A few days ago, I was merrier than Christmas when Verizon Motorola introduced their new V710 Bluetooth phone for Verizon Wireless.
All I can say is that I’m glad that I didn’t lock myself into another 2-year contract yet.
Bluetooth Crippled in Verizon’s New Motorola V710So in case you were thinking about all the cool stuff you were going to be able to do via Bluetooth with your spanky new Moto V710 on Verizon’s CDMA 2000 1x network, forget about it. It only supports handsfree use. Arguably, one of the main reasons that people have been so excited about this phone is the potential of using Bluetooth on a CDMA phone for the first time, but nope, the phone’s been crippled.
First I tried to send the V710 an image I took with my S60 Nokia phone and it refused - even though I could see the phone while browsing Bluetooth devices. It didn’t prompt to pair or anything, it just canceled the transfer. Then Vineet went into the photos section of the Moto and tried to “send via Bluetooth” as you would normally do, but there was no option of that sort. Since my Moto A845 which has an identical UI has that ability, this phone has obviously been made so that only Bluetooth headsets are supported.Gotta love carrier paranoia, no?
Well, I’m sick and tired of those asshats at Verizon. When I and other customers demanded a Bluetooth phone, we wanted a full-functioning phone for data/photo transfer, pairing to PDAs, the BT headsets of our choice, and wireless sync between computers. Instead, they deliberately foist a $400 device that’s utterly worthless upon their customer base.
Well, Verizon, can you hear me now?!? Good. NOW HEAR THIS:
Take your V710 and shove it. And when you’re finished doing that, you numbnuts can “join in” on kissing my rear end.
I’m canceling my account immediately and taking my business to either Cingular Wireless or AT&T Wireless keeping my secondary carrier, T-Mobile. I’m sure one of those carriers will gladly welcome by business and offer me a strong signal andWhile their GSM coverage isn’t as wide as your CDMA network is, at least they will offer me a FULLY FUNCTIONAL Bluetooth phone.
You had your chance to make your Bluetooth base happy and you blew it. Now I’m voting with my wallet — and I hope other angry Verizon customers will follow suit.
Update: Follow-ups to this entry can be found here and here.
That sucks, I was looking forward to the new Motorola V710. Hey, it still have a 1 Meg Pix camera. Well, i guess i have to wait for something else more interesting. But I have to say, Cingular and AT&T Wireless coverage sucks.
http://www.blackpundit.com
Yeah, but Cingular’s rollover minutes are beginning to sound like a potential deal maker.
Cingular’s coverage stinks. AT&T’s is worse.
Cingular’s rollover minutes is a good market strategy. I guess they have to do something that makes up in coverage. My number one priority is quality, followed by everything else. What about sprint? The have some really cool phones.
http://www.blackpundit.com
Oh yea, before you go signing a new contract for two years, you might want to wait until the 1xEV-DO phones come out, this will support data rates up to 2.4 Mbps. I hear it should be available by the end of this year. All the current phones now are 1xRTT, which supports up to 144 Kbps.
http://www.blackpundit.com
Well, it looks like I’ll be keeping my T-Mobile account then. So far, I haven’t had any major problems with reception, except when indoors.
Verizon may have better coverage, but it doen’t mean squat if I can’t use all the features on their crippled Bluetooth phone. Unless they decide to unlock BT features for PDAs and other devices, I’ll have no other choice but to vote with my wallet.
I hate to do this to you Bro, but NEENER, NEENER, NEENER!
http://www.grupo-utopia.com/blog/isou/archives/2004/08/okay_this_thing.html
I understand your frustrations, but Dude, Decaf! Please!
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Angry Verizon Customer
Darmon Thornton is really mad at Verizon.
I honestly can’t say I blame him, and I don’t even care about Bluetooth.
Cingularâ??s rollover minutes is a good market strategy
Ahmmm, yes. BUT, if you have a bunch of minutes left at the end of the month, then maybe you should consider that Cingular is charging you for a bunch of extra minutes when they should be advising you to go on a lower minute plan?!?! Cingular make a fortune off rollover.
Verizon calls their customer if they see that that customer is not using a bulk of their minutes.
Finally, your link about the problems with the V710 has mostly been updated to say he was wrong.
If you go to Cingular or AT&T, you’ll get little of the coperage and service you’re getting with Verizon Wireless. Just go to J.D. Power or Consumer Reports. Verizon Wireless beats the rest by a large margin.
And Tavares? Don’t even get me started on Sprint!!
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