Need new CDMA phone advice

[Rod Speed]

"Steve B." <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
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> Rod Speed said:
>
>>
>> "Steve B." <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:BE69C113.4E870%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
>>> Rod Speed said:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Steve the B <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
>>>> news:BE697CEE.4E751%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Bruce. I guess that Vodafone don't do
>>>>> CDMA - I can't find any CDMA phones on their page.
>>>>
>>>> Amazing.
>>>>
>>>>> On the Telstra page if I select CDMA and GPRS I get no matches.
>>>>
>>>> Hardly surprising given that CDMA doesnt do GPRS. It has its own data mode.
>>>>
>>>>> IS GPRS only available through the GSM networks?
>>>>
>>>> Yep.
>>>>
>>>>> There are plenty of WAP-enabled CDMA
>>>>> phones but WAP's expensive to use, right?
>>>>
>>>> Nope, there is an equivalent data mode on CDMA.
>>>
>>> And this "equivalent data mode" is called????
>>
>> 1xRTT is what most use instead of the GPRS on GSM.

> Looking at Telstra's phone comparison page, one
> parameter is "CDMA 1x". Is this what I'm looking for?

Yep.

> If so, it seems all the phones have it, including my current 2280.

Yep, its pretty common on modern CDMA handsets.

Like GPRS is on GSM handsets too.

[Steve B.]

Rod Speed said:

>
> "Steve B." <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
> news:BE69E329.4EE98%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
>> Rod Speed said:
>>
>>>
>>> "Steve B." <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
>>> news:BE69C113.4E870%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
>>>> Rod Speed said:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve the B <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
>>>>> news:BE697CEE.4E751%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Bruce. I guess that Vodafone don't do
>>>>>> CDMA - I can't find any CDMA phones on their page.
>>>>>
>>>>> Amazing.
>>>>>
>>>>>> On the Telstra page if I select CDMA and GPRS I get no matches.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hardly surprising given that CDMA doesnt do GPRS. It has its own data
>>>>> mode.
>>>>>
>>>>>> IS GPRS only available through the GSM networks?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep.
>>>>>
>>>>>> There are plenty of WAP-enabled CDMA
>>>>>> phones but WAP's expensive to use, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> Nope, there is an equivalent data mode on CDMA.
>>>>
>>>> And this "equivalent data mode" is called????
>>>
>>> 1xRTT is what most use instead of the GPRS on GSM.
>
>> Looking at Telstra's phone comparison page, one
>> parameter is "CDMA 1x". Is this what I'm looking for?
>
> Yep.
>
>> If so, it seems all the phones have it, including my current 2280.
>
> Yep, its pretty common on modern CDMA handsets.
>
> Like GPRS is on GSM handsets too.

Thanks.

Steve = : ^ )

[Michael]

"James Bell" <bellj@telstra.com> wrote in message
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> "budgie" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:31u6411j4g4pq7naflauk3j84ch2c9etl2@4ax.com...
> > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:28:06 GMT, "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>"James Bell" <bellj@telstra.com> wrote in message
> >>news:4242bf63@quokka.wn.com.au...
> >>>
> >>> "Steve B." <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
> >>> news:BE689DE7.4E501%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
> >>> > Hi,
> >>> > I'm currently on the Orange CDMA network and have no contract. My
> >>> > Nokia
> >>> > 2280
> >>> > is dying ad I want to replace it. I can maintain my current service
> >>> > with
> >>> > Steve = : ^ )
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Get a Telstra phone to make sure your kids have a job and don't go
> >>> slitty-eyed like the Optus users, or spotted-dick eaters like those
> >>Vodafone
> >>> shunts.
> >
> >>Idiot.
> >
> > Good to see you finally noticed.
>
> Yes.. takes him a while to see anything with those slitty-eyes. (He is a
> Sing-Tel customer)

You idiot

[Michael]

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> "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:3ags8rF6ae5qrU1@individual.net...
> >>
> >> Steve the B <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
> >> news:BE697CEE.4E751%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
> >>
> >> > Thanks Bruce. I guess that Vodafone don't do
> >> > CDMA - I can't find any CDMA phones on their page.
> >>
> >> Amazing.
> >>
> >> > On the Telstra page if I select CDMA and GPRS I get no matches.
> >>
> >> Hardly surprising given that CDMA doesnt do GPRS. It has its own data
mode.
>
> > 1xRTT and EVDO
>
> Duh.

Too bad you couldnt name it, in your post. You ARE slipping, Rod

[Michael]

"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Steve B." <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
> news:BE69C113.4E870%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
> > Rod Speed said:
> >
> >>
> >> Steve the B <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
> >> news:BE697CEE.4E751%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
> >>
> >>> Thanks Bruce. I guess that Vodafone don't do
> >>> CDMA - I can't find any CDMA phones on their page.
> >>
> >> Amazing.
> >>
> >>> On the Telstra page if I select CDMA and GPRS I get no matches.
> >>
> >> Hardly surprising given that CDMA doesnt do GPRS. It has its own data
mode.
> >>
> >>> IS GPRS only available through the GSM networks?
> >>
> >> Yep.
> >>
> >>> There are plenty of WAP-enabled CDMA
> >>> phones but WAP's expensive to use, right?
> >>
> >> Nope, there is an equivalent data mode on CDMA.
> >
> > And this "equivalent data mode" is called????
>
> 1xRTT is what most use instead of the GPRS on GSM.

