It's been a good year and change on the board and I love my 7100 but I'm moving to an area where TMO service is scant at best. The local carrier (www.unicel.com/) has great service but the "smartest" phones they have are the Nokia 6820 and the Razr. Does anyone have any experience with either of these phones? I looked online for some decent forums but nothing like this one exists.
thanks for any advice.
-roccit
Wow that sucks man... Maybe look for a Symbian device and get some blackberry connect? Nokia is coming out with their own push mail services in the next year or so I would imagine... I know it's not a blackberry, but it might be the next best thing for you.
Interesting if they carry the Razr then that means they running GSM/GPRS I guess it might be a matter of no roaming agreements. Maybe Cingular can roam into that area.
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A little background about wireless in rural Oregon. For the 80's and 90's CellularOne was commited to getting service to the unpopulated parts of Oregon. They owned the rural parts of Oregon (Eastern, Central, Southern, etc.) for many years. Part of CellOne was bought by ATT wireless/Cingular so the Western part of Oregon is now Cingular while the rest of CellOne went back to Unicel (part of parent company RCC)
SO...
No Cingular roaming agreements that make sense and limited data service.
Interesting fact: Unicel has EDGE!
-roccit
Unicel does use GSM/GPRS. Would Unicel allow you to use your 7100t (unlocked first, of course--see other threads on unlocking) on one of their plans? I use a 7100t (with T-Mobile) in Klamath Falls, OR. If I had to rely on TMO's coverage area only it would be a useless phone here. I roam on Unicel RCC (shows up as 310-890 on my phone) most of the time here and have great GPRS coverage all over Eastern Oregon. It sounds too simple...they'll probably say no for some technical reason but it might be worth asking.
T-Mobile does have some Cingular agreements across the US but it would sure be nice if they had more here in Oregon. it would help tremendously.
Last edited by John Clark; 10-21-2005 at 06:26 PM..
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i don't see why he couldn't use an unlocked 7100t w/ a Unicel plan, but the technical reason may reside in the idea that Unicel doesn't have a BlackBerry gateway with RIM thus the 7100t would be nothing more than a glorified phone (and given its features versus that of one of the afformentioned phones, glorified is not the word to use).
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So, just roaming through Unicel's GPRS network to get the data is much different than trying to have a data plan with Unicel? I knew there'd be something wrong with that idea! It was too good to be true.
At least you're going to a nice part of the country and your thumbs may welcome the change. I will only contribute that Nokia is replacing the 6820 with the E70, which may be something to look forward to. The thing I didn't like about the 6820 was the small screen; the E70 one looks bigger. Check it out here: http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/..._60_phones.php
How about an unlocked Treo 650 (probably blasphemy here) with a data plan? You can put your Unicell SIM card in it, and surf away.
There's a really good email software called Chatter <http://imchatter.com> which supports IMAP and POP3. You can configure it to pull email at regular intervals, or if you have IMAP email and it supports the "idle" command, it acts very similar to push email.
I used this with my Treo 600 (prior to moving to BB, for some infrastructure specific reasons) and it worked great.
a friend of mine got one through tmobile and he is happy with it, good battery life, nice bluetooth, but again it is still a phone and i still think it is kind of bulky eventhough it is thin. just my 2 cents
Thanks again for the info guys. The treo is pretty expensive isn't it (> $500)? It's funny that the razr turns out to be a little bulky, it's whole thing is supposed to be thin and light.
I agree Rodolfo the screen on the 6820 seems pretty small for a phone of that size.
-roccit
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