[TriLUG] FOSS/Linux phones

Neil L. Little nllittle at embarqmail.com
Sat Jul 5 18:50:09 EDT 2008


The GSM network in this area is AT&T, a 1.9Ghz network.

I see from the specs that this is a tri-band phone and will operate in 
the 850/1800/1900 Mhz bands
You are good-to-go. Enjoy!

73,
Neil, WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!


Brian McCullough wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 03:13:10PM -0400, Neil L. Little wrote:
>   
>> 850 mhz (a-side/b-side old NAMPS) cellular in this area use CDMA. Those 
>> would be Altell and Verizon.
>>     
>
> Sorry to summarize too drastically, but am I to understand from your
> very informative treatise that the OpenMoko phone will not work in this
> area, since although it has capabilities in both 850MHz and 1.9GHz, it
> is a GSM-only phone, which is not properly supported locally?
>
> ( Mostly, I have stayed out of the cell-phone world, so have only a
> superficial knowledge of the field. )
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>   



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