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CSI-s unmobile cellphone |
axxxr
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From: Londinium
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You can complain all you want about cellphones that are too big to fit in the front pocket of your jeans, but CSI’s 410 Series cellphone isn’t going anywhere. Seriously, it’s an unmobile mobile phone that it is really a regular-looking deskphone that you plug into a wall for power (there’s a battery, but it’s only a backup in case the electricity goes out), but instead of hooking up to a phone jack, uses a cellular network to make calls (GSM networks, specifically, so you could use it with T-Mobile, Cingular, or AT&T Wireless). You can even do email and text messaging on the 410, but the basic idea is that you’re supposed to use it in those remote (or underdeveloped) places where it’s impossible to get a landline but there is cellphone coverage. Though just to mess with everyone we’re gonna get an external battery pack for one of these and walk around with it strapped to our waist.
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Vlammetje
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| but the basic idea is that you’re supposed to use it in those remote (or underdeveloped) places where it’s impossible to get a landline but there is cellphone coverage |
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and an example of such an area would be.....?
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mixin
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From: Notts, UK
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The middle of a field 
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axxxr
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Or Rural areas where there are no telephone lines..or up a mountain..  ....There are lots of third world countries which dont have access to landlines but have mobile reception.very useful product i think.
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Vlammetje
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you just might find that GSM coverage isn't the greatest in mountain areas.
And I can't really think of a location where there are no landlines, yet there is GSM coverage AND a population whose first concern is having a phone........ 
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lovewalrus
Joined: Dec 22, 2002
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This kind of service is commonly known as a GSM Gateway-which is not permitted in the UK by any mobile operator. It's a way doddgy companies exploitin mobile networks without incurring charges. There's a small box fitted to the wall and handset which allows calls to be rerouted missing out any billing systems and therefore allows the user to make calls without being charged. Good for cust but expensive for networks! :-) hope that made sense! LOL
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batesie
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building sites, b4 the lines are in....
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rdnymllnsktr
Joined: Feb 04, 2004
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This is the kind of thing that I love. When Cingular came out with their Fast Forward, I thought it was cool, but this is okay, too. I'd love something that I could just plug my cell phone into, and use a normal handset or speakerphone with. I'm not talking about the actual speakerphone that is available. It'd be good for people who want to use a normal handset every now and then.
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axxxr
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I first mentioned one of these a few weeks ago, but they had a ton of new desktop cellphones at the CommunicAsia trade show in Singapore last week and that they’re really catching on in China, where it takes forever to get a regular landline but minutes to set up a GSM cellphone account.
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Posted: 2004-06-02 17:06
ink p800:: 
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