I have been wanting a new phone for a long time. I have been hesitant about switching from Verizon to another carrier because pretty much all of my friends and family are on Verizon and the IN minutes help a lot. Also, the Verizon coverage is so much better in my relatively rural area than other providers.
After almost two years of waiting for the idea phone to come along, I finally gave up and settled on a phone that at least meets my basic requirements. That is, it has bluetooth and is NOT a PDA.
Verizon finally offers a few choices for bluetooth phones. It didn't take me long to decide on the Motorola E815. This phone has all the features I want and after a quick google search or two, I found that the ridiculous crippling of bluetooth features that Verizon does can be undone with a bit of hackery.
So I finally have my phone that will allow me to have DUN on my laptop while I'm on the road. (hah Rosyna! ....I've been jealous of Rosyna surfing the net in a keynote or session each time we have attended conferences with poor wifi for a couple years now)
As I'm sure you tech toy addicts can understand, when I get a new toy, I immediately take notice of all things related to it. This morning I happened on Google SMS. Wow. Wow! This service is amazingly cool! I had no idea it was available and I am amazed at the genius of it. If you haven't seen it, check it out. You can get just about any information you need SMS-ed to your phone with a simple quick txt to GOOGL. This service would have been so handy for me on so many occasions.... or at least I'd like to think so. (I tend to get very excited over new tech toys and the possibilities, but my real world usage of them sometimes is... well, not quite what up to the same level. :) )
Anyway, for those of you looking for that perfect phone from Verizon, good luck with the wait. But if you're like me and got sick of it, the E815 seems to be a decent phone after the first 4 days of use. It lacks the quality build/construction that my previous Samsung phone had, but does improve on features in many other ways. (using the speaker phone with the phone shut is cool)
Someday maybe someone will release a small light phone with bluetooth that doesn't have stupid features, a crappy camera, and a horrible charger plug. Then maybe Verizon will pick it up.
...yeah, looks like I'll be using my new E815 for a good long time to come. ;) At least Google came through to make my cell using experience more fun.
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because talking to the person sitting next to you via iChat over bluetooth DUN is the only way to communicate.
Posted by: Rosyna on July 27, 2005 10:16 AMHow much trouble is this phone to hack? What is involved, and how many of the locked features can you free?
I am also stuck to Verizon until early/mid 2006, but i know i'll get away from them as soon as that contract burns.
Did you find a good deal on it?
Just as a note to others (as you said you specifically didn't want a PDA), the Treo 650 is quite a nice smartphone, and Sprint at least has rolled back the Bluetooth crippling, so you can have unlimited DUN for $20 a month. I've only used it briefly, but it works quite well for quick internet access when you're away from home/wifi.
Posted by: Joshua Ochs on July 27, 2005 12:07 PMNow I understand why every muscle in your body tensed as I picked up your phone this afternoon. I had no idea it was so special (you, know -special in a non-PDA sorta way...).
Posted by: J on July 27, 2005 8:37 PMThat is so incredibly cool. But I sent two text messages to it today and got nothing back.
I sympathise with the Verizon issue. I had a V60c with them for a couple of years, but then wanted a cool phone, so I switched to Verizon and got the Sony Ericsson T637, partly because of its seamless integration with OS X. What a piece of crap. After 9 months with it, I made Cingular give me a Motorola, cheap. I played with a RAZR for a couple of weeks, but I think they're silly. I ended up with the V551, which is the same as the RAZR, but a more normal looking flip phone. And it does more than the RAZR.
Anyway, thanks for the tip on the Google SMS. I just wish it worked. Odd. I'll try once more.
Posted by: Ken on July 28, 2005 7:29 PMBrian, plese tell us how to uncripple Bluetooth in Verizon Wireless phones!
Posted by: Schmye Bubbula on July 30, 2005 5:09 PMA bit off topic here, but Brian I am sure you elated now that Apple has a multi-button mouse!
Posted by: CREB on August 2, 2005 9:09 AMIf anyone would like to hack their phone to enable DUN and/or OBEX, visit the Motorola forum inside of the Verizon Wireless forum at Howardforums.com. I've been a member there for almost 2 years now and it's the #1 mobile phone website on the internet. Read all of the tutorials there and stickies, and you can enabled DUN and OBEX pretty easily.
Posted by: D3LM3L on August 2, 2005 2:34 PMKeep comments on topic. If a comment is unrelated to this post, it may be removed or moderated.