Samsung A680?

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pervmonkey

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#3560 28-Feb-2005 16:22

does anyone know when this phone is coming out? It was supposed to be out early february, but its the last day of february now and its still not out

smallgear

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#13204 28-Feb-2005 16:24

Its out now with a price of $599, looks good. Shame it doesn't have push 2 talk. Have seen it with my own eyes

pervmonkey

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#13205 28-Feb-2005 16:28

oh k, Its not on the telecom site, thats why I didn't think It was out. thanks

smallgear

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#13206 28-Feb-2005 16:41

You can look but you cant buy it till 2morro

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#13233 1-Mar-2005 22:52

Have just spent the day using one of these.

Its not worth $599 IMO. Its just an X609 with camera+video really.
Its nice, but only $349 nice.

Back to my Sanyo 7400 - P2T rocks. I use it HEAPS

slippers

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#13460 11-Mar-2005 01:48

Its a good phone for a Samsung... I see Samsung as the low end manufacturer of Telecom handsets.

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#13493 11-Mar-2005 21:09

To be fair, how many people are using Corporate WAP in NZ (on Telecom), and of those, how many would choose the A680 vs the 7400 (not many, if any.....)

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#13734 21-Mar-2005 22:51

Also no "tethered data" support AFAIK. So no using it as a modem via usb cable.

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#13990 5-Apr-2005 16:43

Just a couple of notes....

The A680 will only crash on certan off site pages. These are either pages served from a incorrectly configured server, or pages that are badly written (or both).

The x609 is a WAP1 handset. The A680 is WAP2.

jcr976

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#13993 5-Apr-2005 17:33

The A680 can take small video clips but can not send them, Are you sure?

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#13999 5-Apr-2005 20:39

It can't be true, because Telecom promote this handset as supporting Video Messaging. That would obviously be false advertising if the handset were unable to send videos!

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#14000 5-Apr-2005 20:50

They have all these new ads on TV tonight with advertising make useless videos and send them T3G and it does not even use there T3G network.

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#14003 5-Apr-2005 21:29

The same could probably be said about push to talk.

Don't forget that 'T3G' is Telecom marketing lingo rather than a technical term. It can encompass any services that Telecom want it to, irrespective of whether those services utilise CDMA EV-DO or not.

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#14008 5-Apr-2005 23:08

does def send video messages

video messaging is overrated due to low frame rates and quality loss. Beggars can't be choosers though