Got a new cellphone

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by Jerrek, Jan 4, 2004.

  1. Jerrek Registered Senior Member

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    I got a new cellphone today. After one year on a dinky Sony Ericsson T200 with Fido, I finally decided to take Telus up on their offer. You can bring your Fido phone in, with its charger and a phone bill, and they will give you a brand new phone for free. They will match the existing rate plan of Fido, or you can pick a Telus rate plan. They match everything: the monthly fee, minutes allowed, per second billing (they usually do 6-second billing), all the features, even the long distance charges in Canada and the United States.

    Anyways, I'm very happy. I got the LG 4600 phone.

    http://www.telusmobility.ca/on/pcs/handset_lg_4600.shtml

    It has a 65K color display. It can surf the web (1X network, speeds are 144 Kbps), and send messages to IM clients such as MSN messenger and Yahoo messenger. It has voice dial, polyphonic ringer and all the standard trimmings. Trimode (1900 and 800 MHz CDMA digital, 800 MHz analog) is quite nice.

    The phone is 3G ready. When you go online the 3G icon lights up. Connection speed is usually 144 Kbps (soon to be 2.4 Mbps). There are no per MB fees, and it doesn't use airtime. It costs C$0.02 per webpage that you view though.


    The drawback of this phone is that it won't work in Europe or Africa. That doesn't bother me though. Its not like I will need to use it there. It works just fine in the United States, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Caribbean, and other countries that have CDMA networks.


    Next step is to hook it up to the laptop. I want to see if I can play a simple game of Half Life or something and how the latency is. Maximum download speed is about 18 kb/s. Does anyone know whether you can game over your cell connection? Any ideas how pings are?

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  3. outlandish smoki'n....... Registered Senior Member

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    would've thought THIS was more your style.

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  5. outlandish smoki'n....... Registered Senior Member

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    oh and jerrek, you have a very short lifeline....you're gonna die young.


    just kidding

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  7. cthulhus slave evil servant Registered Senior Member

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    you have stubby fingers.
     
  8. Bells Staff Member

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    And damn boy... trim those nails

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  9. DeeCee Valued Senior Member

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    Congratulations Jarrek on buying a cell phone!

    Yawn
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  10. Dr Lou Natic Unnecessary Surgeon Registered Senior Member

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    That sure is an effeminate hand.
    But then I'd undoubtedly call it masculine if it was on a girl.
    Weird how that works.
     
  11. Bells Staff Member

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    I never knew buying a cell phone was such an occasion...

    Sheesh if I'd known I'd have thrown a 'ring ring' party when I bought my last cellphone

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    I just bought a new table lamp though. I plug it in and it's bright

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    .. wooohoooo... hang on I have to call people and tell them now... hehehe

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    and yes I was being sarcastic...
     
  12. Bells Staff Member

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    Yeah it is an effeminate hand (I was thinking that before when I first saw the pic)... it's so smooth. What hand lotion you using Jerrek

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    ?

    But I guess the hairy arm kind of takes off the feminine edge and makes it errrrr more masculine... lol


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  13. outlandish smoki'n....... Registered Senior Member

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    JINX!!! I was about to say the same thing!!!

    .....I'm NOT gay.....

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  14. outlandish smoki'n....... Registered Senior Member

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    reminds me of that seinfeld episode.......SHE'S GOT MANHANDS! SHE'S GOT MANHANDS!!!!
     
  15. Nebula Occasionally Frequent Registered Senior Member

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    pretty nice, but shoulda went with Roger's; they have a GSM net...tsk tsk tsk...

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    That's who i just went with to get me t720...
     
  16. outlandish smoki'n....... Registered Senior Member

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    I have the T720i, I upgraded from the sonyericsson T68i, which is still the best phone I've had pound for pound.

    I'm hoping to get the sonyericsson T630 later this year.
     
  17. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Congratulations on buying an ugly phone jerrek.
     

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