My World Goes Dark Without GPRS

[Jason Dunn]

For the past 26 hours or so, I haven't had GPRS access on my phone, and I'm surprised at how much it's affecting me. After waiting on hold for 47 minutes with Fido (http://www.fido.ca), I spoke to a woman who told me GPRS was "out" and they were "working on it". 8O She couldn't tell me any more, so I dutifully hung up and now I'm still waiting for it to work. Ever since moving to a hosted Exchange (http://www.4smartphone.net/affiliates.aspx?go=referal&ref=JD10726) solution, I haven't synchronized my phone with my desktop. I rountinely punch appointments into Outlook and know that within a few minutes it will all be put on my phone - until today. The disconnect between my devices is surprisingly troublesome and frustrating - I suddenly feel like I can't have a productive day. As slow as GPRS is, having a Smartphone without it suddenly makes it much less useful to me. :?

[rzanology]

good thing you didnt have edge....you would have already been jumping off the roof.

[Jason Dunn]

good thing you didnt have edge....you would have already been jumping off the roof.

Hey, don't taunt me. :lol:

[mbranscum]

I really love my smartphone but keep going back to the Nokia 6230 because of class 10 edge! Why isn't there a spartphone out there with edge????!!!!

[Mike Temporale]

I spoke to a woman who told me GPRS was "out" and they were "working on it". 8O She couldn't tell me any more, so I dutifully hung up and now I'm still waiting for it to work.

Must be something in your neck of the woods. :wink: It works fine out here. I haven't had any outages in a while. And when they do crop up, it's usually only for a couple hours - max.

[Jerry Raia]

We never have these problems down here in the states. Must be a canuck thing. :mrgreen:

[gcherian]

Jason,

Why don't you connect and sync with exchange server with your desktop pass through connection. I do it all the time, even though it is not real time, atleast you get the satisfaction of seeing the mails and calendar events syncronized. It then feels like some thing better than what you are feeling now.

George

[Jason Dunn]

Why don't you connect and sync with exchange server with your desktop pass through connection.

Yeah, I ended up doing it after I dug up the right cable - it's been so long since I've had to do that. But at least now I'm up to date...until I make another change. Fido GPRS is STILL out. <sigh>

[Jason Dunn]

Discussion of 4smartphone moved to this thread (http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8729). Please continue the discussion there. ;-)