chlen
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join:2001-01-16
Albany, NY
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Re: No Wi-Fi????
I dont get the need for wifi on these phones...
I dont have VZ, but I have sprint and data is unlimited. If EVDO on VZ is anything like Sprint then why have your phone cost more and suck up battery. My palm does just fine at 1.5mbit on average. HSPDA is nowhere as fast as EVDO on Sprint, so I get why you may want it there, but if you average 1.5mbit why do you need wifi? |
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Matt
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Jamestown, NC
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| said by chlen  :I dont get the need for wifi on these phones... I dont have VZ, but I have sprint and data is unlimited. If EVDO on VZ is anything like Sprint then why have your phone cost more and suck up battery. My palm does just fine at 1.5mbit on average. HSPDA is nowhere as fast as EVDO on Sprint, so I get why you may want it there, but if you average 1.5mbit why do you need wifi? You're exactly right. My old XV6700 had WiFi, but since I had unlimited EVDO I NEVER used the WiFi ... EVDO worked great everywhere I went.
When I did use the WiFi, it ate my batteries for lunch.
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fuziwuzi
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Atlanta, GA | reply to chlen
What's your "cap" on that EVDO or HSPDA? With Wi-Fi I'd not have to bother wondering if I'm going to hit the limit on that "unlimited" data plan.
A smartphone without Wi-Fi is just a dead duck, IMHO. |
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Matt
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| said by fuziwuzi :What's your "cap" on that EVDO or HSPDA? With Wi-Fi I'd not have to bother wondering if I'm going to hit the limit on that "unlimited" data plan. A smartphone without Wi-Fi is just a dead duck, IMHO. Who in the hell uses more than 5GB a month via their PDA phone? I have Activesync email PUSH phone and I rarely use more than 50MB a month. And I get a boatload of email.
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chlen
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said by fuziwuzi :What's your "cap" on that EVDO or HSPDA? With Wi-Fi I'd not have to bother wondering if I'm going to hit the limit on that "unlimited" data plan. A smartphone without Wi-Fi is just a dead duck, IMHO. no cap that I know off...but I only have 4gb of space on my phone, how much do you think you can DL into a phone?
When I use my phone as a modem, I download movies onto my laptop...with Sprint never saw a cap.
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splat1622
join:2008-09-08
Cave Spring, GA
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said by chlen :I dont get the need for wifi on these phones... I dont have VZ, but I have sprint and data is unlimited. If EVDO on VZ is anything like Sprint then why have your phone cost more and suck up battery. My palm does just fine at 1.5mbit on average. HSPDA is nowhere as fast as EVDO on Sprint, so I get why you may want it there, but if you average 1.5mbit why do you need wifi? maybe because you are paying extra for that data plan,if it had wifi on it,and you had access to wifi it is free.my wife has verizons palm centro great phone but does not have wifi on it either in which we are forced to pay 40 dollars a month just for the unlimited data plan that she could use for free if it had wifi.not putting wifi on their phones is just a way to force you to buy their expensive data plan,and use their 3g network,and not use free wifi |
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