Fido and camera phones

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JF Mezei - 13 Dec 2003 07:20 GMT

Another example of how the lack of camera phone advertising is hirting Fido.

By 12 year old nephew who has a low end Fido phone was told by him mom that
Fido doesn'T have camera phones. So he sees tnose Telus ads on TV and wants a
telus phone.

Had Fido been advertising camera phones, my nephew would have realised that
his mother was just trying to find an excuse not to give him a camera phone.

So, being his devilish uncle, I told him to go on the fido web site and check
out the phones...

BTW, is there a way to disable games and the calculator on phones ? (how will
teachers prevent students from using their phone as a calculator during exams ?)

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... - 13 Dec 2003 07:48 GMT

> BTW, is there a way to disable games and the calculator on phones ? (how will
> teachers prevent students from using their phone as a calculator during exams ?)

easily by requiring that students by stand-alone calculators ..
all schools have policies that ban the use of cell-phones, pda's, or any
other non-school board approved translation device, obviously only
applicable if the student is an exchange, new resident, or ESL.

but i agree that fido needs to focus more on cool phone features than the
probably less appreciated "free fido to fido deals" (clearly trying to
appeal to people to buy phones as a family/recommend fido to others, but
nonetheless more of a product to pitch after a customer is initially
interested imo)

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jay - 13 Dec 2003 17:49 GMT

> > BTW, is there a way to disable games and the calculator on phones ? (how
> will
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> nonetheless more of a product to pitch after a customer is initially
> interested imo)

I'm sure once Fido has MMS they'll advertise it, till then..it's a
waste of money, and they have to use anythign they can towards city
Fido ebcause we all know when that comes..camera phones won't matter.

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repatch - 13 Dec 2003 18:13 GMT

> > > BTW, is there a way to disable games and the calculator on phones ? (how
> > will
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> waste of money, and they have to use anythign they can towards city
> Fido ebcause we all know when that comes..camera phones won't matter.

Plus the churn for people who join just for a camera phone is probably
much higher then for a "normal" customer. TTYL

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LaHeO - 23 Dec 2003 22:37 GMT

> > > BTW, is there a way to disable games and the calculator on phones ? (how
> will
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> waste of money, and they have to use anythign they can towards city
> Fido ebcause we all know when that comes..camera phones won't matter.

Hi guys, MMS seems to be coming begining of 2004 for FIDO customer.
Since the service is not there yet, it's still complicated & expensive
to send a picture. Telus charge .25¢/picture, when using your FIDO
handset you have to use GPRS, sent it by email, so yuo need to
confirgure your email from your internet company, etc...So if you pay
per use at .03¢/kb, it come expensive real fast.

But don't worry, the camera phones FIDO currently sales are selling
crazy (ex: Ericsson T-616, out of stock from shipping dept)

Cheers!

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repatch - 13 Dec 2003 15:51 GMT

> BTW, is there a way to disable games and the calculator on phones ? (how will
> teachers prevent students from using their phone as a calculator during exams ?)

Umm, by banning phones from exams? That's what universities do.

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