Picture mail without Vision?

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David G. Imber - 26 Feb 2008 18:11 GMT

    I was looking at the "new and improved" bill (which is, in
fact, a slight improvement) and saw that I've had free Sprint Picture
Mail, apparently for the past two years without knowing it.

    I have no real need to use this service, but I'd like to ask
if it is possible to use it without a Vision plan, which I presently
do not have. I suspect it isn't, and that if I tried to share or
upload a photo (I don't actually even know how to use Picture Mail) I
would be charged a per/kb access fee.

    Can anyone advise? TIA DGI

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Andy - 27 Feb 2008 09:58 GMT

you need the USB cable for thephone and get susteens data pilot software it
allows you to manage you're contacts and photos on the phone you cant upload
pictures to it but you can copy or remove any you have on the phone or take
with the camera.

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> I was looking at the "new and improved" bill (which is, in
> fact, a slight improvement) and saw that I've had free Sprint Picture
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> Can anyone advise? TIA DGI

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David G. Imber - 28 Feb 2008 04:54 GMT

>you need the USB cable for thephone and get susteens data pilot software it
>allows you to manage you're contacts and photos on the phone you cant upload
>pictures to it but you can copy or remove any you have on the phone or take
>with the camera.

I already have all that (I use BitPim), but as I was saying,
according to my plan I have free picture mail, but I don't have a
Vision plan. I was just wondering whether you need one for the other.

Thanks anyway, DGI

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Andy - 28 Feb 2008 08:20 GMT

when i had it yes you had to have the basic VISION pack that gave you
unlimited internnet access its how the free picture online thing works.
i just got sick of paying 15 a month just to have it now i dont use it.

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> >you need the USB cable for thephone and get susteens data pilot software it
> >allows you to manage you're contacts and photos on the phone you cant upload
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> Thanks anyway, DGI

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dafydd - 28 Feb 2008 13:19 GMT

> I was looking at the "new and improved" bill (which is, in
> fact, a slight improvement) and saw that I've had free Sprint Picture
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> Can anyone advise? TIA DGI

It use to be that you would get charged .03 per kilobyte for using the
picturemail service without a vision or powervision add-on. However
recent changes have been made so that if you have the picturemail
feature without a vision add-on, that you will not be charged extra
for sending and receiving pictures via picturemail. These changes
happened during the June-July time frame.

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Ronald Laffey - 29 Feb 2008 03:53 GMT

You could always have just the Picture Mail Plan for $5/month but you
had to pay for data usage. If you had the $15/month Vision plan, Picture
Mail was part of it. Now, you can have the $5/month Picture Mail plan
and data usage with PM is free.

If you are lucky enough to have PM plan for free, and you don't have
Vision, there should be no data charge (any more). Any idea why you have
PM for free?

> I was looking at the "new and improved" bill (which is, in
> fact, a slight improvement) and saw that I've had free Sprint Picture
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>
> Can anyone advise? TIA DGI

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David G. Imber - 29 Feb 2008 10:00 GMT

>If you are lucky enough to have PM plan for free, and you don't have
>Vision, there should be no data charge (any more). Any idea why you have
>PM for free?

    Not really, no. When I negotiated my third two-year contract
they may have thrown it in and not told me. They told me they were
adding 7 pm nights and minutes, which at that time typically cost $5.
However, when I called back a few days later to see if they had the
plan I'd negotiated right, of course they didn't. They charged me for
the 7 pm start. They "didn't know how" to remove the charge. So they
gave me a "monthly recurring credit" of some-odd percent, which
returned $4 and chage of the $5. And they were apologetic for that, so
they may have thrown in the PM then.

    Sounds like Sprint CS, doesn't it?

    You can never arrange anything with them and expect them to
get it right the first time.

    When I checked my plan the other day and learned that I had
free PM, I learned that it was only on my phone, not my wife's. So I
told them to put it on hers, as we share the minutes as well and it
was only right. They did. I'm almost willing to bet that they screwed
something else up.

    DGI

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Seth Goodman - 29 Feb 2008 14:26 GMT

In article <13sf0e3qa8rn798@corp.supernews.com> on Thu, 28 Feb 2008
22:53:29 -0500, Ronald Laffey wrote:

> If you are lucky enough to have PM plan for free, and you don't have
> Vision, there should be no data charge (any more).

Some (alleged) Sprint employees on Howard Forums were discussing this
very topic yesterday. They said that although there should be no data
charge for Picture Mail usage(since last June), there have been cases
where people have been charged the .03/KB casual data rate, and have had
to call in to get it corrected.

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