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- 08-24-2005, 05:03 AM #1Guest
Being new to the Cellular environment, can anyone here point me to a
tutorial on cell sevices and information?
Thanks
sharkman
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- 08-25-2005, 04:34 AM #2Guest
Re: Newbie
general info such as
what the abbreviations that I see in this conference mean and what are they,
what the heck is unlocking. Info on messaging, picture sending, connections
to PC's etc etc..
thanks
sharkman
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Joseph wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:03:03 -0400, "[email protected]"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Being new to the Cellular environment, can anyone here point me to a
>>tutorial on cell sevices and information?
>
> What kind of information are you looking for?
>
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- 08-25-2005, 09:10 AM #3Guest
Re: Newbie
thanks... and there are those abbreviations again... No tutorial available?
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"Joseph" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:34:43 -0400, "[email protected]"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>general info such as
>>what the abbreviations that I see in this conference mean and what are
>>they,
>
> Use google or wikipedia.org
>
>>what the heck is unlocking.
>
> Locking generally refers to wireless handsets using the GSM
> technology. When someone refers to a "locked" handset it generally
> means that you can only use the SIM card from the carrier that sold
> the handset in that handset. Insertion of a SIM from another service
> will generally get you a message of "SIM card rejected" or similar.
> To use a non-native SIM you need to get the SIM lock restriction taken
> off. That's the "unlocking" that is generally being referred to.
> Other handsets may be locked for CDMA or TDMA but generally it's not
> commonly done though it's possible to have one of those handsets
> flashed I suppose to remove any restrictions from being used on other
> networks.
>
>>Info on messaging,
>
> Generally there are at least a couple of ways to message on phones.
> You can send a message from one mobile phone to another. There's also
> the possibility (at least it's very common in North America) that you
> can send to the phone's email address e.g. to send to a T-Mobile
> subscriber you send to [area code/phone number]@tmomail.net and for
> others like Verizon it's [a/c/phone number]@vtext.com. There's also
> picture messaging and multi-media messaging as well. Generally MMS
> costs more to send than regular text messages.
>
>> picture sending,
>
> Usually requires some sort of data plan to send files.
>
>>connections
>>to PC's etc etc..
>
> For connecting to PCs it also requires a data connection and for you
> to use cables, IR or bluetooth connection. It requires you to
> subscribe to a service such as GPRS, EDGE, 1XEVDO or other data
> service from the wireless provider.
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- 08-26-2005, 04:51 AM #4Guest
Re: Newbie
thanks..
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Joseph wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:10:51 -0400, "[email protected]"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>thanks... and there are those abbreviations again... No tutorial
>>available?
>
> I told you just where to get information on the abbreviations. Either
> go to google or go to wikipedia.org. Often for google if you'll just
> type in the search box definition: [word/abbreviation to be defined]
>
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