PPC-6600 vs 6601?

[k5map]

Ok gang, I have a newbie question...

Can someone tell me the different between the PPC-6600 and 6601? I've been reading this forum for a few days to get educated on the SmartPhones offered by Sprint. I'm leaning towards the 6601 but want to make sure I understand the differences before I spend my hard earned $$$.

Thanks,
Mike

[TonyH]

PPC6600 has a camera, but not the PPC6601. That's the only phyical difference I know of.

Since the 6600 is on back order till the end of February there are speculations that they maybe working out some bugs, but I have not seen any thing to confirm that by Audiovox/UTTtarcom

[sharkdamark]

Wirelessly posted (treo 650: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; PalmSource/hspr-H102; Blazer/4.0) 16;320x320)

the lackof the camera is the only difference.

[TonyH]

Wirelessly posted (treo 650: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; PalmSource/hspr-H102; Blazer/4.0) 16;320x320)

the lackof the camera is the only difference.

How come when I post from my phone I don't see this "Wirelessly posted" message? Is that something you do to make it appear?

[Sandiegodude]

Wirelessly posted (Vm 4050: Mozilla/4.0 (MobilePhone MM-7400/US/1.0) NetFront/3.1 MMP/2.0)

Wow. It Should just happen automatically. like this one. :)

[sloop]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (MobilePhone SCP-8100/US/1.0) NetFront/3.0 MMP/2.0)

are you posting from your 6601?

[sloop]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (MobilePhone SCP-8100/US/1.0) NetFront/3.0 MMP/2.0)

my guess is we are posting from the wap version of su - your browser will support the full blown html web site

[TonyH]

Yes, I'm using http://www.sprintusers.com/forum both on my laptop as well as my PPC6601. I tried http://wap.sprintusers.com/wap but I can't get to this forum.

I talked to sprint and they said the wap vision homepage doesn't support the PPC6601. That's interesting. I can use http://pda.sprintpcs.com/palmportal, but there's no access to this forum except through the full web site. And Sprint wants to charge PPC users an additional $15/month? Suddenly, Verizon is starting to look more attractive,...,again.

[sloop]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (MobilePhone SCP-8100/US/1.0) NetFront/3.0 MMP/2.0)

that's good info - i was wondering about the 660x explorer browser - does the 650's bromrer support the html version or wap version? my guess is you could run another browser if you wanted to acess sites that are wap formatted

[DF@Work]

Well keep in mind, the PPC series phone has IE or miniIE for smartphones/pocketpc so really wap based websites don't work as well as true html...

[sloop]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (MobilePhone SCP-8100/US/1.0) NetFront/3.0 MMP/2.0)

could be a death knell for wap if these devices can support full html instead of wap cards

[TonyH]

Pocket IE browser supports both full HTML and wap. I browse wap enabled web sites quite a bit (PDA portal, Yahoo, google, mapquest, etc) but I'm unable to access wap vision to see my account, usage, etc. I can use http://sprintpcs.com to do it, but I have to scroll a lot on that 3.5 screen.

[FloorMatt]

I am posting this from my Clie, using NetFront 3.0

I can access the "Treo" WAP version, and the WAP links.....but not the forum link. So, I used the regular link and viola! But, as far as some site go....they consider this a regular browser.

P:S I am using WiFi, not the Bluetooth :(

[TonyH]

Yes, and that's why the system does not see you as a wireless user, but rather a PC user, and the "posted wirelessly" message does not show on your posts as well.

[imannie]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (MobilePhone PM-8200/US/1.0) NetFront/3.1 MMP/2.0)

maybe i missed the question but what is the difference between a ppc and a smartphone?