Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 242

Thanks very much. I've been to Germany several times, and to Koln. I do need to plan a new trip in the next couple of years--you know, we Americans don't get much vacation time. My wine site has focused a lot on German wine recently and a nice little tour of the Mosel seems in order!

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Germany
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Hope you liked Koeln.
I am sure you will also like the France wine.
When you are ready to come to Germany - just let me know.

CU
Chris

Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Posts: 123

After reading this thread, I've some things to report:

- Open http://www.gsmworld.com/gsminfo/gsminfo.htm to check GSM coverage around the world. All networks are listed here, with info on frequency, services, coverage, website, etc.

- The VisorPhone is dual band 900/1900Mhz.

- There's no switch to change bands, it's automatic.

- It uses a standard SIM Card. Just insert your SIM Card in it and use.

- If travelling, make sure you have Roaming active in your account. There's nothing to do on the Visorphone itself, it's all Network controlled. Usualy just need this once, may depend on your contract. I have it setup a year ago on my account and I've been travelling around quite a bit.

- When travelling abroad all calls are in-country calls. What I have is all my phonebook entries are in international format: +<country code> <area code> <phone number>. If I place a call here or in Australia, UK, or US, it's all common format, and translated by the network.

I'm using the Visorphone on Vodafone New Zealand. Just removed my SIM Card from my Nokia 7110 and that's it. Worked as soon as I turned it on.

Hope this helps!

Mauricio

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 242

>>If travelling, make sure you have Roaming active in your account. <<

From my experience, this is the only really important thing to remember. The rest is pretty automatic.

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Location: Here
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I'm set up for international roaming with the VisorPhone. Just got back from Japan, no worky there. Bummer.

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Location: Wellington, New Zealand
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There's no GSM network in Japan. NTT Docomo uses its own flavour, not used anywhere else in the world, the i-Mode.

Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Here
Posts: 213

Their technology in Japan seems GREAT. The phones are very very thin and nice color screens. Some have built in cameras to send pic's of yourself. In part of the system they are testing full video over the phone. Small PCMCIA cards for your laptop and you have wireless connection for about $20 per month at about 64K speed. The main application seems to be teenage girls chatting with their phones.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 242

in europe now--works great; no problemo

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How did you find the billing for calls in Europe while roaming to the USA and to other points in the country where you were?

I'm looking at my bills now--and calls from FRANCE to FRANCE (roaming) are billed at the international rate, i.e, exact same charge as if I had called the USA on my visorphone from France.

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Location: Germany
Posts: 116

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Originally posted by Mark Squires
I'm looking at my bills now--and calls from FRANCE to FRANCE (roaming) are billed at the international rate, i.e, exact same charge as if I had called the USA on my visorphone from France.

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Last edited by ChrisMarx on 10-23-2001 at 01:45 PM