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Verizon Crippled Bluetooth Features in Motorola V710

Posted by michael on from the selling-it dept.

djdoubles writes "Apparently Verizon Wireless has put firmware with crippled Bluetooth features in the new Motorola v710 phone. A lot of people have been anticipating a Bluetooth phone from Verizon, only to be disappointed by lack of OBEX. Verizon says they have no plan to add OBEX because it doesn't fit their business model--greedy bastards. PC Magazine doesn't have very nice things to say either. More discussion here."

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  1. As a Verizon customer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I recognize the fact that if Verizon tells me I don't need something, then I don't need it.

  2. Verizon is developer-unfriendly by n2rjt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They do everything possible to keep people from downloading apps, tones, etc directly to the phone. No J2ME on any Verizon phone, as far as I can tell.
    Better to use T-Mobile or Cingular in the US.

  3. Re:What are you complaining about again? by BoldAC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But Verizon disabled the phone's Bluetooth file-transfer function, so you can't wirelessly transfer photos to your PC without using the carrier's for-pay Pix Messaging service

    Yeah, they are doing it for security reasons... yeah, right. As the quote above shows, it's all about the dollars, baby.

  4. crappy photos to by oneishy · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not only the bluetooth support that is lacking. The colors in the camera are really bad to!

    oh... and you can use iSync with the usb cable, just not over bluetooth

  5. As an owner of this phone... by DaHat · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been quite happy with this phone since my purchase of it a month ago, I wish it had full Bluetooth support and I was told only yesterday by customer service that an update will be out in 3-4 weeks to enable full Bluetooth support.

    Syncing of phonebook here I come!

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  6. NYNEX Still SUX by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Verizon's business model is to force people to place all communications through *them*, regardless of the sensibility of that network model. They're protecting their wireless empire as hamfistedly as they protected their dialup model, charging people 10x for "data lines" for modems over 9600bps, seeking Congressional protection from "always on" ISPs, crushing DSL competition. Too bad the WiFi genie's already out of the bottle. In the future, circuit-switched landlines and CDMA radios might only serve as backups, when our fibers and WiFi associations fail. With luck, the DSL conquest won't be repeated by Verizon Wireless, since colocation infrastructure isn't as necessary.

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    make install -not war

  7. Maybe they should have dubbed... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...their crippled version BlueBalls. All that promise of sexy features, getting everyone excited, then not delivering the goods.

  8. Nothing New from Verizon by retsaMedoC · · Score: 5, Informative

    This isn't the first time Verizon Wireless has crippled a phone. Motorola's T720 phone was also the victim of a nasty hack. The T720 was designed to use Java and Verizon uses Qualcomm's Brew for their Get It Now service. Java was stripped from the phone, not to mention other features like being able to recieve pictures via SMS Messages or the builtin web browser.