Good Riddance To Bad Cell Carriers...

[wolfwings]

...Verizon is no longer having anything whatsoever to do with any phone calls I make.

I'm not on T-Mobile, amusingly though NOT with a Sidekick. Got a Razr of all things so I could use it to wirelessly connect my laptop to the internet (which I'm using to post this from Terminal 4 of LAX outside the Quantas Arrival Gate ATM) and as evidenced by this post it works well. The screen is readable, the phone is a little tempermental about operating inside heavilly-fortified buildings but works quite well otherwise and is nice and lightweight. Thankfully I can avoid being a trendsetter since 90% of the time my phone will stay in my backpack holster, accessed through the wonders of BlueTooth. Huzzah for a phone that actually supports all of the god-damn specification instead of the restricted-crap Verizon shovels out by the bucketload.

And the best part? It's an unlocked SIM-based quad-band model I'm in the process of completely de-branding, so if I ever get the chance to go visit Australia or England, I just pick up a local SIM card, slot it, and away I go. Just need to order a replacement battery-compartment cover from Motorola to remove the laser-etched T-Mobile logo on the back of my phone and finish uploading the replacement images to change the T-Mobile icons back to Motorola defaults and I'll have a completely plain Razr.

I'll try to refrain from performing open-parts-surgery to replace (not cover) the shell with a dark forest green one. For now. =^.^=

And the best part? One-year contracts, and the phones were nearly free so my mom said to pounce on it. She got one that was much smaller, and had a better camera, but lacked BlueTooth since her laptop doesn't have that feature, but hers can still tranfers files with a standard USB cable, no muss, no fuss, no secondary charges.

Now if I can just figure out a way to use the cell-phone as a live webcam. It already lets me transfer video-clips and the like without issue at least.

Comments

Sidekicks

[catwoman69y2k.livejournal.com]

I really like the sidekicks but of course TMobile did something that not many have done. They locked the phone so that it can only be used for Tmobile (even if you manage to unlock it, a Sidekick still cant be used for data because it only responds to the Tmobile data center).

Re: Sidekicks

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Actually it's very common in the United States to lock all cellular devices to a single carrier by the carriers. And the Sidekicks will work at phones and SMS devices (alphanumeric pagers) on any network, but only T-Mobile is linked into the Danger data network, which is what the Sidekicks communicate on for their data, they're not GPRS like, for example, my cell phone. =^.^=

Re: Sidekicks

[catwoman69y2k.livejournal.com]

Exactly what I mean. I like the sidekicks but Im on cingular service. The current phone unit I have is pretty universal and was unlocked. However I ahve seen it sold both at Cingular and Verizon.

Kat