Being from Germany originally, I have liked always liked TMo in the US - friendly customer service, GSM technology (important if you travel overseas a lot), very good coverage (only in Puerto Rico I drew a blank so far) and the fact that they allow you to unlock the phone after a very short time (basically after you paid 3 bills or so). I have always been able to plug in my German pre-paid card and avoid overseas roaming charges. In addition, TMo is one of the few carriers to still offer an unlimited data plan, which came in really handy when Hurricane Irene took out my regular network for days. But the selection of phones they offered in the past (before the iPhone - I don't really care about that) were clearly putting many folks off. They got the Razr at a time when people already dumped them on EBay, and only recently they got themselves a real winner with the Galaxy S/Vibrant. I always had a hard time defending our family plan with my kids with the "totally uncool" phones, and ended up buying unlocked phones on the free market a few times. I once found myself next to a T-Mo corporate woman on a flight and told her that. She was really surprised and recited the list of phones she thought were really great - almost the same selection that I knew to be the list of Phones Never To Be Caught With. It continued with the Android 1.5 phones that were offered forever, the Blackberries, and others which appeared to be selected for their total absence of any kind of must-have appeal.
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Being from Germany originally, I have liked always liked TMo in the US - friendly customer service, GSM technology (important if you travel overseas a lot), very good coverage (only in Puerto Rico I drew a blank so far) and the fact that they allow you to unlock the phone after a very short time (basically after you paid 3 bills or so). I have always been able to plug in my German pre-paid card and avoid overseas roaming charges. In addition, TMo is one of the few carriers to still offer an unlimited data plan, which came in really handy when Hurricane Irene took out my regular network for days.
But the selection of phones they offered in the past (before the iPhone - I don't really care about that) were clearly putting many folks off. They got the Razr at a time when people already dumped them on EBay, and only recently they got themselves a real winner with the Galaxy S/Vibrant. I always had a hard time defending our family plan with my kids with the "totally uncool" phones, and ended up buying unlocked phones on the free market a few times. I once found myself next to a T-Mo corporate woman on a flight and told her that. She was really surprised and recited the list of phones she thought were really great - almost the same selection that I knew to be the list of Phones Never To Be Caught With. It continued with the Android 1.5 phones that were offered forever, the Blackberries, and others which appeared to be selected for their total absence of any kind of must-have appeal.
I find it easier to use the IrDA interface to quickly connect the Zaurus to Linux. I have written up the steps here:
http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/~purschke/zaurus/
M.
I have another CD setup here:
http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/~purschke/RescueCD/
The main feature is that it allows you to make your own customized CD for whatever purpose. I had a lot of positive feedback.
You can make it so that it boots and performs stuff automatically.