On 9/24/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> When we raised these concerns with the manager of the local sales
>> office, his response was that we should not be trying to
>> nickel-and-dime them on everything, since after all, they've got the
>> best network in the country.
>
> And ba
On Sep 22, 2007, at 13:39, Ben Scott wrote:
> When we raised these concerns with the manager of the local sales
> office, his response was that we should not be trying to
> nickel-and-dime them on everything, since after all, they've got the
> best network in the country.
And basically correct
On 9/23/07, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I doubt that even Verizon is that incompetent.
>>
>> You don't know Verizon as well as I do, apparently. :-/
>
> You mean you know the actual people and process behind their handset
> selection and provisioning? Or, do you just mean your knowledg
IIRC, the Verizon/bluetooth issue ended up in a class action court case
back in early 2005 (partial article here -
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB110557581692624772.html - more on your
favorite search engine).
I also know that a number of folks have since published articles about
how to turn that
On Sep 22, 2007, at 10:50 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 9/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I doubt that even Verizon is that incompetent.
>
> You don't know Verizon as well as I do, apparently. :-/
>
You mean you know the actual people and process behind their handset
sele
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 22:50 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 9/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I doubt that even Verizon is that incompetent.
>
> You don't know Verizon as well as I do, apparently. :-/
>
> -- Ben
My daughter got a verizon cell phone with a camera built in.
On 9/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I doubt that even Verizon is that incompetent.
You don't know Verizon as well as I do, apparently. :-/
-- Ben
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> Except that WMA ain't free or Free, either.
>
> My guess would be incompetence on the part of Verizon; they knew
> they wanted to be able to charge to play MP3s, so they disabled that,
> but didn't know what WMA was so left that alone.
>
I doubt that even Verizon is that incompetent.
As lon
On 9/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've come across at least one Verizon phone that defaulted to being
>> able to play WMA only ...
>
> Part of the issue could be the patent royalty payments that are attached
> to playing back mp3 recordings.
Except that WMA ain't free o
> I've come across at least one Verizon phone that defaulted to being
> able
> to play WMA only, but there was an option to enable MP3 playback in
> the firmware.
>
> I've also heard that some phones won't play back MP3s unless they were
> loaded with the VZW Music software, which can be gotten,
http://www.bitpim.org/ is a good place to start.
Thomas
On 9/22/07, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday, Sep 22nd 2007 at 12:56 -0400, quoth Travis Roy:
>
> =>What is the carrier?
>
> I'm on Verizon too. I *really* hope you're not suggesting I can't load
> this thing up with mu
On 9/22/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/22/07, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm on Verizon too. I *really* hope you're not suggesting I can't load
> > this thing up with music.
>
> Oh, I'm sure you'll be able to load music. You'll just have to pay
> though the nos
On 9/22/07, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm on Verizon too. I *really* hope you're not suggesting I can't load
> this thing up with music.
Oh, I'm sure you'll be able to load music. You'll just have to pay
though the nose to do so. That is Verizon's MO.
At work, we recently s
> =>What is the carrier?
>
> I'm on Verizon too. I *really* hope you're not suggesting I can't load
> this thing up with music. I can get the pictures out. :-(
>
I wouldn't be surprised if they force you to use their vcast thing to
get/purchase music. Dale's razr supports custom ringtones and mp
On Saturday, Sep 22nd 2007 at 12:56 -0400, quoth Travis Roy:
=>What is the carrier?
=>
=>This is very important as Verizon likes to lock out a lot of the features
=>you're looking to do.
=>
=>I was able to enable a lot of them on my wife's Razr but it required some
=>hacking around on a windows bo
On Saturday, Sep 22nd 2007 at 12:56 -0400, quoth Travis Roy:
=>What is the carrier?
I'm on Verizon too. I *really* hope you're not suggesting I can't load
this thing up with music. I can get the pictures out. :-(
=>
=>This is very important as Verizon likes to lock out a lot of the features
=>y
What is the carrier?
This is very important as Verizon likes to lock out a lot of the
features you're looking to do.
I was able to enable a lot of them on my wife's Razr but it required
some hacking around on a windows box (since that's what the software
ran on)
On Sep 22, 2007, at 12:01 P
I recently got a new Motorola Razr V3 Maxx and for the princely sum of $20
I added a 2G micro SD card. I took a few pictures and then saved myself a
some change by not emailing the pictures out of the camera. i.e., I took
the card out and mounted it as a disk on linux. Here's the directory
stru
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