Motorola 710
The 710 has arrived here in Indiana. I have checked out the phone and it is sweet. Lots of features and 1.2 megapixel camera to boot. Bluetooth is the extra part for those people using bluetooth accessories and/or bluetooth capable products. (Hewlett Packard for instance) Tri-mode phone. On phonescoop it says not released but it has shown up in some stores so check your local retailers to see if they have received it if you were waiting on it to be available. 😎
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Great, hope it keeps up the good work for ya. I'm hearin the camera's not as good as the vx7000 though.
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disturbed1 said:
Great, hope it keeps up the good work for ya. I'm hearin the camera's not as good as the vx7000 though.
how is that? The 7000 isn't megapixel. The motorola is. I tried the camera out and it is nicer than the 7000. The 7000 is nice also, but I bet if you wanted to print the pictures out the 710 would be a clearer picture.
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hellifiknow! Just what I've heard so far...they're goin nuts in the v710 forum and that's a complaint I've heard. Doesn't make sense to me either.
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I'm actually a digital camera guru in addition to knowing a thing or two about cell phones, so let me interject. Camera phones are crap, period. At least for now, anyway. It hardly even matters which ones are megapixel cameras and which aren't, because the lenses are so small and cheap that you will never get a high quality image either way. Not to mention the fact that even with a regular digital camera with a good lens, a 1.3 megapixel image is barely printable. To be honest, if they put more effort into the optics of camera phones rather than concentrating only on the resolution, you might actually get decent prints. Once the two megapixel and higher camera phones start making it here, it will be a little better, but there is still ...
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I agree with this, one of the main reasons I have no desire for a camera phone and stick with my seperate 4 mega pixel dig cammera for the quick and dirty and my old Cannon 35mm film cammera when I want something really good (gift from my dad, things worth like $200-300)
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Hey I'm with ya on that, my 3.2 megapixel Kodak does a great job as far as I'm concerned. Wish it had an optical zoom instead of digital, but it does what I need it to. I could care less about a camera in a phone. the only reason I can think of using it is to replace the little plastic photo holder in my wallet that's tryin to fall apart. Pics of my girlfriend and whatnot. But sadly all the "high end" phones that I like and have bluetooth (mainly what I'm lookin for) have cameras.
Again, I'm glad you're happy with the 710, some morons are just too damn picky.
Again, I'm glad you're happy with the 710, some morons are just too damn picky.
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One of my co-workers friends of the female kind stole his cammera phone one evening...when he found it it had a choice of very.... "interesting" pictures left on it. Pictures that make a man's eyebrows raise. 😛
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Very nice!!! Oh if only my gf could do something like that....course if she did I'd lose touch with the world. all I've got is wireless, no need for landline service here.
Now the question IS begged...were they all hers, or did she quickly become an ex? 😛
Now the question IS begged...were they all hers, or did she quickly become an ex? 😛
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oooooo dont' think I'd have liked that one terribly much. The camera phone made her do it.... BAD CAMERA PHONE, BAD!!! 👿
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and almost everything with Bluetooth has a camera DAMNIT!!! Guess I'll have to take my chances 🤣
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disturbed1 said:
and almost everything with Bluetooth has a camera DAMNIT!!! Guess I'll have to take my chances 🤣
There is nothing wrong with having the Camera option on the phone guys. It's there to use when you need to take a quick pic when you aren't carrying your $200-$1000+ camera.
If you don't want to use the camera don't press the camera button or pick it in the menu options. Regardless if it's megapixel or not, the megapixel camera would be a better choice if you were to take a picture ever in your 22 month contract. Which most people do and have pics of their friends, a picture of the beach where they went on vacation, etc. on the display. Or attach a picture of the person you sto...
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All that's true, but my scholastic focus was medecine, and though it looks like I might be in wireless for a while I do want to go back to the OR eventually. There are privace laws in place called HIPAA (I'm sure you've heard of them) that are eventually, at least I think so, gonna get camera phones banned in hospitals around the world. I've got no problem with there being a camera on a phone (in fact I've been caught without one in several occasions where it might have been useful, like a day trip to the lake with my gf or family), but ya gotta admit it IS really hard to find a good high end phone without one these days. And most OR's are buried in the center of hospitals where low-end phones won't pick up worth a damn.
