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Hello, it's time for my first post of the year
I am considering a phone to replace my T68i which suffers poor reception in my home on T-mobile. I guess I'm just in a fringe area, and thus the dilema. I have read that the Z600 has better reception due to the much larger antenna (compared to the T630). Is this true in practical experience in a fringe area?
I am quite happy with T-mobile in general, and if I could find a phone with better reception and stay with T-mobile that would be fine. The only issue is that if I searched for a SonyEricsson Z600 on the internet, I'd have to pay full price (around 399) since I'm not buying a "phone/service plan" package.
The other issue is that I've never seen a Z600 here in Hawaii. This might mean buying a phone "sight unseen" and this bothers me. Those of you "in the know": what other phones are similarly sized so I can get an idea of the 'legendary" heft of the Z600? I can find the Motorola V600 here and the specs list the phone as 3-4 mm thicker and 2 mm shorter. Would I be correct in assuming that this is to the tip of the antenna and that the actual phone body is going to be 10-15 mm shorter than the Z600? Is there something else I should be looking at? BTW, I must have a bluetooth HF profile!
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Posted: 2004-05-18 02:23:49
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V400,V500,V600, not sure if V60 is still sold in the US, but I whink it's CDMA/TMDA
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Posted: 2004-05-18 05:08:04
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Z600 is about the size of a pack of cigarettes. when i place my Z600 on a pack of ciggies, it's looks about a quarter inch narrower and a half inch taller than the pack.
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Posted: 2004-05-18 06:27:13
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Why don't you wait a month or so and order the k700 from
, if you're gonna pay that much for a fone, you might as well wait a little bit and pay a little more for an altogether awesome fone?
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Posted: 2004-05-18 06:34:00
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V600 is not TDMA?CDMA to my knowledge.
Colin, if you suffer from poor reception on a phone that works on 1900 mhz (as well as 800/1800) at your home, perhaps it might be wise to FIRST investigate what kind of network provides good coverage in your area, instead of buying a phone that serves the very same frequencies as your t68i.
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Posted: 2004-05-18 09:32:17
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P - Samsungs are similar, Motorolas are similar...
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Posted: 2004-05-18 09:50:39
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Vlammetje,
Thanks for the reply and your suggestion was the first avenue I persued with some of my friends. I must have a Bluetooth phone and this limits my choices somewhat. Nextel is out because their plans are too much and no BT. ATT is out because of universally panned coverage and customer service issues. Sprint is maybe, but they don't have too many BT phones available for their network here. Verizon is the company with seemingly the best coverage here in HI. However, they have no BT phones that I could get with a new service agreement (till the moto V710 is out) and then who knows how well that phone will work or how much it costs.
Is there that much of a difference with the different frequencies when it comes to RF? I really have no idea what T-mobile uses here, but the Nokia 8290 worked slightly better in our house than the T68i.
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Posted: 2004-05-18 12:06:39
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I said V60(V60,V60T,V60i,V60x,etc)
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Posted: 2004-05-18 23:15:52
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Vlammetje,
I double checked with T-mobile and they work on 1900 mhz in Hawaii. Do some phones seem to offer better reception on different frequencies? ie. Z600 is strong on 1900mhz, but the T630 is better if you're on 900? Or is this difference too small to quantify?
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Posted: 2004-05-18 23:38:04
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