Tired of Waiting for Bluetooth Phones

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:44:26 GMT, Hagbard Celine <hceline@twmi.rr.com> wrote:

>If you can't wait, switch to a company that makes them, or write
>Verizon. Whining is pointless.

Oh ye of low reading comprehension...

--
Proud to be a wreckless driver!

 

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:55:17 GMT, "Paul Cote" <paulcote@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

>I have never heard of that happening, with the refusal to activate.

Happens all the time - USENET is full of the horror stories.

It even happened to me once, when I purchased a "new" phone from Circuit Shitty,
took it home, opened the box, and saw that the LCD protector was removed and the
phone had phone numbers already programmed into the phone book. When I called to
try to activate it, SprintPCS (my carrier at the time) refused because the
previous owner had skipped out on paying his bill. Fortunately, I could take the
phone back to Circuit Shitty for a refund - something that won't be possible
with an eBay sale.

--
Proud to be a wreckless driver!

 

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 01:20:51 -0400, "John" <jrwilley@voicenet.com> wrote:

>I, too, picked up a new Acura TL yesterday

Congrats!

>and am pretty annoyed that I
>can't use what I consider to be a very excellent feature on the car-- which
>of course is the built in bluetooth.

And as time goes on, this feature will appear on more and more cars. I remember
when the Acura TL was one of the first cars to come with a factory navigation
system; now look at how many cars have the feature, and that's a $2000 option!
Something cheap like adding a bluetooth chipset to the car stereo will spread
even more quickly, especially when the aftermarket stereos begin to include the
feature.

Wake up, you Verizon luddites!

>I'm even willing to try Cingular. Had AT&T, and T-Mobile-- lousy coverage
>and drops here in the south jersey area.

AT&T has a bad rep, but my friend has been using AT&T for years, and has no
complaints. I see him taking calls all the time and don't see his conversations
terminate abruptly due to call drops. <shrug> I guess he's just lucky?

--
Proud to be a wreckless driver!

 

Scott in Aztlan wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:44:26 GMT, Hagbard Celine <hceline@twmi.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>>If you can't wait, switch to a company that makes them, or write
>>Verizon. Whining is pointless.
>
>
> Oh ye of low reading comprehension...
>

Eat shit, whining fucktard.

 

Scott in Aztlan <slothkills@THEyahooOBVIOUS.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 01:20:51 -0400, "John" <jrwilley@voicenet.com> wrote:
>>I'm even willing to try Cingular. Had AT&T, and T-Mobile-- lousy coverage
>>and drops here in the south jersey area.
>
>AT&T has a bad rep, but my friend has been using AT&T for years, and has no
>complaints. I see him taking calls all the time and don't see his conversations
>terminate abruptly due to call drops. <shrug> I guess he's just lucky?

Coverage depends on location (and sometimes choice of phone), not
luck.

--
Marcio Watanabe

 

....you can activate online if you have to.

"Scott in Aztlan" <slothkills@THEyahooOBVIOUS.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:55:17 GMT, "Paul Cote" <paulcote@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> >I have never heard of that happening, with the refusal to activate.
>
> Happens all the time - USENET is full of the horror stories.
>
> It even happened to me once, when I purchased a "new" phone from Circuit
Shitty,
> took it home, opened the box, and saw that the LCD protector was removed
and the
> phone had phone numbers already programmed into the phone book. When I
called to
> try to activate it, SprintPCS (my carrier at the time) refused because the
> previous owner had skipped out on paying his bill. Fortunately, I could
take the
> phone back to Circuit Shitty for a refund - something that won't be
possible
> with an eBay sale.
>
> --
> Proud to be a wreckless driver!

 

In article <niMkb.7736$pT1.7034@twister.nyc.rr.com>,
"Paul Cote" <paulcote@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

> ...you can activate online if you have to.
>
> "Scott in Aztlan" <slothkills@THEyahooOBVIOUS.com> wrote in message
> news:dr95pv0fjvj9qf4rvkbbn1v8ko8fi1q1dg@4ax.com...
> > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:55:17 GMT, "Paul Cote" <paulcote@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > >I have never heard of that happening, with the refusal to activate.
> >
> > Happens all the time - USENET is full of the horror stories.
> >
> > It even happened to me once, when I purchased a "new" phone from Circuit
> Shitty,
> > took it home, opened the box, and saw that the LCD protector was removed
> and the
> > phone had phone numbers already programmed into the phone book. When I
> called to
> > try to activate it, SprintPCS (my carrier at the time) refused because the
> > previous owner had skipped out on paying his bill. Fortunately, I could
> take the
> > phone back to Circuit Shitty for a refund - something that won't be
> possible
> > with an eBay sale.
> >
> > --
> > Proud to be a wreckless driver!

They have a couple of big Shrink wrap machines in every store, trying to
make returned defective stuff look like new.

