Soggynoodles needs a new phone.
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Soggynoodles needs a new phone.
Well My ATT POS phone is slowly dying...
I need a new phone and I was looking into getting a TREO. Help me out peeps.
What do you guys think?
Any recommendations?
Thanks all.
Your friend,
Soggynoodles.
I need a new phone and I was looking into getting a TREO. Help me out peeps.
What do you guys think?
Any recommendations?
Thanks all.
Your friend,
Soggynoodles.
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Originally Posted by Damon
What features are you looking for?
) I have a lot of SD cards laying around my room too.( i have no use for them) 
Maybe PDA function.
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I've had a Blackberry and a Sidekick and both are realitively lame as far as their web functions are concerned. E-mail is easy. But since there are no providers of high speed web access in the U.S. yet (as far as I know), the internet portion normally sucks.
As far as plugging into your laptop is concerned, I don't know much about it.
As far as plugging into your laptop is concerned, I don't know much about it.
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Originally Posted by Damon
I've had a Blackberry and a Sidekick and both are realitively lame as far as their web functions are concerned. E-mail is easy. But since there are no providers of high speed web access in the U.S. yet (as far as I know), the internet portion normally sucks.
As far as plugging into your laptop is concerned, I don't know much about it.
As far as plugging into your laptop is concerned, I don't know much about it.
Thanks for the info!
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Soggy,
You can talk to me offline if you like. I tend to be a techo geek when it comes to mobile electronics (well most electronics that is and the fact that I used to work in Cellular back in the day). There are many variables unknown in your situation like price and what not but I would suggest you research into a PocketPC based phone since you mentioned the TREO. They run a mobile version of windows. Hp makes some models with built in Camera, Wifi internet (80211.b), Bluetooth (read: Bluetooth GPS navigation, I love mine) plus all the other features of PDA. In addition you could use your SD cards to carry music with you and play it using the incorporated windows media player.
As far as hooking up the laptop to the phone to use internet at this time it isn't much better than 56k performance. Phones with GPRS should offer a little better performance. A phone with bluetooth should also alow you to use the internet feature on the phone connected to your laptop without wires which is nice.
www.mobileburn.com is a good resource for reviews and www.expansys.com is a good one to find phones not available in the US.
If you want more phone and less PDA I enjoy my Sony Ericson. It has intuitive features and it has Bluetooth (read: wireless headset, hella cool).
Let me know if you want more advise/info.
You can talk to me offline if you like. I tend to be a techo geek when it comes to mobile electronics (well most electronics that is and the fact that I used to work in Cellular back in the day). There are many variables unknown in your situation like price and what not but I would suggest you research into a PocketPC based phone since you mentioned the TREO. They run a mobile version of windows. Hp makes some models with built in Camera, Wifi internet (80211.b), Bluetooth (read: Bluetooth GPS navigation, I love mine) plus all the other features of PDA. In addition you could use your SD cards to carry music with you and play it using the incorporated windows media player.
As far as hooking up the laptop to the phone to use internet at this time it isn't much better than 56k performance. Phones with GPRS should offer a little better performance. A phone with bluetooth should also alow you to use the internet feature on the phone connected to your laptop without wires which is nice.
www.mobileburn.com is a good resource for reviews and www.expansys.com is a good one to find phones not available in the US.
If you want more phone and less PDA I enjoy my Sony Ericson. It has intuitive features and it has Bluetooth (read: wireless headset, hella cool).
Let me know if you want more advise/info.
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Yeah, as PocketPC's go, I'm diggin' my phone besides the reception (it's only 2-band)
The new MPX-220's are quadband, have a camera (not a great one, but it's there) and are supposed to be pretty slick; I'll be picking one up in a month or two.
The new MPX-220's are quadband, have a camera (not a great one, but it's there) and are supposed to be pretty slick; I'll be picking one up in a month or two.
Don't forget, there is a strong rumor that Apple will be introducing the iPhone in a few days. It will be a combination of.... ah crap.. forget it... I'm preaching to heathens anyways...
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Originally Posted by nKoan
Don't forget, there is a strong rumor that Apple will be introducing the iPhone in a few days. It will be a combination of.... ah crap.. forget it... I'm preaching to heathens anyways...
It has 3 buttons, voice recognition, incredible batterry life, customizable interface, and sends out tazers to pocket PC users?
Originally Posted by Damon
iPhone??? WTF!? Where did you hear about that?
http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2004/...16203103.shtml
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Originally Posted by nKoan
Don't forget, there is a strong rumor that Apple will be introducing the iPhone in a few days. It will be a combination of.... ah crap.. forget it... I'm preaching to heathens anyways...
