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Ed Hansberry
11-26-2003, 05:23 PM
My wife is anxious to switch her cell phone from T-Mob to Verizon due to coverage at her office. Can Verizon phones do SMS messages to external services, like T-Mobile?
Janak Parekh
11-26-2003, 05:31 PM
Yup. Works great. Slightly less reliable than intra-carrier, though; I'd guess 1 or 2 out of every 100 messages gets dropped.

--janak
Ed Hansberry
11-26-2003, 05:49 PM
Yup. Works great. Slightly less reliable than intra-carrier, though; I'd guess 1 or 2 out of every 100 messages gets dropped.
Thanks. If they had a BT model, I'd switch too. :cry:
Janak Parekh
11-26-2003, 05:52 PM
Thanks. If they had a BT model, I'd switch too. :cry:
I know exactly what you mean. Maybe you should try an i700... :lol:

--janak
Ed Hansberry
11-27-2003, 02:01 AM
Seems Verizon doesn't even have a CF card available for Pocket PCs. :?
Janak Parekh
11-27-2003, 02:46 AM
Seems Verizon doesn't even have a CF card available for Pocket PCs. :?
Correct. The AirCard 555 (PC card) does have Pocket PC support, but it's also only 2002 as far as I know. :|

--janak
that_kid
11-27-2003, 02:52 AM
I wish sprint had the I700, or any other phone that I could really use with my pocketpc. I'm in the process of trying out t-mobile now. It's a tuff decision cause I have a sprint cf card which works great but i'm getting tired of carring that sleeve with me. I picked up the T610 and so far I think it's great, speed isn't as fast as sprint but it does have bluetooth :D
nice_micael
11-27-2003, 08:56 PM
Well i use the t610 with comviq and it's such a great phone for me...
ntractv
11-28-2003, 06:17 PM
Thanks. If they had a BT model, I'd switch too. :cry:
I know exactly what you mean. Maybe you should try an i700... :lol:

--janak

Anyone know why Verizon is holding out on BT phones? I talked to a sales rep here in DC and he said VZ has no interests in BT because it is too unreliable.
Ed Hansberry
11-28-2003, 06:25 PM
Anyone know why Verizon is holding out on BT phones? I talked to a sales rep here in DC and he said VZ has no interests in BT because it is too unreliable.
No kidding. :?
Janak Parekh
11-28-2003, 08:27 PM
Anyone know why Verizon is holding out on BT phones? I talked to a sales rep here in DC and he said VZ has no interests in BT because it is too unreliable.
I don't buy that, unlike Ed. ;) From what I've heard, it's because VZW (and Sprint) are afraid that people will use cheap 1xRTT "phone" plans to support their laptops and PDAs, and they don't have a pricing structure in place to support BT operation. No, this doesn't make any sense to me. :|

--janak