maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5

	allnameswereout	2008-09-22 , 19:22
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Originally Posted by Jerome

I contributed to your ItT Data plans Wiki entry, but, frankly, there are about 50 different data plans available in Germany and they change almost every month. There are 4 networks and further resellers, you can different plans depending wether they are tied to a single device or not, tied to the operator portal, usable only around your home, all over Germany or include usage in foreign countries. There are plans by byte, by minute, with and without monthly charge, with and (rarely) without minimal duration... If I put them all (which I am not going to do, understandably), the wiki will more than double...

(It isn't my entry

)

Yes, I see this becomes quite complex, although you could start a specific entry called $NAME/Germany. Also, the most interesting entries are IMO the verified ones ie. the ones the contributor actually uses or used.

24/7 Internet connectivity a small device has been offered here for at least 3 years, but it depends what you call "Internet connectivity".

Probably longer given GPRS.

BTW: even Symbian phones allow 24/7 Internet connectivity. My E51 is configured to check my e-mail regularly, and allows sip as well. It has a quite usable browser. I use it to listen to Internet radio stations, etc... Internet connectivity was not the "revolutionary" part of the 770, the fact that it ran linux and thus was an open device was.

Its a combination of factors, perhaps also a whole new platform (Maemo, Hildon) and the fact Nokia dabbled into this market. The Sharp Zaurus also provided internet connectivity, and ran Linux. One of my beefs with the Zaurus was that the WWW browsing was severely cluttered, so usability might also be an argument for 770.

Oh..., yes. Certainly. And have it reread by an army of lawyers if you can...

Oh, don't be sarcastic. Many people don't even read them. They just sign a contract without knowing what they sign. I once had a bank trying to pull me into this trick, and I told them to go **** themselves. And, to give another example: whenever I got hired, I first read the contract.

If you're a business going to use several of [these] contracts it might be wise if not more important to indeed have a lawyer read the contract.

There are ways to work around any ban on the Internet. I sure know... (In practice just trying non standard ports is usually sufficient.)

Its a cat and mouse game which, if telcos want to win, means many people will lose. Ie. ban of cryptographic protocols, or only allow specific protocols.

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