Guest TSCRYPTO Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 ...for a tenner. Is it worth getting??? :?:
Guest NXNM Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 Yes at the moment, but i feel due to demand Orange or Microsoft will soon launch an application for us that will not cost. Afterall as a customer we have a right to know how much our bills are going to be, and of course all the other phones have em. Its still a very good program and if you have a spare tenner go for it, you wont be unhappy with it.
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 It has to be if you want to watch you useage closely. I'm just waiting for April then it's "Pass through" city all the way ;)
Guest NXNM Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 Im sorter becomming dependant on the MSN feature now. I think ill be keeping the GPRS steaming ahead. Oh course ill use it for Internet when Orange buck up thier prices, which i read somewhere they will be.
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 A little bird told me we should expect a GPRS pricing announcement fairly soon ;) No idea what it will be tho! P
Guest TSCRYPTO Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 I posted a thread here last week abt the crap I got from Orange when I enquired abt GPRS usage. I dare say that if in the future they want to tell us how much we have used, it will be via an operator or some sort of recorded service. I dont think they will provide us with a tool to use on the SPV itself.
Guest NXNM Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 Well even if they only shave a quid off the prices they will drop soon enough. All the other providers will no doubt be looking into and signing up for Smartphones, thats going to make a very very competitive data market as the costs to run it are low compared to SMS. Of course this does mean that the phone companies will eventually start loosing money, and i mean big money on sms messages eventually.
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 There are no lower running costs than for SMS as far as the networks are concerned! P
Guest NXNM Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 Surely GPRS is cheaper to run? EDIT : This might sorry "Does" sound like a stupid question but how fast is GPRS?
Guest TSCRYPTO Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 What about the All Explorer? Worth getting?
Guest NXNM Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 I got the trial version, but dont find it very useful, im not a developer and if i want to play with files i do it through ActiveThink. However im still on the steam powered 8mb card so i have no files to play with. Download the trials, if you like them buy them, as with any software: www.handango.com/orange-cobrand
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted January 16, 2003 Report Posted January 16, 2003 What about the All Explorer? Worth getting? That is a must have app you will never know how you lived without it once you have it ;)
Guest Chris b.a.r.f. Posted January 17, 2003 Report Posted January 17, 2003 ....and once the demo that comes with the SPV expires (as mine did today) - nightmare. Where's that damn creditcard? : ) -- Chris : )
Guest neilg Posted January 17, 2003 Report Posted January 17, 2003 go for using the demo's I never thought I'd miss All Explorer until it expired and then annoyingly I realised that I must have been using it a lot. Most of the other stuff on the demo I can live without though.......explorer still should have been included free......(sorry another thread for that one!)
Guest Firaas Posted January 17, 2003 Report Posted January 17, 2003 EDIT : This might sorry "Does" sound like a stupid question but how fast is GPRS? Basically Orange quote each timeslot as running at 14.4k. It is down to each individual phone's capability as to how many timeslots it can take. The SPV uses four timeslots downstream, and one upstream. So this makes the SPV's GPRS speed 57.6k down and 14.4k up - obviously for this, the signal levels would have to be optimum.
Guest crimminsky Posted January 18, 2003 Report Posted January 18, 2003 how long is the demo for, I've had mine running for 3 weeks now.........
Guest crimminsky Posted January 18, 2003 Report Posted January 18, 2003 cheers paul, how do you read every thread so fast? have you cloned yourself ;)
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted January 18, 2003 Report Posted January 18, 2003 Who me? Who me? Who me? Who me? Who me? Who me? Who me? P P P P P P P
Guest aal234 Posted January 18, 2003 Report Posted January 18, 2003 if you want to check the speed of your GPRS connection go to http://www.texan.net/speed.htm refresh it a few times though as normally the first time you get a stupid connection speed.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 18, 2003 Report Posted January 18, 2003 I'm not entirely sure how accurate that is... I have just run it on my 2mbit home connection, and after refreshing several times it settled on a whopping 4mbit. So, never mind... I then ran it on my SPV, in its docking cradle with the passthrough connections set, i assumed this would tell me the bandwidth of the port on the phone. It decided my connection was exactly 1/10th of my PC's connection. Although to start with it was reporting 100-150kbits/sec. Under normal GPRS it couldnt reload the page for some reason :/ All in all i'm not convinced by the results...
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