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How does one use a Palm OS phone with no 4g/3g support? Can you even get 2g service anymore?
by mistyvales 2y ago
How does one use a Palm OS phone with no 4g/3g support? Can you even get 2g service anymore?
- LeoPanthera 2y agoThe short answer is that you can't.
- gunapologist99 2y agoWell, you can use it as a Palm device, but the phone capabilities will be forever broken :'(
- j45 2y agoBy phone it meant making phone calls and not surfing, so the phone capabilities and sms capabilities were fine.
- LeoPanthera 2y agoI know someone who put a private GSM cellular base station in their attic just so that their collection of retro phones would work. I suppose that's an option. I think the FCC lets you do it without a license below a certain wattage.
- acjohnson55 2y agoThat's pretty sweet. What kind of hardware is necessary for this?
- LeoPanthera 2y agoI have no idea. I wonder if you could do it with some kind of SDR radio, these days.
- ranger_danger 2y agofor 2G GSM you could
- wkat4242 2y agoLook up Osmocom, that project is the software side but their site has a lot of details on hardware too.
- userbinator 2y agoI think that's technically illegal but more of a "if you transmit on licensed spectrum but no one can hear it but you, does it still count?" situation.
- wkat4242 2y agoHere in Europe the DECT guard band is often used for this and i think it's not illegal. About the US no idea but they have the 915 band right?
- aidenn0 2y agoNot sure if you're aware, but most of the Palm OS devices weren't phones. I owned 3, none of which were (but my wife had a Centro). Only one of those 3 had wifi; everything else was via syncing with the PC over a cable (or BT in later models).
- mistyvales 2y agoTotal brain fart: For some reason I thought OP said Blackberry! I had a few Palm Pilots back in the day.. no idea what I did with them. They're pretty damn cheap on eBay. On that note, what's the last good Blackberry with physical keyboard that could even be used today? 4g voLTE support is probably a no go.
- j45 2y agoWifi existed. Bluetooth data existed too (Bluetooth Dial up Networking).