Verizon XV6600
My company recently hooked me up with a Verizon XV6600, one of those PDA smart phones. Typically I have been the type of cellphone user that is happy with a small phone that will fit in my pocket and rings when I have a call. However, I have begun to enjoy the new functionality of this new phone.
The XV6600 runs Windows Mobile 2003 and is hooked up on Verizon’s EVDO high speed data network. In a good signal zone the speeds can burst to 2MB, that is faster than my DSL at home! Fast enough for me to remote control my Windows based servers with Remote Desktop Client, or connect to my Linux based boxes with SSH. I have even loaded up a Soft Phone and connect to our IP PBX.
However, the biggest addiction this phone has created is to my email. I was standing on the top of a motor coach at a NASCAR race conducting business via email. With Verizon’s “wireless sync” the Outlook mailbox on my PC is kept in sync with my cell phone. As long as outlook is running on my PC at the office I have access to send and recv email just like I am in the office.
The phone is also bluetooth enabled. According to both Verizon in-store reps and the Level 2 technical support I spoke with….who BTW was more like level -2 based on his knowledge it is not possible to connect your PC to the phone with bluetooth and get on the Internet. Well not true…it works pretty well actually. I just got a new laptop, so I need to go through it again and will probably post more on that in the future.
I have two compliants about this phone;
1. It is too big…but at the same time I think the screen is to small. 
Unfortunately they can’t fix this for me yet till they come up with some very small projection capability so the screen is whatever flat surface is near.
2. The phone seems to freeze up about once a week. It requires me to pull the battery and hard restart the phone. In all honesty I haven’t had the time to contact Verizon yet to see if they have an update or something.
Well that’s it.
March 31st, 2006 at 12:33 am
only you could complain that something is too big and too small at the same time.
I’ve been trying to get a Treo out of a certain tightwad manager in our office. No luck thus far, but hell hasn’t frozen over yet.
Hey, how does your Mac like that Windows phone?