For $15 a month, Sprint offers unlimited Internet access on a Sprint phone/PDA.  For another $25 a month, you can tether the phone/PDA to a computer and use it as a broadband modem, with unlimited data.  Without an appropriate data plan, Sprint normally charges 3 cents per kilobyte ( Read more... )

I bought an 8 Gig memory card for my cellphone and loaded it with music.  Unfortunately, the phone has a funky headphone connector, so I couldn't use good headphones; I only had the flimsy earbuds it came with.  But I recalled seeing a nifty looking Motorola cordless Bluetooth stereo headphones (MOTOROKR S9) that would be perfect, except for the ( Read more... )

My J-List order from 2 months ago finally arrived!  I'll always pay the extra for air mail from now on.

Among the items I ordered:


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My Verizon contract expires in a few days, and their service here is horrible (it's fun to get a call about a job and have the call drop), so I had been looking to switch providers.  I was highly impressed by the performance of my Kindle, which uses Sprint and gets 5 bars all the time ( Read more... )

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A cellular phone that looks like an old-fashioned Model 500 rotary desk phone.  Neat idea, but $400 is a wee bit much.  They also have a red version, but that's an extra $100.

A few more seem edits today, all of them in seem 2742.

(As before, this is all At-Your-Own-Risk stuff.  It voids your warranty, may violate Verizon's TOS, and may fry your phone.)

Offset 6a, bit 2  Enable the Bluetooth DUN profile

Offset 6a, bit 2 Enables the Data Connection menu

Offset 1e, bit 3  Enables the animation menu.

Offset 23, bit 5  Enables ( Read more... )

Did a bunch of hacking and tweaking on my RAZR today.

(Warning:   Everything in this entry violates the warranty.   If you try one of these hacks and screw up your phone, Verizon probably won't replace it.  Try this at your own risk.  Don't blame me if you fry your phone.)

First I downgraded the firmware to version .02, which has the Bluetooth OBEX ( Read more... )

It's very strange, out of the dozen or so people here who have RAZR phones, all but one have been putting the phone into the plastic holster backwards ( Read more... )

I was in for a bit of a shock on my recent phone bill. Cox raised my rates by $5 a month! Now a line from Cox is scarcely any cheaper than a REAL phone line from SBC. I left SBC to get a lower rate, now it isn't. So I called up Cox and told them to disconnect my phone service. I really don't use it all that often, certainly not often enough to ( Read more... )

With the switch from T-Mobile to Verizon, the company I work for has TONS of useless leftover phones. The bosses want me to put them up on eBay, but I'm probably just going to take them to one of those eBay consignment shops and let THEM deal with the hassle.

There's about 70 phones, including 30 or so from our previous contract with Nextel. ( Read more... )