GL: Mobile phone, not Air Card

Georgs Kolesnikovs georgs at trawlersandtrawlering.com
Tue Apr 1 07:36:16 EDT 2008


Jeffrey Siegel of aCappella wrote:
>The real question is, why use an Air Card?  A much better solution is to get
>a higher-end mobile phone that can handle email, simple web browsing, and
>other applications (tides, chart plotting, etc).  You can connect any of
>these phones to your PC/Mac when you want to get online with the larger
>screen.  Amplify the phone and you now have a better communications tool for
>voice AND data.  We've had excellent internet connections using our phone
>when offshore by 20 nm because of the amp and antenna.

Pray tell, how about an example--make and model--of a "higher-end 
mobile phone that can handle email, simple web browsing, and other 
applications (tides, chart plotting, etc) . . .

--Georgs
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Georgs Kolesnikovs
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