Posts by Anna Log

GSM?

" 3G network should use next-generation GSM technology (UMTS) operating at 850MHz rather than 2.1GHz, where it usually hangs out."

Presumably they're deploying W-CDMA at 850MHz, rather than TDMA based GSM 850, which is only UMTS in marketing rather than engineering terms.

@Frank

The FCC require cellular carriers to provide fairly accurate location information on E911 calls, see:-

http://sss-mag.com/e911.html

Basically you need to stick a GPS receiver in the phone or rely on measuring the phone signal's time of arrival at different base stations and using triangulation to estimate location. I would expect a GPS phone to use the latter as a fall-back alternative, maybe it didn't work in this case.

@boltar

Maybe the alien spacecraft SatNav hadn't been updated with the positions of the wind turbines?

wot no uPnP?

Personally I'd find the lack of uPnP a pain; I assume this means that this box can only stream music from PCs running the bespoke SW, and not from a NAS box? Not impressive for a 200 quid (ish) box, if this is the case.

Sorry, but I do actually like Napster's service!

With teenaged daughters whose musical tastes change every 5 minutes buying music to listen to forever is a waste of time and money in our household. The Napster subscription is equivalent to roughly one full price CD purchase a month, so it's much better than piles of CDs that may as well be coasters after a month or two. One subscription allows storage / playback on 3 PCs, so HDD failure isn't much of a risk.

... and it all works nicely again now I've dumped Pipex/Tiscali :-)

Would n't it be cheaper ...

To just change your number plates to 'F1' anyway, or maybe "TO55 ERS" is better, and pay the fines?

RE:RE: ooohh the little tinkers.

>>"My download speeds from Napster using my 'pipex' ADSL line were down to a whopping 3kb/s yesterday afetrnoon"

>>You should be ringing them up to thanks them - Napster sucks!! :)

Serious question : is there actually an alternative 'all you can eat' download service available in the UK, covering most mainstream labels / artists? With two teenaged daughters whose musical tastes change every 5 minutes,10 quid a month rental to Napster is actually a pretty cost effective solution for me. Plus they let me use it sometimes ;-)

Napster still seem to have an image problem, the majority of Pipex / tiscali "support" staff I've spoken to in the last few days seemed to think Napster is still some 'naughty' P2P service.

Will they be in the stores soon?

Universal remotes with a ' tram points ' button between ' TV ' and ' DVD ' ?