anyone have experience with these phones? i'm not interested in the data package really, but the wifi is important to me and i can get one at a pretty good discount. thoughts?

6/11/2008 8:35:21 PM

They are kind've fun but make for aweful phones.

6/11/2008 9:13:25 PM

u getin it with verizon? I heard wi fi and the cellfone netwrk do not wrk simultaneosly..

6/11/2008 10:18:09 PM

you shouldn't buy this phone - the newer version of this phone (htc 6800) came out last summer

it's beyond the end of the lifecycle of this phone unless you are getting it for free - you can put wm6.1 on it if you want to kitchen the phone but it's not worth going down that route if you are getting a new phone

6/11/2008 10:37:20 PM

i just got it on ebay for $100, which i thought was pretty good considering they retail for $300 or so. so the actual phone isn't that great? i've got an enV right now which i can't say is all that great either

6/11/2008 11:03:29 PM

they retail for $300???? where at? i'm fairly certain that you haven't been able to buy that phone new in a looooong time - you got ripped off

http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=808
3yr old technology - fcc approved june 2005 which means it came out a few months after that

posted the wrong link the first time - my bad

6/11/2008 11:07:12 PM

http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tg=dl-20&qt=registry%20editor

this is a link for a registry editor to allow for wifi/cellphone use at the same time. can someone walk me through this? i have no clue how to go about it

6/11/2008 11:08:26 PM

check out the windows mobile applications thread in this section as well

6/11/2008 11:10:59 PM

btw that link was for the xv6600, not the 6700. is there a big difference between the two?

6/11/2008 11:13:06 PM

fixed the link - my bad

6/11/2008 11:24:10 PM

ive had this phone since january this year... a little after the 6800 came out. i also got it on ebay for about 140 shipped. the original rom shipped with it did not allow the phone and wifi to work simultaneously but theres an update on the verizon page to allow it. as stingrayrush said, yes you can also edit the registry to allow it, as well as get a "cooked" rom and put windows mobile 6.1 on it which is what i did and i love it.

if you need any help whatsoever with it you can pm me and i can try and help you out as much as possible. also, a lot of online forums help me out when i "hack" my phone and whatnot, them mainly being ppcgeeks.com or pdaphonehome.com

like i said.. if you need help i can walk you through most of whatever you need as far as the basics goes with editing the registry and whatnot.

6/12/2008 3:49:23 PM

6800 ftw




just get one already
i love the hell outta mine

6/14/2008 4:22:36 AM

bah, so i finally got it and everything works great except for some damn reason it can't receive calls. after about an hour on the phone with verizon they determined it was defective, so i've gotta send it back monday to get a new one. i guess until then i'll just play with the wi-fi

can someone show me how to do that? i messed around with it but network setup is not my forte

6/14/2008 5:11:50 PM

ok it works, it was on some weird setting where it couldn't receive calls from cell phones, so thankfully i don't have to send it back.

is there some trick to using a miniSD card? i was under the impression it was essentially a hard drive, but i can't figure out how to save downloads to it or read from it

6/15/2008 10:56:16 AM

i upgraded to wm6, but now half the time any changes i make won't save, e.g. sound settings. its just an annoyance right now, but i haven't really explored the phone that much. anything i can do to fix this?

6/17/2008 6:18:21 PM

so many questions...

6/17/2008 7:53:51 PM

seems like you're having quite a lot of trouble..

6/17/2008 7:55:19 PM

i guess, i just have no clue how to do any of this stuff. i'm sure someone more experienced wouldn't find this very problematic

6/17/2008 9:17:10 PM

http://www.google.com

6/18/2008 8:14:36 AM

ORIGINAL THOUGHT!!

jackass

6/18/2008 10:08:29 PM

I've had mine for 1+ year. Got it on eBay for $150. Love the fucking thing. Its great for my job. Can remote into switches and shit from my phone without having to haul my laptop.

As for having the WiFi on and the cell service, it works just fine. Dunno WTF you are talking about there. The kitchen to run 6.1 makes the phone so much better.

That said, I want the TyTn II, aka AT&T Tilt. But we get no fucking GSM coverage where I live, so it would be worthless as a cellphone to me. That phone would be the ultimate upgrade to me. Fuck the 6800. Two guys at work have it and the only thing that I saw better in it is that you can actually completely power down the unit. A minor annoyance on mine, but not that big of a deal. And its thinner, but its got that shitty little telescoping stylus that I HATE.

I think when the boss upgrades us at the end of the year he is going to buy us all Blackberry's. Probably gonna go with the Thunder would be my guess.

[Edited on June 18, 2008 at 10:50 PM. Reason : ]

6/18/2008 10:49:52 PM