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Verizon Wireless shared data plans

Admin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:20:00 +0000

Verizon Wireless plans to have shared data plans for the family. Great news for a family of 5 all with smarthphones. Currently each line carrying a smartphone requires a data package of $30 for 2 GB of data. So if I have 5 lines on my family plan with data that’s an extra $150 a month.
Now in the coming days we will be able to pick a bucket of data and all lines can share the data.

If Verizon Wireless uses the same packages as they have now 5 lines can share 2 GB for $30, 5 GB for $50 or 10 GB for $80. That’s a huge saving over the current data plans. The overage I think will still be $10 a GB over the alloted amount. I also think they will include simple phones on the family pan that also can share in this bucket of data.

I don’t recommend the $30 data package for more than 3 smarthphones unless you are using a Blackberry or you know that this package will cover your needs. You can always check your usage online with an Verizon Wireless usage application or by dialing #data (#3282) send from your device.

The promo data plan for simple phones ends September 30th it was extended another month st and I think right after that the shared data plans will be offered.

Verizon Wireless $10 data for simple phones is a great deal

Admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:44:00 +0000

Verizon Wireless has a data bundle package for simple phones. Simple phones are the phones that are not Smartphones like the Samsung Intensity, LG Octane or any of the flip phones.
The $10 package includes 75 Megabytes of data, Mobile Email, Navagation and Ringback tones.
A great alternative for someone who does not want a Smartphone but wants Email, Web or Navigation and the its not mandatory on these types of phones you can add and remove the feature when you want but this package is a limited promo offer.
If you add it and then later decide to remove the promo package at a later time there is no guarantee that the package would be available at a later time.
The 75 Megabytes data package alone was $10, Navigation $10, Mobile Email $5 and Ringback tones .99 cents that’s almost $26 worth of services for only $10 monthly.

Offer ends August 31

FREE SAMSUNG TEXTING PHONE for Verizon Wireless offer ends July 31

MetroPCS blocks data usage too some websites

Admin — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:18:54 +0000

In its new scheme, MetroPCS is advertising unlimited talk, text, ‘Web browsing’ and YouTube at a base price of $40 per month, with additional features like mobile instant messaging or access to audio downloads available on higher tiers for another $10 or $20 per month,” the letter states. “Notable among these ‘additional features’ is the use of a category of Internet content, websites, applications, and services labeled by MetroPCS as ‘Data Access.’ Although this category is ambiguous, various news reports, documents, and statements provided by MetroPCS indicate that it includes popular Internet applications and services, including Skype and Netflix. Users of the base MetroPCS plan apparently will not have access to such Internet content, websites, applications, and services. Users of the intermediate plan will have their use of such services capped at 1 GB per month, even though these users can continue to use their mobile broadband plans for other content, applications and services (most notably, some forms of web browsing, along with YouTube video viewing). By selectively blocking or capping the use of some Internet content, websites, applications, and services, MetroPCS appears to be in violation of the Commission’s recently adopted open Internet rules.

why the Motorola Backflip sales are low

Admin — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:12:39 +0000

Why the Motorola Backflip sales are low is because the device is a little complicated to understand. This is the first Android operating system device for AT&T and soon to come an HTC and Dell version. Android is Google’s operating system for mobile devices. The Backflip is Motorola Smartphone using Android.

First the Backflip screen is sometimes cluttered with applications and most users do not know how to clean it up to their liking. Second the form factor of having the keyboard on the outside when the device is closed confuses most people. They are not used to seeing the keyboard exposed when the device is closed. Third navigating through its menus is not the easiest, I was confused when trying to use the GPS. I would have thought the Google maps would be the default GPS but the first two GPS applications I saw was AT&T maps and the AT&T Telenav. I am not sure about the first but AT&T Telenav cost $10 a month. It gives you one month free to try it then you must cancel. A lot of customer get this service added by accident.

The keyboard is too flat, the letters should be raised a little. It is hard to do one handed texts or emails. The battery life is terrible, I can’t go a full day. I miss a lot of calls because of reception issues, when sitting next to the Backflip and call it from my Blackberry a lot of times it goes to voicemail.
I tried sending a ringtone by MMS and the Backflip can play the song but I can not save as a ringtone.
(I found a free ringtone application Secret Garden for Android)
My experience with this smartphone is both good and bad. Let me explain how I got a free Motorola Backflip for myself.

AT&T and Motorola had a sales contest for the first few weeks after the launch of the Motorola Backflip. AT&T had this contest in a few markets mine being South Florida. We had to complete two online trainings on the Backflip and submit our sales on a Challenge Rewards website. The contest would give the top sellers in that market a free Motorola Backflip for the most sales entered that week. It was a four week contest and every week you would enter your sales and about 4-5 Backflips were giving out per region. I won my Motorola Backflip in the second week of the contest. I ONLY SOLD ONE! That’s was pathetic for South Florida one of the largest markets for cell phones.

We are now selling a little more and I mean a little and a lot of them come back with the customer complaining that’s its too complicated. Luckily I have not had any returns from my customers yet since I was able to show them how to use the phone a little better.

I am still learning the Backflip but so far I realized the voice dialing sucks, the screen sometimes jumps into a menu by accident and Bluetooth pairing with my Blackberry stereo gateway is very difficult. It could be me but if its hard for me an experience cell phone user the average user would be frustrated.

this is a display we got from Motorola

Bolt Browser upgrade

Admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:21:00 +0000

I got an email this morning from Bolt, it said. “Thanks to the contributions of over two million beta testers like you, we are proud to announce that we’re officially dropping the beta tag with today’s release of BOLT 1.5.You will be automatically prompted to upgrade the next time you launch BOLT.Many of the most significant upgrades occur “under the hood,” but you are sure to notice the results – v1.5 is the most reliable, fastest browser we have ever released – more than 15% faster than Beta3.Other new features include the ability to stream videos of any length, a dedicated search bar, a download manager that downloads files directly from BOLT, improved navigation and text rendering, and a caching feature that enables browsing back to a previously visited page without waiting to reload.”
I downloaded the new version and it is faster, then I went YouTube, I was promted to run a wizard for Bolt to test my Video settings. Then the YouTube video played in the Bolt browser, it used to save the video before playing it. It still has issues a four minute video froze a lot, I then switched to WiFi and it was not much better playing the videos on YouTube.
I do like this browser a lot for normal web browsing but it still needs to work on video playback. The best so far is the Skyfire browser that works on my Blackjack 2 but still is not ready for Blackberry. Bolt Browser first trial

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