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    KY13
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    Right now I have a regular flip phone. Was thinking about getting one of them computer phones like a palm or blackberry or somethin. Sounds like it would be good for business stuff like checking email, booking appointments and I even heard some of them are actually compatible with Quickbooks. I know very little about these phones and am quite computer illiterate. Can any of you guys out there make any recommendations?

    #151513
    Anonymous
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    I have a palm treo 755. Honestly I love it and it’s the best ivestment ever. For me it is convienant because I don’t have business hours. I answer 24/7 when ever a customer calls. Although I don’t always have my paper schedule. So if I am out at dinner, or riding the motorcyle or wherever I dont have the schedule I can take the call and still booking the appointment.

    For me being that accessible to my customer and answering at times when everyone else is closed has landed me quite a few jobs. Without having a smart phone I would not have had my schedule and would not have aswered therefore not having another customer.

    On the downside if you do get a smartphone learn from my stupidity. I had a HTC smartphone, DO NOT GET. It was garbage. I had to get a new phone every 30 days to the day because it would crash until they traded it for the palm. But the moral is I relied on my original smartphone and never backed up some appointments. When it crashed I lost the ones I dodn’t have saved on my computer or written down. So always have a backup somewhere.

    Hope this helps.

    #151514
    uxflz95
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    I have a regular cell phone and I also use a HP Ipaq (rx3715) I like having them separate so that i can write everything down on it whie I’m on the phone with the customer without using speakerphone or bluetooth.

    I had a MDA phone, but I didn’t like having the phone and pda together. I guess I’m technologically old fashioned.

    #151515
    KY13
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    thanks for your input guys; much appreciated

    #151516
    pacheco
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    I have a Verizon Treo and would not trade…went thru several others and will never go back…hated Verizon Motorola Q….would sell cheap.

    #151517
    KY13
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    Dave what features about the Treo make it better than the MotoQ?

    #151518
    HBPuyallup
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    I have the xv6800 smart phone from verizon wireless I have had it since the end of December of 07. I do love it. I got ride of my paper appointment book and currently keep two different calendars on it for the two vans. I then can link the calendar to outlook and print to schedule for my techs then it is back up. I do have to link the phone to it everyday. Which it a little bummer. It takes about 5 minutes to do. I can listen to music that goes through my blue tooth and customers don’t even know. That’s just an added perk. The only problem that I have had with it is the cord that I used to link up the info to my computer went bad some how.

    #151519
    pacheco
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    Evan,

    Everything is better, except the price…I would gladly sell you mine and my wife’s. She hates hers as well and only used a month. I am going to list on EBay…cheaper is not…repeat..NOT always better.

    #151520
    KY13
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    hmmmmm tempting dave……especially after all the great things you had to say about it. 😆

    #151521
    KY13
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    anybody out there have a blackberry care to comment?

    #151522
    Gary Spear
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    dave if you are looking to sell your Verizon Motorola Q let me know
    kitsapheavensbest@comcast.net
    thank you

    #151523
    Anonymous
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    Ok, I had to chime in on this one as my wife has a blackberry and I have an iPhone. She has used both my phone as well as hers and here is our run down of the two. I LOVE my iphone! I can schedule all my jobs (in the summer I have 3 vans running) on the iphone and sync it to my computer at night when I get home. The synch take approx 2-3 minutes to complete. All vans get a copy of their schedule in the morning. I also get all my email, which I even have some of my customers email when they need something cleaned and I respond, add it to my ical, all from my phone. Another plus is that using the maps on the iphone (or GPS on the new one) is very helpful. We also sync all our contacts from Quickbooks onto the iPhone so if a phone number is ever needed we have it. Then the music is also a bonus. Surfing the web on the iPhone is a breeze but with a blackberry it is a nightmare as you can’t adjust the size of the screen. My wife is getting rid of her blackberry this Friday when the new iphone comes out. Here is a new tip for the new iphones. There is a new feature called MobileMe. What it will allow us to do is we can have 2 iPhones and if anything is added onto either iPhone or the computer it will update all three devices. This will cost an extra 99.00/yr but we think it will be VERY helpful in scheduling jobs. Hope this helps.

    #151524
    KY13
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    sweet sounds amazing. too bad iphones arent in my area 🙁

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