On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:00:38 +1100, Snapper wrote:

> Oppylock wrote...
>
>> Anyway ... I'm currently on a plain old GSM SIM from the old days The
>> phone does work with a GSM SIM, but it seems mean to hobble it in that way.
>> Onward and upward, so they say...
>> I rarely use data and the small amount I do use is trivial in size. SMS
>> message sized chit-chat back to a server, for example. So I'm not really
>> going to be a big user of 3G services at all, other than voice 99% of the
>> time.
>
> SMS "data" doesn't use the 3G network. However, MMS may if it's available.
> Otherwise it uses 2G over the internet but it's a hell of a lot slower.
>
> if you're with NextG then MMSes will go via the internet but at
> significantly faster speeds.

WTF?