Sprint may finally be using that GPS capability they’ve pedaled on their phones for the past 4 years.

For almost as long as I’ve had my phone sprint has been saying they have the ability to track where my phone is should the need ever arise. Every time I’ve asked them what the heck could I use it for, they always told me “well if 911 ever gets the capability, they’ll be able to use the GPS from your phone to find you should you be in an emergency.”

“But they don’t have it yet.”

Great, just another useless feature that I have to pay for. However, Sprint together without support together with nextel might be turning over a new leaf. Or at least a dirty old stick. They announced not too long ago that they are coming out with a local directory cell phone service that will offer information such as driving directions and movie times and other GPS stuff for $2.99 a month.

Super, payed extra for the phone, pay a ton for every vision service there could be, pay some more to cheaply call others being ripped off by sprint, and pay a ton if I want to text message others. Why not add another service that I can shell out some money for, that won’t work at all.

They are calling the service Find It and I’m sure it won’t be able to find much.

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Keeping in line with their choice to spend less money on keeping it’s current customers happy and spend more money on gaining new customers to annoy Sprint PCS has come up with a new wonderful gimmick.

Sprint Power Vision.

As far as we can tell Sprint Power vision is the same as regular ripoff Vision. It enables you to download the same amount of ringtones, the same bandwidth, and the same text messages. It claims to be faster than regular Vision but I’m pretty sure you need to make some more reliable phones to do that. Reliable phones hasn’t really been Sprints strong point and fast service isn’t it either.

I have used a PCS Vision for several months and hated it. I kept getting my web pages frozen whenever I would go past the Sprint PCS Vision homepage and downloading any pictures would take about 10 minutes. Pretty slow if you ask me. I can’t imagine PCS Power Vision to be any better.

Good luck to those of you who have fallen for the Power Vision Promise. Let us know if it really is faster than regular vision, maybe I’ll come around to it, but I probably won’t. I try not to waste to much of my money on Sprint’s horrible products.

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3Gupload.com could be the alternative solution to your ringtone problems. I realize that a lot of you need to stay current with the trends and download a new ringtone every 5 minutes for your pimped out Sprint phone. If you’re like me and want some interesting ringtones but don’t want them to have an expiration date (what the heck is that all about) then maybe polyphonic ringtones are for you.

At 3Gupload.com you can download unlimited polyphonic ringtones, screen savers and games, which you can keep FOREVER, just by paying $7.99. Now that’s a yearly fee that is good for just the phone you register with that fee. If you’ve heard ringtones with no voices on them there’s a good chance that it was a polyphonic ringtone. I was using Seinfeld theme music for the longest time and loved it. I had to switch phones and get rid of the ringtone which was a disappointment but I may get it back somehow if I can find a way.

You can also download the standard blaring loud ringtones that are the actual wav or mp3 format files but frankly I find those really, really annoying. The cost from 3gupload.com is $13.99 for that but once again you get to keep the ringtones on your phone forever. Also if you ever transfer phones and sprint doesn’t have technical difficulties with their number, picture and ringtone transfer service then you are in luck because they can be transferred between phones. So you could have them on all your phones.

To be quite honest I find it a little bit annoying that the sprint ringtones expire. It’s just shows you another way that Sprint is not taking care of their customers.

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Well once again sprint is at it trying to swoon new customers while screwing their current ones. Sprint is having a huge sale online and in select stores whereby they are selling older model phones (my guess is to get rid of them to make way for the new nextel/sprint dual service phones) for free to $10. That would be such a great deal for those of us with crappy old phones that don’t want to pay the outrageous sticker price of $300 for a crappy phone.

However, the deal is only for new lines of service subscribers. What BS I say again. I wonder what the sprint dropping service rate is like. I wonder if sprint realizes they loose customers by not taking care of them.

WHAT ABOUT US!!!

This is just another example of why sprint sucks and has horrible current customer service or lack there of.

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It seems to be the motto of Sprint together with Nextel. Spend as much as you can on getting new customers while overlooking those customers you do have. Sprint’s customer support is notoriously the worst support of all the cellular telephone companies. Those of you who read the USA Today newspaper might have noticed in the middle of the sports page which reported on the upcoming NCAA Basketball tournament that there was a huge yellow ad in the middle.

In fact it was a one page monster of an ad that had to of cost a fortune. I’m not sure how much it really did cost but trust me when I say a fortune. This is just another example of Sprint spending millions of dollars on advertising and not on existing customers. I was recently in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii and talked with store owner who had to get rid of his sprint contract because sprint said and I quote “We don’t have enough customers over there to necessitate a new phone tower.” Well how do expect to get enough customers if you don’t have enough towers to support their phones.

I know, why not advertise the crap out of all these crappy phones and see if you can’t get some idiots (myself included) to buy a phone be cornered into a contract and stuck before they know it. Great idea.

I realize if you own stock in this wonderful company advertising is a big part of increasing worth of a service company. But don’t you need to keep customers so they can pay you and you can make money. Advertising makes money leave while keeping customers makes money stay.

Hmmm. Sprint still isn’t all that good.

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