Re: Motorola phones

Joe Pham wrote:
>> Well I just got me a new RAZR on T-Mobile which means a GSM phone.(*)
> 
> What? You're not going to wait for the much anticipated iPhone :-) 
> (the Apple's one, not the Cisco's)

I don't actually use my phone much.  On average I do about 30 peak
minutes per month!  With tmobile you get this myfaves thing which lets
you set 5 numbers and all incoming and outgoing calls to/from those
numbers are unlimited/free.  I still have 3 slots open :-)

And I definitely don't want a phone that isn't a flip.  I keep my phone
inside my pocket.  I've also learned my lesson and stay away from Apple
stuff.  Additionally the iPhone is going to work out at $2000 a year
once you take into account the phone cost and the plan cost, and you get
stuck with Cingular.

For $6 per month I get unlimited web and email data (ie no ssh) but can
easily live with that.  That includes apps on the phone as well as tethered.

> I no longer have the V710, so I can't do any testing on it.  

I can manually set BitPim to V710 which ensures the code is run, but it
fails the moment anything Brew happens.  The GSM motos do have a very
funky filesystem mode.  You switch the phone into it and then it shows
up as a new USB composite device with a different PID!

> It's up
> to you, but I'd recommend committing your changes in for the upcoming 
> build.

I'll commit them shortly.  The V3 code isn't ready by a long shot.  I am
still trying to work out how it is different from the CDMA models.  I
won't be able to do a build till next Saturday at the earliest due to
travel.

I think it is also worthwhile renaming com_gsm to com_etsi since it
really is about the command set which is an ETSI standard that most GSM
phones happen to use as well as CDMA Motorolas.

Roger

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