[TriLUG] FOSS/Linux phones

Douglas A. Whitfield douglasawh at gmail.com
Sat Jul 5 16:16:06 EDT 2008


I'm also confused now.

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 03:13:10PM -0400, Neil L. Little wrote:
> > 850 mhz (a-side/b-side old NAMPS) cellular in this area use CDMA. Those
> > would be Altell and Verizon.
>
> Sorry to summarize too drastically, but am I to understand from your
> very informative treatise that the OpenMoko phone will not work in this
> area, since although it has capabilities in both 850MHz and 1.9GHz, it
> is a GSM-only phone, which is not properly supported locally?
>
> ( Mostly, I have stayed out of the cell-phone world, so have only a
> superficial knowledge of the field. )
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>



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