Telcel re-thinking
Wednesday, 24. December 2008, 20:49:23
The iPhone is an exclusive phone from Telcel in Mexico, they started with a super expensive plan to get the iPhone, of course it costed like $70.00 usd instead of $299.00 usd, but we had to pay like $130.00 usd per month (it included 700 minutes and 100 mb of internet ¡crap!)
Well after not so good sales of the iPhone (still 4th in place of the 72 original countries, but that is because there is 108 million mexicans) also after a study that showed that iPhone users prefer the interent and use a lot of IM (with webapps) they change the plan and now it is cheaper, like $60.00 usd per month and you can get the iPhone for $60.00 usd, in a two year plan, which includes 60 minutes of talk and unlimited internet.
Also they reduced the fee to connect to the internet unlimited from $60.00 usd to $30.00 usd.
Still I had an iPhone to test it, as part of the campaign, it is great in many ways, but sucks in so many others, I tryed to download many stuff from the Safari, and it keep showing me the "Safari can't download..." also when using the GPS (well Google Maps) it sucks that to zoom you have to use both hand (one to hold the phone the other to zoom) they should put a zoom in/out button (virtual of course), also I hated not being able to send photos via MMS, not everybody has a mail on the phone, and the fact that once a friend ask me the phone of another friend via SMS and I couldn't copy and paste it, as in my Sony Ericsson (every model from sony ericsson can do that, even the cheap ones), couldn't save images from a website, because safari is crippled.
The day they have an office suite (Documents to Go or Quickoffice) and a decent better Internet Browser (Safari 2.0 with flash that allows you to download stuff, or better yet Opera Mobile), Copy and Paste, a decent GPS software (Wayfinder, TomTom, Route 66), a file manager (I want the folders and that stuff, because having so many memory you can have files of anything), and a not crippled Bluetooth that allows you to send a receive files, send stereo sound to external headphones or speakers.
I want a Nokia 5800, or better a N97, I also like others like the HTC Touch HD, HTC Touch Diamond, Samsung Omnia, all this phones can do so much, and are cool looking.
Well after not so good sales of the iPhone (still 4th in place of the 72 original countries, but that is because there is 108 million mexicans) also after a study that showed that iPhone users prefer the interent and use a lot of IM (with webapps) they change the plan and now it is cheaper, like $60.00 usd per month and you can get the iPhone for $60.00 usd, in a two year plan, which includes 60 minutes of talk and unlimited internet.
Also they reduced the fee to connect to the internet unlimited from $60.00 usd to $30.00 usd.
Still I had an iPhone to test it, as part of the campaign, it is great in many ways, but sucks in so many others, I tryed to download many stuff from the Safari, and it keep showing me the "Safari can't download..." also when using the GPS (well Google Maps) it sucks that to zoom you have to use both hand (one to hold the phone the other to zoom) they should put a zoom in/out button (virtual of course), also I hated not being able to send photos via MMS, not everybody has a mail on the phone, and the fact that once a friend ask me the phone of another friend via SMS and I couldn't copy and paste it, as in my Sony Ericsson (every model from sony ericsson can do that, even the cheap ones), couldn't save images from a website, because safari is crippled.
The day they have an office suite (Documents to Go or Quickoffice) and a decent better Internet Browser (Safari 2.0 with flash that allows you to download stuff, or better yet Opera Mobile), Copy and Paste, a decent GPS software (Wayfinder, TomTom, Route 66), a file manager (I want the folders and that stuff, because having so many memory you can have files of anything), and a not crippled Bluetooth that allows you to send a receive files, send stereo sound to external headphones or speakers.
I want a Nokia 5800, or better a N97, I also like others like the HTC Touch HD, HTC Touch Diamond, Samsung Omnia, all this phones can do so much, and are cool looking.
WIDGETIZE
Anonymous # 8. October 2009, 03:55
Telcel really does suck. I just tried their internet modem for my laptop, and it was a total waste of $47 (the monthly charge). The speed was worse than dial up, and it took a long time between requests for a page to begin loading. Watching video is impossible. It was absolutely terrible, and I will never trust them again.