i thought my phone could not tell local time, so when i got to my new time zone i subtracted an hour to the time it displayed. imagine the wackiness that ensued when i was an hour late for my connecting flight!

Many (GSM) phones will try to set the time when you connect via GPRS (i.e. for WAP or Internet browsing).

Some phones, however, refuse to let you make a GPRS connection unless you set the date and time. *sigh*.

Whats even worse is nokia phones which need their date and tiem set every tiem you remove the battery. as you sadi it shouldnt be too hard to find a tiem source.

stone age US phones? Last time I read up on it CDMA was a significantly more advanced tech then GSM, hence the significantly better real world data transfer speeds. Only thing backwards about them is that they are not compatible with the rest of the world. Of course a CDMA/GSM hybrid is totally technically possible, if not for phone company stupidity.

When I returned to America after being in Europe recently, I learned about this ability to pick up the signal that American cell phones have. I thought it was a new thing. Vodafone does need to get their act together about these things.

My friend bought a cell phone that was supposed to be really high-tech. It had five games, screen savers, ect. Aslo, apparently it was supposed to work anywhere in the world. Well, anywhere in the world, as long as it's in my city. It didn't work in Syracuse, Cambridge, or Ottawa.