http://norman.walsh.name/2003/11/04/undeadzone 6 105 2003-11-04 $Date: 2005-09-11 10:27:02 -0400 (Sun, 11 Sep 2005) $ Norman Walsh 2003 Norman Walsh GSM after all. Fran Lebowitz Lebowitz Fran Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. Still looking for a GSM phone, I thought I’d ping the AT&T Wireless website again, to make sure I still couldn’t get service, as I’d been told last time I checked, then call to find out why not. After all, I know there’s a GSM antenna around here. A lot can change in two months, I guess, because now I can get service. Since there aren’t any GSM alternatives out here, I went ahead and got a new mobile from AT&T. I chose the Nokia 3650 this time because I wanted an international phone and the promotional offer was attractive. Besides, I wanted to have a second Bluetooth Bluetooth device in the house. With an hour or so of experience under my belt, Bluetooth seems pretty cool. My existing Bluetooth device (a Palm Tungsten|T) can talk to the phone, which is cool in it’s own right, and use the phone’s GPRS service to surf the web. So I got what I wanted, web surfing from my mobile, for a lot less than it would have cost to replace the Palm with a unified device like the Palm Tungsten|W or the Treo. For whatever reason the Treo wasn’t offered under AT&T GSM and the Tungsten|W, cool though it may be, was way more than I was willing to invest. The 3650 is a little larger than I would have called ideal, especially since it doesn’t replace my Palm, but I think it’ll work. I have thirty days to decide.