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The Electrolux Trilobite has been available in Sweden since 2001. Last year 15000 units were manufactured. For swedish-speaking readers, a page about the Trilobite is available at Svensk Industridesign. It's also a bit cheaper in Sweden, at 11869 SEK (about £920, 1300 euros or $1500). For once, models are tested in Sweden. Even Ericsson hasn't been doing that for quite a while...

Ever thought man pages were limited in that you couldn't automatically go to a referenced manpage? Use info, hit tab until you reach the reference, then hit enter. Walla!

Yes, info has become my all-time favorite. Far beyond the limited HTML markup. Not convinced? I would like to bring to your attention a few posts already made concerning info(1) and the document format texinfo: 2818653 and 2819778

I've recently started the chore of changing an existing TeX document into texinfo format. I would have loved to use a converter or a formatter from TeX to texinfo, but alas, such a tool was not available. vim's search and replacement works pretty well. Regardless, since texinfo docs can create TeX, XML, and HTML documents, I believe it's the best of the docformat-to-docformat wars. Additionally, it's a pretty simple markup to use.

Check out info2www by Roar Smith for a simple way to push out your installed info docs.

Here's the GNU Texinfo documentation.

The only other acceptable format, IMHO, would be docbook.

Ever thought man pages were limited in that you couldn't automatically go to a referenced manpage? Use info, hit tab until you reach the reference, then hit enter. Walla!

Yes, info has become my all-time favorite. Far beyond the limited HTML markup. Not convinced? I would like to bring to your attention a few posts already made concerning info(1) and the document format texinfo: 2818653 and 2819778

I've recently started the chore of changing an existing TeX document into texinfo format. I would have loved to use a converter or a formatter from TeX to texinfo, but alas, such a tool was not available. vim's search and replacement works pretty well. Regardless, since texinfo docs can create TeX, XML, and HTML documents, I believe it's the best of the docformat-to-docformat wars. Additionally, it's a pretty simple markup to use.

Check out info2www by Roar Smith for a simple way to push out your installed info docs.

Here's the GNU Texinfo documentation.

The only other acceptable format, IMHO, would be docbook.

I used this manual for an Ericsson R320AT GSM phone. My phone certainly isn't a GSM phone, but the address book commands seem to work.

The commands also worked on my friend's Motorolla, which is a GSM phone. On that one, we needed to send an AT+CPBS="ME" to tell the phone to use the numbers stored in the phone, as opposed to those stored in the sim card.

Read the ETSI documents available to the public to learn more about it.

PS: This is a really bad time to talk about mobile telephony because this happens.

As it turns out EDGE is more like UMTS in current frequency bands. I was talking crap, but it is till unlikely to offer 2Mbps (its in the spec, but likely not to be implemented).

Sure, that's the way LM Ericsson started in the telephone business (but the other way around, he patented the telephone in Sweden).

There are however dual-band phones that work both in Europe and in the US. For example, the very cool Ericsson T28 World, which is a GSM 900 and GSM 1900 phone.

Unfortunately, the only GSM provider here in California is the dreadful and pathetic Pac Bell Wireless which, based on plenty of personal experience, are a freakin' nightmare to deal with.

The PDA platform is EPOC, as used in the popular Psion Series 5/5mx machines, although the UI is heavily streamlined. (For a start, there's obviously no keyboard.)

I've played with an R380 - it's very neat, if you want the all-in-one solution, but the unit is not quite powerful enough as a stand-alone PDA for me (it's about Palm-level, not Psion-level), so I prefer a full PDA plus a really small phone. That way you can talk and read/type at the same time.

Erlang (developped by the Swedish telecom company Ericsson) is an Open Source distributed operating system that runs on top of a host OS such as Unix or MS Windows. Erlang is based on high-level language paradigms, which makes it refreshingly different from all these C-based OSes. I think it deserves to be better known.

For a rather comprehensive list of operating systems, check out the OS review subproject of the Tunes project. Of course, since Tunes is The Ultimate OS, it is distributed also (its only disadvantage is that it (currently?) doesn't exist).

We have no such computers on campus so that is always from the outside. Ktelnet has a built in ftp and pop klient and you dont have to be admin on an NT machine (Its mostly microsoft users that has these problems) to run it, so we recomend that program.