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WynneFox said:
thats the ticket! Camera phones are evil!
I talked to the Verizon store about this phone, and Houston, we have a problem(s). The ONLY way to get the pictures out of the phone is via the proprietary mini-SD card. You also have to buy a card reader and software for your PC. You can NOT use the bluetooth link to send the photos to your Bluetooth enabled PC. It doesn't work (part of the reason for having Bluetooth, right?). The Bluetooth will not work with ANY other devices except those from Verizon. You can send the photos to others, but guess what? There is a monthly fee (yes, from Verizon) for up to 20 photos; then you get charged per photo.
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SHHHH!!! the frog will hear you!!!! 🤣
Seriously though, that's been discussed, it's a VZW thing to encourage the use of GIN. It's called marketing, it sucks, but that's the way it is.
Seriously though, that's been discussed, it's a VZW thing to encourage the use of GIN. It's called marketing, it sucks, but that's the way it is.
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Yuppers! God forbid someone wants to make money off of a service they offer. 😈
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people pay money?.....in return for services?....what a concept!!! There must be some way I can use this to my advantage. 😈
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I had an idea, Sence these phones can transmit data from one to another... why not little messages of text. It would be something easy to charge for and tracked in usuage and can charge an inexpensive fee for it. I don't know what to call it though.
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Waynne Fox said:
I had an idea, Sence these phones can transmit data from one to another... why not little messages of text. It would be something easy to charge for and tracked in usuage and can charge an inexpensive fee for it. I don't know what to call it though.
How about highway robbery? Or "how to take advantage of blindfolded people."
I had an idea, Sence these phones can transmit data from one to another... why not little messages of text. It would be something easy to charge for and tracked in usuage and can charge an inexpensive fee for it. I don't know what to call it though.
How about highway robbery? Or "how to take advantage of blindfolded people."
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i don't think some people understand.... if they call it bluetooth, it should work like standard bluetooth. if it will only operate with certain VZW gear, then what's the point of having bluetooth anyway? if it really requires VZW accessories, it probably wont work in cars, or 3rd party headsets, computers (except some microsoft ones), PDAs? Laptops?
in addition to syncing data, it is nice to have BT to connect a PDA/Laptop to a phone as a modem.
honestly.... that sucks. maybe i have a lot of reason to complain because Verizon is in bed with microsoft, so us Mac and Linux users have no BT option to sync or transfer data/files. i heard the phone will sync with the new Apple sync beta software WITH A CABLE. as all Mac/Linux users know......
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in addition to syncing data, it is nice to have BT to connect a PDA/Laptop to a phone as a modem.
honestly.... that sucks. maybe i have a lot of reason to complain because Verizon is in bed with microsoft, so us Mac and Linux users have no BT option to sync or transfer data/files. i heard the phone will sync with the new Apple sync beta software WITH A CABLE. as all Mac/Linux users know......
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Actually, it doesn't need Verizon only accesories to work. It can still transmit to other BT capable accesories. The big blow up is that the "handsfree" "headset" and other such profiles are the only ones that are enabled. Some of the profiles that people want, but interferes with GIN functions have been disabled. Like transfering pictures to or gettin ringtones from your personal computer. They want you to use GIN to send pics and get new ringtones, this is one way that they make profit.
People seem to forget that carriers don't actually make a terrible amonut of profit thru your contracts. A lot of that money is used to make up the considerable loss that the company takes for underselling the handset units. Things like GIN and bi...
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People seem to forget that carriers don't actually make a terrible amonut of profit thru your contracts. A lot of that money is used to make up the considerable loss that the company takes for underselling the handset units. Things like GIN and bi...
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People seem to forget that carriers don't actually make a terrible amonut of profit thru your contracts. A lot of that money is used to make up the considerable loss that the company takes for underselling the handset units. Things like GIN and billing for text messages are common to all carriers and that's one BIG way they make profit. They work like the impulse buy counters in the supermarkets....
