be awesome to learn. But, I think learning it by cell texting is impossible... I've only found one guy who wrote his own Morse-->text program, and it only works on Nokia series 60 phones, and neither Verizon nor Cingular seem to offer those. Could I buy one off eBay and have them accept it into the loving folds of their network?
The other thing I want from a cell phone is to be able to attach it to my laptop and use it like a modem, which also appears to be impossible.
Alas. I don't want a camera! I have a camera, and it's a sight better than anything on a cell phone, even though it's four years old! I don't want an MP3 player! I have an MP3 player, and it also can record hours of talk!
Bah. I suppose it's simpler to give us the easy cheap stuff, but I mean... Both of the things I want seem so easy... They're just adaptions of ancient technology: telegraph, modem, same difference...
Also, SquirrelMail shows the Chinese spam in Chinese characters, and the South-East Asian spam in South-East Asian characters... Spiffy! :D
Anyway, now my inbox is a rainbow of data, which is pretty and also useful. Yay!
So, next up is changing my mobile carrier to something that doesn't drop calls while I sit unmoving in my house. (Freeging Sprint.) My roommates aver that Cingular and Verizon get good reception in our house... Both have websites that look like crap with Firefox. Both offer the same plans for the same price, though Cingular's might not have free Nights and Weekends (their website is confusing in addition to looking like crap). I'm leaning towards Verizon, but I'm interested in hearing people's tales of woe.
What I want from a cell phone is that it allows you to text in Morse Code. Morse is faster than SMS, and also cooler. How many people formented prison rebellions by tapping out SMS on the pipes in their cells? How many people connected with other remaining settlements after the nuclear apocalypse using SMS? How many people adrift at sea sent their Maydays in SMS? Damn straight. Morse would be awesome to learn. But, I think learning it by cell texting is impossible... I've only found one guy who wrote his own Morse-->text program, and it only works on Nokia series 60 phones, and neither Verizon nor Cingular seem to offer those. Could I buy one off eBay and have them accept it into the loving folds of their network?
The other thing I want from a cell phone is to be able to attach it to my laptop and use it like a modem, which also appears to be impossible.
Alas. I don't want a camera! I have a camera, and it's a sight better than anything on a cell phone, even though it's four years old! I don't want an MP3 player! I have an MP3 player, and it also can record hours of talk!
Bah. I suppose it's simpler to give us the easy cheap stuff, but I mean... Both of the things I want seem so easy... They're just adaptions of ancient technology: telegraph, modem, same difference...
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Date: 2007-01-27 04:55 am (UTC)