Motorola V710

whoa whoa whoa calm down, i didnt understand ur question i guess, of course u can transfer them through cable or through bluetooth, easiest with mobile phone tools.
if u set up ur bluetooth reader on ur comp to read the fone it will have 3 folders in the bluetooth location (i think bluetooth places) and one of them will say pictures (others: audio, video)
sorry to mess u up there

scheming said:
whoa whoa whoa calm down, i didnt understand ur question i guess, of course u can transfer them through cable or through bluetooth, easiest with mobile phone tools.
if u set up ur bluetooth reader on ur comp to read the fone it will have 3 folders in the bluetooth location (i think bluetooth places) and one of them will say pictures (others: audio, video)

This is actually incorrect. one problem with the v710 is that vzw is money hungry.
the v710 does not support file transfer thru bluetooth. that means you cant transfer via bluetooth any pics, tones, or apps.(which is the easiest, and 99% of other bluetooth phones CAN do) not sure about the cable transfer but def not thru bluetooth. this and the fact

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goodguy said:
This is actually incorrect. one problem with the v710 is that vzw is money hungry.
the v710 does not support file transfer thru bluetooth. that means you cant transfer via bluetooth any pics, tones, or apps.(which is the easiest, and 99% of other bluetooth phones CAN do) not sure about the cable transfer but def not thru bluetooth. this and the fact that i have little confidence in motorola are the reasons i will wait till the next CDMA phone with bluetooth comes out. although i may be waiting awhile!

It pisses me off too, but think about it...

The only reason why you have a phone that does anything *but* voice communications is because VZW makes their money on airtime.

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its good to finally hear from somebody with a good sense of vzws greed...

vzw doesn't care about what their customers think as long as they keep paying their bill!!!

and unfortunatly, many of us will just keep paying and waiting for the day when they get something we can say we got first!!

the only good thing about vzw's greed is finding ways around it!!! 😁

goodguy said:
vzw doesn't care about what their customers think as long as they keep paying their bill!!!

Find me a provider that does. That animal does not exist.

Mike

wirehead said:
On the other hand, there's always hope. If the strategy doesn't work out so well, we could be seeing a v710 successor that's almost exactly like the v710, except that OBEX and file transfer and such have been added back in.

(I've asked this before, with no replies)

Are these functionalities that could be added to a 710 later? Say with a software update?

npitlor said:
Are these functionalities that could be added to a 710 later? Say with a software update?

Hard to say.

Those features are just code, there's nothing actually hardware about it.

If they *just* removed the code and there's room on the internal flash rom for it, they *can* do a software upgrade. If they also shrunk the internal flash rom, they may not have room for them anymore, or it will take away from photo storage space, which itself has already been cut back.

On a procedural basis, they may release a new phone with exactly the same circuit board, just slightly different flash programming. Think T720 vs. T730.

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wirehead said:

npitlor said:
Are these functionalities that could be added to a 710 later? Say with a software update?

Hard to say.

Those features are just code, there's nothing actually hardware about it.

If they *just* removed the code and there's room on the internal flash rom for it, they *can* do a software upgrade. If they also shrunk the internal flash rom, they may not have room for them anymore, or it will take away from photo storage space, which itself has already been cut back.

On a procedural basis, they may release a new phone with exactly the same circuit board, just slightly different flash programming. Think T720 vs. T730.

Alternatively, they could just w

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npitlor said:
That's what I thought... Hopefully, if this phone becomes a standard (not likely, with all the new phones coming out all the time), someone with more brains than I have (not too hard to find 🙄 ) will come out with a way to change the programming to allow those functions 😉 . I know I'd give up some internal memory for it.

It depends on how many security locking bugs there are and whatnot. I mean, with enough smart folks, anything's possible -- think of things like GAGIN, DeCSS, AirSnort, etc. Once you have the ability to easily download executable code onto the phone, anything's possible, it's just that it's nice if you can just distribute a piece of software instead of requiring...
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Nobody is sure about that. But the decision is likely to be Verizon's, and we know how they've decided in the past.

It may be that they'll "plug the hole" that lets you get media off via the sync cable, but that you'll still be able to remove the flash media and put it into a reader to get at it. None of us really knows yet.