* The screen is so big, that if you don't use Bluetooth or hands free, then the screen gets nasty pretty fast. It's a bitch to clean too.
* Battery life is acceptable if you don't use push services
* It's gotta be tough - the very first day I had my P910i, I dropped it from about 4ft. right onto the concrete and cringed knowing that I was about to be so very fired. I picked it up and the plastic on the side where the photo button had popped loose, but that's it. I used the stylus to pry it back in, and no problem except a bit of cosmetic damage. By and large, most of my Sony/Ericsson phones have been pretty tough. It's ironic that when Ericsson's phones stopped looking like little Volvos did they become less breakable for a klutz like myself.
* the browser hangs sometimes, giving the white screen of no return. Battery removed, power back on and viola.
* it's size is a bit clunky, but one option is to remove the flip entirely and TFM for this comes in the box. Even then, you almost have to use the holster that comes with it - it's just too damn big to put into your pocket.
This is no scam. The initial FCC ruling required wireless carriers to be ready to port numbers between the other carriers in the same market by June 30, 1999. The wireless industry then began petitioning the FCC and since then the mandates have been delayed several times.
The process for actual service order activation is extremely complex and as always, people do not appreciate how much is involved. In the wireline world, the process for porting numbers is not standardized and can take up to a full day (or more) to accomplish. Fortunately in wireless, the CTIA provisioned into the standard that the porting process is to be completed within 150 minutes. In industry jargon, the term for the process exceeding this time is "fallout".
I agree that the service is questionable in certain markets, however thanks to the FCC you now have another reason to look for better.
Seriously, how many people had the opportunity to switch, but would not b/c they would lose their number.
In response to this I found a meaningless statistic for you:
"A recent study by In -Stat/MDR indicated that up to 46 percent of U.S. mobile customers said
they'd be interested in changing providers in the first year of portability."
Anonamous Coward, you are correct when you say cost is the key. There are a lot of "why don't they just..." type comments out there, but cost has and always will be the driver here. I work for a VAR who supplies interworking registers to operators worldwide. I am familiar with the term interworking which we use to refer to the WNP between different air interfaces like TDMA/CDMA and GSM. Our problem has been that our customer sells this service to other operators. Our customer in turn has their customers (operators) who may be located in Austrailia or Asia. Those operators have their subscribers who roam here to the ANSI markets and incedentally who can, on occasion, contest their bill. When this happens, it truly is a mess to try to find out who is at fault when there may or may not have even been a problem. Do you see where I'm going? It is terribly costly in terms of time for the operator to try to find out if there was an outage somewhere, or a roaming restriction, etc - to justify an investigation to recover $20 from said subscriber.
I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that this will be a mess to straighten out. However, that may be a nice rebound for the Telecom job market.
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- Bender
According to my checking account balance, I think that the Diebold ATM machine that I use must be jinxed too.
I'm glad that they decided against flying the white flag of war.
Maybe with this they'll finally find the Restaurant at the End of the Universe
This restaurant will likely have one problem - no atmosphere.
* The screen is so big, that if you don't use Bluetooth or hands free, then the screen gets nasty pretty fast. It's a bitch to clean too.
* Battery life is acceptable if you don't use push services
* It's gotta be tough - the very first day I had my P910i, I dropped it from about 4ft. right onto the concrete and cringed knowing that I was about to be so very fired. I picked it up and the plastic on the side where the photo button had popped loose, but that's it. I used the stylus to pry it back in, and no problem except a bit of cosmetic damage. By and large, most of my Sony/Ericsson phones have been pretty tough. It's ironic that when Ericsson's phones stopped looking like little Volvos did they become less breakable for a klutz like myself.
* the browser hangs sometimes, giving the white screen of no return. Battery removed, power back on and viola.
* it's size is a bit clunky, but one option is to remove the flip entirely and TFM for this comes in the box. Even then, you almost have to use the holster that comes with it - it's just too damn big to put into your pocket.
This is no scam. The initial FCC ruling required wireless carriers to be ready to port numbers between the other carriers in the same market by June 30, 1999. The wireless industry then began petitioning the FCC and since then the mandates have been delayed several times.
The process for actual service order activation is extremely complex and as always, people do not appreciate how much is involved. In the wireline world, the process for porting numbers is not standardized and can take up to a full day (or more) to accomplish. Fortunately in wireless, the CTIA provisioned into the standard that the porting process is to be completed within 150 minutes. In industry jargon, the term for the process exceeding this time is "fallout".
I agree that the service is questionable in certain markets, however thanks to the FCC you now have another reason to look for better.
Seriously, how many people had the opportunity to switch, but would not b/c they would lose their number.
In response to this I found a meaningless statistic for you:
"A recent study by In -Stat/MDR indicated that up to 46 percent of U.S. mobile customers said they'd be interested in changing providers in the first year of portability."
Anonamous Coward, you are correct when you say cost is the key. There are a lot of "why don't they just..." type comments out there, but cost has and always will be the driver here. I work for a VAR who supplies interworking registers to operators worldwide. I am familiar with the term interworking which we use to refer to the WNP between different air interfaces like TDMA/CDMA and GSM. Our problem has been that our customer sells this service to other operators. Our customer in turn has their customers (operators) who may be located in Austrailia or Asia. Those operators have their subscribers who roam here to the ANSI markets and incedentally who can, on occasion, contest their bill. When this happens, it truly is a mess to try to find out who is at fault when there may or may not have even been a problem. Do you see where I'm going? It is terribly costly in terms of time for the operator to try to find out if there was an outage somewhere, or a roaming restriction, etc - to justify an investigation to recover $20 from said subscriber.
I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that this will be a mess to straighten out. However, that may be a nice rebound for the Telecom job market.