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Originally Posted by Powder I'm gonna take a guess on it and offer this theory. The price is actually more ($39.99 or whatever) and that is what you are supposed to be charged. The Cingular reps probably know that regardless of how much you pay, you'll get the same thing. |
My take is that originally there was MEdia Net for the Treo (MEdiaNet is still part of the Cingular web tutorial for the Treo) and web enabled cell phones for
personal use and there was LaptopConnect and DataConnect for laptops, and PC card enabled PDAs used for
business users.
With the Treo being a bit more enabled and expensive compared to a web enabled cell phone they decided to reclassify the Treo from personal to business, like the Blackberry (note the Blackberry rates). Mention "business use" and you pay more for the exact same service.
While some will tell you that the Treo is not MEdia Net compatible all you have to do is look at their own online tutorial to see that even they know it is. It's just Cingular looking for more income. Just because you can afford one doesn't mean you're using it for corporate purposes.
I like Sprint's idea better. If you look up their laptop/PDA rates you'd think that they are high at $40 for 40MB and $80 for unlimited. However, if you select a Treo 650 ($319 w/plan) and add a phone plan you get the option to add the Sprint PCS VisionSM Plus Pack (Unlimited Sprint PCS Picture MailSM, Unlimited email and instant messaging & Unlimited Web access) for $15 more. Nice.
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Originally Posted by Powder I'm on $19.99 Media Works and get unlimited data and unlimited text msgs. |
You might want to double-check that unlimited text message part. According to what I've seen, with Cingular's MEdia Net Unlimited plan you pay extra for text/instant messaging, 10-15 cents per, and multimedia messages, 20-25 cents per. You can add bulk text messages, 50 - $3, 200 - $5, 1000 - $10 & 2500 - $20, to you MEdia Net plan but I didn't see any bulk multimedia message options, so you pay as you go.
If you do more text and multimedia messaging that web surfing then the MEdia Works bundle with unlimited multimedia messages and 1,000 text messages (5-cents per additional) for $20 might be the way to go. It has a 5MB limit with a 1-cent additional fee per KB.
I set up Versamail to use my gmail account and send all my pictures, messages that way instead. Then it's part of the MEdia Net Unlimited plan.
I didn't like text messages as they are limited to 160 characters. I'd send a short note and my friends would reply like they were using regular email and I'd receive a 10-message truncated reply broken into almost unreadable and not in order chunks.
