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2008-04-12
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SERO is hit and miss on a good day. You have to signup for the 2-years and then you have keep calling the CSR's trying to weasel "perks" onto the package. Sprint is notorious for dropping subscriber or canceling these perks without notice. Just head over to howard forums and check out the latest on the boondoogle. Yes some people got good deals, but it's not universal and there are plenty of horror stories as well.
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2008-04-12
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Originally Posted by brecklundin
Their advertised price appears to have gone up to $59.99/month.
you can get UNLIMITED data over the Sprint network from Millenicom for $49.99/mo
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2008-04-13
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@ Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Originally Posted by dkwatts
Wow, the first reason I've wanted to move to the United States! Well, the second if you include Disney World.
They will amazingly throw in...
free nights and weekends,
free long distance,
free voice mail,
and free text messaging.
on top of the free unlimited high speed data plan.
ALL for the low, low, price of your vanilla voice-only plan!
EDIT: I was just informed that unlimited Disney World is not included with your vanilla tax plan. So scratch that.
Last edited by qole; 2008-04-13 at 03:53.
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2008-04-13
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#65
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Originally Posted by slip
You sound like someone I could hang out with.
I have to relate a funny story. One day I was out of town and my cell phone battery died. I don't have a car-charger because I am rarely in the car. I needed to make a call, and it was impossible to find a pay phone! There were a bunch of wi-fi hotspots around, though, so I spent 30+ minutes configuring RTCOMM, Gizmo, and GC, just to make a 2 minute call!
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2008-04-13
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@ Sacramento, California
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Hey z2n, first of all, thank you so much for bringing it all together with this front end gui. It's nothing short of awesome.
Second, as a suggestion here is a mock-up of what I think would make it more convenient. I know you are talking about integration with the contact list but I personally find it useless and slow on the Nokia and don't believe I'd use such a feature. So, take it with a grain of salt and maybe someone else could even add more to making it simple or more powerful.
My thoughts were:
1) The buttons were too long and actually made it more difficult to dial numbers.
2) The "dial" button seemed like it made more sense in the bottom right and color coded green for "go".
3) The destructive buttons are painted in red with "backspace" being right next to the number to be dialed.
4) The alphabetic letters that coincide with the numbers on a standard phone are added to the button for ease.
5) The text is bigger and all buttons have the same size and shape.
6) A previous call list allows you to tap on a number you dialed and it becomes the number you are about to dial. This list should not list duplicates as it could change all numbers into the same number and would therefore be useless.
7) It would be cool to hear a tone each button that is pressed but not necessary. I'd rather the program launch fast rather than eat up more memory and take longer to start.
8) Though it's not shown, a favorites would be awesome. Maybe if there are tabs available in Python you could switch between "Previous calls" and "Favorites"
Again, these are just my thoughts. Again thanks for such an awesome program.
Second, as a suggestion here is a mock-up of what I think would make it more convenient. I know you are talking about integration with the contact list but I personally find it useless and slow on the Nokia and don't believe I'd use such a feature. So, take it with a grain of salt and maybe someone else could even add more to making it simple or more powerful.
My thoughts were:
1) The buttons were too long and actually made it more difficult to dial numbers.
2) The "dial" button seemed like it made more sense in the bottom right and color coded green for "go".
3) The destructive buttons are painted in red with "backspace" being right next to the number to be dialed.
4) The alphabetic letters that coincide with the numbers on a standard phone are added to the button for ease.
5) The text is bigger and all buttons have the same size and shape.
6) A previous call list allows you to tap on a number you dialed and it becomes the number you are about to dial. This list should not list duplicates as it could change all numbers into the same number and would therefore be useless.
7) It would be cool to hear a tone each button that is pressed but not necessary. I'd rather the program launch fast rather than eat up more memory and take longer to start.
8) Though it's not shown, a favorites would be awesome. Maybe if there are tabs available in Python you could switch between "Previous calls" and "Favorites"
Again, these are just my thoughts. Again thanks for such an awesome program.
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2008-04-13
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I like Munk 's Ideas. (nice screenshot, I know its edited) But it would be really nice if you could get something like that.
I personally would not like #7. But Im not going to be picky....
I personally would not like #7. But Im not going to be picky....
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2008-04-13
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I like Munk's suggestions #4,5,6.
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2008-04-16
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@ OMA
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Absolutely useful !
Thanks you so much for the dialer application.
I am looking forward to the updates - love Munks 'screenshot'.
Thanks again !!!
johenkel
Thanks you so much for the dialer application.
I am looking forward to the updates - love Munks 'screenshot'.
Thanks again !!!
johenkel
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2008-04-16
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Originally Posted by Munk
Glad you like it
Hey z2n, first of all, thank you so much for bringing it all together with this front end gui. It's nothing short of awesome.
Originally Posted by Munk
Integration with any other app (including the default Nokia contact list) would almost certainly be done through the dbus service, and won't be happening until a couple of revisions from now.
Second, as a suggestion here is a mock-up of what I think would make it more convenient. I know you are talking about integration with the contact list but I personally find it useless and slow on the Nokia and don't believe I'd use such a feature. So, take it with a grain of salt
Originally Posted by Munk
Once again, the package is public domain...the GUI was designed with glade-3 and the program that processes the GUI is really simple python...my first python program, in fact. Anyone can mess with it.
and maybe someone else could even add more to making it simple or more powerful.
Originally Posted by Munk
I'm not certain about those ideas...but I'll play around.
My thoughts were:
1) The buttons were too long and actually made it more difficult to dial numbers.
2) The "dial" button seemed like it made more sense in the bottom right and color coded green for "go".
Originally Posted by Munk
yes
3) The destructive buttons are painted in red with "backspace" being right next to the number to be dialed.
Originally Posted by Munk
already done in my current development version.
4) The alphabetic letters that coincide with the numbers on a standard phone are added to the button for ease.
Originally Posted by Munk
maybe
5) The text is bigger and all buttons have the same size and shape.
Originally Posted by Munk
This is in the works. I'm not sure how to handle duplicates. I like your suggestion, but the other alternative is to handle the list as it appears on a cell phone...each number is listed, with information about the date & time the call was placed (not the duration, sorry), and whether the call was successful. In this case, you'd almost certainly have duplicated numbers, but you'd gain the information about when the calls were made.
6) A previous call list allows you to tap on a number you dialed and it becomes the number you are about to dial. This list should not list duplicates as it could change all numbers into the same number and would therefore be useless.
Of course, that's available from the Grandcentral website as well, so perhaps eliminating the duplicates is a better choice.
Originally Posted by Munk
Not gonna happen...at least not anytime soon.
7) It would be cool to hear a tone each button that is pressed but not necessary. I'd rather the program launch fast rather than eat up more memory and take longer to start.
As far as how fast the program launches, I've found that installing and enabling the pylauncher daemon makes a big difference in the startup time for the dialer application.
Originally Posted by Munk
Hmm...this sounds a great deal like access to the contacts list.
8) Though it's not shown, a favorites would be awesome. Maybe if there are tabs available in Python you could switch between "Previous calls" and "Favorites"
Originally Posted by Munk
Again, these are just my thoughts. Again thanks for such an awesome program.
There's now a Maemo Garage project for the GC Dialer. At this moment, there are no files on the site, but please look there in the future for the current release and
the latest development version.
Also, I am sure Sprint has a SERO with truly unlimited data also and it may allow tethering...