Awesome Verizon phone salesman!

I was fortunate to get Matt when I called Verizon for my new every two
upgrade and have to return the favor by posting his number. This guy
is awesome - he answered all my questions and hooked me up with
amazing promotions. I got the VX8550 (Chocolate) for free plus the
4GB music kit (microSD card, Bluetooth stereo headphones, software &
USB cable) for less than I'd pay for the storage card alone (even on
discount online stores). His number is 866-745-4679, ext. 9537. If
you get his voicemail and leave a message with your number, he's
really good about calling back right away and Wednesdays are his days
off. By the way, the Chocolate/music kit promotion is going to expire
in early September - 3rd I think.

The only thing I'm not sure about his the battery life on the
Chocolate. I lose a bar in a day but am talking almost an hour and
using Bluetooth a little bit - please reply to this post if you have
this phone and experience the same thing (if something is wrong wtih
my battery, I want to get it taken care of so I'm not stuck with it
for two years). My old E815 didn't seem to do this but I wasn't
playing the music and using Bluetooth as much on it. Thanks!

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:25:22 -0000, VeltaM@gmail.com graced this
newsgroup with:

>I was fortunate to get Matt when I called Verizon for my new every two
>upgrade and have to return the favor by posting his number. This guy
>is awesome - he answered all my questions and hooked me up with
>amazing promotions. I got the VX8550 (Chocolate) for free plus the
>4GB music kit (microSD card, Bluetooth stereo headphones, software &
>USB cable) for less than I'd pay for the storage card alone (even on
>discount online stores). His number is 866-745-4679, ext. 9537. If
>you get his voicemail and leave a message with your number, he's
>really good about calling back right away and Wednesdays are his days
>off. By the way, the Chocolate/music kit promotion is going to expire
>in early September - 3rd I think.
>
>The only thing I'm not sure about his the battery life on the
>Chocolate. I lose a bar in a day but am talking almost an hour and
>using Bluetooth a little bit - please reply to this post if you have
>this phone and experience the same thing (if something is wrong wtih
>my battery, I want to get it taken care of so I'm not stuck with it
>for two years). My old E815 didn't seem to do this but I wasn't
>playing the music and using Bluetooth as much on it. Thanks!

congrats on the phone. they're practically giving their current stock
away. I'm into year 1.5 on mine. Battery life is about what you're
experiencing..just plug it into your charger every night before
going to bed and you'll be fine.

Verizon is shoving every current model of phone out the door as fast
as they can right now. Rumors have it that they're about to introduce
their own version of a ipod mini sized iphone and they know their
current phones will be just about worthless.

Max wrote:

>

> Rumors have it that they're about to introduce
> their own version of a ipod mini sized iphone and they know their
> current phones will be just about worthless.
>
Why? lots of people have no interest in doing anything except making and
receiving calls with their phones. Also others have trouble dealing with
complex "phones". For example my SIL has arthritis in her fingers and
can't deal with little buttons and gadgets.

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:25:22 -0000, VeltaM@gmail.com wrote:

>I was fortunate to get Matt when I called Verizon for my new every two
>upgrade and have to return the favor by posting his number. This guy
>is awesome - he answered all my questions and hooked me up with
>amazing promotions. I got the VX8550 (Chocolate) for free plus the
>4GB music kit (microSD card, Bluetooth stereo headphones, software &
>USB cable) for less than I'd pay for the storage card alone (even on
>discount online stores). His number is 866-745-4679, ext. 9537. If
>you get his voicemail and leave a message with your number, he's
>really good about calling back right away and Wednesdays are his days
>off. By the way, the Chocolate/music kit promotion is going to expire
>in early September - 3rd I think.
>
>The only thing I'm not sure about his the battery life on the
>Chocolate. I lose a bar in a day but am talking almost an hour and
>using Bluetooth a little bit - please reply to this post if you have
>this phone and experience the same thing (if something is wrong wtih
>my battery, I want to get it taken care of so I'm not stuck with it
>for two years). My old E815 didn't seem to do this but I wasn't
>playing the music and using Bluetooth as much on it. Thanks!

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"George" <george@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:bLudnTRc2KwYMUzbnZ2dnUVZ_tWdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> Max wrote:
>
>>
>
>> Rumors have it that they're about to introduce
>> their own version of a ipod mini sized iphone and they know their
>> current phones will be just about worthless.
>>
> Why? lots of people have no interest in doing anything except making and
> receiving calls with their phones. Also others have trouble dealing with
> complex "phones". For example my SIL has arthritis in her fingers and
> can't deal with little buttons and gadgets.

