Q. Can high-performance devices play here? A. Maybe!
All,
As you read this Wall Street Journal piece, think Mobile Warrior MVNO and state-of-the-art devices. If it wished to, PDAPhH could even be the 'carrier'. And yes, Mods could be paid!
(Emphasis added.)
--BAM
Now Everybody Can Be a Cellphone Company
By AMOL SHARMA
May 7, 2007
The National Wildlife Federation reaches out to its five million members and supporters through direct mail, the Web and email. Now it's trying something new: its own cellphone service.
The organization launched NWF Mobile in April, offering a line of phones and service plans tailored to wildlife enthusiasts and activists. The group's phones feature ringtones that croak like frogs and chirp like birds, provide updates on environmental news and, someday, will allow users to call their congressmen at the touch of a button.
"What I saw was a new opportunity to communicate with our constituents," says Greg Griffith, director of cause-related marketing at the federation. "Just about everybody is getting a cellphone, and the younger generation is using them for just about everything."
NWF Mobile is one of a host of new mobile services targeting micro-markets, tiny niches that no cellphone giant would have the time or expertise to penetrate. A California entrepreneur recently launched a service aimed at yoga practitioners -- a market he sizes at roughly 20 million in the U.S. The Chicago Bandits women's professional softball team is selling a service that provides regular text-message updates on standings and schedules, along with team photos. There's a company targeting cancer survivors, one for members of a Christian group, and one whose market is moms who are entrepreneurs: "Mums in Business Mobile."
Behind the new launches is a former Microsoft executive whose new venture, Sonopia Corp., allows any organization or club to start a wireless company "in 15 minutes or less" online. The company, based in Menlo Park, Calif., has signed up nearly 900 organizations to create their own service, with relevant features, news and content for members of their respective groups.
Sonopia helps each organization design custom phones based on existing handset models from major manufacturers, and it helps the groups lease network access from Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC, to carry phone calls and data. Sonopia also manages monthly billing and customer service, though each organization's name -- NWF or Chicago Bandits -- is what appears on the customers' bill.
Most of the micro-niche providers aren't in it for the money -- and that's a good thing, considering they only get about 3% to 8% of the revenue from monthly service plans. The rest goes to Verizon and Sonopia. Instead, most of the groups use the service as a self-sustaining way to promote themselves or their causes and keep members or customers engaged.
Cellphone companies targeting much broader niches by buying network access from carriers have had mixed success. The idea was tainted somewhat by the failure of ESPN's mobile venture last year. Walt Disney Co.'s cable network shut down the phone service after struggling to find customers interested in its sports-oriented phones. Other providers have done better -- such as Virgin Mobile USA, a joint venture between Sprint Nextel Corp. and Virgin Group PLC that has built a base of 4.9 million customers largely by targeting teenage users with its pay-as-you-go service. Companies like Amp'd Mobile Inc. and Helio, a joint venture of EarthLink Inc. and SK Telecom Co., are selling high-end devices with media and GPS services, charging customers over $100 per month, double what major carriers get.
The challenge for these operators is to find a big enough market to justify their investments in marketing specialty devices and service plans. It's not clear that they will. For Sonopia Chief Executive Juha Christensen, who has years of experience in the wireless software and handset business, the solution is to think about even smaller niches. He says businesses have yet to tap the powerful identification people have with communities, organizations and groups that share common interests.
It's still too early to tell whether his approach will work, especially when Sonopia has to share revenue with two parties. But the company says it keeps its costs down by relying on its partner organizations for marketing and keeping most of its staff in Ukraine, where labor costs are lower. While some of the organizations it works with would be lucky to sign up a few thousand customers, if Sonopia can reach a total of 100,000 customers, it will break even, the company says. Some investors are betting on the model: Mr. Christensen has raised $21.3 million through a trio of venture firms, Cardinal Venture Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, and ComVentures.
[Note: Sevin Rosen was Compaq's original VC; ComVentures assisted Broadcom.]
NWF Mobile offers a Motorola Razr on its Web site for $50 with a two-year contract. It sells plans ranging from $40 per month for 450 minutes to $97 for 2,800 minutes, prices that track closely with Verizon's. Mr. Griffith says the NWF phones send out text-message blasts notifying members of volunteer opportunities. Down the road, he plans to add a function that will let people press a button to call their congressmen about a pending dispute in Washington -- say, the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Yoga Phone service, which is already live but will launch formally in June, was created by Johannes Fisslinger, a devotee of the discipline for 20 years who now runs a Los Angeles-based organization called Yoga Revolution Inc. The phones offer yoga news and blogs. Mr. Fisslinger, a 43-year-old native of Germany who learned yoga when traveling in India and Japan, says he's considering adding inspirational text messages and a video that will have a "pose of the day."
