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More news about the whole “Christmas in Cambodia” story. Turns out Kerry is embellishing war stories. Who would have thought?

Also the writers of that opinion piece bring up an interesting point. All of the media outlets that screamed at the top of their lungs about President Bush’s missing service records are suddenly silent on this story. Hmm…

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So I switch back to T-Mobile, after seeing that through Amazon, you can get the phone for -$150.

The phone itself is pretty nice, but it’s a little annoying to not have dedicated send and end buttons. I’ve already called two people on accident because of the push clicking center joystick thingy. It has been a whole year now that I’ve had a flip phone from Verizon, so I’m still forgetting to set the keyguard on this phone before I throw it in my pocket.

Anyways, one of the big features that I haven’t played in a cell phone yet was Bluetooth. I’m again impressed by the compatibility between Apple’s OS X and Bluetooth. I quickly paired the Powerbook and the phone, then set it up to sync contacts, my calendar, and then looked into using it as a GPRS modem of sorts.

The first page I found was appropriately titled How To Use Your GSM Cell Phone as a Bluetooth Modem on Mac OS X and it explained just that. After reading the page and then going out and visiting this page full of scripts, I was ready to set up the phone as a modem. Also note that Mr. Barkman maintains a page full of GPRS information for many carriers worldwide.

I setup a new location profile in my Powerbook for the T-Mobile GPRS network and switched off my Airport Express card to test it at my house. The speeds were decent, even though I don’t get fully signal strength on my phone from my home. I tested it out a bit by syncing my IMAP mailboxes and it was certianly acceptable. This will be a much easier way to get online when I’m traveling — completely wirelessly :)

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