Robin Majumdar 2.0

Trainblogging.

Well, this is my second experiment with using wireless Internet access aboard the ViaRail train from Ottawa to Montreal. The last time I tried it was on the train from Montreal to Ottawa and I didn’t post my review because I felt it would be perhaps a bit harsh and unfair based on one single trip. That being said, the first time around, the bandwidth was just fine. The problem was the 500-700ms latency … when each hit to a site/server takes ½ to ¾ of a second just to initiate the connection, it makes things pretty unusable…

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OK, so my super-duper HTC Touch Vogue which I have on the Bell Mobility CDMA network is still in a serious love affair with me (or vice versa)…

I did indeed manage to install Skype Mobile (Pocket PC for Windows Mobile) on the Touch and it works great for Skype instant messaging but… not so great yet for outgoing Skype voice calls. I’ll be investigating to see if this is something that Bell Mobility has perhaps locked out of their ROM version on the touch because I know other people are indeed doing Skype calls from their PocketPC touchphones…

If you’ve got similar experiences, or solutions, leave a comment please!

Well, I’ve been looking to renew my Bell Mobility account with a newer device and take advantage of a retention plan offer - Bell wanting to keep me with them - and was surprised that my current best bang for the buck device and plan; the HTC Touch combined with Bell’s $7/month unlimited data plan for that phone….

was out of stock “temporarily” on the Bell site.

Well I learned from a source that the device isn’t actually out of stock - in reality, Bell Mobility had to pull the HTC Touch smartphone because BellMo didn’t have bilingual (i.e. French) user interfaces on the HTC Touch phone.

This is kind of incredible… to think that a company as large as Bell Mobility would miss an obvious requirement of bringing a device to market with interfaces, manuals and the like in both languages.

In the meantime, my Audiovox 8910 CDMA camera phone is still MIA.