"I felt there was a need to tap into the huge yoga market," Mr. Fisslinger says. "It has huge potential."
Mr. Fisslinger is striking partnerships with other yoga organizations, such as the magazine Yoga Journal, to help market the service and provide content for it. He says the proceeds from his service will go to the Yoga for a Cure Foundation, which funds efforts aimed at improving people's "health, vitality and personal well-being."
It's all overrated.. and Yes. Happy B-day - HOPE you get an I760 for yours (Belated or not).
Thanks, dangerous. I'm making it official, in light of the delayed release of the i760, I'm delaying my 40th birthday until "late" June or, if jpurv is correct, until July. Although I lose out on a new pdaphonehome, I win with longetivity and youthfulness.
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Ok. so from now on we will refer to the release date of the i760 as Jay's birthday... that should screw up those late to the forums... I can see it now "why the hell is jay's birthday so important? He a vzw pres or something?"
hehe.
That being said, I guess that gives me time to see what else is out there. I don't know if the MVNO is the answer as you're still restricted to the phones VZW allows on their network in some fashion. Not like unlocked phones. However, the MVNO idea might come in handy to getting the right plans in place for the phone passionate. Possibly getting around data limits or usage issues. But once again, yer still limited by what VZW and possibly Sonopia will allow you to do...
It's very likely that, through Sonopia, any advanced CDMA device would be approved by VZW. We say this because 1) VZW already handles virtually all of the best handsets, 2) VZW's recent attitude toward activation of "foreign" devices is fairly liberal, and 3) Sonopia will have leverage.
For example, were our "vanity" MVNO now in place, it could almost certainly obtain and deploy i760s today.
Now, things get more complex when design changes beckon. Let's say we wanted a QCOM Rev A chip, or 256MB of RAM, or a 3mpx cam (or a no-cam version for Brother ffballid). Our MVNO might have to commit to 10k units in order to get this done. On the other hand, other Sonopia MVNOs might share the burden, so it's not mere fantasy.
The firmware side is a no-brainer. You want embedded Flash? Java R/T? Javascript? Adobe Reader? Opera? BB Connect? Zip support? Picsel? Photon upgrade (when available)? Done.
No matter how you slice it, affinity/vanity MVNOs are more flexible and opportunistic (and perhaps less expensive) than the current model. If it can execute, Sonopia should be hugely successful. It could actually hatch the cure for..."Wireless Rant Disease."
I still say the optimal scenario would be the same scenario that we have with our ISP and PC manufactures.
As soon as this becomes reality in the cell industry all these other things mentioned in the article will fade and be replaced by subscription services just like we do now with our PC's.
Mark
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VZW, It's 2009! Time to embrace technology, not suppress it. - oops too late I've moved on over to the iPhone w/ AT$T!
Unfortunately, the reality is that PCs work on global standards and therefore can all connect to ANY ISP. Due to differing radio technologies, the wireless carriers were able to get a stronghold on the manufacturers (instead of vice-versa.)
Reversing this dynamic my take nothing short of an act of congress or some national revolt. Hmmmm....million man march on each carriers corporate office?
"Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you—
Ye are many—they are few."
One of my main disappointments with the 730 was the lack of a good case. Everything was either incredibly expensive or hit random buttons etc. I spent the last two years trying different cases and have still stuck with the OEM holster. I am hoping some manufacturers can whip out some slick minimal bulk adding cases quickly.
Mrailing, when you saw the 760 of Ethan's did you get a chance to note what kind of case it was in / comes with?
Ok. so from now on we will refer to the release date of the i760 as Jay's birthday... that should screw up those late to the forums... I can see it now "why the hell is jay's birthday so important? He a vzw pres or something?"
I love it!
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-Jay The Fine Print:Nothing in this post (or any of my other posts) is intended to constitute legal advice or the establishment of an attorney-client relationship. For purposes of this forum, I'm just another nerd like you. :-)
..."Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you—
Ye are many—they are few."
