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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Alltel / March 2007Staging a flamewar over Alltel
Come on, guys and gals! There hasn't been anyone making noises about Alltel in so long my client was going to unsubscribe a dead newsgroup, this one! Think hard. There's just gotta be SOMETHING we can start a big flamewar about Alltel over! Even if we have to STAGE a fake flamewar, that's better'n nuthin'! The Usenet Gods may dump the group if we don't find something to bitch about...real soon! (c; Larry  SignatureHave a little fun in the checkout line.... Ask the nearest American, "Did you see the ICE agents chasing those Mexicans out the back door?" ...Shortens that checkout line right up...(c; > Come on, guys and gals! There hasn't been anyone making noises about > Alltel in so long my client was going to unsubscribe a dead newsgroup, this > one! > > Think hard. There's just gotta be SOMETHING we can start a big flamewar > about Alltel over! Alltel's TV ads are pretty funny (why they run in Cali, I don't know), but the Alltel rep in those ads looks like a total dork. SignatureSteve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room. > but the Alltel rep in those ads looks like a total dork. Does he wear a jacket in the middle of the summer when everyone else in the spam is in shorts and a halter top? I'm still convinced the VZW "Can you hear me now?" guy is a drug addict covering the tracks with the coat...(c; I stopped by Alltel's office and looked at the phones, today. They've dropped all the PDAs except the Blackberry and Treos to get rid of the broadband-enabled PDAs, it seems. Those are gone. She said they'd come out with more phones, soon. Alltel is on 800 Mhz....800 Mhz cellphones need PULL UP ANTENNAS. Only the E815 Moto had a pull-up, 1/4 wave 800 Mhz antenna. How awful. Larry SignatureHow much price inflation is caused by illegal aliens gobbling up goods and services, creating shortages for the natives? I heard 40%! >> but the Alltel rep in those ads looks like a total dork. > > Does he wear a jacket in the middle of the summer when everyone else in > the spam is in shorts and a halter top? Oh, Larry. I posted flamebait and you didn't flame me. :) Oh well, I tried. SignatureSteve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room. >> but the Alltel rep in those ads looks like a total dork. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Larry Wrong. There is an Audiovox smartphone currently available as well. It runs a version of Windows. > Wrong. > > There is an Audiovox smartphone currently available as well. It runs > a version of Windows. Hmm....not demo'd at the Charleston Alltel main store. Thanks. I bought a Dell X51v PDA with Win Mobile 5 on it. It was just awful. It crashed 8 times a day...even just sitting there doing nothing! After putting up with that for 10 days, I returned it for refund before my 15 day limit ran out. I bought it for running "Skype for Mobile" because it would logon at commercial hotspots that require webpage logon. That seemed to work...when the operating system did. Now we have Sony Mylo with Skype and browser in it but the Skype on the Mylo is just awful. Mylo has a speaker, but NO SPEAKERPHONE on Skype. Someone screwed up. For $350 you get speakerphone, camera and all the Skype toys. Maybe next try they'll get it right. Does Win Mobile 5 crash in the PDA phones? Does it eat the battery in hours? X51v would run just over 2 hours on a big Li-Ion pack....unacceptable in a PDA. Larry SignatureHow much price inflation is caused by illegal aliens gobbling up goods and services, creating shortages for the natives? I heard 40%! >> Wrong. >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Thanks. Check the Alltel homepage (here's a direct link): http://alltel.com/phones/audiovox/6700.html 222 minutes talktime, 200 hours standby - to answere those questions. >Check the Alltel homepage (here's a direct link): > >http://alltel.com/phones/audiovox/6700.html > >222 minutes talktime, 200 hours standby - to answere those questions. I have VERY little faith in battery estimates. My wife has a new Motorola W315 ... uses it about 5 minutes a day ... and in strong areas, where my 6 year old StarTac gets 2 days with light use, her W315 dies in less than 48 hours. SUPPOSEDLY Talk: 3.05 hours, Standby: 217 hours per PhoneScoop. Bad battery? Maybe. She went back to Alltel and was told that 2 days is good. But hey, Larry wants flames ... when ATT buys Alltel, do we have to all get GSM phones? >>Check the Alltel homepage (here's a direct link): >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >But hey, Larry wants flames ... when ATT buys Alltel, do we have to >all get GSM phones? No, because I'll move on to another provider. GeorgeB <nospam@att.net> wrote in news:7a13v292g7466d7msegjkkm4rerg8tsehk@ 4ax.com: > But hey, Larry wants flames ... when ATT buys Alltel, do we have to > all get GSM phones? No, it's called "churning"....