This Christmas we took a bit of a digital leap. The imminent closure of the CDMA network has forced us to make some decisions about phones, and I can't bring myself to sign up to Telstra's Next G system.
So until the transition is all smoothed over and Telstra gets some competition (I believe Optus should have their 3G network pretty much together in 12 months), we've taken a backwards step to GSM or "digital" as it's commonly called.
Just before Christmas, I bought on EBay a HP 6965. There was a mix-up with the phones as the company selling them had two nearly-identical ones that the employee thought were actually the same. Firstly he sent the wrong one, so we had to do a swap and with all the holidays over Christmas and New Year it just seemed to take for ever!
This new phone/ PDA has all sorts of nice features including a camera that isn't too bad (but I'll still carry my trusty Fuji around anyway), built in wireless networking and a built-in GPS and the tomtom navigation software.
Tim and I had to fiddle around to actually get tomtom to connect to the GPS. It took a while but we got there. You can download all kinds of voices, but I've decided to use the Queen's voice (well an actor that sounds like her.) I took her for a spin across town and it was very reassuring to hear Her Majesty's authoritative tone instructing me to "turn left after 300 metres." When I arrived home HM intoned "One has arrived at one's destination." Nice! :up:
If you get something that does UMTS 900 then it'd support Optus's upgrade when it happens. I haven't heard whether they're going to try a "big bang" switch-on like Telstra, or enable it progressively as the equipment is installed at each location.
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