Wifi on the tube
 

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:54:12 -0500,
wrote:

Can't you do that on your phone?

Not on the Tube. Which is, to be fair, often a time when I'd want to
check out the next bit of my journey...

Neil
--
Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK
To reply put my first name before the at.

Wifi on the tube
 

In message , at 10:54:12
on Sun, 31 Oct 2010, remarked:
People would probably be better off spending money on psychiatric
sessions if they can't go 30 mins without accessing the internet.

These days people use the Internet to check things like train
timetables, and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never
catch on ;-)

Can't you do that on your phone?

Oh do keep up Colin! Not on the platform at a tube station!!

But if one had a phone or other handheld device which can use wifi, then
that's exactly what one might find it handy for.

ps I can't do it on *my* phone (even up at ground level) because I don't
have an affordable data plan :( But I've narrowly avoided getting an
iPad, and that would be just the kind of application.
--
Roland Perry

Wifi on the tube
 

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 12:35:59 on Fri, 29 Oct 2010,
d remarked:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:59:40 -0700 (PDT)
Offramp wrote:
On 29 Oct, 02:06, Matthew Dickinson
wrote:
BTOpenzone are starting a six month trial of Wifi access at Charing
Cross tube station. Access is to be available in the ticket hall and
on the Northern and Bakerloo platforms.

Seehttp://seekbroadband.com/focus/2010/10/29/ispwatch/london-underground...

for more details.

I thought that BT Openzone cost a bomb.

Depends on your plan (as ever). From 1p a minute on the ?5/month plan, to 0p
(if you are on an unlimited deal).

And if you have a smartphone contract with O2, they throw in Openzone and
The Cloud as freebies. I really need to find out if this applies to me!

tom

--
The Impossible is True

Wifi on the tube
 

Roland Perry wrote:

These days people use the Internet to check things like train timetables,
and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never catch on ;-)

I wish TfL would make its website more smart phone friendly. Often
information fails to display clearly, especially the weekend engineering
section. And the Journey Planner is very hard to use on a small touchscreen.

Wifi on the tube
 

Wifi on the tube
 

In message of Sun, 31 Oct 2010
20:53:21 in uk.transport.london, Tim Roll-Pickering T.C.Roll-
writes
Roland Perry wrote:

These days people use the Internet to check things like train timetables,
and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never catch on ;-)

I wish TfL would make its website more smart phone friendly. Often
information fails to display clearly, especially the weekend engineering
section. And the Journey Planner is very hard to use on a small touchscreen.

You HAVE tried http://wap.tfl.gov.uk/planner

It calculates journeys now from a post code, stop or station
to a post code, stop or station.

It is phone friendly and transmits a few K bytes of data - the regular
journey planner transmit 100s of K.
--
Walter Briscoe

Wifi on the tube
 

In article ,
(Tim Roll-Pickering) wrote:

wrote:

These days people use the Internet to check things like train
timetables, and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never
catch on ;-)

Can't you do that on your phone?

Not without a lengthy phonecall to either a busy line or the
automatic service which can't understand speech and which throws a
wobbler over any background noise (especiall screaming brats). It's
messy when you have to rearrange your travel plas due to
engineering works.

My phone has a web browser. Doesn't yours?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Wifi on the tube
 

On Oct 31, 4:45*pm, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 10:54:12
on Sun, 31 Oct 2010, remarked:

People would probably be better off spending money on psychiatric
sessions if they can't go 30 mins without accessing the internet.

These days people use the Internet to check things like train
timetables, and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never
catch on ;-)

Can't you do that on your phone?

Oh do keep up Colin! Not on the platform at a tube station!!

But if one had a phone or other handheld device which can use wifi, then
that's exactly what one might find it handy for.

ps I can't do it on *my* phone (even up at ground level) because I don't
have an affordable data plan :( But I've narrowly avoided getting an
iPad, and that would be just the kind of application.

You don't want to have to whip out an iPad just to check the LDBs
though!

Wifi on the tube
 

In message
, at
18:10:50 on Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Mizter T remarked:
ps I can't do it on *my* phone (even up at ground level) because I don't
have an affordable data plan :( But I've narrowly avoided getting an
iPad, and that would be just the kind of application.

You don't want to have to whip out an iPad just to check the LDBs
though!

Plenty of people use upmarket phones for that kind of thing; and the
iPad is at the larger end of the scale, I agree.
--
Roland Perry

Wifi on the tube
 

In message , at 18:33:27
on Sun, 31 Oct 2010, remarked:

My phone has a web browser. Doesn't yours?

My phone has a tiny screen that wouldn't be any use for browsing, even
if I had a data plan to pay for it. It was bought for the in-built
camera, not the extra connectivity.
--
Roland Perry