using a smartphone as laptop modem - Re: [Hidden-tech] Re: unlocking cell phones - how's Sprint for 3G 'roundthese parts?

[Marcia Yudkin]

Matt,

I have an AT&T 8525 Smartphone and they have instructions
for using it as a modem for a laptop, so I'm pretty sure
that that is included in the unlimited data plan.

Marcia Yudkin

--- "Matthew S. Crocker" <matthew at corp.crocker.com> wrote:

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> > 
> >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
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> > 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: 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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 
> > 
> > 
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> > 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 
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> > 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 > 
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> > 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 
> > 
> >
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> > but most of them pick themselves up 
> > and hurry off as if nothing happened." 
> > ~Winston Churchill 
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> > earth, dear Horatio, than are dreamt of in 
> > your philosophy" ~Shakespeare (Hamlet) 
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