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Iceman
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xenophon
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| Battery life doesn't look great. I've played with this phone though, very cool. I'd dump my Treo 650 for one if the battery life were as good. |
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xenophon
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Looks like EVDO test results are already getting posted for this phone...
http://www.broadbandreports.com/mspeed?results=1
EDIT: no longer up.
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xenophon
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:14 am Post subject: |
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I pasted all of the 6700 entries into a spreadsheet from...
http://www.broadbandreports.com/mspeed?results=1
There were 172 6700 entries at the time I pasted.
- About 20 entries were below 100Kbits/sec, meaning these are probably 1xRTT people not able to get EVDO.
- About 90% of tests were apparently EVDO (over 110K).
- The average including 1xRTT and EVDO is 386Kbits/sec.
- The average of EVDO only enteries is 450Kbits/sec.
- Peak is about 1MB/sec.
- 33% of tests got over 600Kbits/sec. |
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educationk12
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what the heck is wrong with verizon. They come out with the vx9800 when sprint comes out with the 6700. I would switch to sprint in a second if the stupid company had evdo in the largest city in the USA. Sprint has always been a horrible company...their footprint is so far behind Verizon that I can't see how anybody could consider them unless they just had to have this phone.
Nice phone. Wish it worked with Verizon. |
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EarlyAdopter
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:01 pm Post subject: Can you tether a 6700? |
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| Can you tether the 6700 to a laptop and what type of speed so you get? |
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SL10
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| educationk12 wrote: | what the heck is wrong with verizon. They come out with the vx9800 when sprint comes out with the 6700. I would switch to sprint in a second if the stupid company had evdo in the largest city in the USA. Sprint has always been a horrible company...their footprint is so far behind Verizon that I can't see how anybody could consider them unless they just had to have this phone.
Nice phone. Wish it worked with Verizon. |
Every carrier has its good and bad points. And with all these mergers taking place not many choices are left in wireless carriers anymore. Sprint is not a horrible company just misguided to the market trends is what I see at times.
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SL10
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject: Re: Can you tether a 6700? |
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| EarlyAdopter wrote: | | Can you tether the 6700 to a laptop and what type of speed so you get? |
Yes you can tether via a cable and Sprint has said an update firmware will add a BT DUN profile to the 6700 also. With the cable side you would get regular EVDO speed thru the tether, but with it being BT 1.x it would be cut down about 25% with a BT tether. The 6700 also supports WiFi I wonder if anyone has tried to WiFi tether thru the 6700 yet?
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xenophon
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| educationk12 wrote: | | Sprint has always been a horrible company...their footprint is so far behind Verizon that I can't see how anybody could consider them unless they just had to have this phone. |
Actually sprint has more cdma towers as of this year. sprint has 24k+ towers and will be adding 14k more cdma sites on nextel sites. verizon has 23k+ sites adding only 1-2k/year.
but one will have better coverage than other depending on market. |
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Iceman
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ckeegan
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| Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| educationk12 wrote: | | what the heck is wrong with verizon. |
Actually, according to the Business Sales rep I spoke with this morning, the XV6700 will be out shortly, but he stated that they usually don't find out until the day it is released. He said that they were given a demo of the device last week in order to become acclimated with it.
That's more than I can say for Sprint, since most of their techs say they hadn't even seen the device before Sprint rushed it to the market to beat Verizon.
All I know is that it's coming. Howard Forums and PDAphonehome have great forums about Verizon's release of this phone. |
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