User: Argonnj
These are the most recent forum messages posted by Argonnj:
Re: Everything looks the same..
Its like the Brady Bunch movie where everything building Mr Brady designs look just like his own house.
Time to try something new Moto.
Re: Good For Iphone
Wireless Buddy said:
Let's hope we get Microsoft Office. :)
Yeah, that's just what I want to do. Take a great device, with a great interface and ruin it with M$ bloatware. If you want Office, best stick to WM.
Re: For use in the US too
wombough said:
That is a change from the other Quad band phones that have come out in the past. This is nice. So does that say they have roaming agreements with ATT or Tmobile or both?
Neither. Like the BB 8830 World Phone the GSM radio is using the European frequencies, so it won't work here.
Re: Recovery
I got news for you. You won't see a Linux based Palm until 2009. And this is straight from Palm themselves. Palm is done, time to move on.
Re: What phones?
WCDMA is a GSM technology, so I assume it will effect ATT and T Mobile phones that would use this technology.
Don't count on manufactures using it
Supposed "water damage" is how carriers get out of fixing or replacing your phone that you have been paying insurance on. Do you really think they want to eliminate their best out.
Another youth oriented MVNO bites the dust
Shocker.
Re: VZW and ATT don't need Google
Because they won't remain #1 if someone else comes out with something better. How many companies throughout history have been knocked off the block by companies with new, innovative products or services.
Palm comes to mind. They were at the top of their game in the smartphone market, but instead of innovating, they sat on their design (hey we're #1, why change) and now they are on the verge of going out of business.
No suprise
That Verizon and ATT were not included. ATT has the iphone and Verizon is too much of a control freak company to allow the Google business model. Good news for Sprint and T Mobile though.
Re: PDA Phone without Required Email
fascination_street said:
The reason that carriers push the data package so hard is because PDA phones are constantly submitting and receiving information
Uh, no they don't. If you have a Treo and don't set up either email or use the Internet, then the phone will never connect to the data network. The Treo even warns you if some app is trying to connect to the data network. The only thing that will communicate is the phone.
Re: down with Microsoft
Yup :lol: :lol: :lol:
Re: In other news. . .
Omagus said:
Seriously. This is terrible news for Palm. I don't know if it can afford to wait a year.
Neither can anyone else. Many will have moved on to other, more modern platforms while Palm flounders in ruins.
This phone is coming to both Verizon and Sprint
I don't know why phone scoop is claiming no carrier has been announced.
Re: Complete waste of time! Now i'm X treo user 600,650,700 - HTC
If this had shipped with a new OS, then no, it wouldn't have been a waste of time. But as is, its just a 755p in a new case.
Mediocre
Just what one would expect from the combination of Motorola and Win Mobile. Poor signal strength and sluggish performance. Tell my why I would want this phone again.
Re: Out of curiousity...
Omagus said:
...does NTP actually do anything? Or do they just go around suing other companies?
Nope, nor to they even invent or produce anything, they are simply a holding company that makes money exploiting the US patent system.
Great Idea
I would love to see Apple and Google run with the 700meg spectrum. I think most users are sick and tired of the crap the big 4 cell carriers dole out to its customers.
Yawn
does anyone really care about this.
Re: So What -
tkvzw said:
actually, roaming was negotiatied only if they wanted too. this makes it mandatory that carriers have to allow roaming. sweet for my area with US Cell and VZW now have to play nice with each other.
just wonder how that's going to work with CDMA and GSM.
Uh, its not. Two seperate technologies. You need a GSM phone to work with a GSM network and likewise with CDMA. Nothing to do with roaming agreements.
Start with the Q
Dump Crappy Win Mobile and put out something stable and innovative in the Q form factor. At least a dozen companies make smart phones running Win Mobile and for the most part, they are all the same.
Re: VZW getting the BLackberry Curve
chocolateman85006 said:
Argonnj said:
ISellFones said:
To the best of my knowledge the Curve model is GSM only and will stay that way. The 8830 that is offered by VZW is basically a Curve, sans camera.
Wrong. While you are right that the Curve is GSM, you are wrong on everything else. Unless you know something that everyone else doesn't, BBs first come out as GSM then CDMA 6 mos to a year later. So it will not "stay that ...
That's what happens
When you have one big hit, the RAZR and you try and make all you phones look like that phone. I can't tell the difference between the myriad of RAZR look a like phone in the Moto line, except for the fact that they are all crap.
Will probably be crippled by Verizon
When it eventually get released for Verizon, I hope their customers aren't getting too excited because Verizon will either disable it completely or just disable it for phone calls. Verizon BB 8830 users are learning that Verizon has disable the GPS feature in that unit that the 8800 for ATT and 8830 for Sprint both have.
