I just want to comment on this one piece of the last comment "Wireless is extremely reliable." I work for a company that has had a wireless T1 (Don't know name of company that provides it) installed for almost a year due to other Services not available at the time, The link goes down an average of half a day every work week (no one watches saterday or sunday) Now that we are moving we have all intentions to changing to a buisness grade DSL at the new location. The response from our provider is usually that the tower went down, so this is not anything that is our fault. I think when you have repeaters spread out instead of at a central Location it makes it hard to keep an eye out on everything and respond quikly. Our company is not a "net based" company, but alot of our customers contact us through E-mail so if it is down we lose money. I think wirelesses main problem is that it is less reliable then any other connection form. P.S. My home DSL has yet to go down
What scares me about this that this could also be used for the oppisite affect. Imagine those annoying popup ads on websites knowing exactly the point of the screen you are focused on. I can see the Marketing Departments drooling now.
I just upgraded phones from a samsung 2000 to a motorola TimePort, While I have to give the 2000 credit for taking alot of blows it had one fault, the flip down cover would flip down on my belt and get caught on things and snap off... it actually didn't do damage to the phone it seems it was designed to pop off easly. After much searching and feature looking I choose a motorola Timeport... This phone has every feature I could want. The phone book has 4 numbers per listing, a nice feature in a day when the average person has 3-4 numbers. Vibrating alert (It's not everyones buisness that I got a call) common headphone jack, fully customizable. But by fart my favorite feature was the computer cable included, no more having to add numbers with the tiny dial pad, I just type it in my PC and synch, also it has a built in fax/modem for me to use with my laptop. Add DualBand for those emergencys when you would pay anything to be able to use the phone and I got a complete package. It only needs to get on the charger every 3 days or so. To give it credit the Nokia 6100 was my second choice. The timeport is expensive ($300) twice the nokia... but it comes with a case and the computer cable so not much else you need except a headset... and it's not a special jack like the nokia to limit your choices.
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I just want to comment on this one piece of the last comment "Wireless is extremely reliable." I work for a company that has had a wireless T1 (Don't know name of company that provides it) installed for almost a year due to other Services not available at the time, The link goes down an average of half a day every work week (no one watches saterday or sunday) Now that we are moving we have all intentions to changing to a buisness grade DSL at the new location. The response from our provider is usually that the tower went down, so this is not anything that is our fault. I think when you have repeaters spread out instead of at a central Location it makes it hard to keep an eye out on everything and respond quikly. Our company is not a "net based" company, but alot of our customers contact us through E-mail so if it is down we lose money. I think wirelesses main problem is that it is less reliable then any other connection form. P.S. My home DSL has yet to go down
What scares me about this that this could also be used for the oppisite affect. Imagine those annoying popup ads on websites knowing exactly the point of the screen you are focused on. I can see the Marketing Departments drooling now.
I just upgraded phones from a samsung 2000 to a motorola TimePort, While I have to give the 2000 credit for taking alot of blows it had one fault, the flip down cover would flip down on my belt and get caught on things and snap off... it actually didn't do damage to the phone it seems it was designed to pop off easly. After much searching and feature looking I choose a motorola Timeport... This phone has every feature I could want. The phone book has 4 numbers per listing, a nice feature in a day when the average person has 3-4 numbers. Vibrating alert (It's not everyones buisness that I got a call) common headphone jack, fully customizable. But by fart my favorite feature was the computer cable included, no more having to add numbers with the tiny dial pad, I just type it in my PC and synch, also it has a built in fax/modem for me to use with my laptop. Add DualBand for those emergencys when you would pay anything to be able to use the phone and I got a complete package. It only needs to get on the charger every 3 days or so. To give it credit the Nokia 6100 was my second choice. The timeport is expensive ($300) twice the nokia... but it comes with a case and the computer cable so not much else you need except a headset... and it's not a special jack like the nokia to limit your choices.