Cingular 8525 phone

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:28:38 -0700, Kurt <labolide@spacegmail.com>
wrote:

>In article <evnp3l02uiq@enews4.newsguy.com>,
> "Don Udel \(ETC\)" <donudel@ellijay.com> wrote:
>
>> Why bother to ask if you had already made up you mind? Exactly where is
>> Palm OS headed? Even Treo has seen the light. For integrating with a
>> Windows environment, WM beats Palm hands down. iPhone OS, who knows?
>> iPhone extensibility? I'll believe it when I see it.
>
>But many of us are happy not integrating with Windows, or having
>anything to do with it.

Apple has learned that when anyone can sell software for your phone,
some may in a rush to market fail to properlyor completely follow
programming guidelines, and deliver a product than can cause other
phone functions to mis-perform. Treo's and Windows Mobile are all too
likely to Lock Up from this effect.

You lose extensibility, you gain stability. Pick your poison.

At 14 Apr 2007 11:15:26 +0000 karlkrandall@sbcglobal.net wrote:

> some may in a rush to market fail to properlyor completely follow
> programming guidelines, and deliver a product than can cause other
> phone functions to mis-perform. Treo's and Windows Mobile are all too
> likely to Lock Up from this effect.
>
> You lose extensibility, you gain stability. Pick your poison.

But that's the point, isn't it? With WinMobile, Palm, or Symbian I CAN
pick my poison, or choose not to- I can weigh the benefits of added
functionality vs. the "poison" of potential instabilitity. With iPhone,
I WON'T get a bite at the poison apple...

I'm posting this from a mildly unstable app right now. It's a freeware
mail app with an excellent newsreader that very occasionally locks my
phone up as tight as the proverbial drum, but for price, features and
flexibility, (HTML e-mail, newsreader and RSS feed support) I'm much
happier with QMail than without it.

On Apr 12, 8:33 am, karlkrand...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> I'm about to come into a Cingular 8525 phone,
> and have a decision to make.
>
> 1. Use it, then sell it on ebay when iPhone comes out in ~ 2 months.
> ($350 ?)
>
> 2. Sell it new in Box for top dollar on ebay. ($425 ?)
>
> Anyone with experience with this "SmartPhone " ?
>
> I do know one needs to ask for the SmartPhone Connect Plan (at $19.99
> /month); rather than be sold a more expensive data plan.

The 8525 isa buggy phone and has been plagued by screen issues since
launch. I don't know if anyone would even buy it except for spare
parts - course you could pawn it off on someone who doesn't have a
clue about the history of the phone.

3GFreak
www.mobilevertigo.com

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:15:26 GMT, karlkrandall@sbcglobal.net wrote in
<aod123ten84o8a9ping5q6njil35m1v4cv@4ax.com>:

>Apple has learned that when anyone can sell software for your phone,
>some may in a rush to market fail to properlyor completely follow
>programming guidelines, and deliver a product than can cause other
>phone functions to mis-perform. Treo's and Windows Mobile are all too
>likely to Lock Up from this effect.
>
>You lose extensibility, you gain stability. Pick your poison.

Not necessarily. Java was designed from the ground up to avoid that
problem, part of why many phones feature Java (J2ME) support. So it's
more an excuse for lock-in than a valid reason. Much like not
supporting other portable players in iTunes.

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John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>