Chris, when I was looking into it about 1 year ago, the cable to connect my
Nokia phone to my laptop was about $100.00. I wasn't able to talk my
employer into trying out the new technology. He had heard somewhere that
the service was very slow and unreliable for data(which might have very well
been true). I would certainly jump on that bandwagon if it ever became
usable.
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Tony Newton
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Goodey [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 2:51 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Wireless access to HP3000
>
>
> I thought SprintPCS let you use their phone as a modem
> (if you had paid the $10 a month extra for web enabling)
> then you could use your laptop and dial-up anything
> (with a 14.4kbps modem) be it your HP3000 support link,
> or your regular internet provider.
>
> The minutes just come off your regular minutes, and most
> Sprint users have lots of weekend and evening minutes.
> Note sure if Laughlin is on the Sprint PCS network though.
>
> Anyone out there use this to access their HP3000?
> I was wondering about it for remote support, since
> I wouldn't need to find a land-line, nor use
> up long distance on a friends home phone line, or try
> and find a working motel line, etc.
>
> Now 9600-14,400 is not real speedy for internet access,
> but is all the HP support links will do anyway, and thus
> probably good enough for most support problems.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Sieler [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 2:44 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Wireless access to HP3000
>
>
> Wirt writes:
>
> > I may suffer from a total lack of imagination, but I have
> yet to see the
> > value in having a tiny display on a cell phone be an
> interface to the web
> or
> > to a host computer.
>
> I could have used it this weekend...I was in Laughlin, NV, trying to
> remember the phone # and address of my sister, 70 miles away
> in Lake Havasu,
> AZ. I knew the info was accessible to me over the web. If I'd had
> some brands/implementations/plans of web enabled cell phones, I could
> have retrieved her address over the web with my phone. Since I had
> Sprint's PCS, I couldn't. (It can only access WAP pages...unlike some
> sevices that can access any HTML pages.) (Instead, since
> AT&T Worldnet
> doesn't know Laughlin exists, I had to make a $10 long
> distance call with
> a laptop to get the info.)
>
> (Why Laughlin? That's the closest airport you can get to with a
> commericial jet :)
>
> Stan Sieler
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