"Robert Morein" wrote in message
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"Mike Gilmour" wrote in message
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"Robert Morein" wrote in message
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Nice device :-) In the US you have so much more use on your PDA's, live
TV for example, here in the UK its quite costly to use GPRS much. I use a
unlocked Treo 650 GSM and I'm delighted with it. I did look at the Treo
700 windows device and others but like the author I'm not decided yet.
I've downloaded full movies onto the 650's card, excellent when viewed
using TCPMP. I'm aware technology moves on rapidly but I'm going to take
a lot of advancement before my Treo 650 is traded. That said it could do
with a better quality speaker for watching movies but I guess space
doesn't allow, but its fine using phones.
Mike
The lack of cost-aggressiveness by European operators is puzzling. There's
an old truism that, the more primitive the country, the more expensive the
phone service, but that doesn't apply here. Why are the European operators
so resistant to cutting the price? Is it because they want to keep the
networks lightly loaded, in order to avoid compromising quality of
service? Here, there seems to be more of a "stretch it till it breaks, and
by then, we'll have the next big thing."


Who knows why? One thing I do know is, our high costs keeps us in a
communication backwater. Orange 'pay as you go' charges us (robs?) over £3
($5+) per MB! There are slightly better packages but IMO and for my
purposes they are still not considered cost effective except for receiving
emails on the move. Could be that demand is exceeding network capability at
present? Maybe they are waiting for the big analogue switch off to shuffle
frequency bands...I really don't know.

Mike