Jeffrey Kaplan <nomail@gordol.org> wrote in
news:rs1nv3pilus31kto3t4ptcur7kdpcvl7ko@gordol.org :

> How about a phone device?
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Mine is a MotoROKR Z6m. tiny little slidephone MODEM for the tablet to
use. It's MUCH easier to use as a sellphone than any big screen device
like an iPhone. I bought it for its Bluetooth DUN capabilities for my
tablet's use as an EVDO modem on Alltel. $50 after rebate.

http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Id=3379

Its ring and stereo audio is LOUD, the 2Megapixel cam is great. It will
take a 2GB microSD card full of MP3 straight off your computer to play
on its "ok" music player. It has a USB charging/data camera USB plug
and charger. It also has a STANDARD 3.5mm stereo headphone jack any
headphones will run from for great music playing.

This is a Linux-based device, but the web browser is typical SELLphone.
It sucks, but I don't care as the tablet has 800-pixel wide real Opera
or Firefox browsers, not some crippled web browser that won't display
the page. The tablet lacks JAVA but does Javascript fine. Flash 9
comes in the tablet for YouTube, etc. Of course, once you bypass the
SELLphone company crippling only using the phone for DATA, the tablet is
uncontrolled by the Sellphone bureaucrats so everything runs.

This fascination with a single device would be just fine....IF THE
SELLPHONE COMPANIES WOULD STOP CRIPPLING THE SINGLE DEVICE. They won't
so the 2-piece is MUCH better....

Of course, if you're going to call someone overseas or want to talk for
a long period during the SELLphone Primetime weekday eating up airtime,
just boot Skype on the tablet and make the call on unlimited data using
Skype Pro....bypassing all this SELLphone charging bullshit,
entirely....(c;

Skype works fine over 1X, EVDO, EDGE and "they" can't block it because
Skype uses ANY port number it selects at random or you select manually.
If the SELLphone bureaucrats block all the ports, people get really
angry having no internet access...so they can't. They can't "test for
Skype" because the data Skype transfers uses 256-bit heavy encryption!
Even the NSA bureaucrats would never get the key during your
conversation and EVERY call uses a different key. Skype is lots more
secure than SELLphones.....(c;