yulong presented a phone with use 2xGSM at the same time Re: Will the Neo1973 support Dual-SIM with SPST? Re: Using UART/SPI... for swithing 2-8 SIM-cards Re: [Neo1973] Hardware access: additional solder points ; )

[Robert Michel]

Salve Gabriel!

Robert Michel schrieb am Montag, den 20. November 2006 um 23:19h:

> Salve Gabriel, *!
> 
> Gabriel Ambuehl schrieb am Sonntag, den 19. November 2006 um 16:56h:
> 
> > On Sunday 19 November 2006 16:36, Robert Michel wrote:
> > > One of the potential would be a software controlled switching of
> > > different SIM-cards. AFAIK "Benefon Twin Dual SIM" was the first
> > > phone that allows the user to switch between two SIM-cards with
> > > the phone GUI.
> > 
> > Pushing this further, I'd LOVE to see a phone that can use two SIM cards at 
> > the SAME time (so I can have two numbers which would be useful for anyone who 
> > has both business and private mobile numbers or got screwed with a bad tariff 
> > and can't transfer his number right now...). 
> > 
> > I doubt this is possible but still one can dream ;)
> 
> Technicaly it would be no problem but the question would be if
> this device will populare enough to be a mass market product.
> I could imagine a (open linux) smartphone with a CF-II port and 
> a CF-II GSM/GPRS or GSM/UMTS card to buid this - e.g.:
> http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=140979&stack=technical&action=open 

I saw here in an article from yesterday:
http://www.teltarif.de/arch/2006/kw49/s24086.html
that the chinese vendor yulong anounced a smartphone
to use 2 GSM cards simultanious:
http://www.yulong.com/english/product/728g2.htm
(site not reachable at the moment)

So maybe 2007 time and market for a Neo1973-Dual?
Could somebody confirm that GPRS is only active when you do not phone
via GSM? So that you can't phone with somebody and use a GPRS connection
to your server?

Greetings,
rob