I'm ready to jump into PDA/phone land

I currently use Verizon for personal use and Sprint for Business, I
have shared plans so I can add a phone to each plan. I am currenlty
looking at the Motorola Q (Sprint doesn't offer this yet) and the
VX-6700 (PCC-6700 for sprint). I'm a complete nob when it come to PDAs,
I do want as many fuctions as possible. I'm leaning toward the 6700
because of the screen and keyboard, but I'm researching the crap out of
the Q. Does any of these phones use a sim card?


What do you use? and why?


My use:

I would like to use the internet, make calls, check e-mail, listen to
music, maybe watch a short video, I guess I want it all. Price wise,
for the 6700 Sprint and Verizon are selling it for the same price.


What do you recommend?


Thanks.

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<[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I currently use Verizon for personal use and Sprint for Business, I
> have shared plans so I can add a phone to each plan. I am currenlty
> looking at the Motorola Q (Sprint doesn't offer this yet) and the
> VX-6700 (PCC-6700 for sprint). I'm a complete nob when it come to PDAs,
> I do want as many fuctions as possible. I'm leaning toward the 6700
> because of the screen and keyboard, but I'm researching the crap out of
> the Q. Does any of these phones use a sim card?
>
>
> What do you use? and why?
>
>
> My use:
>
> I would like to use the internet, make calls, check e-mail, listen to
> music, maybe watch a short video, I guess I want it all. Price wise,
> for the 6700 Sprint and Verizon are selling it for the same price.
>
>
> What do you recommend?
>
>
> Thanks.
>

I would say if you can afford the price jump from the Q to the 6700, go for
the 6700. With the new Rom update (which both sprint and verizon have) it
is a very functional piece of kit. It will do everything you want to do and
then some. I know for a fact the Verizon stuff doesn't use SIM cards, but I
don't know anything about sprint. I use my 6700 for pretty much everything,
from finances to weather and of course appointments and calendar stuff.
I've played movies and listened to music as well. It also has wifi which
the Q does not. I use my 6700 without a data plan and just hook up to work
and home wifi access points. It is not as nice as the data plan, but it is
45/month cheaper. I think the maximum for Mini SD cards is 2GB right now,
which is what I have. Holds a ton of stuff. You should take a look at the
recent Motorola Q thread someone posted up, lots of info there about that
phone. If you have any other specific questions about the 6700, feel free
to ask.

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"Edgar" <ecamacho4_nospam@nospam_hotmail.com> wrote:

> I use my 6700 without a data plan and just hook up to work
>and home wifi access points. It is not as nice as the data plan, but it is
>45/month cheaper.

That's a great idea above!

I was originally gonna get Treo 700p..... but you are
making me think to forget it and get 6700

Assuming Sprint has worked out all the bugs, which service supports the
6700 better, sprint or verizon? If recall that Verizon limited/disabled
a feature on the 6700 (wifi?). I'm leaning toward verizon since I will
be using the 6700 for personal use (I have sprint for business and
verizon), unless sprint has better fuctionality.

Do you suggest I buy an unlocked phone or just sign up, my problem is
that the 6700 has been out a while and in a year or so a better model
might be out, I don't want to be locked into a 2 year contract on it,
you know. But I also don't want to pay $500 for it.


Edgar wrote:
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >I currently use Verizon for personal use and Sprint for Business, I
> > have shared plans so I can add a phone to each plan. I am currenlty
> > looking at the Motorola Q (Sprint doesn't offer this yet) and the
> > VX-6700 (PCC-6700 for sprint). I'm a complete nob when it come to PDAs,
> > I do want as many fuctions as possible. I'm leaning toward the 6700
> > because of the screen and keyboard, but I'm researching the crap out of
> > the Q. Does any of these phones use a sim card?
> >
> >
> > What do you use? and why?
> >
> >
> > My use:
> >
> > I would like to use the internet, make calls, check e-mail, listen to
> > music, maybe watch a short video, I guess I want it all. Price wise,
> > for the 6700 Sprint and Verizon are selling it for the same price.
> >
> >
> > What do you recommend?
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> I would say if you can afford the price jump from the Q to the 6700, go for
> the 6700. With the new Rom update (which both sprint and verizon have) it
> is a very functional piece of kit. It will do everything you want to do and
> then some. I know for a fact the Verizon stuff doesn't use SIM cards, but I
> don't know anything about sprint. I use my 6700 for pretty much everything,
> from finances to weather and of course appointments and calendar stuff.
> I've played movies and listened to music as well. It also has wifi which
> the Q does not. I use my 6700 without a data plan and just hook up to work
> and home wifi access points. It is not as nice as the data plan, but it is
> 45/month cheaper. I think the maximum for Mini SD cards is 2GB right now,
> which is what I have. Holds a ton of stuff. You should take a look at the
> recent Motorola Q thread someone posted up, lots of info there about that
> phone. If you have any other specific questions about the 6700, feel free
> to ask.
>
> --
> Edgar
>
>
>
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"peter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Assuming Sprint has worked out all the bugs, which service supports the
> 6700 better, sprint or verizon? If recall that Verizon limited/disabled
> a feature on the 6700 (wifi?). I'm leaning toward verizon since I will
> be using the 6700 for personal use (I have sprint for business and
> verizon), unless sprint has better fuctionality.
>
> Do you suggest I buy an unlocked phone or just sign up, my problem is
> that the 6700 has been out a while and in a year or so a better model
> might be out, I don't want to be locked into a 2 year contract on it,
> you know. But I also don't want to pay $500 for it.
>
Latest firmware fixed the wifi. Besides, you could do a simple registry
change and fix it yourself. Want a phone now or keep chasing the next best
thing? Get one on ebay for less than 300.

"RM v2.0" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "peter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Assuming Sprint has worked out all the bugs, which service supports the
>> 6700 better, sprint or verizon? If recall that Verizon limited/disabled
>> a feature on the 6700 (wifi?). I'm leaning toward verizon since I will
>> be using the 6700 for personal use (I have sprint for business and
>> verizon), unless sprint has better fuctionality.
>>
>> Do you suggest I buy an unlocked phone or just sign up, my problem is
>> that the 6700 has been out a while and in a year or so a better model
>> might be out, I don't want to be locked into a 2 year contract on it,
>> you know. But I also don't want to pay $500 for it.
>>
> Latest firmware fixed the wifi. Besides, you could do a simple registry
> change and fix it yourself. Want a phone now or keep chasing the next best
> thing? Get one on ebay for less than 300.
>

Yup, newest update fixed that thing, I don't know about unlocked phones so I
won't comment, but I did do the 2 year contract with my phone and got it for
300.

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