I wanted/needed to share my experience travelling to Vegas using the 6600 with fellow owners.
I ripped 3 episodes of my favorite TV show to a 1GB SD card and put 70+ MP3s on it as well. I figured it would keep me occupied on the flights. The performance was fantastic, and I even played some games in between episodes.
During a layover I saw "Sideways" on DVD and wanted to get it and watch it on my laptop. The problem was, I had just reformatted my laptop and forgot to put a DVD app on it. Then I remembered...I have bluetooth dial-up networking. I found a spot to sit down, connected to my phone via bluetooth and downloaded some freeware DVD software. Instant movie theater on the next flight.
Right now, I am in my hotel room for a break. 9.95 a day for Internet in the hotel? Nope...just dial-up again. Enough to post this thread, upload my pictures to my website, and check my e-mail.
I agree, I live in philadelphia but i am in NYC for at least 1 week a month. This phone is perfect for anyone who travels.
The ability to be online while on the train is great, as is the video playback. Being able to pull out my phone and hop on an available wifi network to check directions or order movie tickets is worth the price of the phone in itself.
I have even been able to go for a few days at a time without my laptop and not miss it too much. I never thought id be saying that about a pdaphone.
I never thought I'd be in situation where a pda would untether me from my laptop, but as I sit here on vegas blvd after having won severaal hundred dollars in a hold 'em game...what was I saying?
ehud...you punk...evdo is going to make me dump sprint! seriously, there is no reason why they shouldn't be offering it
RICoder... good way to blow that few hundred. And Congrats. All I won was about $65.... but I was betting with $10 of my boss's money
Ok... he was telling me what to do... I was clueless... he sat beside me and lost about 2 grand...
ah well..
Save your few hundred and come over to the Verizon nightmare. Evdo is probably worth it. Of course I love it... now that I've got the unlimited plan it's pretty cool.
Didn't use it in Vegas... didn't have my computer and I'm still not 100% sure about getting phone calls with it enabled. Gonna try that now...
Later,
Kalash
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@#$@ upgrades... now I gotta write a new poem :rolleyes:
<a href="http://www.deviantart.com/view/8708895/">My I-700 makes YOUR phone look like poo.</a>
You can stream music, get a phone call, hang up, then it goes right back to the music stream!
I'm spoiled....
Sorry RIC... you're gonna have to get it...
Kalash
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@#$@ upgrades... now I gotta write a new poem :rolleyes:
<a href="http://www.deviantart.com/view/8708895/">My I-700 makes YOUR phone look like poo.</a>
I also love my 6600 for travel... I was on a two week cruise off the coast of South America and rather than paying the absolutely horrible rates for marginal internet service through the boat, I used my little 6600 to connect with my laptop. I was surprised how much coverage I got without going on roam... all throughout the Caribbean I had service and vision.
what exactly is EVDO?....my guess is just a faster way to get online and surf and do online things with your phone?.....$44 is alittle to pricy for me to leave sprint.....all i pay is $10 for unlimited vision and im on data ALL day long....
Originally posted by PDAshadow what exactly is EVDO?....my guess is just a faster way to get online and surf and do online things with your phone?.....$44 is alittle to pricy for me to leave sprint.....all i pay is $10 for unlimited vision and im on data ALL day long....
Yes it's a faster way to access data (the Internet) through a CDMA cell phone network. It's about twice as fast as current "Vision" or 1xRTT speeds. Sprint will start deploying it later this quarter, and into next year.
It's pricey, sure, but I find Vision speeds to be just barely tolerable. It's been a long time since I used a dial-up modem on the Internet, and 1xRTT feels like about 1/2 step above that. The latency is what kills it.
so once sprint rolls out EVDO do we have to change our plan set up or is it going to be automatically intergrated, meaning my $10 vision is going to move faster without me doing a thing?
Originally posted by PDAshadow so once sprint rolls out EVDO do we have to change our plan set up or is it going to be automatically intergrated, meaning my $10 vision is going to move faster without me doing a thing?
No one knows because Sprint hasn't announced pricing.
Originally posted by anovice I also love my 6600 for travel... I was on a two week cruise off the coast of South America and rather than paying the absolutely horrible rates for marginal internet service through the boat, I used my little 6600 to connect with my laptop. I was surprised how much coverage I got without going on roam... all throughout the Caribbean I had service and vision.
Your bleed over coverage is amazing. I live on the Canadian border and I cannot carry the U.S. signal a mile into Canada.
as far as I know the $45 PDA/Smartphone plan includes EVDO in supported areas and 1xrtt over the rest of verizons network. The $80 plan is for datacards only.
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