On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:45:35 -0500, "Peter Pan"
<pponvistaNOSPAM@MarcAlanNOSPAM.Info> wrote:

>
>FWIW, keep checking once in a while, Bitpim is user supported and new
>phones/features are added once in a while (that ones rather new and not
>added yet), and if you have the phones firmware/software updated, things may
>change (my e815 functions have changed - very slowly - over the years,
>specially when i had my e815 reflashed, and my sisters vx8300 - both no
>longer sold by verizon - sometimes have new features/functions supported in
>both bitpim and mpt)

Good advice.

If I needed a fully functional phone I'd be ticked (to put it mildly)
at the way Verizon (and other carriers) disable it. In this case,
it's a secondary cell phone for occasional and noncritical use.

Clearly most people would be better off buying a manufacturers'
unlocked phone even at greater up-front cost. Most people probably
don't know this. That's because they don't hang out in groups like
this :-)