I just tried out a Sanyo 8200 last night with my Linux laptop and confirmed that it, like the Sanyo 4900 and friends, works great for data access under Linux using Sprint's PCS Vision service.
Thanks goes out to Greg Danielius (despam the address) for his report of Linux compatilibity for the Sanyo MM-7400 phone. It works for data access under Linux with Sprint's PCS Vision service. Report posted in the list.
Just added the Nokia 3588i to the database of Sprint Phones known to work with Linux for data access. The info comes from a post over at PeerFear
I just added up a compatibility report to the list of Sprint Phones known to work with Linux for data access, specifically for the Sanyo RL-4920. I tested it personally with the data cable I use with my 4900 and it worked great.
Another big thanks goes out to Wijay Kesuma for a on the Samsung N400. This Vision compatible phone works great with Linux with the same cable that the A460 uses. Thanks, Wijay!
Hand-made Gang Starr cellphone QCP ring-tone: Deep Concentration. Any cell phone that can handle QCP ringtones should be able to use this file. Sprint users can use Focus to send this file to their phone. Enjoy.
Wijaya Kesuma emailed me with a link to his excellent writeup on setting up data access in GNU/Linux with a Samsung A460. This phone uses Sprints older, 2G data service, with slower data rates. I've added this writeup to my list of Sprint phones known to work with Sprint data access with Linux.
Sitting around over the holidays, away from a reliable internet connection has made a good opportunity to kick around the wireless connection I have via my Sanyo 4900. As Brian Jepson at Mobile Whack points out, unreliable is the key word. The connection is just barely enough for some basic tasks—but not much more than that. No streaming music yet.
Newsmonster over this link is pretty painful but it can be done. Strangely enough, I've been having problems with Newsmonster and the latest kernel I built, 2.4.23. I get all kinds of DNS timeouts, even on a real link. I haven't had the time to chase the root of the problem down, though.
What do you do to escape the throws of holiday boredom? I'm marooned at my parents' house for the jolly season while they themselves are out visiting other relatives. And goddamnit, I am bored out of my mind.
One thing I've been trying to do to alleviate my present condition is hunt around for pictures taken from one of the camera phones I want, the Samsung VGA 1000, also known as the A620. Googling around turns up a lot of garbage.
However, one great resource I've found is Textamerica.com. It is a site that hosts "moblogs" or mobile photo-blogs. These are sites where people post uninteresting pictures of themselves or their pets—usually not the kind of sites I dig around at. However, these moblogs go from useless to quite useful when the author designates what type of camera-phone he or she took the pictures with. Then, they become sample image galleries for phone shoppers, like myself.
So here are some moblogs with sample images from the SPH-A620. They were found using the site: operator at google, like this search string.
As Google turns up...
One thing that is immediately obvious is there are a lot more 8100 moblogs than A620 moblogs. However, I'm not sure how long each phone has been available, so it may be that the 8100 is simply newer, or perhaps it is less expensive. Anyway, dig around in these links to find all kinds of real-life example photos.
I just put up a compatibility report for the Samsung VGA1000. It works under Linux as modem (acm device) for wireless internet access. Just get a USB cable and you are good to go.
I've put together a small set of compatibility reports for using Sprint cell phones for Internet access under Linux. If you have used a model not listed here to get data access with our favorite operating system, please drop me a line and let me know. My email address can be found at the bottom of the page, obfuscated against spammers.
I'm still looking for a camera phone that I can use under Linux for wireless internet access without any extra funky hardware or software. I've been eyeing the Sanyo SCP-8100 for an option, as my SCP-4900 works extremely well for this. However, I've held back because I can't find much report of anyone successfully using an 8100 with Linux.
Until today. I found two examples of people supposedly getting an 8100 working as a usb acm modem with Linux. Checkout Lukewarm's SCP-8100 page and Frank E. Harrell's Linux Setup Notes for two examples.
I'm glad to say that the Sanyo-SCP 8100 is 100% supported under Linux. I spoke with Frank Harrell directly (link above) and he confirmed its operation with Knoppix. Now I just have to get one.
Radiation from the cell will erase the mind
I had a few minutes to play with that Sanyo data cable I got a while back. Now I'm posting this from my cell. With just a bit of kernel-tweaking and these fantastic instructions, I'm ballin' with a wireless connection via my Sanyo-4900. Who can stop me now?
Damn it has been a busy day and I've been up to quite a bit. You'll probably notice that all of the blog entries at LAB-Y now have category links. Follow any of them to search for entries that fall under the specified category. Just a smidgen of PHP and another feature falls out of the sky.
I went ahead and ordered my Sanyo SCP-4900 to eventually have wireless internet access under Linux from anywhere. It only set me back $170 (which included tax and an inflated shipping cost, fsck websites charging tax) and it is on its way.
To get this setup tested, I finally got around to getting USB working on my workstation. I've had the capability for quite some time but I've never used the kernel modules, partially because I don't have any USB devices. The only exception to that is a keyboard PS/2 to USB adapter that I have for use with my Playstation 2. It works great with any PS/2 keyboard I can dig up on the PS2 so I used it for testing USB under Linux.
I already had all of the appropriate modules compiled and installed, they just never got inserted into the kernel. A few insmod's later, I was up and running with a USB keyboard, no sweat. Now I'm waiting for the phone to get it activated. Then I'll buy the data cable and I should be good to go.
Sometime in the future, I'm planning on buying a laptop because I travel so much. I need to carry a mobile office with me, so I can get stuff done. To go along with that, as any geek would point out, I need wireless internet access from anywhere.
The best solution at this point seems to be using Sprint's Unlimited Vision service with a USB data cable. Some of these phones provide an ACM ppp device you can use to dial out and get reasonable wireless access. Another solution seems to be getting a PCS Merlin C201 PCMCIA card.
For anyone else who is interested, here are a collection of links to get you started.
If anyone knows if the Sanyo SCP-8100 works with Linux, I'd like to hear about it.