en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| Over priced... unflexible device
I'd be better off purchasing a Netbook for $200 and loading it with Skype or Magic Jack.
What they 'SHOULD' do... for $250 + ???/month
- Deploy something that looks like what they are selling
- Integrated WiFi (g/n)
- Integrated Webcam and Service
- Windows 7
- Internet service
I'd personally be worried about having anything connected to a telco with built in camera + microphone in my house that's tied to my phoneline
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majortom1029
join:2006-10-19
Lindenhurst, NY | wow
heck my att fuze is a phone, can play music, can search theful lweb over wifi.
How in the world will verizon get this sold when you can buy a cell phone? |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
|  This has been on the back burners since July of 2007
»www.zatznotfunny.com/2007-07/why···ht-work/
Read the comments over the last 18 months. Nothing has chgd - just more promises. Especially look at last one from this past December.
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Bellus_1
@cia.com | reply to en102
Re: Over priced... unflexible device
The device is $250 to purchase, not $250 per month. |
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Smile__
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join:2008-10-10
Baltimore, MD | reply to TKJunkMail
Re: This has been on the back burners since July of 2007
Your right.. This was supposed to come out Feb 2008.. I guess they had the wrong year.. |
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TomClancy
Freedom isn't free
join:2003-04-23
... | reply to Bellus_1
Re: Over priced... unflexible device
Yeah, like they won't be charging you a service fee for that magic VoIP of theirs... |
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aaronwt
Premium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
1 edit | reply to en102
WINDOWS 7??!!?
It's still in Beta.
said by en102  :I'd be better off purchasing a Netbook for $200 and loading it with Skype or Magic Jack. What they 'SHOULD' do... for $250 + ???/month - Deploy something that looks like what they are selling - Integrated WiFi (g/n) - Integrated Webcam and Service - Windows 7 - Internet service I'd personally be worried about having anything connected to a telco with built in camera + microphone in my house that's tied to my phoneline |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to Bellus_1
As I put it .. $250 '+' ??? /month
You pay $250 for the device, and then have to pay a service fee to use it. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to aaronwt
Yeah - it had better still be Beta - I crashed one at the Microsoft exhibit at CES on opening day  |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ | Verizon
Step one to an uber phone is NOT DISABLING BLUETOOTH AS SOON AS IT HITS YOUR NETWORK.
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
·T-Mobile US
1 edit | reply to en102
Re: Over priced... unflexible device
said by en102 :I'd be better off purchasing a Netbook for $200 and loading it with Skype or Magic Jack. What they 'SHOULD' do... for $250 + ???/month - Deploy something that looks like what they are selling - Integrated WiFi (g/n) - Integrated Webcam and Service - Windows 7 - Internet service I'd personally be worried about having anything connected to a telco with built in camera + microphone in my house that's tied to my phoneline Windows 7.... webcam... are you high?
WTF are you talking about? 
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
·T-Mobile US
| reply to Bellus_1
said by Bellus_1 :
The device is $250 to purchase, not $250 per month.
Forget that but WTF is that W7 and other BS? Like if people really want to rent a fuckin' OS, aye...  |
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
·T-Mobile US
1 edit | reply to majortom1029
Re: wow
said by majortom1029 :heck my att fuze is a phone, can play music, can search theful lweb over wifi. How in the world will verizon get this sold when you can buy a cell phone? Ummm perhaps with a "real" mobile broadband aka 3G speeds instead of that pathetic PoS AT&T "3G" sub-1Mb crap?
AT&T's network is an utter PoS, period. It wasn't great before iTards flooded it either but it simply became pathetic after they flocked to AT&T - that's when I had enough and simply gave up on this complete and utter fake BS network AT&T dares to dub as 3G... if you want to see REAL mobile broadband, go to Europe.
AT&T is YEARS behind European and Asian networks, period. Too bad TMO was too stupid to build out its 3G in time so they ended up with their own frequency which no fuckin' manufacturer support whatsoever - now all we have is VZ and Sprint but only if you give up on traveling in GSM-countries (rest of the world) with your phone...
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TomClancy
Freedom isn't free
join:2003-04-23
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| Oh no
Please tell me they are not going to release those P('s)OS as a VoiP solution that's supposed to compete with the likes of vonage, and cable voip..... Verizon is slowly killing FIOS and making it look much more like AT&T's U-verse service... I can't see how they're going to be able to retain that $95 triple play price tag if the do..
Verizon has this way of not listening to their customers and going ahead with boneheaded ideas that don't pan out as well as they should (or Verizon would like, such as that attempt of cable-tv over dsl from then Bell Atlantic ~1996) so, add this one to the list.
I'm not saying the idea of a "smart" phone hub couldn't one day work & be popular.. but I think it's too soon and you need to get much more customer input before wasting your time and money on this. What would be better is creating an industry consortium consisting of both cable companies and telcos to create an interoperable platform upon which "smart" voip phones can happily coexist on your broadband connection via ethernet, wifi, or coax (docis). |
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PGHammer
join:2003-06-09
Accokeek, MD
clubs:
·Comcast
| reply to aaronwt
Re: Over priced... unflexible device
Windows 7 is in fact at beta 1, and is available to the public, right now.
»www.microsoft.com/windows/window···ult.aspx
Not many beta operating systems, even from Microsoft, are actually usable right out of the box; however, this is one of them. (I'm in fact posting this from beta 1 in a dual-boot with Vista; both are of the 64-bit flavor.)
Also, isn't the only reason you are primping Skype or magicJack due to their FAR lower prices compared to typical VoIP solutions (not just VZ's own VoiceWing, but Vonage)? Also, how do these non-traditional VoIP services handle E911 services? (Skype doesn't currently, and I've heard nit from any magicJack user concerning how they would handle it.)
With *all* VoIP services (not just magicJack and Skype, but even Vonage and VoiceWing), the old truism about getting what you pay for applies. |
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