Upgrade Options for Motorola v551...

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:56:47 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
wrote in <[email protected]>:

>In alt.cellular.cingular John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 May 2006 02:41:16 GMT, "koreys via CellPhoneKB.com"
>> <u22359@uwe> wrote in <60f438d810f1e@uwe>:
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>> >I have an older Motorola v551 and am wanting to upgrade to new newer phone.
>> >I say "older" because it doesn't have the Edge capability that the newer
>> >v551's have.
>
>> All V551s have EDGE(EGPRS).
>
>But the older v551 firmware doesn't display the little "E" when you have
>EDGE reception. It's hard to tell, except for the speed. If it's over
>40Kbps, it must be EDGE.

Since the speed is all that really matters, why worry about the symbol?
EGPRS(EDGE) connections can be slow just like GPRS connections.

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In alt.cellular.cingular John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:56:47 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]

> >But the older v551 firmware doesn't display the little "E" when you have
> >EDGE reception. It's hard to tell, except for the speed. If it's over
> >40Kbps, it must be EDGE.

> Since the speed is all that really matters, why worry about the symbol?
> EGPRS(EDGE) connections can be slow just like GPRS connections.

Because lack of the "E", when comparing to the friend's newer v551, might
be what makes him think he doesn't have EGPRS capability.

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On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:31:49 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
wrote in <[email protected]>:

>In alt.cellular.cingular John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:56:47 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
>
>> >But the older v551 firmware doesn't display the little "E" when you have
>> >EDGE reception. It's hard to tell, except for the speed. If it's over
>> >40Kbps, it must be EDGE.
>
>> Since the speed is all that really matters, why worry about the symbol?
>> EGPRS(EDGE) connections can be slow just like GPRS connections.
>
>Because lack of the "E", when comparing to the friend's newer v551, might
>be what makes him think he doesn't have EGPRS capability.

[shrug]

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