(c; We all go shopping for a new cellphone company....ATT sucks! Larry SignatureHow much price inflation is caused by illegal aliens gobbling up goods and services, creating shortages for the natives? I heard 40%! > http://alltel.com/phones/audiovox/6700.html I had played with the Starcom at Alltel, before. Alltel has no broadband in Charleston, yet, so I redirected its wifi to the free internet service at Quiznos' deli shop right next door to the office. Then, I asked the sales girl why she told me hers was slow on 1X Alltel. "Look here. It works great!" and I showed her on the demo they had on the floor. The look on her face? - PRICELESS.... I showed her how to do it and made her swear on her virginity she wouldn't lie and show the customers how fast it was, using Quiznos' wifi to get real speed..(c; All these units are now GONE from the main store. Only the phone-only Blackberries and Moto PDAs remain. A salesman told me they were "discontinued", so I guess his was a lie or ignorance as I see they still have them, unhobbled. Of the units I've seen, I do like this one best. $619.99 retail? Hmm...Where do they get these prices, Mars? http://www.totallycellphones.com/1utppsp.html?gclid=CI-zo- XJ6IoCFRcTgQodeAWYlA (on Sprint, $149) Larry SignatureHow much price inflation is caused by illegal aliens gobbling up goods and services, creating shortages for the natives? I heard 40%! >> but the Alltel rep in those ads looks like a total dork. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Larry Uh, actually the e815 is one of the few phones, in the Alltel stable anyway, that is all digital. It has no analog component like the v710 it replaced. Alltel does still support the 800 mhz amps band. Around here though, you get full evdo..... Here, by the way is northern Louisiana. Instantwill Almost as good as fresh brewed!! > Uh, actually the e815 is one of the few phones, in the Alltel stable > anyway, that is all digital. It has no analog component like the v710 > it replaced. Alltel does still support the 800 mhz amps band. Around > here though, you get full evdo..... > > Here, by the way is northern Louisiana. Funny you should mention AMPS. Alltel has a NEW AMPS-capable, high- powered phone that plugs into the car, when you need the mobile power of AMPS in the country, then unplugs and goes in your pocket when you get away from the car: The phone is from Motorola, but I cannot located it like the girl in the Alltel RESELLER store did a couple of days ago. There is a car kit that installs for it that may have a 3W amp or not, but she told me it would work on the AMPS system and Alltel wouldn't be dumping AMPS in Feb08 like I hear about VZW. Sorry I couldn't find a URL on Alltel or Moto website. They probably keep it hidden from the public. Larry SignatureHow much price inflation is caused by illegal aliens gobbling up goods and services, creating shortages for the natives? I heard 40%! > Funny you should mention AMPS. Alltel has a NEW AMPS-capable, high- > powered phone that plugs into the car, when you need the mobile power of > AMPS in the country, then unplugs and goes in your pocket when you get > away from the car: When you think about it, it makes sense that Alltel is keeping AMPS and even offering such a phone as you describe. Alltel is primarily a rural-and-smaller-metro-area provider, just like they were with landlines before they spun off their landline business. My hometown (Cleveland, OH, 25th biggest city in the US), and probably Charlotte, NC, are the biggest markets they serve... SignatureSteve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room. > When you think about it, it makes sense that Alltel is keeping AMPS > and even offering such a phone as you describe. See my post on the NEW, MANLY Motorola M800 car/bagphone just posted..... http://www.motorola.com/consumer/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid= 6842e59e1572d010VgnVCM1000008206b00aRCRD&show=productHome MOTO has a new AMPS phone! Verizon customers - EAT YOUR HEARTS OUT! Larry SignatureYou sit at the bar, plop down your MANLY M800 bag next to your MANLY beer....Toyphone wimps flee in terror it may transmit and burn the fuzz off their........er, ah.....arms. Girls flock to the guy with the MANLY phone to run their hands over its leather case and feel the heat from its MANLY transmitter....AR AR! With emergency services, governments, oil companies and industry buying this....I think AMPS will be on-the-air for many years to come. It just WORKS out where the MEN are working! >> Uh, actually the e815 is one of the few phones, in the Alltel stable >> anyway, that is all digital. It has no analog component like the v710 [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >Larry This is the only one I've seen (bag phone that is) lately. It does work on CDMA but for Telus...... http://www.telusmobility.com/bc/pcs/handset_motorola_m800_bag_phone.shtml not cheap either... Will Instantwill Almost as good as fresh brewed!! > This is the only one I've seen (bag phone that is) lately. It does > work on CDMA but for Telus...... That's her! Ain't she BEAUTIFUL?!......(c; Larry SignatureHow much price inflation is caused by illegal aliens gobbling up goods and services, creating shortages for the natives? I heard 40%! |
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