Worst cell provider I have seen

[Bryan O'Neal]

There are a few open source phone out their you can do this with.  But none (Even the Sun Java Phone) is a neat turn key solution.  That combined with the data link costs are why I am back in the dark ages using a standard no data cell :)

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Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 12:41 PM
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Subject: Re: Worst cell provider I have seen

Am 07. Jan, 2008 schwätzte Charles Jones so:

> Attached is a link to a screenshot 
> <http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/albums/Miscellaneous/rogersucks.png> of 
> what I received. I couldn't believe it.  For anyone who doesn't want to click 
> the link, here is a summary:
>
> * No matter what subject he sets for his message, it gets overriden with "You 
> have received a Picture Message from your Rogers Wireless friend..."
> * Besides the picture that he meant to send, included in the message were a 
> DOZEN OTHER ATTACHMENTS!
> * ...including advertisements in picture format, and other needless crap like 
> their logo banner, verisign logos, etc.
>
> So basically the MMS "feature" of his cell service is useless, as they force 
> in a bunch of spam images and override your subject and body text with their 
> own. We tested and it does this even if sending mobile-to-mobile MMS. What 
> are they thinking?

This is why I want bluetooth syncing to my computer over my network and
not using their network. If there is syncing over their network I want it
via an encrypted tunnel from my phone/PDA to my computer and only open on
the originating device and my network.

The phone company doesn't need copies of my pictures and doesn't need to
be mucking with them or tracking them.

Maybe it's time to try community run mesh networks again :).

ciao,

der.hans
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