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1998 Hoonda AV6 coupe, ariel atom
szikago IL
12-28-2006
samsung t739
4:11 PM 6/22/2008
i am thinking about getting one of these. my cell phone contract expires soon, and these are free on tmobile's website. does anybody have any experience with them? the specs are good: quad-band, microSD slot, slide phone, color screen, AIM, camera, etc.
and what exactly is hotspot @home?
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Hey Daniel, I've had a little experience with this phone, as my friend's mom's boyfriend has it and I've messed around with it a few times. However, I seem to have had the same problems with all Samsung phones, which was that the battery life isn't fantastic. If you don't mind having a phone charger with you every now and then, like at work or in your car, I'd say go for it. It's a well-rounded phone that you can get for 200-250.
As far as the T-Mobile Hot Spot thing goes, I don't know a lot about it, but from what it seems is that you set up a small wireless node in your home that basically extends the cell site range for T-Mobile so others with T-Mobile get better reception around you, while you make free calls from your own home. It's basically T-Mobile setting up tiny cell sites in local areas so everyone with the same service gets better reception. Good luck, hope this helps.
^ I have a samsung t509 now. the battery lasts me a solid 3 days, and I've been using it for 2 years now. the only things i dont like about my current phone is that its a triband, and i can't set mp3's i import as ringtones
^ I have a samsung t509 now. the battery lasts me a solid 3 days, and I've been using it for 2 years now. the only things i dont like about my current phone is that its a triband, and i can't set mp3's i import as ringtones
That was my first phone from t-mo, i figured out a trick to getting ringtones without paying for them, just get one phone that has the mp3 you want as the ringtone, sync the 2 phones via bluetooth, then transmit the mp3 and you can use it as a ringtone.
^ i've been hooking my sisters razr to the comp and transferring mp3's, then bluetoothing them to my phone. i can use them as alarm ringtones, but not caller tones.
the phone came yesterday, and im a bit disappointed. it is restricted up the @ss. I have bluetooth, but can only connect to a handset. file transfer from phone to phone is disabled. I have wifi, but when i connect to my home's wireless router i cannot access the internet. Idk about custom ringtones yet, but this is gonna need some hacking to work okay.
