Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me a 3.6Mbps mobile e-mail device running on Australia’s Telstra network.
That’s what’s coming to the Land Down Under, according to ZDNet Australia. Not a whole lot of other details except that it might have built-in GPS and Wi-Fi and should be available early next year.
The Telstra network offers what it calls “Next G” — basically a 3G network capable of 14.4Mbps download speeds. The Telstra BlackBerry will cap out at 3.6Mbps, though. Still should be plenty speedy.
RIM working on Next G BlackBerry [ZDNet Australia]
what’s a “combie”?
Apparently it’s some sort of old Volkswagen van. They’re often referred to as “combi”, “combie”, or “kombi”. Wikipedia quotes the Men at Work song as “kombi” but the lyrics I checked (an exhaustive search indeed) spelled it “combie” on two different sites.
Here’s the Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Type_2
oh, i know what a Kombi is. we had one when i was a kid.