Re: Colnago C60

cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Thu Aug 22 20:02:16 2024 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

On 8/22/2024 5:09 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:

... Europe is generally more mobile phone focused.

 
Yes, I think that's always been so. Europe is far more compact than the
U.S., and with much more typical population density.
 
To tell another anti-AT&T tale: The first time we went to continental
Europe, we (or rather, my wife) had a flip phone through AT&T. I called
AT&T support to ask whether the phone would function in Europe. The tech
support guy I got told me it absolutely would, no problem at all.
 
Of course when we landed, we found the phone was useful only as a
paperweight. IIRC, the phone wasn't even capable of dealing with the
frequencies that Europe used. And when I took it into a cell phone store
of some kind, asking if something could be done to make it work, the
tech guy there said "We've never even seen a phone like this one!"
 
Ah well. We got by for six weeks anyway, mostly by using internet cafes.

 
 
 
 
This has been largely changed since everyone's phones are now made in China.
 

I very much doubt that being made in China has anything to do with that,
more that European tech led the mobile industry at those times and used GSM
as did most of the world but US who used CDMA.

Having said that I did visit NewYork 2002/3 or so and would have a GSM
phone at the time, and it worked just fine though in those days roaming was
expensive so probably didn’t phone much!

But US was definitely not the leader in mobile phone technology at the
time, one reason Nokia dismissed the original iPhone (which wasn’t the
first smartphone) was it’s technology was behind with only 2G ie Edge vs
Nokias phones with 3G etc, and 3G phones had been out for years at that
point, hence Nokia and others didn’t get it.

Roger Merriman