But Verizon making the MOST money and having the MOST customers surly would not seek to squeeze their lemmings for every single cent....would they?
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they all try to squeeze us for everything they can, this is just VZW's way of makin profit. You still have to pay $2.49 for that nifty ringtone with Cingular too buddy!
And like I said, I'm sure there are ways around your so-called "clipping".
we don't want ya to change the way you think, act, speak, work, live, or do business. WE JUST WANT YA TO SHUT THE F*CK UP!!!!
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And like I said, I'm sure there are ways around your so-called "clipping".
we don't want ya to change the way you think, act, speak, work, live, or do business. WE JUST WANT YA TO SHUT THE F*CK UP!!!!
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Verizon's way of making a profit by squeezing every red cent from ya lemmings?
WOW... and I thought Verizon was rolling in dough...oh yeah they are..and why class? Because they have lemmings who will PAY and PAY and PAY the big red momma. So maybe someday they will have a signal in the deep deep in the woods if they ever need it.
Oh and I downloaded all my ringtones from SonyEriccson..straight to my PC, then transfered them using the correct version of BT to my Phone.
The ringtones were free as well as the transfer. I don't buy cheezy silly ringsong. Let the kids pay for those. Im sure Cingular will not miss my $2.00.
BTW You paying $2.49 for your ringtones? OUCH. YIKES I almost forgot you are another Verizon lemming who wishe...
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WOW... and I thought Verizon was rolling in dough...oh yeah they are..and why class? Because they have lemmings who will PAY and PAY and PAY the big red momma. So maybe someday they will have a signal in the deep deep in the woods if they ever need it.
Oh and I downloaded all my ringtones from SonyEriccson..straight to my PC, then transfered them using the correct version of BT to my Phone.
The ringtones were free as well as the transfer. I don't buy cheezy silly ringsong. Let the kids pay for those. Im sure Cingular will not miss my $2.00.
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You know I rember the Lemmings Video game. that game was hard as heck trying to get thouse cute little green haired guys through the maze.
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We all get the point. You don't like Verizon. that's terrific. Get over it. I don't love them either, but I don't see how AT&T or Cingular makes a marked improvement. Could you use the word 'lemmings' just once more?
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Thats exactly right! You and millions of other cannot see through the red hypnotic haze.
Of course you can't see the MARKED differnce in price and paying for ALL your minutes, flexibility with phones and MAJOR manufactrer phone choices, REAL BT implimentation as it is suppose to be OBX and everything, Coverage where IT MATTERS MOST. 7PM nights, I could go on but you will not get it. Lemmings just do what everyone else does without asking, or knowing.
Of course you can't see the MARKED differnce in price and paying for ALL your minutes, flexibility with phones and MAJOR manufactrer phone choices, REAL BT implimentation as it is suppose to be OBX and everything, Coverage where IT MATTERS MOST. 7PM nights, I could go on but you will not get it. Lemmings just do what everyone else does without asking, or knowing.
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Actually, I don't use Verizon. Red hypnotic haze, eh? Wow. As aforementioned, I don't really care for them. However, I don't care for any of the GSM carriers around here either. They both have some serious flaws as far as I'm concerned, and both have serious pluses. Your inability to even acknowledge the positive side of anything that goes against your mantra (orange hypnotic haze, perhaps?) lessens your credibility.
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I wish I could find a positive side to Verizon but the reps and now with the whole BT fiasco. I cannot see how or why Verizon can retain it's lead in the market. I am assuming many assume the competition are splintered small coverage groups and thats why they price so cheaply..the addage you get what you pay does not apply in this caase
Cingular has come a long long way and is a HUGE bargain on all fronts compared to Verizon. Really!
I really don't see a positive side. wow. Their reps and fan-boys seem the most arrogant and nasty and the corproation seems extremily greedy all the while claiming we are the biggest and make the most money. Amazing...I guess the positive thing about Verizon is that they are going to HAVE to change as peo...
