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The cables I have myself, and have seen with MO, all do the charging. The
power jack plugs into a square boxy thing on the cable itself (didn't know
that until someone told me about a year ago). Lets people (I have it that
way too) leave the phone connected to the laptop/the headset plugged into
the phone, and the charger plugged into both AC and the cable/phone. I am
currently in a motel in Las Vegas, and have the phone on 24/7. If I go out,
I just unhook the data/power cable from the bottom, clip the phone to my
belt and go (reverse that when I get back), that way the phone is always
fully charged.
While some users just do the cable/dial-up thing, I don't know of any way to
do the setup strings to go between qwk2net and 1x (other than add them
manually, they are already in the software), and some people use the venturi
compression, which I don't think works without MO (It should, but I think
the Verizon Venturi checks for MO being active to work).
Just curious, do you play with both QWK2NET *AND* 1X (now NationalAccess,
was Express, but 1X is easier to type/call it), it is much easier to use the
higher speed NA-MOU *OPTION* (added free to plans from june 14th 2003 to dec
2003, and now again in 2005). I do, and by using the *option*, I can call
free after 9 and weekends, and get connect speeds way way faster than my
dial-up modem connects (100 K, about double the modem speed, but in my case
the switchboard here slows things down to 24k connects, so it's about 4X).
Getting stuff on Ebay is fine. and way cheaper *if* you know the
difference... I have seen 3 kinds of cables (serial, USB/no Charger port,
USB/WITH a charger port). I do phone sales/repair, and can't count the
number of ????? who get a third party cable, and don't know how to make it
work, or can't do standard functions with it.
Just an aside, I just checked ebay, and there is a MO kit *specifically*
for your phone on sale now.. current bid is $1.
cricket wrote:
> I know the MO kit is $40 from Verzion - but I thought the MO kit only
> had a sync cable, not a sync/charging cable?
>
> I woulda walked out with one today, but they were out of stock (the
> website is also out of stock). EBay has a lot of aftermarket kits/
> cables for a lot less... but I could justify a higher price locally
> for the instant gratification aspect. Now that I need to order one,
> price and features matter more.
>
> I actually only need the cable - I can download modem drivers and
> setting up the dialer is a breeze - I've been doing it since they
> first offered internet access years ago. (I only ever used the MO cd
> once for my old phone - I set it up myself every other time.) But
> the kits include phonebook software which might be useful, or not...
> and transfer software for the picture phone. (I only ever used the
> phonebook software a few times - it was buggy and crashed a lot - but
> maybe it's improved since that version.)
>
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> "Peter Pan" <Marcs1102NOSPAM@HotmailNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
> news:34l9vvF4bc7r6U1@individual.net...
>> cricket wrote:
>>> Are the aftermarket kits as good/better than the mobile web kit
>>> software wise? What are the thoughts on a charging/data cable?
>>
>> I'm curious what you are asking exactly.... You are aware that the
>> MO kit is only $39.95, and you can get aftermarkets for about
>> $29.95... and save maybe a whole $10 right? There are a lot of
>> people on the NG claiming that MO is $80.. Obviously they have never
>> looked at the website or walked into a store. it is ONLY $39.95, can
>> be ordered online, and shipped free to your door.
>> The funny part is that if you look for a USB/Charging cable (the MO
>> kit comes with one), you usually pay about $9.95 more.. Wow.. you
>> can save a whole nickle...
>>
>> Sorry for joking around, I have never seen anyone that went with a
>> MO kit take more than 10 min to install it and have it working, but
>> have seen many people that want to save a nickle (or $10), take
>> weeks to get it working, or worse, spend way more than the MO kit,
>> and still never get it working.