Thank you for selling me this spiffy Treo 650 with your “new every two discount.” It has all the features I want, for hundreds less than the Treo 700p:
- Bluetooth synchronization of my contacts and calendars with OS X
- Bluetooth Dial-up networking for my Laptop… oh.. wait.
No it doesn’t. You
disabled it, you enormous corporate jackass. Apparently, you cripple the phones you sell in order to make a lot of extra money by forcing your customers to use your wireless data services. These services, instead of using plain old Plan Minutes (and I have a LOT of Minutes), costs about as much as the monthly plan itself. Instead of cheaply (if slowly) surfing the web and getting email on my big-screen laptop, I’m supposed to use the teensy-ass screen on the Treo to read my damn
Slashdot.
Well, thanks so some research and a patched Palm OS Bluetooth Manager from
shadowmite, I’ve got my DUN (dial-up networking) working on my Treo 650... and by changing one top-level pop-up menu, I’ve got full iSync Bluetooth data exchange.
I’m posting this from the Metro North train, using my
Treo fucking 650. No thanks to you, Verizon, you big beeyotch.
Shit.
Love to all. Even you, James Earl Jones.
4 comments:
You know, you just voided your warranty... you hacker... you
I am sure RR would be very glad to hear about this. He asked me to do this same thing with USB functionalitay and a Treo 600 two years ago, and I could never get it done...
You are da Man!
I want a Treo 650, but my carrier doesn't support it at all. Cellular is a rip-off. It has always been run by sleazy people.
Just came across your blog through Blog Explosion today, and wanted say I enjoyed it and plan to keep reading your stuff.
Dude, all that shit about your Treo 650: I've never even heard of it. But I'm usually behind when it comes to that kind of stuff.
Again, cool blog. Thanks.
Verizon is evil.
I look forward to the day when they are utterly demolished by someone offering something better, cheaper, and more open... and something that makes them far richer than Verizon could possibly imagine.
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