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Cingular has come a long long way and is a HUGE bargain on all fronts compared to Verizon. Really!
I really don't see a positive side. wow. Their reps and fan-boys seem the most arrogant and nasty and the corproation seems extremily greedy all the while claiming we are the biggest and make the most money. Amazing...I guess the positive thing about Verizon is that they are going to HAVE to change as peo...
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lemmings = Any of various small, thickset rodents, especially of the genus
genus = category ranking below a family and above a species and generally consisting of a group of species exhibiting similar characteristics. In taxonomic nomenclature the genus name is used, either alone or followed by a Latin adjective or epithet, to form the name of a species
A class of objects divided into subordinate species having certain common attributes.
A class, group, or kind with common attributes
wow seems like Froggy boy has found his own family!!!
🤣 😎 😉
genus = category ranking below a family and above a species and generally consisting of a group of species exhibiting similar characteristics. In taxonomic nomenclature the genus name is used, either alone or followed by a Latin adjective or epithet, to form the name of a species
A class of objects divided into subordinate species having certain common attributes.
A class, group, or kind with common attributes
wow seems like Froggy boy has found his own family!!!
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sweet...if you're implyin he's a lemming, perhaps he'll run off a cliff with the rest of them
call me crazy but I think his analogy would work better with sheep instead of lemmings. Sheep are cuter anyway...in my opinion. 😁
call me crazy but I think his analogy would work better with sheep instead of lemmings. Sheep are cuter anyway...in my opinion. 😁
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sheeps are all warm and fluffy, i would have to agree with you....I would have to admit sheep would work better, that are followers and brainless, hhhmmm sounds like someone we know...~~ grins SHEEPISHLY~~
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Sounds like a whole lotta 40 millions you may know and speak to every day! Nah ..Lemmings are better.
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VERY nice pun! I commend you! I swear I'm tired of hearing about lemmings, "clipped" Bluetooth, "corporate culture" whatever the hell that means, and how great Cingular is. I mean for God's sake Cingular will be payin my rent next month if the manager of the Greensboro store I applied at gets her way. Ya don't see me wavin the banner and using "FITS YOU BEST!!!" as a battle cry.
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ok and Mr. Prince Charmingless, have you decided to come and lay upon my sofa and get rid of all your inner concerns with the world belonging to VZW.....
~~decides honestly a man that wastes his time, sitting in front of his pc, conversing with VZW employee's seems to like something about it, even if it is tormenting us~~
~~decides honestly a man that wastes his time, sitting in front of his pc, conversing with VZW employee's seems to like something about it, even if it is tormenting us~~
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Hey...sadism's the new black! I don't suppose if someone's mentally unstable it's their own fault. But hey that couch sounds comfy...I could use a nap, do ya mind? 😉
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Come on over sweetness, and sit on my sofa anything, want a drink too, glass of wine, martini? 😉 😎
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I'm a margarita man myself....or perhaps a Guinness if you've got it. Been a damn good while since I've had a nice Guinness.
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looks within the magicial cabinet, " well well, lookie there," turns with the guiness within her hands and lifts it towards him " there ya go hunny, and with my compliments" 😉
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WOOHOO!!!! sweet nectar of the Irish gods!
Bring Guinness to a phone forum? BRILLIANT!!
Bring Guinness to a phone forum? BRILLIANT!!
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doesnt it make it just delightful, makes it takes wonderful with frog legs....
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mmmmm frog legs!!! You're makin me want seafood...I've been cravin some quality sushi for weeks.
ya know what I've always wanted to see someone eat? Crow! I think that'd be a nice spectacle. 🤣
ya know what I've always wanted to see someone eat? Crow! I think that'd be a nice spectacle. 🤣
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ooooo sushi i love sushi, and i have in the past watched a few people eat crow, it is so lovely, and enjoyable. 😉
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oh I bet it is....would that one could see it right here on phonescoop. Ah to see the day.
