Part II probably coming on Monday. Want to use it for a few more days before writing it up - see how the battery life is, if I can get the knack of SureType (have always been a full Qwerty guy), etc.
This was going to be my dream phone. But, three heart breaking pieces of news:
1.) No WiFi for AT&T customers. My plan was to not pay the $30/month for the data plan and just use WiFi with Opera Mini and Tiggit...
2.) No 3G support. No, I wasn't going to pay for it. But in the next couple of years, online mobile access is going to become more and more valuable as more services become available. At which point, I would pay for it.
3.) Micro USB vs. Mini-USB?? I've already got like 7 mini-usb cables and chargers laying around for old RAZR's (and there has been talk that the Kickstart is being marketed directly to people who used to like the old RAZR's). There better be some huge technological advantage to micro-usb other than it's a little smaller than mini-usb...
Damn. Looks like I'm sticking with my old RAZR V3xx for another year or so... Damn.
Now that I think about it, no WiFi for AT&T is probably AT&T's effort to make as many people as possible have to pay the $30/month for the data plan. The whole intent of doing that is probably to ace the plans of users like myself who just wanted WiFi and no data plan.
this is great news!!! it just looks like a sweet phone to me. on question though, do you know when rim is gonna announce the device or when it will be officially released?
what put me off the pearls and curves was the laggy os
and slow interface. is the 8220 fast and zippy like the bold?
the bold has what a 624mhz cpu ? whats the speed of the
8220 ?
I didn't like this phone at first and was all worked up over the Bold. But the more I look at it I think this might be the phone for me since it won't be as much of a change from my v3xx and I'm used to non qwerty keyboard as I use 7130c from work for data at this time.
Last edited by Redneckbutlerboy; 09-02-08 at 10:39 PM.
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Yeah. starting to work on that review this afternoon. Hopefully have it done for tomorrow afternoon or else it will go up wednesday morning (takes me a bit of time to get it done right - slow writer!)