I really like not having to go back and forth from inbox to sent messages to see a conversation with someone. I know that some phones have a chat-style view so you can see the whole convo right there. What verizon wireless phones have that feature?
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I just recently got my sprint bill that has 5 different lines and 2 of the lines got charged $ 75 each for “PCS data” apparently they are for downloading a ringtone and a game which were paid for also. This is RIDICULOUS and extra $ 150 to download a ringtone and a game that already costs $ 2.50 and $ 6.99. I tried calling customer service, they don’t help. is there anything I can do to get this taken off? Has anyone else had this problem with sprint?
Answer by Valley Rhave not had that specific problem but I had Sprint for several years and they SUCK.
They are the WORST EXCUSE for customer service. I HATE Sprint.
Call Customer service and talk to a supervisor. REFUSE to pay the extra costs. then after you can get out from under the seemingly never ending Sprint contract .>>CANCEL their SAD ASSES and go with a real company. I have Verizon now and LOVE them.
Answer by ~Josie~I had a charge on my phone a couple of months ago – I didn’t know it but my daughter used her phone to text a commercial offer on tv for a ringtone service. It wasn’t nearly as much as you got charged but when I called Sprint, they explained it to me and told me I needed to contact the ringtone service to stop the service.
* it wasn’t Sprint who put the charges on my bill, the ringtone service charged me.
Check this out:http://www.ucan.org/telecommunications/wireless/settlements_in_cell_phone_spam_and_ringtone_ripoff_cases_against_cingular_and_sprint
Answer by Lesley kYEAH i hate sprint! same thing happened to me! my husband called and talked to like 5 different people…he had to get really mad and kept asking to talk to their manager…he finally found a girl that would help us…i ended up getting a deal where i have 1000 text messages and unlimited internet for $ 10.00 a month….i hope everything works out for u!
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For a while now I have been wanting to get the iphone 4 once it hits Verizon on February 10, but I just recently been watching videos on the Htc thunderbolt and it looks really sweet plus its the first 4gLTE phone on Verizon. So I just wanted people’s opinions on it. Please leave your thoughts. Thank you!
Im deciding on which phone to get on Verizon, The Iphone 4 or the Htc Thunderbolt?
So my phone for Metro PCS has been disconnected today and my dad wants to get me into Verizon. should I wait 8 days to get the iPhone 4 which is only 3G or wait 22 days to get the HTC Thunderbolt? being phoneless is going to suck and if anyone has any suggestions on how to survive 1-3 weeks without one please suggest them. lol.
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i have an upgrade from Verizon wireless. i wanna get a new phone but i don’t wanna spend all the money. i hear that they mail you a 50$ off coupon thowrds your next phone when your plans up. is this true??
treocentral.com >> Stories >> HardwareTreo 700w available starting tomorrowPalm and Verizon today announced that the Treo 700w will be available on Verizon Wireless starting tomorrow, January 5th. the smartphone will initially be exclusive to Verizon, and is Palm’s first product to use the Windows Mobile operating. Price starts at $399.99 with a two-year service agreement, or $649 when purchased without a contract. Palm are now taking orders for the unit.
We first reported on the Treo 700w back in September, when Palm, Microsoft and Verizon joined to announce the Windows Mobile Treo. At that time it was promised that the 700w would be available “early early” 2006, and the three companies have certainly delivered.
TreoCentral’s Michael Ducker and Marcus Adolfsson are currently attending CES and the launch events, and will publish a complete review of the device tommorow.
Below is the full press release from Palm with more details on the device. Palm has also updated their website with plenty of information.
Press release
For businesses and individuals who want the latest all-in-one mobile communications and business-productivity solution, Palm, inc. and Verizon Wireless today announced the availability of the Palm Treo 700w smartphone, the first Treo smartphone to take advantage of Verizon Wireless’ BroadbandAccess service on its EV-DO network.
The Treo 700w smartphone also is the first Treo smartphone to run the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system, bringing the hallmark Palm ease of use to Windows Mobile for the first time. it combines a great mobile phone with high-speed wireless data access to email and business applications. the Treo 700w smartphone goes on sale tomorrow and joins the Treo 650 smartphone based on the Palm OS platform on the Verizon Wireless network.
BroadbandAccess is Verizon Wireless’ premier high-speed wireless data service developed with a range of users in mind. Verizon Wireless’ EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) network gives customers a fast, convenient way to conduct business while providing employees the speeds required to work efficiently outside the office. Today, about half the U.S. population, in more than 1,180 major metropolitan markets across the nation, can get average download speeds of 400-700 kilobits per second.
“Customers want speed,” said Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless executive vice president and chief operating officer. “Offering BroadbandAccess on the Treo smartphone for the first time satisfies these growing customer needs. by combining Verizon Wireless’ BroadbandAccess service with the flexible and robust Windows Mobile operating system, the Treo 700w smartphone gives mobile professionals and businesses access to their most critical information at lightning speed.”
The newest member of the Treo family builds on the award-winning design of the Treo 600 and Treo 650 smartphones and takes advantage of Windows Mobile 5.0, offering Microsoft Office applications for Windows Mobile, Internet Explorer Mobile and Windows Media Player Mobile; as well as direct access to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 for mobile access to information. the new smartphone delivers a unique suite of software enhancements on top of Windows Mobile that includes the following:
- Today Screen enhancements, which feature the ability to “dial by name” with a few keystrokes on the keyboard, perform a web search directly from the Today Screen and perform one-touch dialing with personalized photo speed dials
- Ability to manage a call directly from the Today Screen and stay on top of voicemail with on-screen, VCR-like icons, such as rewind, delete and fast-forward controls for easy navigation
- Ability to ignore a call and quickly compose a text message such as “In a meeting” or “Can’t talk right now” by selecting the “Ignore with text” option from the incoming-call screen.
