>From my understanding the 'unlimited' data plan on cell phones is to cover data from the cell phone itself. Data through the cell phone to a laptop is not part of the plan and will be billed additional charges. -Matt ----- "andrew bellak" wrote: > From: "andrew bellak" <andrew at stakeholderscapital.com> > To: Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:51:38 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: using a smartphone as laptop modem - Re: [Hidden-tech] Re: unlocking cell phones - how's Sprint for 3G 'roundthese parts? > > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you. > What's the deal with limits on using a smartphone as a laptop modem? There's something about the amount a data limit for mobile data using a smartphone vs. a wireless adapter connector for 'regular' computer data transmission? > > Because if someone has an unlimited smartphone data plan, it'd be great to use it as a mobile laptop modem even for limited use. > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Jeff Hobbs < jeffehobbs at gmail.com > wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > > If you're just in it for the Google phone, you may want to consider getting a contract-free developer version that you could use on whatever network you choose: > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081207-google-introduces-developer-g1-phones.html > > (Not that you asked but: At this point, Android as a mobile platform has a lot of promise but it's still pretty rough -- I'd take a hard look at an iPhone as a mobile option as well.) > > ~Jeff > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:00 PM, < hidden-discuss-request at lists.hidden-tech.net > wrote: > Send Hidden-discuss mailing list submissions to > hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.hidden-tech.net/listinfo/hidden-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > hidden-discuss-request at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > hidden-discuss-owner at lists.hidden-tech.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Hidden-discuss digest..." > > > ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group > ** by filling out the survey/skills > ** inventory in the member's area. > ** Remember you must be counted to post . > > Today's Topics: > > 1. To keep records or not to keep... | CLARIFICATION | > (DAVID F. FARKAS) > 2. RE: unlocking cell phones - how's Sprint for 3G 'round these > parts? (Arlen Collins) > 3. Re: unlocking cell phones - how's Sprint for 3G 'roundthese > parts? ( ussailis at shaysnet.com ) > 4. Re: unlocking cell phones - how's Sprint for 3G 'round these > parts? (Chris Hoogendyk) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:30:39 -0500 > From: "DAVID F. FARKAS" < david at farkas.com > > Subject: [Hidden-tech] To keep records or not to keep... | > CLARIFICATION | > To: < hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > Message-ID: < 20081218183048.BF5E5414C2 at homiemail-a4.dreamhost.com > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi folks... > > Thanx for all the ideas for HOW to keep records electronically rather > than on paper. Some of the ideas on work flow and storage were great! > I think I need to move to cloud computing for my CRM and apps so I > can streamline a lot of my report / record keeping process. > > BUT... my real dilemma is whether to keep most of the notes at all. I > ask clients for some photos and I use GoogleEarth pix for maps. But, > other than contact info and a summary of findings before and after > the work, I'm not sure why I need to keep all the scribbles from the > process. They would need to be scanned to be included in electronic records. > > UNLESS... there are legal, marketing or other reasons I'm not considering? > > Since my work is unusual, it is to my advantage to have not records. > Then nobody can challenge the process... which is esoteric and > confusing to most people. As a child of the McCarthy era and of our > litigious era, I'm wondering what advantage / disadvantages there are > in keeping fewer notes. I can't claim clinician, fiduciary, or legal > confidentiality either. > > Healers in indigenous cultures have clinics where they go from > patient to patient doing their work and take no notes at all. They > are not in the western world running a business... so I'm looking for > a balance. > > If any of this makes sense and/or illuminates flashes of insight... > please pass them along. If it does not... well, you see the problem, eh? > > Merry Everything and Happy Always! > David > > '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' > > Snowmen Fall from Heaven Unassembled > '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' > "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, > but most of them pick themselves up > and hurry off as if nothing happened." > ~Winston Churchill > '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' > "There are more things in heaven and > earth, dear Horatio, than are dreamt of in > your philosophy" ~Shakespeare (Hamlet) > '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' > No trees were destroyed by sending this > message. However, a significant number > of electrons were sorely inconvenienced. > '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20081218/b8725c39/attachment.