User: SCTelephoneMan
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Charge $10 a month for people stuck in the 19th century
Frankly, it's time to leave behind people who haven't embraced the paperless revolution. Hop to it!
forced data plan = epic fail
so let me get this straight.
the phone is $250 after rebate + $10 a month extra for 2 years. for a crippled, locked down brew handset.
this phone costs more than the droid. more than any blackberry.
verizon is living in a fantasy land
Nobody wants content from the carriers
give it up, boys. you're selling a dumb pipe. the sooner you accept that, the sooner you stop wasting your money on crapola like Mobile TV, ESPN, etc.
Android 1.6, slow processor, small screen = PASS
it does have individual number keys. but this is a teenybopper droid
Sorry, if you want a $99 smartphone, you gotta pay
It all comes down to cheap/free equipment. the carriers cant justify selling them for a hundred bucks and getting nothing in return.
maybe there needs to be a "no data plan" price and a "data plan" price.
LOLOLOLOL "regular"phones have had these features for years
Where's the voice dialing?
the tethering?
seems APPLE/AT&T can't catch up with my 3 year old flip phone...LMAO APPLE!!!!
:D :D :o :o :o :o :paranoid: :paranoid: :paranoid: :paranoid: :paranoid:
As long as the telcos pay for the equipment.....
.....it will not have WiFi.
Think about it. The phone company is subsidizing the price of the phone big-time. Are they going to give you the ability to get free Internet and make free VOIP calls?
Of course not. Devices like this are heavily discounted so you'll get one and get a data plan, pay for voice calls and pay for International Roaming.
By the way, even though this is a CDMA device, It still works in 44 ...
Good: bad business decisions are punished
This is the beauty of American capitalism. There is nothing bad about Smart Tech going out of business. It's to be celebrated. Actions have consequences!
Re: It's the UT Starcom Treo!
At least the Boulder serves a purpose, like being water/dust/shock proof
It's the UT Starcom Treo!
What an uninspired, ugly piece of hardware. If this is the future of Palm, they're doomed.
Re: New style boulder
It is a million times better.
They will replace it with the new model if you are using the PTT service and are unhappy with the old model.
Re: new boulder software
You must have a dud. Even the older design with the M09 software wasn't *that* bad.
You should see about exchanging it for one of the newer, redesigned ones.
brand new boulder released
will phone scoop update their records and review it?
Re: Run software update...it fixes all the problems
You need the M09 version and you have to update in the store, too big for over the air
Good phone now great
People that bash the Boulder have no idea what they're talking about and haven't kept up with the updates. This is a waterproof, dust proof, shock proof Push To Talk phone. Now it has a LOUD speakerphone to go with it and is best-in-class and UNSTOPPABLE!!!!!
The G'zone isn't a dud anymore
The M09 update fixed all the problems. Your information is old. reception-wise, it's the best phone in the lineup
Nobody wants it
In this country at least, nobody wants Mobile TV and nobody is willing to pay for it.
Maybe if it was free.
cellcos need to give up on content.
a cell phone carrier is a commodity seller, a wireless ISP.
WE DON'T WANT SERVICES FROM A CELL PHONE COMPANY!!! JUST GIVE US THE CONNECTION!!!!
Another nail in the coffin of Sprint's Wimax fantasy
What is Sprint going to do? Make Wimax phones that also run on LTE? Their whole strategy, and company, is doomed.
It will happen and here's why
VZW will agree to include several "goodies" in the form of welfare for poor people and the libs on the FCC and at DOJ will call them important concessions.
see AT&T buying Bellsouth for examples
Run software update...it fixes all the problems
run software update, get version 07...it fixes all the problems. :)
The only thing more spectacular will be.....
.....their announcement in 2 years that they're switching to LTE.
