Can Sprint make a Bluetooth phone that actually works?
14/12/05 21:29 Filed in: Technology
My cellphone is like a cat.
It had nine lives.
Unfortunately, Thursday night, the last life passed away, and now I have a Sanyo paperweight.
It's one of the flip phones. And it hasn't flipped for months. Instead, it just falls into two pieces, hanging by antenna wires and various other bits and pieces.
Charging it has been a dream. You clamp the power cable to the table, plug the phone in, so it's not supported by the table (it's over the air), then put weight on it. This makes the little wires that are broken off the motherboard inside it touch (I think), so that it can take a charge. It's always been able to work, until Thursday night.
I went to Fry's. Of course, you can't buy something to charge just the battery on the Sanyo phones. That only works on all the other carriers (non-Sprint) phones. Which becomes the mantra.
When I first bought this phone (in February of 2004), I wanted Bluetooth. Sprint didn't have bluetooth. Why did I get Sprint? Because I was in the Caribbean, and Sprint would let you get online from an anchorage in St. John using the computer. And that was very, very cool. Besides, how long will it take them to get a functional bluetooth anyway?
Apparently, longer than I can wait. They had one phone, that was only out for a couple of months. They pulled it. They currently have the LG-something or other, that is referred to online as having "Bluegums", because it is so crippled. They also have the MM-A940, which is a huge box of a phone, with a camcorder, optical zoom, and Bluetooth.
So I buy one. Despite the fact that it is huge and heavy and very, very expensive. I only have two months running on my contract, but I need to have a phone. I renew for two more years, and switch to the Fair & Flexible plan. Spend something like 2 1/2 hours doing all this. I get home, all excited.
It will not sync to my mac. iSync doesn't work.
"Okay" I think "I'll just use Address book to push the contacts to it".
Nope. If I select a bunch to send, I only get the first one.
Coupled with the ridiculous size of this phone, and the cost, I'm very displeased.
So now I have to back out all my Sprint changes, take the phone back, buy the cheapest phone they have to get me through the 2 months, then switch to some other carrier (Cingular?) that has a functioning bluetooth phone.
I'm thinking about a RAZR v3....
It had nine lives.
Unfortunately, Thursday night, the last life passed away, and now I have a Sanyo paperweight.
It's one of the flip phones. And it hasn't flipped for months. Instead, it just falls into two pieces, hanging by antenna wires and various other bits and pieces.
Charging it has been a dream. You clamp the power cable to the table, plug the phone in, so it's not supported by the table (it's over the air), then put weight on it. This makes the little wires that are broken off the motherboard inside it touch (I think), so that it can take a charge. It's always been able to work, until Thursday night.
I went to Fry's. Of course, you can't buy something to charge just the battery on the Sanyo phones. That only works on all the other carriers (non-Sprint) phones. Which becomes the mantra.
When I first bought this phone (in February of 2004), I wanted Bluetooth. Sprint didn't have bluetooth. Why did I get Sprint? Because I was in the Caribbean, and Sprint would let you get online from an anchorage in St. John using the computer. And that was very, very cool. Besides, how long will it take them to get a functional bluetooth anyway?
Apparently, longer than I can wait. They had one phone, that was only out for a couple of months. They pulled it. They currently have the LG-something or other, that is referred to online as having "Bluegums", because it is so crippled. They also have the MM-A940, which is a huge box of a phone, with a camcorder, optical zoom, and Bluetooth.
So I buy one. Despite the fact that it is huge and heavy and very, very expensive. I only have two months running on my contract, but I need to have a phone. I renew for two more years, and switch to the Fair & Flexible plan. Spend something like 2 1/2 hours doing all this. I get home, all excited.
It will not sync to my mac. iSync doesn't work.
"Okay" I think "I'll just use Address book to push the contacts to it".
Nope. If I select a bunch to send, I only get the first one.
Coupled with the ridiculous size of this phone, and the cost, I'm very displeased.
So now I have to back out all my Sprint changes, take the phone back, buy the cheapest phone they have to get me through the 2 months, then switch to some other carrier (Cingular?) that has a functioning bluetooth phone.
I'm thinking about a RAZR v3....