08-01-2003, 04:58 PM
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Join Date: 01-27-2003
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Originally posted by afwen
There are two problems with this:
1) You have to be connected to Vision to send an email. This is slow and possibly expensive depending on your plan, and you can't receive phone calls while you are connected.
2) When someone sends an SMS to you, it arrives as a shortmail, not a text message. There is no good way to read your shortmail, since you can't access Sprint's WAP pages with your I500.
I understand (pray?) that I500SMS will allow me to send an SMS without being connected, and to receive SMS's as 1-way text notifications.
-Alvin
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1) You have to be connected to vision to send email or sms on Sprint. Since Sprint does not provide a true MO-SMS, everything is essentially through the data network. Also, unless you have a free and clear plan, vision should be unlimited for most SPH users.
2) Are you sure about that? If someone sends a message to mynumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com, I get a text message on my Treo 300? I don't have to access any site to read it...
3) Like I said above, you have to be connected to vision to use an app like Treo300SMS and probably I500SMS. This usually isn't a problem b/c you just keep vision connected 24/7 unless you experience problems like turbo drain. However, I haven't heard if any i5 users have expereiced that problem as of yet. If you're paying more $50/month and you have a free and clear plan, then you should really consider switching to a free and clear plan w/vision. It's truely worth it... |
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