"duh"

shamelessly stolen from my post.
you ARE slipping Rod

[Michael]

"Steve B." <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
news:BE69E329.4EE98%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
> Rod Speed said:
>
> >
> > "Steve B." <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:BE69C113.4E870%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
> >> Rod Speed said:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Steve the B <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
> >>> news:BE697CEE.4E751%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks Bruce. I guess that Vodafone don't do
> >>>> CDMA - I can't find any CDMA phones on their page.
> >>>
> >>> Amazing.
> >>>
> >>>> On the Telstra page if I select CDMA and GPRS I get no matches.
> >>>
> >>> Hardly surprising given that CDMA doesnt do GPRS. It has its own data
mode.
> >>>
> >>>> IS GPRS only available through the GSM networks?
> >>>
> >>> Yep.
> >>>
> >>>> There are plenty of WAP-enabled CDMA
> >>>> phones but WAP's expensive to use, right?
> >>>
> >>> Nope, there is an equivalent data mode on CDMA.
> >>
> >> And this "equivalent data mode" is called????
> >
> > 1xRTT is what most use instead of the GPRS on GSM.
>
> Looking at Telstra's phone comparison page, one parameter is "CDMA 1x". Is
> this what I'm looking for? If so, it seems all the phones have it,
including
> my current 2280.

Yep, 1xRTT is often abbreviated to 1x.

[Rod Speed]

"Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> > "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> >>
>> >> Steve the B <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
>> >> news:BE697CEE.4E751%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
>> >>
>> >> > Thanks Bruce. I guess that Vodafone don't do
>> >> > CDMA - I can't find any CDMA phones on their page.
>> >>
>> >> Amazing.
>> >>
>> >> > On the Telstra page if I select CDMA and GPRS I get no matches.
>> >>
>> >> Hardly surprising given that CDMA doesnt do GPRS. It has its own data
> mode.
>>
>> > 1xRTT and EVDO
>>
>> Duh.

> Too bad you couldnt name it, in your post.

So stupid that it cant work out the difference between didnt and couldnt.

No surprise that the best it ever gets to do is clean the dunnys.

[Rod Speed]

"Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Steve B." <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:BE69C113.4E870%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
>> > Rod Speed said:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Steve the B <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
>> >> news:BE697CEE.4E751%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
>> >>
>> >>> Thanks Bruce. I guess that Vodafone don't do
>> >>> CDMA - I can't find any CDMA phones on their page.
>> >>
>> >> Amazing.
>> >>
>> >>> On the Telstra page if I select CDMA and GPRS I get no matches.
>> >>
>> >> Hardly surprising given that CDMA doesnt do GPRS. It has its own data
> mode.
>> >>
>> >>> IS GPRS only available through the GSM networks?
>> >>
>> >> Yep.
>> >>
>> >>> There are plenty of WAP-enabled CDMA
>> >>> phones but WAP's expensive to use, right?
>> >>
>> >> Nope, there is an equivalent data mode on CDMA.
>> >
>> > And this "equivalent data mode" is called????
>>
>> 1xRTT is what most use instead of the GPRS on GSM.

> shamelessly stolen from my post.

Just another of your pathetic little drug crazed fantasys, cocksucker.

Even someone as stupid as you should be able to find
plenty of examples of me using it long before your pathetic
little steaming turd using groups.google, cocksucker.

[budgie]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:32:37 GMT, "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>"James Bell" <bellj@telstra.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> "budgie" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>> news:31u6411j4g4pq7naflauk3j84ch2c9etl2@4ax.com...
>> > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:28:06 GMT, "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>"James Bell" <bellj@telstra.com> wrote in message
>> >>news:4242bf63@quokka.wn.com.au...
>> >>>
>> >>> "Steve B." <prettygood@everything.com.au> wrote in message
>> >>> news:BE689DE7.4E501%prettygood@everything.com.au.. .
>> >>> > Hi,
>> >>> > I'm currently on the Orange CDMA network and have no contract. My
>> >>> > Nokia
>> >>> > 2280
>> >>> > is dying ad I want to replace it. I can maintain my current service
>> >>> > with
>> >>> > Steve = : ^ )
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Get a Telstra phone to make sure your kids have a job and don't go
>> >>> slitty-eyed like the Optus users, or spotted-dick eaters like those
>> >>Vodafone
>> >>> shunts.
>> >
>> >>Idiot.
>> >
>> > Good to see you finally noticed.
>>
>> Yes.. takes him a while to see anything with those slitty-eyes. (He is a
>> Sing-Tel customer)
>
>You idiot

There's an echo in here ....

[Martin Taylor]

Steve said....

