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bbsandrew
10-11-2005, 10:11 AM
Hi all,

Just became a Sprint customer over the weekend and as of yesterday, I added the PCS Vision Plus pack to my service. I have a few questions about the service that I was hoping can get answered.

(Please keep in mind that I've been with Cingular since 1995 until last Saturday)

Web Access - Can I only access certain websites that are linked from the PCS home site, or are there other sites I can get to?

Picture / Video Mail - From what I understand, the Picture Mail service works different than what's known as "MMS" right? The Cust Serv Rep told me that when I send one to people who are not Sprint Customers, they will get a link to go to retrieve the message. Is that right?

E-mail - is it just "myusername@sprintpcs.com" and anyone can send me an email at that address, and I can view the message on my phone? Are there limitations, e.g. no attachments, or size limit to attachments?

Instand messaging - log in to AOL or MSN, etc from my phone?

Thanks in advance!
fl00d-cell
10-11-2005, 10:15 AM
No, you can access just about any site as long as it will load on your phon. Sprint doesn't block out sites. There should be an icon/button to push where you can type in a web address.

Yes, if you send a picture message to a non Sprint customer they will be given a link to view the image I believe. Same way with E-mailing it, they have a link and a thumbnail image.

As for the E-mail on a normal phone, I'm not sure. I'm used to my PPC 6600, and Treo 650 when using E-mail. I've never accessed E-mail from my Sanyo 5600 to know how that works.

You can send AIM text messages via the portal, or if someone from AOL/AIM sends you a text message, you can reply via that.
bbsandrew
10-11-2005, 10:35 AM
No, you can access just about any site as long as it will load on your phon. Sprint doesn't block out sites. There should be an icon/button to push where you can type in a web address.

Yes, if you send a picture message to a non Sprint customer they will be given a link to view the image I believe. Same way with E-mailing it, they have a link and a thumbnail image.

As for the E-mail on a normal phone, I'm not sure. I'm used to my PPC 6600, and Treo 650 when using E-mail. I've never accessed E-mail from my Sanyo 5600 to know how that works.

You can send AIM text messages via the portal, or if someone from AOL/AIM sends you a text message, you can reply via that.

So basically everything is run from the website through the phone? If I want to send a text message, which will be directly from the phone, then there's extra chrage (unless I buy the Text message package, etc.)?
fl00d-cell
10-11-2005, 10:51 AM
Right, basically... And yes, with the new plans text messages aren't included, for unlimited it is now 15.00 extra om top of your vision charges.
bbsandrew
10-11-2005, 11:02 AM
well that blows.... so if I want to be able to get to the web, and send text messages, it's $30 more. :irked:
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