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Monday, 2005-10-03

Dream device

A UMTS Nokia Communicator would rock. Imagine being able to SSH into your screen session via 3G!

Ahem… excuse my geekiness.

Update: I should qualify the above, I think. I spend a lot more time online than on the phone with the 6630. A communicator is a qwerty smartphone married to a S40 Nokia phone. This puts the functionality squarely where I want it: data use and text input. And 3G is fast data that could and should be cheap, at least for modest data usage.

SSH means I can access an online Unix server from anywhere, using the apps (emacs mostly) that I want.

Updated on Tuesday, 2005-10-04. Posted at 23:53, in the comm » mobile category. Comments [1]
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Chris Davies wrote at 2005-10-09 20:20:

You might be slightly dissapointed about SSH over UMTS. SSH uses very little bandwidth, but is very dependant on low latency for a decent user experience.

GPRS may not provide a fat pipe, but the latency is very much better than UMTS. So while my 9500 is really nice to use with SSH, the UMTS user experience would be considerably worse.

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