My word on GPRS

[Clinton Ebadi]

"Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" <mickey at openmoko.org> writes:

> b) If you want to receive calls, the connection needs to be idle. You can 
> safely have an activated context (i.e. i was able to log in via SSH) being 
> idle and then you will get your incoming call notifications.
>
> Note though, once someone wants to call you while you are not idling, i.e. 
> during a long wget, you will not get any call notifications. Instead, the 
> network will think you are not reachable and -- if configured -- send you to 
> the voice mailbox.

Is this a limitation of the chipset or the software stack? My ancient
Nokia 7610 will interrupt an active GPRS connection when incoming
calls are received.

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