Now if I can just get my hands on some sushi and chopsticks.....mmmmmm...Spicy Tuna roll. 😁
Now if I can just get my hands on some sushi and chopsticks.....mmmmmm...Spicy Tuna roll. 😁
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Iyvonne said:
lemmings = Any of various small, thickset rodents, especially of the genus
genus = category ranking below a family and above a species and generally consisting of a group of species exhibiting similar characteristics. In taxonomic nomenclature the genus name is used, either alone or followed by a Latin adjective or epithet, to form the name of a species
A class of objects divided into subordinate species having certain common attributes.
A class, group, or kind with common attributes
wow seems like Froggy boy has found his own family!!!
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Guys please someone tell me they know who Lemmiwinx is. That was one of the funniest things i have ever seen. Mr. Slave.
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actually dumbass if you excersise your tiny little amphibian brain and read occasionally you'd know I'm on ALLTEL.
Ya know...I see his mouth moving, but all I hear is "ribbit.....ribbit" *shrugs shoulders* 😕
Ya know...I see his mouth moving, but all I hear is "ribbit.....ribbit" *shrugs shoulders* 😕
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ALLTel....OMG A Verizon training wheels, thats all. Same everything...Oh wait the V710 for Alltel has correct BT implimentation? ahhhhh..no.
Someday you will get off the farm team and into the Verizon Big League.
Ribbit....
Someday you will get off the farm team and into the Verizon Big League.
Ribbit....
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or, how about the carrier I chose in my last place of residence OVER verizon because they had better coverage.
DAMN!!! Go back to the pond.
DAMN!!! Go back to the pond.
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kingfrog77 said:
ALLTel....OMG A Verizon training wheels, thats all. Same everything...Oh wait the V710 for Alltel has correct BT implimentation? ahhhhh..no.
Someday you will get off the farm team and into the Verizon Big League.
Ribbit....
Who exactly do you think you are? What gives you the right to come in these forums and talk Sh*t to everyone who is trying to talk about there industry. What, are you in High School or something. How Cool do you really think you are, Hanging around a forum trying to make fun of people. What is your deal man?
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OOO OOO OOOOO!!!! I KNOW!!!! What if we set up a plan so that people with bad credit can still get a phone without a deposit. They could put a certain amount of money on thier account and we'll charge them set, low, prices for usage of our network. They'll think they're gettin it at a bargain when all the time they're just payin us more and more!
We can call it....ummmmm.....Prepaid Service!!! yeah that's it Prepaid Service. 😈
We can call it....ummmmm.....Prepaid Service!!! yeah that's it Prepaid Service. 😈
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Loud and clear I heard. But I already knew that and even expexted as much from the first Verizon BT offering. Who's surprised? Raise your hand? Ah just the Verizon lemmings, it seems.
Im guessing all the 'rigourous testing" was to ensure the phone actually worked after Verizon got their grimy hands on the software clippers!
With all those paying lemmings the reps brag about coming in boatloads for their piece of the Red pie, it's no wonder Verizon does such things.
most of their customers who would buy the BT phone do not even know the other Carrier's phones are not clipped to force the usage of their download services.
I would not think Verizon needs the money that bad with 1.5 million NEW pockets to pick!
Soon the lemmin...
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Im guessing all the 'rigourous testing" was to ensure the phone actually worked after Verizon got their grimy hands on the software clippers!
With all those paying lemmings the reps brag about coming in boatloads for their piece of the Red pie, it's no wonder Verizon does such things.
most of their customers who would buy the BT phone do not even know the other Carrier's phones are not clipped to force the usage of their download services.
I would not think Verizon needs the money that bad with 1.5 million NEW pockets to pick!
Soon the lemmin...
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Loud and clear I heard. But I already knew that and even expexted as much from the first Verizon BT offering. Who's surprised? Raise your hand? Ah just the Verizon lemmings, it seems.
Im guessing all the 'rigourous testing" was to ensure the phone actually worked after Verizon got their grimy hands on the software clippers!
With all those paying lemmings the reps brag about coming in boatloads for their piece of the Red pie, it's no wonder Verizon does such things.
most of their customers who would buy the BT phone do not even know the other Carrier's phones are not clipped to force the usage of their download services.
