Okay - I might be able to get a new PDA phone from work.
Caveat 1: it has to be from Verizon.
That being said, they are mostly the same. I’d be using this one as a phone (obviously) as well as keeping in touch with e-mail, even on the road. I also have the need to do several apps as well. Currently, there are several options from their website:
Motorola Q9m
Newest Motorola Q - now with Windows Mobile 6. Downside - uses “Documents-to-Go” (a VZW app, I think), rather than Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, etc. Still a non-touch screen, but don’t know if that’s a pro or con.
VZW XV6700
From my understanding, it’s in short supply, and was supposed to be replaced with the XV6800 (unknown release date).
Samsung SCH-i760
Seems to have a better screen and keypad (slider) for typing. Phone buttons seem to be in odd positions, though. Also seems to have the new WM6. Don’t know much about it otherwise.
Palm Treo 700p / 700wx
Familiar machines, also near the end of their life cycle, IIRC. Palm Vs. WindowsMobile 5.0. I could use either, really - but it’s the most expensive - and seems to have the smallest screens.
Any ideas from people who have used these phones would be appreciated.
I firmly believe that the XV6800 will never be released. What’s it going on a year now since it was supposed to first be out?
I’ve got the predecessor to the i760 and I like it a lot. Very stable. Well built.
The 700p has the highest resolution screen at 320x320.
Honestly you’re going to get a ton of opinions, but I say just go play with them and pick what you like best. They’ll all do what you need. They’ll be stable if you don’t load them with every fly-by-night app you can find.
In all honesty, the 6800 was never given a firm release date from Verizon, all of it was speculation from January 15th til just recently. Verizon only pushed the date back from Oct 15th to November 15th because of some BT issue.
Don’t even both getting the 6700. I would get a Blackberry of some sort, they are made like a brick shithouse.
dont get the Q…i’ve heard horrible things about them…
get a blackberry :tup:
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annnnnnnnnd wrong
Q9m is a great improvement over the previous gen Q. I have owned the Q9m, xv6700, and used the Treo 700wx
Treo is nice, personally I like the Q9m better as it has WM6.
Q9m keyboard is BY FAR the best smartphone keyboard i’ve had. That includes the blackberry 8830 as I had that as well.
xv6700 blows dick.
blackberry’s are cool, but it totally depends what type of email you have. If you have an exchange server and you don’t get a WM6 phone especially with Exchange 2007 out, you are pretty retarded.
Q9m is a great improvement over the previous gen Q. I have owned the Q9m, xv6700, and used the Treo 700wx
Treo is nice, personally I like the Q9m better as it has WM6.
Q9m keyboard is BY FAR the best smartphone keyboard i’ve had. That includes the blackberry 8830 as I had that as well.
xv6700 blows dick.
blackberry’s are cool, but it totally depends what type of email you have. If you have an exchange server and you don’t get a WM6 phone especially with Exchange 2007 out, you are pretty retarded.
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annnddd not wrong, i didn’t realize they “upgraded” the Q… the original was a piece of shit. The Sprint workers said they have never seen a phone come back so many times with so many problems and that they wouldn’t tell anyone to get that phone.
I have the blackberry 8830…no problems yet…had it since…september
annnddd not wrong, i didn’t realize they “upgraded” the Q… the original was a piece of shit. The Sprint workers said they have never seen a phone come back so many times with so many problems and that they wouldn’t tell anyone to get that phone.
I have the blackberry 8830…no problems yet…had it since…september
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at least you are on the cutting edge of technology and not spreading mis-information…
annnddd not wrong, i didn’t realize they “upgraded” the Q… the original was a piece of shit. The Sprint workers said they have never seen a phone come back so many times with so many problems and that they wouldn’t tell anyone to get that phone.
I have the blackberry 8830…no problems yet…had it since…september
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and yes you were wrong, the phone model was clearly stated…
:thankyou:
edit: and back to actually helping the OP, my previous question is important. What do you use for email ?
Yea, I am spreading mis-information, wonder what makes you guys experts ??
Did you two own all of these phones?
and yes you were wrong, the phone model was clearly stated…
:thankyou:
edit: and back to actually helping the OP, my previous question is important. What do you use for email ?
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I wasn’t poking fun at you, I was making fun of Kristen because she obviously has no clue about what she is talking about. Easy there, Jimbo, I have nothing but the highest respect for you…
I wasn’t poking fun at you, I was making fun of Kristen because she obviously has no clue about what she is talking about. Easy there, Jimbo, I have nothing but the highest respect for you…
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thats it i’m going to beat your ass.
fucking 3:15 at the flagpole.
sorry today has been a shitty day at work, since I can’t lash out at people at the workplace I am praying on the posters of nyspeed.
What’s it going on a year now since it was supposed to first be out?
Mwah!
Mwah!