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2008-03-31
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#132
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Originally Posted by Texrat
'course it can (and has been)!
The serial port is used to burn in firmware in the factory... not sure if it can support additional use.
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Originally Posted by Benson
Or you could walk around with with one of these Rogers "Portable Internet" Wimax modems strapped to your back
Really? I thought that the N8x0 had a serial port under the back cover. Nokia could make a replacement battery cover with WiMAX connecting that way. Should be able to get 115 kb/s easily.
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2008-03-31
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#134
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles
I plead ignorance.
'course it can (and has been)!
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2008-03-31
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#135
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Ok, needs flasher to enable, but you have to have flasher to update image to OS2008.25, anyway. And it's a new battery cover; it could cover a new battery. 
It could be the greatest thing since microSD and fixed internal memory...
Edit: Tex, it's used as a serial console by the excitable lads doing things likely to break startup.
Last edited by Benson; 2008-03-31 at 19:58.
It could be the greatest thing since microSD and fixed internal memory...Edit: Tex, it's used as a serial console by the excitable lads doing things likely to break startup.
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#136
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Originally Posted by Texrat
It affects battery life because in the device there is no grounding, so it is likely to have an irq storm.
I plead ignorance.
Also level shifters are missing. However the pads are probably the most easily accessible part of the interiors.
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2008-03-31
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#137
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Originally Posted by Benson
Yeah, sounds great for all the Windows users out there.
Ok, needs flasher to enable, but you have to have flasher to update image to OS2008.25, anyway.
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2008-03-31
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#138
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles
Take THAT, Mackie!
Yeah, sounds great for all the Windows users out there.
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2008-03-31
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#139
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles
I assumed the luser-friendly Wiindows tool was just a cross-compile of the Linux flasher, wrapped in a pretty shell, so it could do it. But I suppose the image format does not contain flags to indicate add'l changes, so it couldn't just be pushed as a new OS image.
Yeah, sounds great for all the Windows users out there.
Igor, you saying there'd be no substantial battery drain from the serial con if you put a pull-up/down on rx? (When not in use, of course.)
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2008-03-31
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Originally Posted by johnkzin
The thing is, right now Nokia doesn't even really make any CDMA phones. (Any that have Nokia's logo on them are ODM units made by other manufacturers, or units that were designed at least a year and a half ago, as far as I know.) Their sole CDMA R&D center (in San Diego) laid off 1/3-1/2 of its employees about a year and a half ago and switched to working on GSM phones. So I'd be really shocked to see them put 1xEVDO into an internet table.
That's not _necessarily_ true. Until now, sure, you needed to convince the carriers to sell your CDMA device. But, if Verizon is going to be true to their word, then all Nokia has to do is get their devices certified, and then the customer can buy them without Verizon branding them. And hopefully this will lead to Sprint and the smaller CDMA carriers following suit (MetroPCS, Cricket, etc.).
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