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From: J B on 19 Mar 2010 03:25 Thinking of getting a 'smart phone', but need some *basic* advice as to how it all does/doesn't work. Reception, 3g, e mail, web etc Does anyone know of a website that can tell me? -- J B
From: Stephen on 19 Mar 2010 04:23 "J B" <jb(a)invalid.com> wrote in message news:80gn6vFi6iU1(a)mid.individual.net... > Thinking of getting a 'smart phone', but need some *basic* advice as to > how it all does/doesn't work. > Reception, 3g, e mail, web etc > Does anyone know of a website that can tell me? > > > Google is as good as any ... search for smart phone guide should chuck up tons of sites.
From: J B on 19 Mar 2010 13:36 "Stephen" <none(a)none.com> wrote in message news:hnvc8u$ulo$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > >> Thinking of getting a 'smart phone', but need some *basic* advice as to >> how it all does/doesn't work. >> Reception, 3g, e mail, web etc >> Does anyone know of a website that can tell me? >> > Google is as good as any ... search for smart phone guide should chuck up > tons of sites. Thanks - some useful stuff, but ........... can you do any web browsing or e mailing without a 3g signal? Or would it be tediously sloooow? -- J B
From: Steve Terry on 19 Mar 2010 15:36 "J B" <jb(a)invalid.com> wrote in message news:80hr18FvshU1(a)mid.individual.net... > "Stephen" <none(a)none.com> wrote in message > news:hnvc8u$ulo$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... >> >>> Thinking of getting a 'smart phone', but need some *basic* advice as to >>> how it all does/doesn't work. >>> Reception, 3g, e mail, web etc >>> Does anyone know of a website that can tell me? >>> >> Google is as good as any ... search for smart phone guide should chuck up >> tons of sites. > > Thanks - some useful stuff, but ........... can you do any web browsing or > e mailing without a 3g signal? Or would it be tediously sloooow? > J B > 2g GPRS is tediously sloooow Steve Terry -- Get a free Three 3pay Sim with �2 bonus after �10 top up http://freeagent.three.co.uk/stand/view/id/5276
From: alexd on 20 Mar 2010 04:54
On 19/03/10 17:36, J B wrote: > can you do any web browsing > or e mailing without a 3g signal? Or would it be tediously sloooow? Yes. I've switched 3G off on my E61 and got a massive improvement in battery life as a result. I can't tell the difference in speed with email [as the phone downloads the emails before I read them, not on demand]. Web browsing is slow, but I rarely do it so I don't really care. Turning off images may help in this regard. Actually I think on my phone the CPU may be a more significant bottleneck for fat web pages than the network connection is. Any contemporary phone shouldn't suffer from this problem. Tedious is, of course, a matter of opinion. -- <http://ale.cx/> (AIM:troffasky) (UnSoEsNpEaTm(a)ale.cx) 08:46:26 up 44 days, 9:06, 3 users, load average: 0.17, 0.14, 0.12 It is better to have been wasted and then sober than to never have been wasted at all |