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Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: ArchiMark on December 22, 2009, 11:27:23 am
OK, no excuses now for not getting your Z replacement as Conics has recently lowered price on Netwalker.....

Now only $495 shipped.....

Get 'em while you can.....


 
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: merlin1 on December 22, 2009, 11:42:42 am
/me has paid €499 which is $710, and was $753, when ordering from Pulster.de (great dealer, though) and feels stupid now...  

Love my Netwalker though.
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: dougeeebear on December 22, 2009, 01:56:58 pm
It's tempting, but I'm way over budget now.
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: ArchiMark on December 22, 2009, 02:14:22 pm
Quote from: dougeeebear
It's tempting, but I'm way over budget now.

Ask Santa for one!

 
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: dougeeebear on December 22, 2009, 08:27:44 pm
Quote from: ArchiMark
Quote from: dougeeebear
It's tempting, but I'm way over budget now.

Ask Santa for one!

 
I did, but he said he'd have to run it by Mrs. Claus.
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: ArchiMark on December 22, 2009, 09:01:23 pm
Quote from: dougeeebear
Quote from: ArchiMark
Quote from: dougeeebear
It's tempting, but I'm way over budget now.

Ask Santa for one!

 
I did, but he said he'd have to run it by Mrs. Claus.

merlin1 and I will put in the good word for you with Mrs. Claus.....

 
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: zmiq2 on December 23, 2009, 11:51:51 am
uhm... no 3g, no way !!

guys, we are in year 2010, wifi is dead (bad security, restricted geographical availability)

(looking at my stats, I can't realize I joined this forum about 6 years ago.....)
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: ArchiMark on December 23, 2009, 02:10:40 pm
Quote from: zmiq2
uhm... no 3g, no way !!

guys, we are in year 2010, wifi is dead (bad security, restricted geographical availability)

(looking at my stats, I can't realize I joined this forum about 6 years ago.....)


To each his own, zmiq2...but for me I don't normally use 3g, too expensive...but use wifi almost everyday, and ethernet everyday as I can't use wifi at work....

If you need 3g, you can use a USB card right?....that's what I do when I'm travelling during work hours...

 
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: merlin1 on December 23, 2009, 02:19:30 pm
Quote from: ArchiMark
Quote from: zmiq2
uhm... no 3g, no way !!

guys, we are in year 2010, wifi is dead (bad security, restricted geographical availability)

(looking at my stats, I can't realize I joined this forum about 6 years ago.....)


To each his own, zmiq2...but for me I don't normally use 3g, too expensive...but use wifi almost everyday, and ethernet everyday as I can't use wifi at work....

If you need 3g, you can use a USB card right?....that's what I do when I'm travelling during work hours...

 
Again, to each his own... I don't get why you mention WiFi's bad security. Is WPA2 not safe enough? I agree on limited availability of public WiFi though.

As for 3G, personally I prefer "external" 3G via a USB modem (yes, Huawei E160 and E220 are said to work fine) or a tethered phone. That way I can use 3G on my phone and share the connection to other devices if necessary. Internal 3G would mean having to get another SIM card to me, and not being able to use it across multiple devices.


Merlin1
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: zmiq2 on December 23, 2009, 03:22:58 pm
I think mobile devices need integrated 3g:

- no dongles hanging

- when I'm at home/office, I don't use a mobile device with small screen/keyboard, apart from emailing and low network tasks

- no tethering: 3g gets too much battery, so I don't want to spend my phone call battery for data; phone is too important to waste the battery twittering or so ...

- with a mobile device, network consumption is not very high, because it barely plays videos and battery runs out faster; for real downloading I'll always use dsl with a powered computer ...

- 3g is getting real cheap, at least in europe: I have one special sim for 3g, 5euro/month for 500MB

- nowadays even the cheapest phone is 3g enabled, come on, even if you don't use it, it should be already integrated, it doesn't add much to the cost. Isn't bluetooth and wifi already integrated, even some people may not use it?

- I think I read like 1 month ago that wpa2 security was also at risk; there was a group working on rainbow method to decrypt; of course, though, there also exist 3g decrypting tools ... but the point is that the vast majority of people just use wep, like 90% of wifis are wep only, giving a false sense of security

- internal 3g should be implemented with hot-pluggable sim, like the nokia booklet does, then you can easily plug the sim in the laptop or whatever other 3g device you want to use. I'm amazed that all phones you have to switch it off / remove the battery to change the sim; this is obviously a 'carrier-friendly feature' manufacturers don't want to change, to prevent sim swapping. I'm amazed people never complain about this; for me, the nokia booklet is a winner just for this feature
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: the_oak on December 23, 2009, 07:44:45 pm
Quote
- 3g is getting real cheap, at least in europe: I have one special sim for 3g, 5euro/month for 500MB

I wish I lived in Europe. Depending on your carrier, here in the good old USA, data plans are more like $45 to $119.99 per month, depending on limits.
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: merlin1 on December 24, 2009, 06:45:53 am
Quote from: the_oak
Quote
- 3g is getting real cheap, at least in europe: I have one special sim for 3g, 5euro/month for 500MB

I wish I lived in Europe. Depending on your carrier, here in the good old USA, data plans are more like $45 to $119.99 per month, depending on limits.
I'm also interested in knowing what plan you use. In Germany, the cheapest plan I can find is about €15/month for 1GB, and then additional costs for the dongle and sign-up come up. Right now I'm paying €30/month for 500MB but this is a 2-year-contract with a phone so not directly comparable.
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: zmiq2 on December 26, 2009, 05:57:57 pm
I'm located in Spain, and I'm using a simyo sim for data only.

