My previous job (ended a few weeks ago) made me the single point of contact for the 70+ soldiers in my National Guard unit. I can't count the number of times people complained (bitterly, at times) about how much of a pain the Army portal is, and how hard it was to check their Army e-mail, and that's why they couldn't respond or didn't get my message or yada yada.
As a regular soldier not working full-time and left to my own resources again, I sympathize somewhat--Army Knowledge Online (AKO, the portal) does indeed suck. Every revision of the web mail makes it buggier and slower. However, with a little bit of configuration (details of which I have provided numerous times), Thunderbird, Outlook and the like talk to it just fine. As noted, K9 talks to it seamlessly on my ancient (comparatively) G1. Other than logging in with a CAC to change our password every 150 days, you never HAVE to interact directly with AKO. My sympathy is dwindling steadily.
To bring it back vaguely on topic, if I'd really thought about how insanely convenient it was having AKO e-mail on my phone and available anywhere (except work, ironically). If I had, I would have talked myself into getting a data plan a long time ago.
I still think it's ridiculously expensive, but it's one of those things that really just completely changes the way you use and think about technology.
The last time that happened was when we made the shift from dialup to always-on broadband. These are the changes that make the Internet a more integral part of your life because it's always just "there" instead of being something you have to go to.
Good luck with their customer support, though.
actually I find their non-drug-dealer customer support is pretty good, but the drug-dealer-grade stuff, you're lucky to get somebody who speaks english.
I love tmobile and always will, but alas, I found the one place where I get no gsm signal AT ALL.
And I'm probably going to move there.
If I end up having to switch to verizon, I'm going to get an android phone and then when I have no more treo calendar app I might be forced to write it.
You can see lots and lots of treo-gone-android people saying exactly the same thing.
It's really sad, that if you never had a palm you never saw such a good calendaring program and you're using a piece of shit by comparison and don't even know it.
Wed Mar 02 2011 11:05:39 PM EST from Ford III wish somebody would write the palm treo calendar app for android. I'm tempted to do it but I have no time.
If I end up having to switch to verizon, I'm going to get an android phone and then when I have no more treo calendar app I might be forced to write it.
You can see lots and lots of treo-gone-android people saying exactly the same thing.
It's really sad, that if you never had a palm you never saw such a good calendaring program and you're using a piece of shit by comparison and don't even know it.
Check out Pimlical (http://www.pimlicosoftware.com). I used Datebk6 on my Treo until I migrated to an iPhone...loved that tool. The new software, Pimlical, is available for Windows (desktop) and Android. I wish it was available for the iPhone...but it's not...yet. :-)
Check out Pimlical (http://www.pimlicosoftware.com). I used Datebk6
I've got that running on my android phone right now, it's certainly better, but it's still nowhere near as awesome as the native treo calendar app.
Verizon works great. So I accept the fact that I have to finally switch to verizon. Can't even find a treo 680 on ebay anymore, the only thing you can get is a 700p but hey at least I get can that.
I bid $1. I'm the highest bidder.
He says they only do wifi calls with a certain small set of phones.
Now that I think about it, I think he understood me incorrectly. I don't want to make wifi calls, I want my own cell tower.
Tell me if I'm remembering wrong, but wasn't tmobile selling something like that a while ago?
Or was it only a wifi hotspot for wifi phone calls? If so, treo doesn't support it so I'm outta luck.
I think it's the opposite. they sell something that you plug in and it becomes a hotspot using cellular modem.
My brother has one. He was at a web conference and there was no wifi. He sold people access...
A little Googling shows that T-Mobile gets their picocells from a company called "ip.access". Hmm, sometimes they're called "femtocells" or "network extenders" too.
siemens does those.
they had some on the chaos communication congress in berlin, you could then phone over an asterisk installation, realy fancy.
I think what you want is here: http://www.repeaterstore.com/
I don't think they are carrier specific.
The only reference to actually BUYING one of those femto/pico cells said it was $150-250 requires broadband (fine) and still burns minutes (I guess fine) because it's still calling the carrier.
Seems like a bit much of an effort to keep my tmobile. Although I guess it would pay itself off, but I can't seem to find much in the way of anybody selling it.
The range extender/boosters/repeaters sound fine, but I get NO signal. And I'm not going to blow money on the gizmo just to see if there's a trace signal I can boost.
Starting to suck.
did you try the hotline of your operator?
and... just because of the tiny handset doesn't have a signal, that doesn't mean that a descent antenna on your roof wouldn't get one.
btw, at least in .de you need a license to operate them.
In that case it would seem that the way to know whether a repeater would work would be to sit on the roof with a phone and see how many bars you get.