I feel the same way. I kind of miss my Wife's older oversized analog phone.
All it did was dial numbers. KISS keep it simple stupid.

What the cellphone companies want to do now is nickel and dime you to death
for little things that they hope you will get addicted too. i.e. photo
swapping, music, videos, inet, txtmsg etc etc. This is why it seems ALL the
new phones have cameras and other features whether you want them or not.

That makes it easy for teenagers to wrack up their parent's cell bill to
twice what it should be.

When I got verizon acct I asked for a basic phone with no camera or other
junk. They did not even cary such a model and gave me a strange look
because I wanted a basic only phone.

Thank God for blocking. Kid pays his own acct now so those days are over
LOL.

Gonzo wrote:

>
> I feel the same way. I kind of miss my Wife's older oversized analog phone.
> All it did was dial numbers. KISS keep it simple stupid.

LOL! You made me thing about our analog phone. It was a 3 Watt bag
phone. I'm glad I don't have to carry that heavy monster around with me
any longer. We still have it in the garage as we kept if for 911 when we
RV'd. The battery for that thing weighed at least 10 times more than
today's phones.

<snipped>
> When I got verizon acct I asked for a basic phone with no camera or other
> junk. They did not even cary such a model and gave me a strange look
> because I wanted a basic only phone.

I did see at least 2 phones in the VZW store yesterday that didn't have
cameras. This phone, the LG VX8300 and the last phone, the Moto V276 are
camera phones. In the 20 months I had the V276 one photo was taken. My
daughter took a photo of my granddaughter for wallpaper on the phone
this July. With all the clutter on the screen of the Moto, one couldn't
see the little girl anyway <g>.

I want a phone to make and receive calls. I'm not at all interested in
listening to music or V-casts (whatever they are). I don't live in a
major city so I'm not interested in the mapping stuff they now offer. If
the GPS in the phone will help emergency services find me (a process
that seems suspect), fine, but I don't need the bells and whistles. They
just happen to come with the phone I wanted because it is supposed to
get a stronger signal.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

Max wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:25:22 -0000, VeltaM@gmail.com graced this
> newsgroup with:
>
>> I was fortunate to get Matt when I called Verizon for my new
>
> Verizon is shoving every current model of phone out the door as fast
> as they can right now. Rumors have it that they're about to introduce
> their own version of a ipod mini sized iphone and they know their
> current phones will be just about worthless.
>
From what I've seen and read, I think the "mini sized iphone" you're
referring to may be the LG Prada, currently popular in Europe I believe.
The Prada come is a CDMA version which was due to be introduced to VZ in
August but got hung up due to some copyright infringement technicality which
I think VZ is trying to work out.

Here: http://www.pradaphonebylg.com/

My 2 years is up in October and I'm hoping that phone makes it here by then.

Carl wrote:
> Max wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:25:22 -0000, VeltaM@gmail.com graced this
>> newsgroup with:
>>
>>> I was fortunate to get Matt when I called Verizon for my new
>>
>> Verizon is shoving every current model of phone out the door as fast
>> as they can right now. Rumors have it that they're about to introduce
>> their own version of a ipod mini sized iphone and they know their
>> current phones will be just about worthless.
>>
> From what I've seen and read, I think the "mini sized iphone" you're
> referring to may be the LG Prada, currently popular in Europe I
> believe. The Prada come is a CDMA version which was due to be
> introduced to VZ in August but got hung up due to some copyright
> infringement technicality which I think VZ is trying to work out.
>
> Here: http://www.pradaphonebylg.com/
>
> My 2 years is up in October and I'm hoping that phone makes it here
> by then.

Sorry, typo correction: "The Prada come is a CDMA version" should read "The
Prada comes in a CDMA version".

Janet Wilder wrote:
>
> I want a phone to make and receive calls. I'm not at all interested in
> listening to music or V-casts (whatever they are). I don't need the bells
> and
> whistles. They just happen to come with the phone I wanted because it
> is supposed to get a stronger signal.
>
I'm with you on this 100%. I wish they would focus on improving the use of
the cell phone as a phone and forget about trying to make it an
all-inclusive gadget which does nothing that well.

I'd like to see more reliable and consistent service and, and this may seem
like a petty matter to some, but I'd like to see a better vibrator alert
system. I rely on that a lot and often can't feel it vibrate when I need to.
The last phone that did that well was the Motorola V60, my favorite of all.
In addition, the ability to choose larger fonts for caller i.d., clock and
phone book would be preferable over an additional megapixel in the camera.