Since no one seems to mind going OT in this thread - One of my pet peeves is unattributed quotes. If anyone was wondering, that's from Shelly's "The Mask of Anarchy", One of the great poems of all time. My favorite passage from it is :
'Thou art Wisdom - Freemen never
Dream that God will damn for ever
All who think those things untrue
Of which Priests make such ado...
'Science, Poetry, and Thought
Are thy lamps; they make the lot
Of the dwellers in a cot
So serene, they curse it not."
As you read this Wall Street Journal piece, think Mobile Warrior MVNO and state-of-the-art devices. If it wished to, PDAPhH could even be the 'carrier'. And yes, Mods could be paid!
(Emphasis added.)
--BAM
Now Everybody Can Be a Cellphone Company
By AMOL SHARMA
May 7, 2007
The National Wildlife Federation reaches out to its five million members and supporters through direct mail, the Web and email. Now it's trying something new: its own cellphone service.
The organization launched NWF Mobile in April, offering a line of phones and service plans tailored to wildlife enthusiasts and activists. The group's phones feature ringtones that croak like frogs and chirp like birds, provide updates on environmental news and, someday, will allow users to call their congressmen at the touch of a button.
"What I saw was a new opportunity to communicate with our constituents," says Greg Griffith, director of cause-related marketing at the federation. "Just about everybody is getting a cellphone, and the younger generation is using them for just about everything."
NWF Mobile is one of a host of new mobile services targeting micro-markets, tiny niches that no cellphone giant would have the time or expertise to penetrate. A California entrepreneur recently launched a service aimed at yoga practitioners -- a market he sizes at roughly 20 million in the U.S. The Chicago Bandits women's professional softball team is selling a service that provides regular text-message updates on standings and schedules, along with team photos. There's a company targeting cancer survivors, one for members of a Christian group, and one whose market is moms who are entrepreneurs: "Mums in Business Mobile."
Behind the new launches is a former Microsoft executive whose new venture, Sonopia Corp., allows any organization or club to start a wireless company "in 15 minutes or less" online. The company, based in Menlo Park, Calif., has signed up nearly 900 organizations to create their own service, with relevant features, news and content for members of their respective groups.
Sonopia helps each organization design custom phones based on existing handset models from major manufacturers, and it helps the groups lease network access from Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC, to carry phone calls and data. Sonopia also manages monthly billing and customer service, though each organization's name -- NWF or Chicago Bandits -- is what appears on the customers' bill.
Most of the micro-niche providers aren't in it for the money -- and that's a good thing, considering they only get about 3% to 8% of the revenue from monthly service plans. The rest goes to Verizon and Sonopia. Instead, most of the groups use the service as a self-sustaining way to promote themselves or their causes and keep members or customers engaged.
Cellphone companies targeting much broader niches by buying network access from carriers have had mixed success. The idea was tainted somewhat by the failure of ESPN's mobile venture last year. Walt Disney Co.'s cable network shut down the phone service after struggling to find customers interested in its sports-oriented phones. Other providers have done better -- such as Virgin Mobile USA, a joint venture between Sprint Nextel Corp. and Virgin Group PLC that has built a base of 4.9 million customers largely by targeting teenage users with its pay-as-you-go service. Companies like Amp'd Mobile Inc. and Helio, a joint venture of EarthLink Inc. and SK Telecom Co., are selling high-end devices with media and GPS services, charging customers over $100 per month, double what major carriers get.
The challenge for these operators is to find a big enough market to justify their investments in marketing specialty devices and service plans. It's not clear that they will. For Sonopia Chief Executive Juha Christensen, who has years of experience in the wireless software and handset business, the solution is to think about even smaller niches. He says businesses have yet to tap the powerful identification people have with communities, organizations and groups that share common interests.
It's still too early to tell whether his approach will work, especially when Sonopia has to share revenue with two parties. But the company says it keeps its costs down by relying on its partner organizations for marketing and keeping most of its staff in Ukraine, where labor costs are lower. While some of the organizations it works with would be lucky to sign up a few thousand customers, if Sonopia can reach a total of 100,000 customers, it will break even, the company says. Some investors are betting on the model: Mr. Christensen has raised $21.3 million through a trio of venture firms, Cardinal Venture Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, and ComVentures.
[Note: Sevin Rosen was Compaq's original VC; ComVentures assisted Broadcom.]