Some companies are so paranoid that the wont allow users to telnet to the outside at all, and thats probably the largest problem for our students (they tend to work at such companies after they graduate)

/das Ix

Just in case anyone got interested, before you dive into the muddy hell that is www.ericsson.se, here's a quick link to a tiny picture of the MP3 player accessory for the T18. To complete that, here's a link to some information about the device itself. Don't expect any hard info (such as memory capacity, battery life, price, or availability) though... ;(

Okay WAP is currently a bit slow (9.6k) and the content was thin to start with (although rapidly improving), but it works and it is here now. The European GSM infrastructure on which it relies offers coverage almost anywhere plus full roaming capabilities so location is not a problem.

What we have to look forward to in the very near future are a whole series of infrastructure technology refreshes which will offer "always on" connectivity at speeds of up to 114 kbps in the next 12 months (GPRS), then up to 384 kbps in the next 18 months (EDGE) and then approx 2 Mbps (UMTS) in the next 24 months. If you think we will all be using WAP browsers with tiny monochrome screens on conventional phones in that time period, then think again. And don't think that is all this is just vapourware and promises. All the major mobile telcos in Europe are busting a gut to deliver the benefits to their customers as soon as they can. So very soon, who will need a PC to access their content and applications?

Oh, forgot. Sony is also an Epoc licensee - and they make cool devices!

Go ARM!

But there's much new stuff. This Intel page explains a lot of the history behind Bluetooth.

Basically, (the Intel page doesn't say this) some engineers at Ericsson thought about designing a new protocol for communication between their (Ericsson's) devices in 1994, and started developing it. The project wasn't initially called Bluetooth, but "MC link" (MC = Multi-Communicator). But somewhere during the development, they started to realize that the chips needed for this would be much cheaper if it was a widely adopted standard, so they started talking with their arch rival Nokia about sharing the technology and making it a common standard. They formed a Special Interest Group (SIG) in 1998, together with some other well-known companies (amongst others IBM, Intel, Motorola, 3Com, Casio, Cirrus Logic, TDK, Compaq, Dell, Xircom, Lucent, Toshiba, Psion, Qualcomm and Axis).
Last year they released the specification for version 1.0 of the standard. And experimental Bluetooth devices have been built using the standard and shown on various expos last year, and real devices are under development now. I think we'll see many of these devices released this year. That's the brief history of Bluetooth.

Here is also Ericsson's Bluetooth site. Here's the specs.

Ericsson is already using Linux for its "e-box" system, which seems capabable of functioning as a a set-top box, but has more capabilities than just that.

So, PalmOS has been licensed to Qualcomm. Wow.

It really dismays me sometimes how Slashdot has almost completely ignored Symbian's EPOC operating system, developed by Psion and now also part owned by the "big three" - Motorola, Nokia and Ericsson. With these behind it, do you think that CE, or even PalmOS for that matter is going to suceed in the mobile information device arena?

Take a look at Ericsson's R380 to see what a real smartphone should look like! :-)

Glad you pointed it out. :-)

1) It's OC-48, pay attention. OC-3c = 155Mbit. OC-12 = 648Mbit. OC-48 - 2.4Gbit. OC-96 - 10Gbit.

Actually, OC-192 is 10Gbit/s.

We (my company, my development department) can even top that: OC-192/STM-64 over WDM, which will be 16x (or 32x) 10GBit/s on one fiber. You don't want it at home, your HD'd be full in the wink of an eye.

Glad you pointed it out. :-)

1) It's OC-48, pay attention. OC-3c = 155Mbit. OC-12 = 648Mbit. OC-48 - 2.4Gbit. OC-96 - 10Gbit.

Actually, OC-192 is 10Gbit/s.

We (my company, my development department) can even top that: OC-192/STM-64 over (PDF), which will be 16x (or 32x) 10GBit/s on one fiber. You don't want it at home, your HD'd be full in the wink of an eye.

Glad you pointed it out. :-)

1) It's OC-48, pay attention. OC-3c = 155Mbit. OC-12 = 648Mbit. OC-48 - 2.4Gbit. OC-96 - 10Gbit.

Actually, OC-192 is 10Gbit/s.

We (my company, my development department) can even top that: OC-192/STM-64 over (PDF), which will be 16x (or 32x) 10GBit/s on one fiber. You don't want it at home, your HD'd be full in the wink of an eye.