[Gllug] sony ericsson mobiles & linux

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On 2/2/2006, "Tethys" <sta296 at astradyne.co.uk> wrote:

>Ouch! And I thought I was getting a raw deal at £1.50/MB from O2.
>It's great being able to have net access anywhere that there's a
>phone signal, but it's currently priced high enough that I tend
>to only use it occasionally (being able to call up streetmap, or
>look up a phone number is wonderful).

Well, if I buy an "extra" from them, it's £4 for 4 megs, but I have to
remember to keep checking how much I've used.  Their text message to
tell you that you've used it up isn't reliable.  What's more, for
about two weeks their system wouldn't let me buy extras ("sorry, a
problem occurred").

It gets worse: they have videos you can pay £1.50 to download (crap like
movie trailers -- yeah I wanna pay for that) but they then, sneakily,
also charge you for the download in terms of the data!  Fuckers!

Hell, if I could get unlimited data, I'd listen to net radio on my
phone.  Battery life would be pretty short, I suspect.

What I really want is a 3G SIM card that will do reasonable (i.e., £1/meg
or less) data throughout Europe.  I've found these guys who do free
roaming inbound calls, reasonable outbound rates, but no data:
http://gt-9.com/websites/gt_sim/login_page/body.php?lang=eng

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