 

Hey Folks,

I love my bluetooth toys. I am using my palm tungsten t with a
sony/ericson phone and a jabra blue tooth headphone. I can look up
numbers on my palm, hit the jog dial switch, and take the call on my
headset while the phone itself stays in my briefcase above my head in
the overhead carry of the train.

I can check email on my palm and even do some web surfing even while a
good bit slower than I am accustomed to at home with broadband.

Bluetooth is very compelling and when it works, it is simply great.

Now for the bad news... I was a very happy verizon customer but
finally just got SOOOO PISSED OFF that they were not going with the
technology. Finally, I dumped the V and went with ATT. Guess what...
after a year of pulling my hair out with spotty coverage and too many
dropped calls to count, I am going back to Verizon the day after the
phone number portability becomes mandatory (some time towards end of
Nov - 24 or 25 (?).

I have really given a good amount of thought to the "pleasure" and
convenience of bluetooth compared to the aggravation of frustration of
trying to conduct business on the AT&T network and have concluded that
its just not worth it.

Dont get me wrong. Every few weeks, I will call verizon and ask for
bluetooth. I will not get rid of my bluetooth stuff but will just hope
that the V gets on the ball soon. Either way, at the end of the day,
I need to be able to talk on the darn phone and at least in my area
(NY/NJ) - Verizon is tops for signal quality and coverage.


Good luck all.

gil

 

"Thomas M. Goethe" <xspamgoethe11xxxxxx@lycos.com> wrote in message
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>Cables are a REAL pain. They get tangled and they quit
> working when you are on deadline. > Thomas M. Goethe
>
As opposed to bluetooth - it always works and never fails! NOT! You sound
like someone with limited experience. After two years trying to keep 30
sales staff equipped with wireless access between PPCs and their phones,
most of them went back to their ancient, inefficient, all tangly, unusable
cables. I guess they just didn't understand the utter convenience of
Bluetooth (or maybe they had work they needed to get done).

Palmer

 

"Palmer" <palmer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Thomas M. Goethe" <xspamgoethe11xxxxxx@lycos.com> wrote in message
> news:bmp0gf$par17$1@ID-192964.news.uni-berlin.de...
> >Cables are a REAL pain. They get tangled and they quit
> > working when you are on deadline. > Thomas M. Goethe
> >
> As opposed to bluetooth - it always works and never fails! NOT! You
sound
> like someone with limited experience. After two years trying to keep 30
> sales staff equipped with wireless access between PPCs and their phones,
> most of them went back to their ancient, inefficient, all tangly, unusable
> cables. I guess they just didn't understand the utter convenience of
> Bluetooth (or maybe they had work they needed to get done).
>

Never said it works all the time, only that cables are a pain and that
they break. If there were Bluetooth and it worked, wouldn't it be better
than cables?


--
Thomas M. Goethe

 

In the Carolinas Cingular would be your best bet. They sell the T616 which
works great with my Palm. I am willing to bet Cingular will deploy and
price right long before Verizon gets a clue about what people want in phone.

"Scott in Aztlan" <slothkills@THEyahooOBVIOUS.com> wrote in message
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> I'm tired of waiting for Verizon to offer a bluetooth-capable phone. Who's
the
> best non-luddite cellular service provider? AT&T?
>
> --
> Proud to be a wreckless driver!

 

Actually they are worse that you imagine.
"alphageek" <no_email_please@uhdelfya.not> wrote in message
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>
> "El Senor" <ilovebritishbeef@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:lO4kb.324$Fc5.77@nwrdny01.gnilink.net...
> > "Scott in Aztlan" wrote:
> > > I'm tired of waiting for Verizon to offer a bluetooth-capable phone.
> >
> > I can't understand why Verizon has such nice wireless data plans but
> offers
> > no bluetooth phones to take advantage of them.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> >
>
> They don't even 'pretend' to be interested in the technology. They surely
> have considerable influence on the cdma phone manufacturers, yet they
exert
> no influence upon them to produce bluetooth phones. My 2 year pact with
the
> devil is up in March, and I'm going bluetooth with or without verizon. The
> choice is theirs.
>
> CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
>
>
>

 

Or a owner of a PDA that supports Bluetooth for wireless internet or
transfering of contacts....

I am getting to this point too...I spend over $100 a month on my plan and
have been doing it for years....too long to wait for 1 feature...

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-Dave

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"Scott in Aztlan" <slothkills@THEyahooOBVIOUS.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 04:02:25 GMT, Hagbard Celine <hceline@twmi.rr.com>
wrote:
>
> >> I'm tired of waiting for Verizon to offer a bluetooth-capable phone.
Who's the
> >> best non-luddite cellular service provider? AT&T?
> >
> >Bluetooth was all hype. Give up already.
>
> I guess you've never driven a new Acura TL...
>
> --
> Proud to be a wreckless driver!
>