NWF Mobile offers a Motorola Razr on its Web site for $50 with a two-year contract. It sells plans ranging from $40 per month for 450 minutes to $97 for 2,800 minutes, prices that track closely with Verizon's. Mr. Griffith says the NWF phones send out text-message blasts notifying members of volunteer opportunities. Down the road, he plans to add a function that will let people press a button to call their congressmen about a pending dispute in Washington -- say, the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Yoga Phone service, which is already live but will launch formally in June, was created by Johannes Fisslinger, a devotee of the discipline for 20 years who now runs a Los Angeles-based organization called Yoga Revolution Inc. The phones offer yoga news and blogs. Mr. Fisslinger, a 43-year-old native of Germany who learned yoga when traveling in India and Japan, says he's considering adding inspirational text messages and a video that will have a "pose of the day."
"I felt there was a need to tap into the huge yoga market," Mr. Fisslinger says. "It has huge potential."
Mr. Fisslinger is striking partnerships with other yoga organizations, such as the magazine Yoga Journal, to help market the service and provide content for it. He says the proceeds from his service will go to the Yoga for a Cure Foundation, which funds efforts aimed at improving people's "health, vitality and personal well-being."
Sonopia on FierceWireless' "Fierce 15, 2007": Sonopia
I think the only problem with becoming our own carrier is we still don't have access to the phones. Most of the phones developed these days are for sale direct to the "big guys" and even then, with exclusivity agreements, you won't be able to get the phones like the i760 until after the exclusivity has expired...
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Originally Posted by beaversoc
One of my main disappointments with the 730 was the lack of a good case. Everything was either incredibly expensive or hit random buttons etc. I spent the last two years trying different cases and have still stuck with the OEM holster. I am hoping some manufacturers can whip out some slick minimal bulk adding cases quickly.
Mrailing, when you saw the 760 of Ethan's did you get a chance to note what kind of case it was in / comes with?
When I originally saw the i760, he pulled it out of his pocket, without a case. Nothing on or around it, just the phone. And again, I only had around two minutes with it.
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"Ethan" stood me up today, but I 'might' get to see him tomorrow. He had a meeting with a rather large corporation in Indy to discuss "something big" (his words), and the meeting ran longer than expected, but I at least got to spend the day at the track enjoying watching my clients go in circles, and seeing many friends around the speedway.
He's going to try and join me tomorrow provided we can both get away, so I will see if I can follow up on everything tomorrow.
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-Michael
Need help setting up your i730/i830 or other WM2003/WM5 Phone, as well as the other hacks I have done, check out the MRailing Guides and Links
I think the only problem with becoming our own carrier is we still don't have access to the phones.
Believe we would have access to the devices we seek. Let's step back a bit from the 'postage stamp' screen to understand why...
In effect, Sonopia's MVNO (for newbies, that's Mobile Virtual Network Operator) business premise is to take VZW into niche/value-added markets that VZW can't really exploit because they're too small/specialized.
One might even refer to Sonopia as VZW's guerrilla marketing agency. It's not only not a competitor, it truly is VZW--in a logo'd T-shirt, if you will.
VZW has 60.7mm subscribers. It can't deploy a program for Purdue U and it can't do one for Tweak Freaks. But Sonopia can make these happen: groups 'roll their own' programs and keep a piece of the action--all within Sonopia's O/S. Slick. For its part, VZW just mints revenue. In such an ecosystem, VZW has every incentive to make available to Sonopia its entire handset portfolio.
Unlike other MVNOs (e.g., Helio, etc.), these guys don't seem to be buying custom handsets from device-makers. Rather, they appear to be acquiring product under VZW's supply chain (albeit, with a glam paint job or decal). If VZW were to limit available devices to common junk, the business proposition would implode and VZW would gain nada. And as a bonus, the Sonopia dude is ex-MSFT. He won't likely be pushing Symbian.
Meanwhile, it's a fair bet that VZW sold no more than a few hundred thousand ix30s. It did nothing right and failed to comprehend or spin its merit, let alone give it legs. After two years, the ix30 never emerged from...'cult'. Unacceptable. With almost no effort, Sonopia would at least double VZW's sales of such a device family.
In the MVNO world, VZW wholesales minutes, bits and services and has no billing activity, credit risk or marketing expense. Nice. And industry convention allows MVNO subscribers to be counted in a carrier's quarterly results. The MVNO model is generally proven (even Amp'd is rolling along) and Sonopia's positioned to become a leading player.
