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    Yolog
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    Well, ive got somewhat of a problem here. I purchased the rumor in early. July when I had to renew my 2 year contract.. Just recently, the Rant was released, as many of you know im sure. Well, now I want that phone, mainly for the EV-DO stuff. Is there ANY way whatsoever, that I can get that phone without paying the full 300 dollars? Could I even sell my current phone somewhere, and if so, for how much?


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    Re: A little predicament

    You can contact Sprint and sometimes the service agents are nice and may help you. Another method may be to sell your phone on ebay and purchase the RANT off a third party.



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    Re: Bought a Rumor want a Rant

    One solution may be if you have someone in the family, friend, etc. that you want to add a line for, go to a Sprint store or dealer and get a line added and get the Rant. Then, have the rep do an ESN change and make the new line the rumor and you can use the Rant for your line.
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    Re: Bought a Rumor want a Rant

    Mmm, that was sorta how I got my first taste of the Nokia 6225, way back when.

    I was saddled with the *AWFUL* Nokia 3585 (the ubiquitous red model that was Sprint's big "free phone" for 2003), and when my THIRD one died, I needed a phone too desperately to go without for 3 days (AGAIN) while Sprint spirited away my unit on its mystical repair journey. (A PCS Vision Quest?)

    So, knowing that loaner phones are a fairy tale on par with the Chupacabra, at least in NYC, I treated myself to a self-service loaner plan -- added a second line to my account, with a 6225 handset, and then made the salesdroid cut the NEW handset over to my OLD phone# immediately. Played with it for a few days, got my replacement 3585, and then (reluctantly) returned the 6225 and canceled the second line -- well within the 14 day trial period.

    Total cost to me, once all the refunds were credited? ...I'd estimate sub-$10 in prorated service charges.

    Total bastard-customer satisfaction as I smugly informed the Sprint techs *EXACTLY* what I was doing, and why their inability to provide me any sort of useful customer support made such extremes necessary, every step of the way? Far too great to measure.

    ...Fell in love with that little phone (6225), too. So when I was due for an upgrade a year later, I made DAMN sure the red monster made way for a 6225 of my very own. Which I kept so long past the end date of my 2-year plan, I was treated to the entertaning succession of entertainingly-more-desperate renewal come-ons that Sprint kept trying to lure me back with. They were obviously completely freaked out by the fact that I had no contract commitment locking me in as a customer, and could dump them on a whim whenever I chose. (It was more than a little undignified, to be honest. All that begging.)

    Then a 6165. *shrug* It was a phone. Bluetooth, that was a plus.

    Now, I'm in the same boat as the OP, the only difference being that I'm still in my first 30 days on the Rumor. I've already decided it's going back, either to be replaced with a Rant (at least on trial basis), or perhaps a Blackberry model that Best Buy was dangling in front of me as a free upgrade.

    After literally *TEN* years of using exclusively Nokia cells, I know nothing I get will really satisfy me. I've grieved over the loss of timed profiles (and other features I'm spoiled by), and understand it's time to move on. Having accepted that, I'm shopping practicalities. Thusly, my big mondo #1 reason the Rumor is going back -- and I absolutely realize this *feels* like a silly issue to hinge a phone selection on -- is the damn proprietary charger port I hadn't realized I'd be stuck with.

    The Rant and the Blackberry I'm considering both use mini-USB, a trend so obviously sensible and customer-friendly that I flat-out refuse to deal w/ any other phone's screwy model-specific power plugs. If I can't go on using the small MOUNTAIN of Nokia chargers I've amassed thru the years, then I'll settle for a phone I can plug in "anywhere", on a common-if-not-ubiquitous cable, rendering chargers effectively free and limitless. 'Cause one of the things that KEPT me with Nokia all these years was that I'd *seen* the accessory games the OTHER phone manufacturers inflicted on people. I have no intention of being unnecessarily forced to spring for a complete new set of cables, chargers, and accessories -- to replace the perfectly good ones I already have -- every time I change phones.


