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Slightly OT - sync Blackberry, iPhone with Linux



The Verizon and AT&T adds are amusing. because Verizon advertises their
3G coverage, but ignore total coverage, but certainly 3G is better than
EDGE, and 4G is coming.

On 12/28/2009 05:21 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Tom Metro wrote:
>
>> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>> I'd love to switch, but it is too difficult to move...
>>> I hope that an android based phone becomes available on AT&T...
>>
>> You could buy an unlocked Android phone:
>> http://www.newegg.com/product/ProductList.aspx?description=3Dunlocked+=
android&Submit=3DENE&Ntk=3Dall&N=3D0&DisplayStyle=3D1&page=3D0&sourceid=3D=
Mozilla-search
>>
>>
>> At $400+, probably not cost effective, unless you can convince AT&T to=

>> sell you a plan without a phone subsidy. (Some carriers offer such
>> plans.)
>
> Unfortunately those phones would be Edge only (no 3G) on AT&T.
>
> AT&T operates their 3G network on UMTS 850 or 1900
>
>


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