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12:15 pm
December 13, 2010
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Would it be useful to anyone beside me to have people who have successfully found entries to make a phone work on the unlimited browsing plan list all those phones in one forum or one place?
Then if someone is wanting to buy a smartphone looking in the list may help them decide what TO or what NOT to buy.
I have tried to make two HTC phones work on internet. For several months in 2011 up until May my HTC Rhodium [AT&T Tilt 2] worked. I accidentally changed some settings and it never worked again. I gave it to my grandson as a mini computer. Now I have an HTC phone which seems to have several names. Online it is called the HTC Desire Z G2 but buried somewhere I believe in the About on the phone it is called HTC Vision.
It has never worked on unlimited browsing or data and I bought it thinking it might.
Don't want to bother buying another phone unless I am pretty sure I can get it to work.
Just a thought and thanks for the great site Peter.
Another idea: How about a forum which people who know how to setup various smartphones for the unlimited browsing offer to help setup someone's phone for a sum of money, say $10, $20 payable by PayPal where the money can be refunded if it does not work?
Thanks.
Disappointed in Speakout "Unlimited"
6:01 am
May 3, 2011
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If you buy a Rogers phone you're likely going to be OK, hopefully others will chime in on that though as my experience is limited to one phone. I just bought a used Nokia E5 on Fleabay, still locked to Rogers and it works fine with the Speakout sim for browsing the web, plugged in the sim card and off we go, no issues.
I bought it to get a better browser than the C3 has and it is for sure a much better phone and browser. Sites that wouldn't work correctly or display correctly on the C3 work fine on the E5. I don't care about any of the other built in data things, just wanted a better browser, after all it is an "unlimited browsing" plan, not a data plan.
I did not want to get into the all the geek issues with Android or iPhones and this was the easiest way to go. If I need to unlock it in future for travel outside the country that's easily enough done.
2:14 pm
April 4, 2011
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yes. you wish is great. but not some people are too greedy. They use the data too much. 7-11 is a company, if they loss money, they may close this deal for ever.
cpedley said:
Would it be useful to anyone beside me to have people who have successfully found entries to make a phone work on the unlimited browsing plan list all those phones in one forum or one place?
Then if someone is wanting to buy a smartphone looking in the list may help them decide what TO or what NOT to buy.
I have tried to make two HTC phones work on internet. For several months in 2011 up until May my HTC Rhodium [AT&T Tilt 2] worked. I accidentally changed some settings and it never worked again. I gave it to my grandson as a mini computer. Now I have an HTC phone which seems to have several names. Online it is called the HTC Desire Z G2 but buried somewhere I believe in the About on the phone it is called HTC Vision.
It has never worked on unlimited browsing or data and I bought it thinking it might.
Don't want to bother buying another phone unless I am pretty sure I can get it to work.
Just a thought and thanks for the great site Peter.
Another idea: How about a forum which people who know how to setup various smartphones for the unlimited browsing offer to help setup someone's phone for a sum of money, say $10, $20 payable by PayPal where the money can be refunded if it does not work?
Thanks.
Disappointed in Speakout "Unlimited"
5:20 am
April 18, 2012
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I am not sure how much of an improvement would a Nokia E5 be over the SpeakOut (SO) provisioned Nokia C3. If the object is to avoid inconvenience and hassle, C3 may be the way to go and enjoy the trouble-free browsing as well as be entitled to official support from SO.
If however the object is to use the browsing plan for all its offerings, an Android phone will be a good candidate. I use a Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660 (Android ver 2.3.4, unlocked and rooted) and wouldn’t exchange it for any thing nor look up to a Nokia (Symbian) phone. I had actually moved up from an expensive Nokia Xpressmusic to my current phone and what a difference it has been.
Samsung Galaxy is not hard – not at all - to be used for browsing and many other apps so long as you buy an Unlocked and Rooted phone. Thereafter simply proceed with my post at http://goo.gl/TClAL and save the dollars that you are graciously offering. Also note that as a Gmail and Google oriented user, an Android phone is the best way to go because of its natural integration with Google products.
Finally, as known, Nokia is switching over to Windows based phones from Symbian. So if a Nokia phone is be considered, waiting a few months (likely October 2012) may be a prudent option. I still feel though the apps market for Windows based phones will take a lot more time to develop and mature.
4:09 pm
May 3, 2011
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sa7375 said:
I am not sure how much of an improvement would a Nokia E5 be over the SpeakOut (SO) provisioned Nokia C3. If the object is to avoid inconvenience and hassle, C3 may be the way to go and enjoy the trouble-free browsing as well as be entitled to official support from SO.
Have you tried the browser on the C3? Seriously? It is total junk. Any link that opens a new browser window is a crap shoot whether it will work or not, most often not. Many sites do not display properly, if at all, graphics handling is junk, lots of jscript doesn't work correctly, frequently doesn't work at all. If you think the C3 is good then good on ya, but for me, it was pretty poor. The E5 solved 99% of the C3 browser issues. I also get 3G speeds whereas the C3 is a 2G phone. Way better phone, no question about it. For $50 it was a great deal and zero hassles farting around with Android and its warts and it surely does have lots of warts. I'd just rather have something that I plug a sim into and use rather than have to screw around with to make it work, I've been down that road before and life's just too short.
