Cingular GSM (LAC) (was: Audi Newsletter)

[Ti Kan]

Just Taylor writes:
> At 12:21 AM 10/18/2001, Ti Kan wrote:
> >Cingular Wireless in the US uses GSM, and offers Nokia phones as well as
> >Ericsson and Motorola.  My Nokia GSM phone has these features that you
> >describe.  Not all wireless providers in the US use CDMA.
> 
> I currently have a Cingular brand Nokia 6190 and moving to 3390 here 
> shortly... so I *can* change the logo to an Audi ring now if I wanted 
> to?  If so then maybe I'll experiment with my old phone in case I FUBAR it :)

Don't know about the 6190, but my Nokia 3390 has a "screen saver"
feature where a picture is displayed on the screen in place of the
"Cingular" text and the center screen area after a programmable delay. 
You can have a different picture for each profile (normal, discreet,
loud, silent, etc) you're running in.  You can choose from 8 built-in
pictures, and the 3390 manual says that one more can be added, or the
existing ones replaced with different ones.  However I can't find any
info from Cingular about this on their service side.  Perhaps they will
offer this feature in the future.  Similarly, you can send/receive
picture messages with the phone (those same pictures), and I assume also
any customized pictures as well.  However I am not sure if Cingular
supports this function at their service yet.  I didn't want to pay too
much $$ (because one has to pay for messaging in addition to the basic
rate), I didn't experiment with this too much.

Would be nice to have a cool Audi 4-ring logo as my screen saver though!

As to ringtones, the 3390 has a bunch included, and you can download more
over the Cingular network.  You have to pay for each ringtone downloaded :-(.
To do that you need to sign up with Cingular's "My Wireless Window" web
site, and use your desktop computer to review/download them to your phone.

Sorry about the LAC here.

-Ti
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