Posted on 06/30/2006 3:32:09 PM PDT by phoenix0468
Well on a lark I decided to browse to www.freerepublic.com/ with my new Motorola V323 picture phone. What surprised me initially was how simple it was to browse the site. Logging in was simple, browsing messages was fairly easy. I must say, it's nice to know I can check into FR on the road from time to time. Now, unless you have a more functional device than my little picture phone, I will say that responding to posts or posting new threads might be a bit cumbersome, but not at all impossible. Finally, I would like to commend the FR team for presenting the site on mobile technology in a way that loads quickly and is easily readable.
Well, it does do pretty well for reading and sending email through services like yahoo, msn, and google's gmail. So, yes it's a pretty handy tool. As for national calling, I get free nationwide long distance so all I pay for is minutes. I just have to be careful if I go outside of my calling area.
Well i hope there wasn't much harm done.
Always a waste of time.
I caught the fraud on the net, printed it out, faxed it to corporate and they gave me some good stuff for my troubles in the way of extra service.
I haven't had trouble for 3 years.
That's good.
I agree, and their service, phones and all have been good.
Next step is wireless broadband with either sprint or cingular.
This is good stuff but I was hoping for something like the BATmobile.
I put my wireless modem on my Ipaq but I all ways have my lap top with so it was fun.
Well, they do use digital signals with their phone.
They do split all the signals in two that we use, which is why we still don't get a perfect service.
Have you heard anything about the competitor's wireless offerings? I have heard that cingular has a very extensive network for Wireless broadband. OH, and 10mbs, that's screamin!!
Split in two? You mean for voice and data right? Yes, that would cause some issues with the sevice as the two signals would compete for bandwidth on either the network or the device. It would be nice if they could have parallel networks and devices that could use seperate receivers for voice and data so that wouldn't happen wouldn't it?
The company made a national deal with several hundred users, I know it works in southern california. I never see a bill but was told it about $60 dollars a month unlimted use. Most places I use it at 1.5Mbps but if falls back to 750kbps ranch when in a non broadband area. Once I set it up with Google Earth and my GPS, but once your out of the big cities it's to slow.
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