The RAZR with the .02 firmware has almost a full Bluetooth stack. The new Broadband Connect allows BT DUN at awesome speeds, well worth the extra $60.00 per month to tether.

I find it amazing that Verizon has crippled the BT on the latest firmware, version .03. I would cancel the service if it wasn't for Bluetooth DUN.

I still have yet to use bluetooth for anything. Guess I am behind the times ;) Bluetooth is the LAST thing i look for in a phone.. a Signal and the ability to make and hold a call is tops with me...

But then again I am not a "business" type person who needs all of that stuff.

bluetooth isn't just for business to transfer ones address book. if your phone has a camara, you have 4 options to access these photos:
1) leave them on the phone. when you get a replacement phone or your phone dies, the pictures are NOT transfered by verizon

2) send the pics for $0.25/image assinging you don't have a prepayd txt/pics option

3) use a data cable. not always fully supposted. needs some tech knowledge on how to use it. not all phones are supported by bitpim

4) use bluetooth to transfer the files to your pc. free and as long as you have bluetooth on your pc/mac then you are set.

option 4 has nothing to do with business. before someone sais that you should only take important pics with a real camera, i usualy h...
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I use Pix Place. I have more than enough minutes and pix messages.

Works just fine for me 🙂

Verizon will force every feature on the phone to the subscriber network, if they possibly can.

Look at the track record:

Bluetooth crippling - Files are forced over the network.
Wi-Fi - Forget it, especially if your phone does not require a data plan.
Music - Pay Verizon now, even if you already own the music.
GPS - You don't need the carrier network for that.
Ringtones - Must come from Verizon now, either buy a ringtone, or pay to attach it to a nessage.
Pictures - You can't get the pictures off the phone without using PIX Place, unless you have an expansion card.
Alarm clock - The new Verizon UI won't have it. Look for a fifty cent "Get Up Now" wakeup service.

the zombie post has risen from the Phone Scoop grave!! 🤣 😈

Wireless Buddy said:
the zombie post has risen from the Phone Scoop grave!!

Yeah, we are all zombies in here. Actually, I thought I was responding to a PIX Place post. Same idea, though.

Oh well, the elections will advance the Consumers Union Bill, even though I am not a Democrat, it will be a good thing.

http://www.canyouhearusnow.net/Wireless%20Telecommun ... »

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More government regulation!

More decisions made by a small few rather than the free market!

More socialism!

You won't make a free makrket decision to suit your needs so you want the government to change a company than suites tens of millions to fit your needs.

Long live Joseph Stalin!

And you bumped this thread because?

texaswireless said:
And you bumped this thread because?

Texas, I was searching for PIX Place, by relevance, so that a new thread would not be needed. This thread was the only one this year that was returned on the first page.

I was trying to find out if subscribers with a data plan still get charged for sending a picture attached to a messsage. I figured by now, since we have unlimited data plans available, there would be no extra charge.

Unfortunately, although you can now send huge files with data plans, you can still get charged for a tiny 12K picture message.

Makes sense?

Well, if you have a PDA and unlimited data or a device with the VCAST v-pak feature, it shouldn't cost you anything but the standard pix message rate if you don't have a pix messaging plan. But you won't be charged for airtime or data for sending the picture message. Conversely, if have a pay as you go data feature or if you DON'T have the VCAST v-pak on a regular device, it will cost data or airtime respectively.

Are you concerned about the messaging charges?

majorxero said:
Well, if you have a PDA and unlimited data or a device with the VCAST v-pak feature, it shouldn't cost you anything but the standard pix message rate if you don't have a pix messaging plan. But you won't be charged for airtime or data for sending the picture message. Are you concerned about the messaging charges?

Yes, or curious at least.

Are you saying that you can send a whole photo album via the unlimited data plan for no additional charge, but you will still get charged individually for a 12K picture if sent as part of a "message"?

What would the charge be if you sent two pictures to 20 contacts using the RAZR multi-send messaging interface?

wnrussell said:
Are you saying that you can send a whole photo album via the unlimited data plan for no additional charge, but you will still get charged individually for a 12K picture if sent as part of a "message"?

If you're sending them via the MMS protocol, then that is correct. You will be charged for every individual picture message sent unless you send them as email attachments which is just considered data. As far as I understand it, that's how all the carriers do it, though I may be wrong.

wnrussell said:
What would the charge be if you sent two pictures to 20 contacts using the RAZR multi-send messaging interface?

Well, to clarify, the RAZR will actually o...
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I don't believe you understand the question or I don't. The charge for airtime would only be the time it takes to upload the pic to verizon regardless of how many people you send it to at a time. It doesn't upload them individually. It uploads it once and sends it out from their server. No if you pay per message then yes you would be charged for how many you send it to.

Not all carriers use mms for their pictures. Sprint, for example, uses its own messaging system called Picture Mail, which is pretty much like a front-end to an e-mail service, allowing you to send, receive, and share pictures; upload them into online albums and create picture mail groups. The service is not billed per message, it only counts as data usage, you can opt to a $5 monthly service and pay $0.03/KB, or sign up for an UNLIMITED Vision Plan ($15.00 a month) and use it as much as you want.

I understood his initial question and had responded to it. Here is my reply to that question:

https://www.phonescoop.com/carriers/forum.php?fm=m&f ... »

He had other questions that came up from my reply and I answered them in my last post.

I think. Now I'm confused.

handsfree talking. sending and recieving a contact over the air instead of manually entering it. sending and recieving ringers via bluetooth. and various other things.

once you try it or overcome your fears of learning new technology you'll know exactly where most of us are coming from.

I refuse to be one of those weirdos that walk around with a headset attached to my face.
I still laugh at people when i see them talkin to themselves, running into walls and other people. That is something I will never do.

Dont really care about ringtones really. I just use the MP3 player on the phone.

I guess what I am saying is that to me it is foremost a phone. Until there comes a time when the only way to access the internet, send mail, talk, pop popcorn, start my car can only be done thru a handheld device.. then I am fine just the way I am 🙂

If you just want a basic phone this thread is not for you. This thread is for people that have been bitter towards VZW for disabling features that are on rival networks' phones.

I really don't care what you use your phone for... But since you brought up call quality and reception... The Nokia is excellent.

adilus said:
If you just want a basic phone this thread is not for you. This thread is for people that have been bitter towards VZW for disabling features that are on rival networks' phones.

I really don't care what you use your phone for... But since you brought up call quality and reception... The Nokia is excellent.

This thread is for anyone who has questions, answers or any information at all regarding Verizon Wireless!

Exactly!! 🙂

Really, I think I would know what the thread is about considering I'm the one that started it...

"I don't have tourettes, your just a c_nt"

Yes we know, you say that everytime you make a post a long with everyone else that doesn't use BT, others actually use it though.

Humiliated 🤭