Microsoft Deal Limits Verizon MP3 Phones

An anonymous reader writes "PCSIntel is reporting that the new VCast music system by Verizon may not be quite as positive as users were led to believe. Claims were made that the new software for this service would disable the ability to play MP3s on these phones. It turns out that the ability to play MP3s still exists but only because the software first converts it to the WMA format. This conversion, however, is not available for phones on Mac or Linux, leaving these customers unable to play MP3s."

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Re:Why do you put up with this shit?

[Kamel Jockey]

Verizon is probably the most notorious. /me glances at his moto v710 with crippled bluetooth

Whose fault is it for buying such a phone? Did Verizon hold a gun to your head and force you to purchase it? The V710's crippled Bluetooth implementation wasn't exactly a secret. Heck, if you had googled for the term "v710" one of the first entries tells you that the phone is crippled.

You cannot indict the cell phone companies in the USA based on a single ill-informed purchase. There are many people who buy unlocked, uncrippled phones from other providers (like what I did) and have had no problems at all with their phones.