Monday, August 23, 2004

The Geekzone Bluetooth Guides

Geekzone mobile forums: "Each Bluetooth Guide will help you with easy step-by-step instructions and images on how to complete Bluetooth tasks in different platforms."

Great How-to articles for Bluetooth junkies. It even told me how to connect my Sony Clie to the net via my Sony Erricsson T610's GPRS connection through Bluetooth. -ap

The all-band phone

NEC FOMA N900iG - the first device to offer FOMA / tri-mode GSM / UMTS (Europe) roaming

This phone now brings a lot of bands together & has dual cameras! -ap

What is GPRS?

"What is General Packet Radio Service?"

I was asked this question recently by my friend. This site has a good intro to GPRS, only that it was written in January 2000.

But a small bit on the differences between browsing the net over GSM & GPRS based on my experiences:
1) GSM gives me 9.6 kbps but GPRS gives me 57 kbps
2) GSM costs me for the duration I am connected, GPRS costs for the actual data I transfer (up/down both)
3) GSM is like a normal dial-up connection over the POTS, GPRS is like a LAN connection to an APN.