| fleetadmiral |
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| Sun Apr 13 2008 12:30 AM |
Best way to get mobile internet on phone (NOT laptop)
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Bit of a newbie on this as I've only ever used a mobile phone to make calls so bear with me!
I have just started admin on a website and often need to update it several times a day. A dongle-powered laptop with internet is impractical for me to carry around so I'd like to be able to update my website from a phone.
The iPhone looked like fitting the bill but as I understand it only connects via a WiFi hotspot (may be wrong though?). Most of my time I'd need to connect on the train, so would need the internet to be 'browsable' wherever there's a mobile signal (apologies for the non-teccy approach to this!!).
I've also looked at 3's X-series and the Blackberry Pearl but not sure if they'd fit the bill. Many of these services seem to struggle with Javascript from what I've read and my website's admin setup uses a lot of javascript.
Any ideas? Thanks!
| greysts |
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| Sun Apr 13 2008 09:29 AM |
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Re: Best way to get mobile internet on phone (NOT laptop)
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Are you seriously suggesting that you should use a mobile phone to update a website
Quote:I can see two major drawbacks with that - the connection speed will range from abysmal to quite low and the screen size will make it virtually impossible to see what you are doing.
several times a day
I would have thought a laptop is an absolute essential along with either the 3 or Vodaphone USB Broadband stick. That way you keep a copy of the website on the laptop, make the changes that you need and upload them. Even then, upload speed will be very low indeed and you are in danger of losing the connection part way through.
| fleetadmiral |
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| Sun Apr 13 2008 11:59 AM |
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Re: Best way to get mobile internet on phone (NOT laptop)
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Quote:
Are you seriously suggesting that you should use a mobile phone to update a websiteQuote:
several times a day
When I say update, it would mainly be small text changes and with a CMS system in place it's usually a case of any new articles sent via email/blog or similar - so it's not like I'd be working with images or Dreamweaver or anything. And any graphics-intensive stuff can be done when I'd be back at my desktop.
In terms of connection speeds, I'm not too clued up on 3G speeds, but would they be suitable for the above?
| greysts |
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| Sun Apr 13 2008 12:32 PM |
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Re: Best way to get mobile internet on phone (NOT laptop)
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Vodaphone and 3 claim up to 2.8mb for their mobile broadband dongles but that it entirely dependent on location. I don't know what a normal 3G phone can handle but according to the blurb this can connect to the broadband mobile network.