iPhone on the road

[Charles Dyer]

On 01 Jul 2007, at 07:27:26, David Herren wrote:

> Seconded...
>
> They'll have working iPhone before _I_ have a working cell phone of  
> any kind in Vermont. (Scott lives in the big city--population 2741-- 
> and probably gets cell service there. I live in a village of 250  
> people and there is no signal here from any provider, nor is there  
> signal from any provider on my 25 mile commute down the Rte 22A  
> corridor to work...nor while I am at work ...though in one corner  
> of the parking lot you can get 1 bar from Unicel).

Gez, man, do the cell phone companies _hate_ Vermont or what? I can  
get one or two bar reception in the middle of the God-damn  
Everglades! The official T-Mobile (and the official Cingular) map  
shows only thin lines of coverage centered on roads such as I-75  
(Alligator Alley) and US 41 (Tamaimi Trail) but you can get a signal  
at places where the official map says there's no coverage at all, in  
areas where the only way in is by airboat or swamp buggy. I can get a  
signal where the only local inhabitants are fish, 'gators, panthers,  
raccoons, and mosquitos (especially mosquitos) but you can't get a  
signal at work?! Someone needs to have a little chat with the local  
cell phone people... Maybe we could loan you a few 'gators to give  
'em an incentive.

>
> On Jul 1, 2007, at 1:42 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
>
>> I'm betting that you'll have a working iPhone there before we do  
>> here in the wilds of Vermont.
>>
>>
>> On Jun 30, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Matt Johnston wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking forward to it. But then I think by the time it ships  
>>> over here I'm hoping that some enterprising bugger will have  
>>> released a few apps for it.
>
>
> /david
>
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> david herren - shoreham, vt us na terra solsys orionarm
>
> "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." --- Forrest Tucker
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