> Hi,
> I'm currently on the Orange CDMA network and have no contract. My Nokia
> 2280 is dying ad I want to replace it. I can maintain my current service

What's your 2280 doing that you reckon that it's dying? I have the 2280,
and so far it is working OK, except for a pisspoor battery life (2 days
to 2 days standby, max). I'm wondering what sort of life I'll get out of
it.



--
If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

[Steve B.]

Martin Taylor said:

> Steve said....
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm currently on the Orange CDMA network and have no contract. My Nokia
>> 2280 is dying ad I want to replace it. I can maintain my current service
>
> What's your 2280 doing that you reckon that it's dying? I have the 2280,
> and so far it is working OK, except for a pisspoor battery life (2 days
> to 2 days standby, max). I'm wondering what sort of life I'll get out of
> it.

The battery now won't last a day. Some button presses don't register. Others
register twice.

Steve = : ^ )

[Danger Mouse]

> Looking at Telstra's phone comparison page, one parameter is "CDMA 1x". Is
> this what I'm looking for? If so, it seems all the phones have it, including
> my current 2280.
The Orange Network does not currently have 1xRTT enabled in all parts of
the Orange coverage area. Someone in this newsgroup mentioned it is
not set as a default either you have to ask Orange to set it for your
account/phone. Best do a Google search of this newsgroup to find the
Original post.

[Charlie Wong]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:11:16 +1000, Danger Mouse
<DangerMouse@coalface.com> wrote:

>The Orange Network does not currently have 1xRTT enabled in all parts of
> the Orange coverage area. Someone in this newsgroup mentioned it is
>not set as a default either you have to ask Orange to set it for your
>account/phone. Best do a Google search of this newsgroup to find the
>Original post.

Despite what I've been told by Orange, I actually have some doubt
whether it's enabled at all.

I can't see how or why they would enable it and the instruct the
handset to not display that it is active.

Ask Orange and you'll get all sort of conflicting information - all
this means that someone is either lying or simply doesn't know what
they're talking about and bluffing their way through.

[Michael]

"Charlie Wong" <willwasteyou@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1m2i419qn90jttm1ip7af1vt7usp912vcp@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:11:16 +1000, Danger Mouse
> <DangerMouse@coalface.com> wrote:
>
> >The Orange Network does not currently have 1xRTT enabled in all parts of
> > the Orange coverage area. Someone in this newsgroup mentioned it is
> >not set as a default either you have to ask Orange to set it for your
> >account/phone. Best do a Google search of this newsgroup to find the
> >Original post.
>
> Despite what I've been told by Orange, I actually have some doubt
> whether it's enabled at all.
>
> I can't see how or why they would enable it and the instruct the
> handset to not display that it is active.

Its probably not active on your service. Have you asked?

[Charlie Wong]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:28:57 GMT, "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Its probably not active on your service. Have you asked?

It IS (apparrently) active on my service and I HAVE asked.

[Michael]

"Charlie Wong" <willwasteyou@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:28:57 GMT, "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >Its probably not active on your service. Have you asked?
>
> It IS (apparrently) active on my service and I HAVE asked.

Oh well, I guess you are getting the usual fluff that passes for CS from
Orange

[Steve B.]

Michael said:

>
> "Charlie Wong" <willwasteyou@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1m2i419qn90jttm1ip7af1vt7usp912vcp@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:11:16 +1000, Danger Mouse
>> <DangerMouse@coalface.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The Orange Network does not currently have 1xRTT enabled in all parts of
>>> the Orange coverage area. Someone in this newsgroup mentioned it is
>>> not set as a default either you have to ask Orange to set it for your
>>> account/phone. Best do a Google search of this newsgroup to find the
>>> Original post.
>>
>> Despite what I've been told by Orange, I actually have some doubt
>> whether it's enabled at all.
>>
>> I can't see how or why they would enable it and the instruct the
>> handset to not display that it is active.
>
> Its probably not active on your service. Have you asked?

Hmmm. I've been with Orange for a couple of years. I changed because I
needed CDMA and it was cheap. I pay $24.99 a month and have $10-$15 spend
left over, so could do a bit of WAP browsing. Unfortunately, my Orange phone
doesn't get great reception where I live (Sydney's eastern suburbs).

Is Telstra's service any better? Do they have a plan anything like as cheap
as the one I'm on with orange? (I have an ABN).

Thanks in advance,
Steve = : ^ )

[TA 2000]

Hmmm. I've been with Orange for a couple of years. I changed because I
needed CDMA and it was cheap. I pay $24.99 a month and have $10-$15 spend
left over, so could do a bit of WAP browsing. Unfortunately, my Orange phone
doesn't get great reception where I live (Sydney's eastern suburbs).

Is Telstra's service any better? Do they have a plan anything like as cheap
as the one I'm on with orange? (I have an ABN).

Thanks in advance,
Steve = : ^ )

Telstra have there Capped Plus Plans I'm on $69 month one, I pay $10 a month more for SMS ($79) I get $300 of calls a month.