&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Carriers on Hi from Dwipal</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/tags/carriers/</link><description>Recent content in Carriers on Hi from Dwipal</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:12:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://dwipal.com/blog/tags/carriers/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Perfect Phone</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2005-12-17-the-perfect-phone/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:12:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2005-12-17-the-perfect-phone/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Since a very long time, I wanted to get a phone that is actually just a phone. It should:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Look like a phone (not a brick)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Synchronize with the computer (Mac) without any special software&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Have bluetooth&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;(if possible) NOT have a camera.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;You will find tons of phones with the above features for GSM (T-Mobile/Cingular), but there are none for Sprint. Sprint is very notorious in crippling the features fro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;m their phones. So recently, I needed to get a new phone, and found the perfect one: the Sony &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Ericsson T608.
&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/the-perfect-phone/t608.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;"/&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This phone was sold by Sprint 2 years ago through phone sales. You can not b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;y it on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;line or through the normal sprint stores, but if you call them and complain that you want a bluetooth phone, they will send this one to you. This phone has everything that a phone should &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;actually have, and it seems to be untouched by Sprint, so has its features intact. I had decided&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; to leave Sprint if this phone was not available.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Since a very long time, I wanted to get a phone that is actually just a phone. It should:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Look like a phone (not a brick)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Synchronize with the computer (Mac) without any special software&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Have bluetooth&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;(if possible) NOT have a camera.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;You will find tons of phones with the above features for GSM (T-Mobile/Cingular), but there are none for Sprint. Sprint is very notorious in crippling the features fro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;m their phones. So recently, I needed to get a new phone, and found the perfect one: the Sony &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Ericsson T608.
&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/the-perfect-phone/t608.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;"/&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This phone was sold by Sprint 2 years ago through phone sales. You can not b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;y it on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;line or through the normal sprint stores, but if you call them and complain that you want a bluetooth phone, they will send this one to you. This phone has everything that a phone should &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;actually have, and it seems to be untouched by Sprint, so has its features intact. I had decided&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; to leave Sprint if this phone was not available.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;As this model has been discontinued (rumors say that Sony made only 10,000 of these), I bought a used one from eBay. Turned the phone on, clicked the bluetooth button on the mac, and its up and working! All my contacts, calender, etc. is perfectly synchronized. I can also send files (ringtones, pictures, etc) through bluetooth to this phone, so no need of using random software. Finally there is peace in the Sprint World.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, sprint just released the &amp;ldquo;Samsung Blade&amp;rdquo; (a motorola razr copy), which claims to have OBEX support. Its not added to iSync as for now. And its not exactly cheap. Till then, T680 Rocks!&lt;/p&gt;
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