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Hello all,
I am really getting frustrated! I called ATT and CLEAR and both of them tell me that if I get a netbook they cannot provide a 3G application to make phone calls? Come ON... Is a netbook really that different than a cell phone? I don't want to buy BOTH!
HELP...before I lose my mind.
Thanks
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Well I believe that people can make phone calls with VONAGE or SKYPE on their Computers and LapTops!
I am looking for a netbook that can be a phone and internet, for me to carry at home or away. After all cell phones can browse the internet! But I want a larger screen than is available on a cell phone.
But neither are Cell Phones. Try this. Put a broadband card into that netbook and now you can do Skype and more than likely Vonage. But it's not a cell phone.
Hope that helps,
Bob
I don't want to pay for broadband, I don't believe I can travel with that, just to the next room!?
There must be a technology COMING?
And even if there was a Cell Phone in a notebook you would still have to pay to use "the network."
Well, I don't want to pay $50 for home and $50 for travel with a net book.
Actually I think CLEAR told me that $50 would cover both my desktop computer and a netbook...
HOWEVER, they could not give me ANY way to make phone calls from my computers.
I need to travel with a NETBOOK for business and make a phone calls with it too.
Techie help please....
Does anyone sell the thing you are looking for?
We covered that a netbook is not a cell phone.
Bob
netbook is far different from cellphone's application..
there are phones out there wherein you can make and receive a call via skype..
Your question is not unreasonable at all. Now, I don't own a netbook, nor have I used one so bear that in mind, but...
You mention Skype. If you can access the internet and download and install new software on the netbook, I don't see any reason why Skype or any other voice-enabled software wouldn't work on a netbook. Now I don't KNOW for certain whether you can install new software on a netbook. I'm assuming you can.
I already have Skype for my Windows Mobile cell phone. I can use it to chat or make free calls. (I don't use it for calls because, technically, it violates the terms of service for my cell phone contract - and most of my cell phone calls are basically free anyway.)
So, you would need to find out whether you can install software on your netbook. You'd also need to find out if it has a microphone or a jack for one and you'd need to check your terms of service.
However, I don't see any technical reason that you couldn't use your netbook to talk. It just wouldn't be your standard cell phone call. It would be over a VOIP chat program.
I hope this helps.
I knew that this would be possible soon.
But why don't the cell phone companies get on this?
Why can't a net book carry the same software a cell phone does?
There is an internet connection anyway.
All there would have to be is a software app and maybe some new hardware???
Thanks
but in smartphones! I am looking for the same thing. I can't believe no one has already taken advantage of this obvious market gap and stuck a droid in mini netbook for the best of both worlds, like peanutbutter cups......U got your netbook on my smartphone.....mmmmmmm, perfection!
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