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« Blogs as PR Tools | Main | Back Bob » May 19, 2006Help!My wife's Motorola V557 phone from Cingular got wet and shorted out. She's due a new phone from Cingular in three months near the end of our two-year service agreement. They'll only give us a discount on a new phone now if we agree to a two-year extension of our existing contract. I've heard you can buy a used Cingular/Motorola phone, plug in your Cingular account's SIM card, and it'll work just fine. Anybody know the details? Anybody have a spare Cingular Motorola phone? P.S. I just added a Sierra Wireless AirCard from Cingular to my laptop, to access the Internet via Cingular's wireless network. Cingular promised high-speed web access, and the Sierra AirCard gets very good reviews, but it's slow as Christmas most of the time. Thoughts? Suggestions? I've got about 21 days left in the 30-day period before I can't return it without paying a hefty early termination fee. Posted in Miscellaneous
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I've heard that works too. Every once in awhile, Woot.com will have a "hacked cell phone" that you can make work for several services. But it may be more of a pain than it's worth for less than a month. Get one of those prepaid cell phones to hold you off until your contract is up Posted by: .. at May 19, 2006 6:49 AMBill, Go to dslreports.com . Great site for help go to the 'forums' section and look around in the various wireless topics. Posted by: leb at May 19, 2006 10:27 AMBill, You need to get a wireless EVDO broadbannd card from Sprint or Verizon. They are faster and have a larger footprint than the Cingular EDGE card. Full disclosure, I used to work for Sprint selling wireless broadband. Both Verizon and Sprint use the same technology and have a theoretical max of 2mb. I have been connected at over 1mbps many times. EDGE only goes to 384K. Just my $.02. Posted by: The Opinionator at May 19, 2006 3:06 PMMy phone service is Cingular, so I get a price break that I wouldn't get with Verizon or Sprint for the EVDO card, but perhaps the extra $20 a month would be worth the speed. Though Cingular is in the process of rolling out a faster 3G HSDPA network. Posted by: Bill Hobbs at May 19, 2006 4:11 PMPost a comment
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