On Thursday 19 April 2007 00:02:52 Gerry Lawrence wrote:
| They may have the best network but their software sucks ass. Verizon
| puts its software
| on all models of phone, so it doesn't matter which phone you get, they
| all suck.
| All cell phone software sucks ass. Verizon takes the suckage to a
| new level.
Oooh! Can I play? Verizon also seems to extend their hate to visiting
non-US customers.
I'm currently on holiday. Since it's a long trip I grabbed both my phone
and our son's since both are Nokias using the same charger and batteries,
this meant we could use them for SMS and short calls to co-ordinate. This
worked well in three different continents, but once we got to .us his
stopped working due to it not doing whatever magical frequency they use
for GSM here.
I do get signal on my phone (thank you Cingular), but coverage goes up and
down a bit and the other (cheaper) phone just sits there going "huh?". In
other countries at least I can automatically connect to the strongest
network, in Australia it even told me where I was!
Another feature of the stay is TV ads telling how much better Verizon are
because a mob of people follow you around wherever you go, and yet as far
as I can tell Verizon don't appear on my network list. I'm not entirely
sure if this is because:
a. They don't do GSM
b. They do GSM on some frequency not supported by my obviously neanderthal
6230i
c. They do GSM but not roaming agreements
I'd initially considered a and b to be likely options, but the software
thing almost lends itself to c as an option.
Grr.
Paul
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