Re: Are there any new Nextel IDEN phones coming out? NOT CDMA/IDEN!! But Just IDEN.
Your living in the past man! You will never see another iden only phone, so don't cry about it. iden is a dead technology, so why would Sprint or Motorola continue to develop new iden only phones.
Re: Sprint Axing Customers
Sounds more like Sprint is trying to clean house of all its deadbeat customers. I have had Sprint for years and only had to call CS once. Business doesn't like complainers and I would imagine those being axed probably complained a lot. Let me guess some of the complaints, late charges?, water damaged phones that Sprint wouldn't cover? I think I should get everything for free? I could go on. Can't blame ...
Thanks Folio
I'm sure the development of this useless product sapped resources away from the Linux Palm OS. Good job Palm. I guess this confirms that the Gandolf, due to be released later this year, will be more of the same that we have come to expect from Palm. Little to no improvements with a high price tag. :evil:
Re: VZW getting the BLackberry Curve
ISellFones said:
To the best of my knowledge the Curve model is GSM only and will stay that way. The 8830 that is offered by VZW is basically a Curve, sans camera.
Wrong. While you are right that the Curve is GSM, you are wrong on everything else. Unless you know something that everyone else doesn't, BBs first come out as GSM then CDMA 6 mos to a year later. So it will not "stay that way". ...
Re: 8830 on Sprint will be SIM LOCKED!
You can't go by CS. They have been telling some that you have to get the $70 international BB data plan to use this phone when it is not the case unless you use the phone overseas.
Re: No MMS
Who cares, Sprint charges more for that anyway. Just send your picture through the email client on the phone instead. I don't why people make such a big deal over MMS.
Re: iphone and verizon?
Noeme said:
I don't find it that sad because they only take the phones that have the fewest problems, and have some of the best insurance policies for their phones.
Also keep in mind that it doesn't do you any good to have a cool phone if it doesn't give you service.
WRONG. The don't offer many phones, because many are GSM only, or come out as GSM first (Blackberry, for instance). CDMA has fewer device providers (Motorola, Samsung and ...
Re: iphone and verizon?
jichelle said:
I was wondering if anyone knows if or when the iphone is coming to verizon? Also is verizon ever going to get a blackberry curve?
Probably never. Verizon was offered the iphone first, but Verizon being Verizon wanted too much control over the device, UI, everything, something that Apple would not concede. Now the iphone will be exclusive to ATT for 5 years at least. Verizon dropped the ball as will pay for it in ...
Re: Qualcomm Ban
mobile_trojan said:
if you have not personally seen one, its not coming. and maybe even if you have.
this is a HUGE deal. if this ban is not lifted, all CDMA carriers are screwed.
Don't count of this lasting long. Verizon's well paid goon squad will end it somehow.
Re: new sprint palm?
More crap from a dying company. Still running Garnet, how is this phone any different from the 700p, 755p or any other Palm. Answer, this is none. Someone please put this company out of its misery.
Re: blackberry
poweredup said:
did anyone hear of a blackberry that verizon has that is coming to sprint? a customer went into our other store and told the manager that we would be getting a new blackberry world phone but unlike verizons it would be "unlocked". dont know what that means being that is a gsm term, wouldnt all world phones be unlocked so that you can put whatever european sim card in it?
Yes Sprint's 8830 BB is coming out in July. ...
Re: new blackberries for verizon?
Ghosthendrikson said:
Do yourself a favor, get a crackberry as a secondary line and get a standard phone for your primary.
You will enjoy having the full features of a multimedia oriented phone to talk/text on, and use the Crackberry for Email/Web/Tether
No thanks, I don't have an extra $140 laying around just for mobile communications. Maybe I should carry a pager too.
End of line for Palm
How big of a flop will this product be. Just another bonehead move from a company that is stuck in the past.
Nothing more then an oversized email reader without any connectivity of its own. Sounds like something M$ would come out with.
Re: Treo 700p VS. Treo 755
Athanatoi said:
It has more software built into it, and it is smaller and lighter.
For some, the form factor is enough to favor the 755p.
Is it worth $379.99?
Probably not.
Size-wise it is almost identical. Most wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Not worth the upgrade,
Re: Don't get too excited
Exactly why Verizon and others will restrict it. If you can get free wifi, why would you pay Verizon $50 a month to use theirs.
Re: Is Sprint really this strict with Roaming?
This why you should choose a carrier that has coverage where you need it. Too many pick carries based on fancy phone, rather then on coverage.
And no, I don't think this policy is out of line, roaming costs money and is treated as a part time convenience for the customer, not a full time extension of the network for the customer who didn't do his homework.
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