axenzoku said:
This conversation is floating away in a difficult direction... Here's an awesome idea to simplify things:
There's this awesome thing Sprint came out with:
MiFi™ 2200 by Novatel Wireless
It's pretty much 3G phone hardware in a tiny pocket-sized thin device. It's a Wireless Router that connects to 3G and provides you a personal Wi-Fi hotspot. It's made specifically for getting on the internet with WiFi. You could have this little buddy in your pocket or on a surface, and connect to it from your Pandora's WiFi. How about that...
Couple downfalls:
It doesn't accept SIM cards (so you can't do prepaid, limited to Sprint only).
I work at a Boost Mobile/Nextel/Sprint technical support call center so here's a little info: Sprint's CDMA network sucks. Very few coverage areas and tons of weird "home calling area" things. But, it's no secret, you can look up the coverage areas and the Terms of Service yourself, so it's ok.
See I wouldn't suggest the service, just that sort of device.
They're called "MiFi" Routers, instead of a 3g wireless aircard, it's a little wireless router that converts 3G into a WiFi signal you can connect to easily.
EDIT: Here it is:
http://www.novatelwireless.com/
novatel makes these things to accept SIM cards as well! There it is.
Now somebody just needs to make the software to make phone calls using regular internet instead of actual cell phone technology. They're smaller than a deck of cards.
I've been messing with this thing for like a week now and have made no progress, I keep trying to mess with the AT commands and nothing seems to be working. The closest I have gotten is ATD155555555; which turns over the modem but doesn't actually dial out, and running into the problem that the audio i do get is routed to the headphone jack on the aircard. This is starting to seem to be the way the device was physically designed to do. There isn't a software way to reroute it. If anyone knows anything about this, input would be extremely appreciated.
I have been sorta sidetracked lately, just upgraded my ipod touch 2g to 3.0 and jailbroke it. Getting all that happy crap to work, I came up with an idea for the ipod that just found out isn't a possibility at the moment.
skype + ipod + BT headset + portable wifi = cheap iphone. unfortuneatly ipod only works with bluetooth headphones... and the headsets don't support the mic so unless someone does magic and rewrites the Bluetooth stack in the ipod that's dead
next was
skype + iphone 3g + blackberry data only plan on att = you can edit skype to use 3g instead of wifi.. don't got the link but you can.
ATT BB data only plan is 35/mo +
unlimited messaging 20/mo +
Skype unlimited 3/mo +
Skype phone number 30/yr
total bill ends up being ~60/mo for unlimited talk (voip) + unlimited messaging (phone) + "unlimited data" most plans say 5GB limit this one specifically does not
***noted this voip is against att's TOS***
Now this wasn't the way I wanted to go with this but voip might be the better solution it's obviously the best as far as price goes. And will probably be easiest. It takes alot to make me give up on something, but the gsm voice might be a dead option unless like I said someone who knows more about what I'm doing than I do gives some input.
What I think would be next would be to start thinking about a good voip solution, http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Open+Source+VOIP+Software and just use 3g dongle that is said to work already. This would also be good for people who just want to use this but just want to use wifi.