    ...Beyond that, as a device, the Rumor just kinda sucks. In subtle, persistent, soul-sapping little ways. It isn't obviously oh-got-what-happened-to-his-face!?!!? horrifying, but I can already feel it chipping away at my desire to even... like... care if I have a phone.



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    Re: Bought a Rumor want a Rant

    So I did make the switch to the Rant... the Blackberry, I was told by Sprint, would have required me to either switch to one of the newer plans, or add something like $40 a month to my current grandfathered-in Fair&Flex plan for data service. (Currently I'm signed up for voice only, plus an add-on for 100 SMS messages a month.) So the "free" Blackberry wasn't all that free once you figured in the additional monthly fees.

    The Rant is... different... from the Rumor. I can't really say it's better. There are a LOT of frustrating things about One Click. Maybe they'll be worked out in future releases, but I have my pessimistic doubts about that -- some of them seem to be genuine design decisions, not "mere" bugs or missing features due to the relative newness of the software.

    For instance, one restriction which will tick off a LOT of people is that ONLY MP3 files downloaded from the Sprint "Get Stuff" store can be assigned as ringtones. The phone has an MP3 player, and supports MP3 audio, but wanna use one of those files as a ringtone? You're SOL.

    I *HATE* tune/novelty ringtones, and normally wouldn't care personally -- but the default ringtones that come with the device are just **AWFUL**! And there isn't ONE of them that actually makes a sound sufficiently like a damn *ring* sound -- EXCEPT for the imaginatively-named "Ring 3", which is a way-too-realistic (and therefore unusable) recording of the ringer sound of an old, jangly, physical-bell-ringer land-line telephone.

    I was even willing to explore the idea of paying $1 for a halfway-decent ring, since the ones built into the phone are universally unsatisfying -- but is there a single ringtone on the Sprint website that contains the sound of A. Frickin'. Ring? ...Nope. It's nothing but music, and annoying people yelling things. Any of which only the borderline sociopathic will assign as the ringtone of their mobile phone, as far as I'm concerned.

    The other major initial issue, for me, is that the charger port is **NOT** actually a standard microUSB connector. I THOUGHT it was, and it certainly LOOKS like it is... right up until you get close enough to try and actually plug a microUSB cable into it, at which point you realize that it's shaped slightly differently. Samsung apparently did this purely out of spite. The only saving grace is that the phone comes with a USB cable that fits their wonky port, which means you effectively get *two* chargers out-of-the-box. (It's charging from the USB port on the front of my PC right now.)

    Happily, the phone doesn't automatically throw itself into PC connection mode when you plug it in via USB. Which is especially fortunate, as when you *DO* navigate N levels deep into the poorly-thought-out menus and enable PC connection mode, your phone is no longer a **PHONE** and won't make or take voice calls or send/receive messages until it's disconnected from the computer! WTF?!?!!?! (How this affects any possibility of using the Rant as a cell modem I'm not sure, but it doesn't bode well...)

    So, I can't really recommend the Rant as a superior choice to the Rumor, at least not yet. Maybe I'll discover things about it that make me more sympathetic, but as of right now it has some pretty singificant failings stemming from a combination of factors:

    1. Software platform infancy (random example: opening the slide while the phone is in keyboard-lock mode unlocks it, but forgets to bring up the messaging menu like it's supposed to, so you're left staring at the default One Click screen) -- these will probably shake out over time, tho it's not clear how MUCH time.

    2. Active evildoing on the part of Sprint/Samsung/etc., biasing feature availability and implementation away from what would best serve the users' needs and towards what will keep users beholden to fee-based services offered by Sprint on its network. (Like the ringtone issue, which seems a really blatant and conscious effort to force users to make sure that any users who want to customize their phone have to fork over tons of cash (in tiny $1 increments) to Sprint for the privilege.) -- unless there's a customer revolt, I don't see Sprint hurrying to implement any features that would relax such restrictions, since it would only lose them "accessory" sales.

    (This is why your service provider is the WORST choice to determine the feature set for your phone's OS. Damn, I miss my Nokias.)



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