I would not think Verizon needs the money that bad with 1.5 million NEW
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T-Mobile does give out the lock code, and it's free. You just have to be 90 days into your contract.
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Please don't even try to equate 'locked" GSM phones to encrypted, hacked,I don't trust you lemming not to use our data, you can get only from us phones and PAY PAY PAY for everything.
Cingular will unlock the phone as well at EOC.There is a lawsuit pending for ATT to do the same. In any case its an easy thing to do on your own if one is inclined anyway.Unlike rehacking the BT to work like an OPEN SOURCE that it is! Its VBT not BT!
Cingular will unlock the phone as well at EOC.There is a lawsuit pending for ATT to do the same. In any case its an easy thing to do on your own if one is inclined anyway.Unlike rehacking the BT to work like an OPEN SOURCE that it is! Its VBT not BT!
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CINGULAR OR ATT WILL NOT UNLOCK PHONES. My EX acquired a better Siemens phone from Att ( she has cingular) They told her to kick rocks.
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mmmmm... rock candy. So if I eat blue raspberry rock candy, does that make me Bluetooth? Or Bluesnarf? 😛
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But Snarf was Red and Yellow!... but I guess if you want to be a Blue snarf your more then welcome to. I loved Thundercats.
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looks around at all the testosterone flying over her head~~ Seems to me that VZW commerical definately caused attention
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CINGULAR OR ATT WILL NOT UNLOCK PHONES. My EX acquired a better Siemens phone from Att ( she has cingular) They told her to kick rocks.
Evidentially Cingular sells them already unlocked
Common knowedge according to Disturbed1.
Ribit....
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Anyone ever notice that BreathSavers Wintergreen have a notice on it saying,"Not for weight control." Whats up with that?
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kingfrog77 said:Wow. Don't go getting all rabid on us there, Captain Rationalization.
Please don't even try to equate 'locked" GSM phones to encrypted, hacked,I don't trust you lemming not to use our data, you can get only from us phones and PAY PAY PAY for everything.
Cingular will unlock the phone as well at EOC.There is a lawsuit pending for ATT to do the same. In any case its an easy thing to do on your own if one is inclined anyway.Unlike rehacking the BT to work like an OPEN SOURCE that it is! Its VBT not BT!
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hey, this is the guy who didn't know his precious T637 was unlocked when he bought it. But I have a question...if a phone's ENTIRE operating system is so easy to unlock, why would it be so hard to unlock a couple of BT profiles?
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Just found out Cingular sells the SE T637 unlocked already. So I guess they are not really really scared Im gonna pop in a T Mobile Card....
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Hey...a common knowledge fact that he didn't know!!! Informed consumer?
Ribbit?
Ribbit?
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disturbed1 said:
Hey...a common knowledge fact that he didn't know!!! Informed consumer?
Ribbit?
and this explains why people are paying $70 a pop to unlock phones left and right 🙄
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I seriously doubt they're payin to unlock tri and quand band phones from Cingular. Which is what was being stated. They sell their "world phones" like the T637 and V600 already unlocked. That's pretty well known.
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Actually AWE is the only GSM carrier who will not offer unlock codes unter any circumstances. Cingular and T-Mobile do.
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Locking GSM phones is a fairly standard policy implemented by most wireless companies around the world. Most provide unlock codes after a certain period of time. In many countries, it is pretty cheap to get a phone unlocked by a third party.
This is a personal opinion but Verizon's meddling with the V710's BT is really cheeky considering that when a phone is offered with BT features, that involves some general standards and expectations. By charging premiums for some of these otherwise standard features, VZW is making money on something that should otherwise be free. Some may call this a marketing step, but really it's a dirty move. (like charging for bloody games)
This is a personal opinion but Verizon's meddling with the V710's BT is really cheeky considering that when a phone is offered with BT features, that involves some general standards and expectations. By charging premiums for some of these otherwise standard features, VZW is making money on something that should otherwise be free. Some may call this a marketing step, but really it's a dirty move. (like charging for bloody games)
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