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:41:37 +0000 > From: Arlen Collins < acollins at rxemedia.com > > Subject: RE: [Hidden-tech] unlocking cell phones - how's Sprint for 3G > 'round these parts? > To: < andrew at stakeholderscapital.com >, Hidden Tech > < hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > Message-ID: <COL103-W59D82D73381781F78406A7A7F30 at phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > The good news is that T-Mobile has a decent policy for unlocking phones. When I last checked, they required the phone be on an active plan for 3 months. My brother who lives in Indonesia half the year got them to do it immediately when he got his new phone, but he had been a long term customer. I also travel to Asia nd wanted the flexibility to install SIMs while there. I got a T-Mobile pay as you go quad-band phone. After 3 months they gave me the code. One thing you might want to try is going in and making their unlocking of the phone conditional on your signing up with T-Mobile. It is a competitive business. > > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:51:15 -0500 > From: andrew at stakeholderscapital.com > To: Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > CC: > Subject: [Hidden-tech] unlocking cell phones - how's Sprint for 3G 'round these parts? > > Dear HT, > > I would like to try the new T-Mobile Google phone. I plan to switch to T-Mobile in January from Verizon and get the phone with a 1 or 2 yr. contract. > > But this Verizon phone # is not my primary number, it's my wife's. > > > Therefore, I want to unlock the G-phone so I can use it with my other carrier, ATT. Both ATT & T-Mobile are GSM so I think compatibility should not be an issue. > > I have had a phone unlocked before. I used eBay to find a vendor but would rather do that locally, if possible. > > > Part two of the plan, is to maybe switch to Sprint from ATT in June 2009, when that plan expires, so I can get the $99 deal: unlimited voice, data, & text. > > Anybody use Sprint around here? > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself with gadgets on Windows Live Spaces > http://discoverspaces.live.com?source=hmtag1&loc=us > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20081218/9d8427b4/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:23:04 -0500 > From: " ussailis at shaysnet.com " < ussailis at shaysnet.com > > Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] unlocking cell phones - how's Sprint for 3G > 'roundthese parts? > To: site-hidden-tech at sherbang.com , andrew at stakeholderscapital.com , > hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > Message-ID: < 380-220081241819234134 at M2W039.mail2web.com > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Another issue is where you plan to use a T-Mobile phone. Not everywhere in > the Valley, and not at all in some hilltowns. > > I have a T-Mobile phone and battle with the problem. > > Jim Ussailis > > jim at nationalwireless.com > > > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Brian Johnson site-hidden-tech at sherbang.com > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:18:48 -0500 > To: andrew at stakeholderscapital.com , Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] unlocking cell phones - how's Sprint for 3G > 'roundthese parts? > > > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > andrew bellak wrote: > > Dear HT, > > > > > > I would like to try the new T-Mobile Google phone. I plan to switch > > to T-Mobile in January from Verizon and get the phone with a 1 or 2 > > yr. contract. > > > > But this Verizon phone # is not my primary number, it's my wife's. > > > > Therefore, I want to unlock the G-phone so I can use it with my other > > carrier, ATT. Both ATT & T-Mobile are GSM so I think compatibility > > should not be an issue. > > > > I have had a phone unlocked before. I used eBay to find a vendor but > > would rather do that locally, if possible. > > > > Part two of the plan, is to maybe switch to Sprint from ATT in June > > 2009, when that plan expires, so I can get the $99 deal: unlimited > > voice, data, & text. > > > > Anybody use Sprint around here? > > T-Mobile and AT&T use different 3G frequencies. As a result the G1 will > work on AT&T but will _not_ do 3G (high speed data). > > There is another Google Android phone about to be released in January > that will work on AT&T's 3G network, but not T-Mobile's. It's the Kogan > Agora > http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/android-powered-kogan-agora-3G-mobile-phone/ > This phone is sold unlocked so you wont have to bother with that part. > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - > http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:17:12 -0500 > From: Chris Hoogendyk < hoogendyk at bio.umass.edu > > Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] unlocking cell phones - how's Sprint for 3G > 'round these parts? > To: Hidden Tech < hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > Message-ID: < 494A93A8.8070100 at bio.umass.edu > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > If you want to be socially conscious, go with Credo (used to be Working > Assets Wireless). They use the sprint network. They currently have a > deal where you can get a Solio solar recharger along with a phone with a > 2 year contract. We have used them for years, and everyone in my family > has their own cell phone line. Every year you can participate in the > voting to determine what causes profits get contributed to. > > Nobody has total coverage, but I've been happy with ours. Ours drops off > when we go down the hill south of the main shopping areas of > Northampton. Picks back up if we are high in the building or get back up > on the main drag. I think the towers are probably on north King Street. > I actually got coverage once on a southwest facing slope of a mountain > along the N.H. border of Maine. We were coming over the top after a > couple of days of backpacking, dead tired, and decided to try and call > our favorite B&B to see if they had a room available. It worked. > Leverette is sort of like that. You have to be on the right bend of the > road for any cell phone to work. > > > -- > --------------- > > Chris Hoogendyk > > - > O__ ---- Systems Administrator > c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments > (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center > ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst > > < hoogendyk at bio.umass.edu > > > --------------- > > Erdös 4 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > > End of Hidden-discuss Digest, Vol 50, Issue 29 > ********************************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > > _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. 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