So yes, no products should be off-limits in this game. We'll follow developments and trawl for upside.
Since no one seems to mind going OT in this thread - One of my pet peeves is unattributed quotes. If anyone was wondering, that's from Shelly's "The Mask of Anarchy", One of the great poems of all time. My favorite passage from it is :
'Thou art Wisdom - Freemen never
Dream that God will damn for ever
All who think those things untrue
Of which Priests make such ado...
'Science, Poetry, and Thought
Are thy lamps; they make the lot
Of the dwellers in a cot
So serene, they curse it not."
Thanks for the fantastic literary reference.
Well crap, I usually do attribute the quote to the original author (see my new sig), but must have had a brain fart this round. Thanks for taking care of it for me.
Well, I've got a meeting with that rep again on Monday. You'd better believe I'm going to pressure him again.
"Ethan" stood me up today, but I 'might' get to see him tomorrow. He had a meeting with a rather large corporation in Indy to discuss "something big" (his words), and the meeting ran longer than expected, but I at least got to spend the day at the track enjoying watching my clients go in circles, and seeing many friends around the speedway.
He's going to try and join me tomorrow provided we can both get away, so I will see if I can follow up on everything tomorrow.
Well, if you see him tomorrow, be sure to buy him a beer or two for me to thank him for all the info he's provided us in the past. If nothing else, the i760 chase sure is entertaining!
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-Jay The Fine Print:Nothing in this post (or any of my other posts) is intended to constitute legal advice or the establishment of an attorney-client relationship. For purposes of this forum, I'm just another nerd like you. :-)
As you read this Wall Street Journal piece, think Mobile Warrior MVNO and state-of-the-art devices. If it wished to, PDAPhH could even be the 'carrier'. And yes, Mods could be paid!
(Emphasis added.)
--BAM
Now Everybody Can Be a Cellphone Company
By AMOL SHARMA
May 7, 2007
The National Wildlife Federation reaches out to its five million members and supporters through direct mail, the Web and email. Now it's trying something new: its own cellphone service.
The organization launched NWF Mobile in April, offering a line of phones and service plans tailored to wildlife enthusiasts and activists. The group's phones feature ringtones that croak like frogs and chirp like birds, provide updates on environmental news and, someday, will allow users to call their congressmen at the touch of a button.
"What I saw was a new opportunity to communicate with our constituents," says Greg Griffith, director of cause-related marketing at the federation. "Just about everybody is getting a cellphone, and the younger generation is using them for just about everything."
NWF Mobile is one of a host of new mobile services targeting micro-markets, tiny niches that no cellphone giant would have the time or expertise to penetrate. A California entrepreneur recently launched a service aimed at yoga practitioners -- a market he sizes at roughly 20 million in the U.S. The Chicago Bandits women's professional softball team is selling a service that provides regular text-message updates on standings and schedules, along with team photos. There's a company targeting cancer survivors, one for members of a Christian group, and one whose market is moms who are entrepreneurs: "Mums in Business Mobile."
Behind the new launches is a former Microsoft executive whose new venture, Sonopia Corp., allows any organization or club to start a wireless company "in 15 minutes or less" online. The company, based in Menlo Park, Calif., has signed up nearly 900 organizations to create their own service, with relevant features, news and content for members of their respective groups.
Sonopia helps each organization design custom phones based on existing handset models from major manufacturers, and it helps the groups lease network access from Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC, to carry phone calls and data. Sonopia also manages monthly billing and customer service, though each organization's name -- NWF or Chicago Bandits -- is what appears on the customers' bill.
Most of the micro-niche providers aren't in it for the money -- and that's a good thing, considering they only get about 3% to 8% of the revenue from monthly service plans. The rest goes to Verizon and Sonopia. Instead, most of the groups use the service as a self-sustaining way to promote themselves or their causes and keep members or customers engaged.
Cellphone companies targeting much broader niches by buying network access from carriers have had mixed success. The idea was tainted somewhat by the failure of ESPN's mobile venture last year. Walt Disney Co.'s cable network shut down the phone service after struggling to find customers interested in its sports-oriented phones. Other providers have done better -- such as Virgin Mobile USA, a joint venture between Sprint Nextel Corp. and Virgin Group PLC that has built a base of 4.9 million customers largely by targeting teenage users with its pay-as-you-go service. Companies like Amp'd Mobile Inc. and Helio, a joint venture of EarthLink Inc. and SK Telecom Co., are selling high-end devices with media and GPS services, charging customers over $100 per month, double what major carriers get.
