Lab Notes

It's time for me to get a new phone, and the new ROKR E1 iTunes phone looks nice: it's small, has Bluetooth, plays music, and works with Cingular, the only provider to have decent coverage at my house. The only thing that disappoints me is that it is tri-band, not quad-band, GSM (it's 900 MHz that's missing). This means that there a number of GSM countries in which it won't work. I don't know the reason for the omission — it's not as though Motorola can't make a small quad-band phone. After all, the sexy V3 RAZR is quad-band. Fortunately, I'm not traveling to any 900 MHz GSM countries anytime soon, so I don't have to let that be a deciding factor.