http://www.simyo.es/que_es_tarifas.html (http://www.simyo.es/que_es_tarifas.html)

Tarifa Diaria
Si navegas:    Sólo pagarás:
Menos de 11 Mb    0,09 €/Mb
Entre 11 y 100 Mb    0,99 €/dia
Más de 100 Mb    0,99 €/dia + 0,09 €/Mb
Hasta 500 Mb    Nunca pagarás más de 5€

Translated:
less than 11Mb: 0.09euro/Mb
between 11 and 100Mb: 0.99euro/day
more than 100mb: 0,99euro/day+0.09euro/mb
Up to 500Mb/month, never more than 5euro
More than 500Mb/month: 5euro+0.09euro/Mb
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: fpp on December 27, 2009, 04:37:03 pm
Quote from: zmiq2
I'm located in Spain, and I'm using a simyo sim for data only.

http://www.simyo.es/que_es_tarifas.html (http://www.simyo.es/que_es_tarifas.html)

Tarifa Diaria
Si navegas:    Sólo pagarás:
Menos de 11 Mb    0,09 €/Mb
Entre 11 y 100 Mb    0,99 €/dia
Más de 100 Mb    0,99 €/dia + 0,09 €/Mb
Hasta 500 Mb    Nunca pagarás más de 5€

Translated:
less than 11Mb: 0.09euro/Mb
between 11 and 100Mb: 0.99euro/day
more than 100mb: 0,99euro/day+0.09euro/mb
Up to 500Mb/month, never more than 5euro
More than 500Mb/month: 5euro+0.09euro/Mb
I don't know where you see "per month". I understand all these prices to be *daily*.
The monthly plan is above, 24.99. And you must add 16% tax...
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: zmiq2 on December 30, 2009, 10:45:34 am
Quote from: fpp
Quote from: zmiq2
I'm located in Spain, and I'm using a simyo sim for data only.

http://www.simyo.es/que_es_tarifas.html (http://www.simyo.es/que_es_tarifas.html)

Tarifa Diaria
Si navegas:    Sólo pagarás:
Menos de 11 Mb    0,09 €/Mb
Entre 11 y 100 Mb    0,99 €/dia
Más de 100 Mb    0,99 €/dia + 0,09 €/Mb
Hasta 500 Mb    Nunca pagarás más de 5€

Translated:
less than 11Mb: 0.09euro/Mb
between 11 and 100Mb: 0.99euro/day
more than 100mb: 0,99euro/day+0.09euro/mb
Up to 500Mb/month, never more than 5euro
More than 500Mb/month: 5euro+0.09euro/Mb
I don't know where you see "per month". I understand all these prices to be *daily*.
The monthly plan is above, 24.99. And you must add 16% tax...

hi fpp

1) the plan for 24.99 is for unlimited data, up to 5gb full umts, from that at low speed

2) the plan I'm talking about is 5euro/month +16%vat is for up to 500mb/month; even it's true in their website per month is not explicitly detailed, that's how it works. I've been using it for more than a year, and I do review my invoices monthly. And there is not any minimum monthly fee!
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: speculatrix on January 01, 2010, 06:37:21 pm
http://conics.net/catalog/advanced_search_...words=netwalker (http://conics.net/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=netwalker)
JPY44800 =>
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=4...mp;image=Submit (http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=44800&From=JPY&To=GBP&image.x=55&image.y=19&image=Submit)
=> £300

or  EU336

hmm, 300 eh, quite a bit cheaper than a Nokia N900.

too many choices, arrgghhh!
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: XE1UFO on February 03, 2010, 09:57:38 am
A new Netwalker User Group is forming on Yahoo:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sharpne...yguid=219196859 (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sharpnetwalker/?yguid=219196859)
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: speculatrix on February 03, 2010, 10:21:59 am
Quote from: XE1UFO
A new Netwalker User Group is forming on Yahoo:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sharpne...yguid=219196859 (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sharpnetwalker/?yguid=219196859)

I used to like yahoo groups but went off them when I discovered that spammers were easily harvesting peoples' email addresses, and one group I was one was disappeared by Y for some reason I forget and all the content was lost.
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: speculatrix on February 22, 2010, 09:19:13 am
no sign of any more discounting of the netwalker, and meanwhile the weakened GB£ had pushed the price up somewhat

OTOH, I'm quite interested in the Dell mini5/streak, or the fujitsu u820, but the latter is still very pricey 2nd hand (got one I'm watching on ebay uk so please don't prod it :-)
Title: Get Yer Netwalker Now - New Lower Conics Pricing
Post by: cpulster on April 12, 2010, 12:23:12 pm
Quote from: merlin1
/me has paid €499 which is $710, and was $753, when ordering from Pulster.de (great dealer, though) Love my Netwalker though.

Please consider imports from Japan to EU community countrys are charged with local VAT and customs taxes.
Add a 20% to the price for final total.

I am selling the Netwalker for 399 eur incl. all VAT/duties/taxes. Shipping 15 eur inside Europe.
You can add a free laserpen and display protection. All colors in stock, ready to ship.

Thanks,
Chris


www.pulster.de
SHARP Netwalker Shop