The challenge for these operators is to find a big enough market to justify their investments in marketing specialty devices and service plans. It's not clear that they will. For Sonopia Chief Executive Juha Christensen, who has years of experience in the wireless software and handset business, the solution is to think about even smaller niches. He says businesses have yet to tap the powerful identification people have with communities, organizations and groups that share common interests.
It's still too early to tell whether his approach will work, especially when Sonopia has to share revenue with two parties. But the company says it keeps its costs down by relying on its partner organizations for marketing and keeping most of its staff in Ukraine, where labor costs are lower. While some of the organizations it works with would be lucky to sign up a few thousand customers, if Sonopia can reach a total of 100,000 customers, it will break even, the company says. Some investors are betting on the model: Mr. Christensen has raised $21.3 million through a trio of venture firms, Cardinal Venture Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, and ComVentures.
[Note: Sevin Rosen was Compaq's original VC; ComVentures assisted Broadcom.]
NWF Mobile offers a Motorola Razr on its Web site for $50 with a two-year contract. It sells plans ranging from $40 per month for 450 minutes to $97 for 2,800 minutes, prices that track closely with Verizon's. Mr. Griffith says the NWF phones send out text-message blasts notifying members of volunteer opportunities. Down the road, he plans to add a function that will let people press a button to call their congressmen about a pending dispute in Washington -- say, the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Yoga Phone service, which is already live but will launch formally in June, was created by Johannes Fisslinger, a devotee of the discipline for 20 years who now runs a Los Angeles-based organization called Yoga Revolution Inc. The phones offer yoga news and blogs. Mr. Fisslinger, a 43-year-old native of Germany who learned yoga when traveling in India and Japan, says he's considering adding inspirational text messages and a video that will have a "pose of the day."
"I felt there was a need to tap into the huge yoga market," Mr. Fisslinger says. "It has huge potential."
Mr. Fisslinger is striking partnerships with other yoga organizations, such as the magazine Yoga Journal, to help market the service and provide content for it. He says the proceeds from his service will go to the Yoga for a Cure Foundation, which funds efforts aimed at improving people's "health, vitality and personal well-being."
Sonopia on FierceWireless' "Fierce 15, 2007": Sonopia
Unless I totally misunderstand, this is a sweet idea. We could get the slim SGH-i760 body, with a 3mp camera, front conference cam, and with awesome specs, high memory capacity, WM6, java/flash, SDHC hack built in for SD Cards, Rev A, etc..and or let us PICK what we want in our ROMs...perhaps even get several options of bodies for those who want a horizontal keyboard like in the SCH-i760 etc..
Dom, problem is, the SGH-I760 won't work on Verizion as it's CDMA and the SGH is GSM. There is one problem.
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"Sonopia helps each organization design custom phones based on existing handset models from major manufacturers, and it helps the groups lease network access from Verizon Wireless"
Dom, problem is, the SGH-I760 won't work on Verizion as it's CDMA and the SGH is GSM. There is one problem.
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"Sonopia helps each organization design custom phones based on existing handset models from major manufacturers, and it helps the groups lease network access from Verizon Wireless"
Hmmm existing handsets..So its not exactly pick your device in all respects then..Oh well. Still then one could supe up an i730 with those things I would hope.
Dom. they are going to release it just as you are walking out the door for Vacation. I know that's how its going down. Then when you get back, they will be sold out.
LOL. Oh you like to jest I don't see ANY vacations for a long time for me, so too bad for all you peeps
Jay... we'll postpone your birthday in honor of the release... how's that!
Dom.. maybe vzw is learning from its marketing blunders with the i730... NOT. I still think the carriers still don't "get" PDA phones/convergence in the business world. Text messaging teenyboppers they "get"
Mark
Haha. Yea. At least its getting more exposure but I really don't think they'll get what they should get in terms of the potential of consumer interest. Some of the best writers are dead, some of the best books are out of print, people like Mcdonalds, and pop music..I don't see how one could argue that most people like whats of higher value. Its taking a while to get those i730s out of stock isn't it?
I don't see ANY vacations for a long time for me, so too bad for all you peeps
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