Best Bluetooth/GPRS Edge Phone

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I recently went with Cingular and got the V551 but am extremely
disappointed with battery time. I have always like Motorola phones but
this one disappointed me. My question, are there any others I should
look at that may be better?
I have looked at the Mokia 6620 but I prefer flip phones and I had bad
experience with the one Nokia I had. I see Motorola has a Razr V3 and
a MPx220. Are these phones any better? As well, I am considering the
Sony Ericson S710A but that seems very pricy and more than I need.
Are there any others from Sony or Samsung I should look at, even if it
means getting an unlocked phone? The important thing to me once again
is battery time, bluetooth (since I use it tethered ot my PocketPC and
use a headset) as well as GPRS and Edge is important.

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tom glaab wrote:

> MarkW (removenospam) wrote:
>
>>I have looked at the Mokia 6620 but I prefer flip phones and I had
>
> bad
>
>>experience with the one Nokia I had. I see Motorola has a Razr V3
>
> and
>
>>a MPx220. Are these phones any better?
>
>
> Bluetooth will kill any battery quickly. You're effectively asking the
> phone to run two radio systems at once.

Oh, come one Tom, that sounds like an exaggeration to me. BT is so
short range, I can't imagine it needing more than a few microwatts,
certainly no where near the requirements of WIFI or GSM voice.

>
> My 6620 is very nice. EDGE is capped out at 118k though; class 10 would
> have been nice.
>
> RAZR V3 doesn't have EDGE. What were they thinking????
>

They were thinking glitz, not gutz.

--
jer
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"Jer" <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote in message
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SNIP

>>
>> Bluetooth will kill any battery quickly. You're effectively asking the
>> phone to run two radio systems at once.
>
> Oh, come one Tom, that sounds like an exaggeration to me. BT is so short
> range, I can't imagine it needing more than a few microwatts, certainly no
> where near the requirements of WIFI or GSM voice.
>
>>
SNIP

I don't know the power requirements for bluetooth but I do know that running
BT will drain your battery. As an example, my Palm T3 battery will go for 3
1/2 to 4 hours without BT and will barely go an hour with it. That said when
running a BT phone tethered to a PDA it's the PDA battery that you have to
worry about not the phone.

Cheers
TC

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Not what I'm seeing on my 6230. I run BT all the time. Not noticed any
battery problem; but then I leave it the the charger overnight, every night.

Don
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> "Jer" <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote in message
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> SNIP
>
>>>
>>> Bluetooth will kill any battery quickly. You're effectively asking the
>>> phone to run two radio systems at once.
>>
>> Oh, come one Tom, that sounds like an exaggeration to me. BT is so short
>> range, I can't imagine it needing more than a few microwatts, certainly
>> no where near the requirements of WIFI or GSM voice.
>>
>>>
> SNIP
>
> I don't know the power requirements for bluetooth but I do know that
> running BT will drain your battery. As an example, my Palm T3 battery will
> go for 3 1/2 to 4 hours without BT and will barely go an hour with it.
> That said when running a BT phone tethered to a PDA it's the PDA battery
> that you have to worry about not the phone.
>
> Cheers
> TC
>

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Using it for the headset full time.

Don
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> "Don Udel (ETC)" <donudel@ellijay.com> wrote in message
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>> Not what I'm seeing on my 6230. I run BT all the time. Not noticed any
>> battery problem; but then I leave it the the charger overnight, every
>> night.
>>
>> Don
>>SNIP
>
> What do you mean by "running BT all the time"? Are you transfering pics or
> are you using it for data transfer like email, web pages etc? The reason I
> ask is because transfering pics is usually a small amount of data for a
> short period of time whereas email and web surfing can be much more data
> for extended periods. It's true that my phone battery last longer running
> BT than my PDA but then the phone is not trying to drive a large (ie power
> hungry) color screen and 400 Mhz processor.
>
> Cheers
> TC
>
>

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BigEagleTalon wrote:
> And nobody, as far as I can tell, has figured out how
> to successfully do a manual email setup for Gmail POP3.

Have you looked at Gmail's instructions for setting up Gmail POP3
(http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287)? It's
quite straightforward and works well on my Nokia 6620. I'm not familiar
with the SE 710a mail setup, but if it supports POP3S then you should
be alright.

tg.

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BigEagleTalon wrote:
> Maybe because the Sony
> Ericsson S710a uses different technology or a different provider than
> yours. My phone can use GSM/GPRS/EDGE technology,

Yep, just like my 6620 -- GSM/GPRS/EDGE, GSM 850/1800/1900. I poked
around a little and it sounds like the SE phone may have issues with
POP3S (not surprising since the "S" is for X.509 certificate handling,
and I've found that different clients don't do X.509 too well).

tg.