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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: limtex who wrote (30695)	1/4/2003 8:22:32 AM
From: kech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196981

Lim- I agree that I was at first disappointed with the hang time while surfing on Vision. I was also disappointed with the sites available on the Sprint Home page. After a day or so of dinking around, getting signed on to sites I like (Yahoo but it took time to realize I had to sign on to Yahoo UK instead of Yahoo US), and using Slacker's suggestion to www.sprintusers.com site which has a lot of cool things formatted for Vision like radar weather sites, I am much more pleased with it. (Why Sprint doesn't have accuweather on its home page instead of the stupid TWC The Weather Channel which doesn't give forecasts that work is beyond me. Also I still can't get a Google Search to work for some reason.) However, the data plug to pc at 3-4 times the speed is a substantial bonus over GPRS . Finally, and this is key for both Vision surfing and data connection to laptops, the last line of the article is key: GPRS is competitive, performance-wise, if not price-wise. I think price wise is critical because I would not have experimented signing on to all these sites and figuring the thing out if I was paying for minutes or kb's which all GPRS users are doing. By the way, one way to reduce the memory error message, if not the network time out message, is to delete the stupid games and maybe even the crazy chicken ring tone. :-) I am still waiting for the GPS stuff which I think will add a lot to the experience. I have mine turned on but am still looking for an application that uses it. Anyone find one other than e911 which I don't want to try?