It won't be long before Google and Intel abandon Sprint?Xohm/Clearwire/Whatever It Is This month and then Sprint will be left with their proprietary network protocol that is expensive to maintain that nobody is making equipment for
Perfect phone for evil brats who rip off their parents
Sorry Jimmy and Sally...here's your new phone. There is NO:
downloads
vcast music
get it now
ringtone store
Rhapsody
Parents should RUN to the store and give their kids the Knack, not Chocolates and Dares
Re: Sprint vs Verizon
Switch, you won't regret it. I travel frequently to all those areas, and Verizon is very good. You also get in-market roaming on Alltel in Myrtle Beach. Hilton Head is also very good.
I don't have much experience with it in NC, but port in...with the 30 day test drive, there's no risk
Kohl needs to leave free enterprise alone
Text messages cost what the market will bear. The government has no business stepping in here. People can choose to pay it, not pay it, block it, get a plan, whatever.
The government has no business setting prices for services.
It will get worse, and it will never get bettter
The American public is frighteningly dumb. And politicians and government schools aim to keep it that way.
Anybody that has worked in a call center will tell you people are ignorant beyond belief. They can't do simple math, take no responsibility for their actions and are in general...helpless babies.
The only way to fix the problem is to clean out the gene pool.
News flash: international roaming costs a fortune
People are realizing what some of us have known all along. You can't leave the country and expect to use your phone the same as you do at home. You cannot do it.
International roaming costs a fortune. Always has, always will.
another craptastic entry from UTsuckCom
This will go alongside their G'zone "Can you hear me now?" Boulder, the suckiest phone ever released in history
La Metro PCS Mexico Wireless
Pedro will now be able to hang a horribly lame phone on the side of his donkey while he enjoys unlimited calling, paid for with cash by the week LMAO
Not hating, simply predicting failure
WiMax will fail not on its merits...consumers frequently don't pick the best technology (See Windows and VHS, for example.) It will fail because everyone else is moving to a different standard. Can Sprint survive and do a good business with WiMax? Sure. But it is going to cost a lot of money, and last time I checked, they don't have much.
WiMax is the Sega Dreamcast of the wireless world
LTE is where it's at...the economies of scale and savings will doom any other "standard."
UMB and WiMax were DOA when AT&T and Verizon picked LTE. I guess Sprint wants another proprietary network to go along with their iDen disaster.
wah
it is the battle cry of the cheapskate: I want a PDA without the data plan
they should put an ETF on the Advanced Data Device Discount.
I mean really..who can't afford $29.99 a month for unlimited email and web data? If you can't squeeze thirty lousy bucks out of your budget, then get rid of your cell phones altogether. they're a luxury
Re: $149 a month to talk on the phone?????
I've seen teenagers that talk 5,000 minutes a month. unlimited is perfect for them.
look at the ARPU
data will never be included on secondary lines at $49 a pop. unless VZW or AT&T do it first.
But 5 lines under T-Mobile's play is $300 a month in revenue divided by 5 lines = $60 a month. Very high ARPU.
it's all about the total ticket with the carriers, not the sum of the parts.
Not far enough
end all phone subsidies tomorrow and no more contracts.
--but, if there are going to be contracts--
The ETF needs to be only the precise amount of the phone subsidy. so for instance, if you get a cheap phone, you might only have a $50 ETF. A PDA might be $200.
then, it needs to prorate over the course of 24 months, all the way to zero. so if your subsidy is $200, the ETF would go down by $8.33 ...
they raised it because they can
texting is a drug and people are addicted. pay per use is dumb, because:
you can block it for free
you can get a bundle for cheap
the reason carriers do this is to boost arpu. remember, it's all about the total ticket, not what any individual feature costs. wall street wants it, so get that arpu up!
it's all about the arpu, baby
wall street wants to see that monthly revenue up. which means vzw is going to do everything they can to force people to pay for a package.
also, as people have found out since the 96 telecom act, "bundling" does not equal cheaper
Re: WARNING: Boost horror story must read
Dispute all of the charges with your credit card company immediately
write the BBB in the town where Boost is based
write the CEO of Sprint/Nextel/Boost
do those things, and your $115.50 will be right back on your credit card
great way to test drive sprint
just swing into wally and buy a virgin mob
The key to this is the nationwide plans
now that they're charging for data by the MB, you can use any device you want!
it was always about the price plan, folks. interesting the media is missing this one
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