I love GMail. Here's the text of the original post (posted by Nate Smith, March 20, 2007)<br><br>So you can now get Boostmobile (a pay-as-you-go phone service) phones in<br>Iowa. Why would you care? For $30.00 you can get a Motorola i415 from
<br>Boostmobile. for around $10.00 you can get a USB cable to connect to the<br>phone. This phone runs java applications (you may already have a phone that<br>does this). Then you can go to <a href="http://www.mologogo.com/" target="_blank">
http://www.mologogo.com</a> and sign up for a<br>free account. Download their java client and upload it to the phone. Your<br>phone will now report your location via GPS or cell network to the mologogo<br>website marking where you are every n minutes or so. That's kind of neat.
<br><br>Also, with the data cable the phone becomes a network access device. It can<br>be used as a modem, or it can be directly connected to the boostmobile<br>network using ppp (use this 'S=2#777' instead of a phone number, no username
<br>or password). So for $40.00 in hardware and $.30 cents or so per day you<br>have it in use, you can get dial-up type connectivity to the Internet from<br>your laptop no matter where you go. It's slow, but you can get web pages.
<br>One really crazy thing, is that you can place calls on the phone while you<br>are on the network.<br><br>Mologogo is one of those social networking web 2.0 kinds of things. It is<br>like a GPS service that tell you and your friends where you are. Ideally,
<br>your friends put their name in and your name in, and they can see where you<br>are, and if you get close it can notify you. On the phone, it can also<br>display a Google-type map of your current position and local weather and
<br>traffic conditions if you are in a city that supports it.<br><br>The phone comes with something like a $10 usage credit too.<br><br>Fun stuff.<br><br>-Nate<br><br><a href="http://www.mologogo.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mologogo.com
</a><br><br>tethered modem phone:<br><a href="http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1080295" target="_blank">http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1080295</a><br><a href="http://www.omgili.com/preview/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tcDNjYXIuY29tL3ZidWxsZXRpbi9zaG93dGhyZWFkLnBocD90PTc1NDUx" target="_blank">
http://www.omgili.com/preview/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tcDNjYXIuY29tL3ZidWxsZXRpbi9zaG<br>93dGhyZWFkLnBocD90PTc1NDUx</a><br><br><a href="http://www.boostmobile.com/" target="_blank">http://www.boostmobile.com</a> see also sprint/nextel stores - they resell
<br><span class="nfakPe">boost</span> mobile.<br><br><br>-- end of post<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 26, 2007 9:08 PM, chris <<a href="mailto:chris@ia.gov">chris@ia.gov</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Perhaps you mean this? <a href="http://www.openmoko.org/" target="_blank">http://www.openmoko.org/</a><br><font color="#888888"><br>chris<br></font><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>Matthew Nuzum wrote:<br>> Seems like there was some discussion months back about a hackable cell
<br>> phone, I thought it may be called "Boost" but maybe not. There was<br>> some application you could download that allowed you to share presence<br>> information with others (which probably isn't a great idea) because
<br>> the cell phone provided a relatively cheap data plan.<br>><br>> Yes, I know about android and I've downloaded the dev kit and done the<br>> hello world, and yes I'm glad I didn't buy an iPhone. However, in the
<br>> meantime I'm curious if there is a hackable cell phone, in the sense<br>> that you can write your own applications (either stand alone or web<br>> enabled). Did I remember the name right (searching my e-mail folder
<br>> yields no results, so I suspect I've got it wrong) and did I<br>> understand correctly that this phone is hackable?<br>><br>><br><br></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________
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