“We are ushering in a new era of mobile solutions that provide access to email, Microsoft Office applications and many other functions that extend the value of the PC,” said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation. “Businesses worldwide are using mobile devices to increase their competitive advantage, and they need solutions that are scalable, low-cost, and easy to deploy. the Treo 700w showcases the dynamic blend of Palm’s innovative design, Verizon Wireless’s EV-DO network, and the power of Windows Mobile software to connect professionals to their critical information on the go.”
“Customers have long been asking for a Palm Treo smartphone on the Windows platform, and we’re thrilled to say it’s here on the Verizon Wireless network,” said Ed Colligan, president and chief executive officer of Palm, inc. “The Treo 700w smartphone is powerful, flexible and easy to use, while also being enterprise grade right out of the box.”
Features That Increase Mobile Productivity
- EV-DO access for fast downloads of data, email and large attachments
- Robust Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system (5.0.2.0)
- Intel XScale technology-based processor
- Ability to send and receive email from multiple corporate and personal email accounts, with built-in support for Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile, Hotmail, Yahoo!, AOL, and other POP3 and IMAP accounts;
- On-device access to Microsoft Office Word Mobile, Office Excel Mobile and Office PowerPoint Mobile for viewing, editing and creating Word and Excel Mobile documents, as well as viewing PowerPoint Mobile presentations. In addition, with Picsel PDF viewer (included on installation CD), customers can view PDF documents
- Unified messaging application, including email, SMS and MMS
- Support for Wireless Sync to provide the convenience of push email and easy access to personal information-management tools, such as contacts and calendar, as well as enterprise tools, such as device management and file synchronization
- Enough memory to manage business and personal digital needs in one place with 128MB of memory – 62.95MB Storage, 25.45MB Program.
Other Treo 700w Features and Benefits
- New 1.3-megapixel camera to shoot crisp, clear digital images and videos
- Integrated Bluetooth 1.2 wireless technology for communicating with compatible headsets, car kits, computers and printers equipped with Bluetooth technology
- Removable battery and non-volatile memory
- Voice Command for voice dialing
- Expansion card slot (SD, SDIO, and MultiMediaCard compatible)
- 240×240 transflective (TFT) screen.
Pricing and Availability
The Palm Treo 700w smartphone from Verizon Wireless is available for $399.99 after $100 instant rebate with a two-year service agreement when accompanied by a voice plan of $39.99 or higher and an unlimited PDA/smartphone data plan.
The Treo 700w is available starting January 5th at the 1,900 Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, Circuit City, and online
“I’ll wait for one more iPhone upgrade cycle to hear whether or not the iPhone is coming to Verizon,” says the typical Verizon customer, “before I finally give up and switch to AT&T so I can park my current generic phone and my current iPod touch in favor of finally fully getting on the iPhone bandwagon.” Then Apple has yet another public event in which many things are introduced and a Verizon iPhone is not one of them, and the user says “Alright, I’ll wait one more cycle” and goes back to biding his time. We hear this sentiment so often from so many Verizon users, many of whom are coming to Beatweek.com specifically to try to find out information on when/whether/if a Verizon iPhone might be happening, that it’s nearly a mantra by now. but with the iPhone finally seeing a massive overhaul this month, both in the hardware and software categories, it leads to the question of whether that long cycle of Verizon users waiting for the iPhone, whose patience must by now be wearing thinner than the new iPhone 4’s slim body, will finally now come to an end – seeing longtime holdouts give up and move to AT&T to get their iPhone after all.
Those Verizon users who’ve hung in there with a flip phone in one pocket and an iPod touch in the other all this time aren’t about to abandon the Apple ecosystem in favor of some iPhone knockoff. but the question of whether they have enough patience to now wait until perhaps the end of 2010, or perhaps 2010, perhaps literally forever, for the iPhone to come to Verizon will begin to be answered this summer as iPhone 4 hits the streets in the U.S. on June 24th, iOS 4 follows somewhere in the same timeframe, word of mouth from early adopters spreads about just how much of a breakthrough the fourth generation iPhone really is, and Verizon users start thinking “enough is enough” and start deciding that, as Beatweek’s Steve Loopipe likes to phrase it, “I’d rather hate my carrier than hate my phone.”
So how many of those long-patient Verizon customers will finally pull the trigger on switching to AT&T? With the iPhone having been on the market for more than three years and there not being a three-year cellular contract in existence, waiting for contracts to expire will not be an issue except for users who managed to recently get roped into (sometimes unwittingly) extending their Verizon contracts. some Verizon users have a tendency to convince themselves that they’re hearing iPhone users complaining about dropped calls on AT&T far more frequently than than those complaints are actually being made, but either way Verizon users who find themselves running out of patience and sorely tempted by the category killing nature of iPhone 4 and its surrounding ecosystem will now have to decide whether they can stretch that patience out even further with no end officially in sight, or go ahead and take the iPhone plunge. Here’s why we think they should go ahead and consider doing so.
Verizon vs. iPhone 4: rather hate your carrier or hate your phone?
