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  1. #1
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    Default Useless mob. Ph. Feature.

    Hi to all,
    My friend was given a Promotional Ph. as he is a good Customer of this Electrical Place. Gave it to me as a gift. Thankyou. No box, no booklet, just the Phone.

    1st. problem ; locked into a certain Ph.Co. I wanted to use another one. yes we can unlock it for you $110.80. Jam that?.

    2nd.problem ; Found a Co. in the UK, sorry we can't unlock it, got my money back.
    Next UK Co.sorry can't unlock your Ph. Can't get my $A10.99 back.
    PayPal could not help me, Sorry.

    Found someone local, they would unlock it $7.50, Beautiful, Done.

    3rd. problem ; Good Camera ?. Have taken 40+ Photos. Impossible to get them out.
    No holes for a Cable to connect to the Computer. Dash. Walked all over Geelong.
    7 Ph. places I went to, "Sorry it wont happen, will not Download Photos ".

    Googled, Motorola W218, Review.
    They were right, It will not Download the Photos.

    Why oh Why would a Co. do something so Stupid ?.

    Anyway the Ph. works OK, has a great FM Radio, but you have to use the Ear Phones for it to work, as it is also the Antenna.

    I must be to old, can't get the Stupid things to stay in my ears.

    As I said the Phone works OK. ????
    Regards,
    issatree.

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    Email the photos to youself.

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    Bluetooth transfer?
    Those were the droids I was looking for.
    https://autoblastgates.com.au

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    It looks like a very basic phone. No Bluetooth, no email, no pxt. Not sure of any other way to transfer photos from a phone if there's no cable, so it might be that you can only view them on the phone and that's it.
    The other day I described to my daughter how to find something in the garage by saying "It's right near my big saw". A few minutes later she came back to ask: "Do you mean the black one, the green one, or the blue one?".

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    Motorola Motorola W218

    probably doesn't have bluetooth. There is a reason nokia and apple own teh mobile market.
    I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
    We live in a free country. We have freedom of choice. You can choose to agree with me, or you can choose to be wrong.
    Wait! No one told you your government was a sitcom?

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    Quote Originally Posted by motorola page
    Summary of key features:
    • Compact and thin candybar form factor
    • Internal antenna
    • FM radio
    • Polyphonic Speakerphone
    • Up to 1 MB available memory²
    • Large 65K TFT Display
    • VGA camera with 4x zoom
    • Stores up to 500 phone book entries with multiple letter phone book search
    • Text messaging via SMS; stores up to 750 SMS messages¹
    PC Connectivity via Handset Manager Software
    handset manager software
    Mick

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    I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
    We live in a free country. We have freedom of choice. You can choose to agree with me, or you can choose to be wrong.
    Wait! No one told you your government was a sitcom?

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    Dont know anything about motorola but I do however have a sony phone that plugs in via the same spot, same connection, as the recharge.
    Mick

    avantguardian

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    Buy a card reader and download them that way!

    Colin,.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chippy 71 View Post
    Buy a card reader and download them that way!

    Colin,.
    It doesn't look like it has a removable card.

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    How about re-setting your life, to just before the "gift"? Start over (reboot) from there, but without the "gift."

    Might be the path of least resistance.

    Cheers,
    Joe
    Of course truth is stranger than fiction.
    Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    It doesn't look like it has a removable card.
    If it can take photos and you can view them after, then I would think it has a card, I can't see how it could work without one as the images have to be stored somewhere.
    But I am often known to be wrong.

    Colin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chippy 71 View Post
    If it can take photos and you can view them after, then I would think it has a card, I can't see how it could work without one as the images have to be stored somewhere.
    But I am often known to be wrong.

    Colin.
    One would think so, but reading the product blurb it says it has up to 1Mb of memory configurable by the vendor and there is no mention of any other card.

    My BIL had a phone like this - the (dumb) idea of the camera was you just took the photo and looked at it on the phone and then overwrote the pics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    One would think so, but reading the product blurb it says it has up to 1Mb of memory configurable by the vendor and there is no mention of any other card.

    My BIL had a phone like this - the (dumb) idea of the camera was you just took the photo and looked at it on the phone and then overwrote the pics.
    I too had a read of the product blurb and noticed the oddity of the 1Mb of memory with no mention of any card. If this is the case, what a pointless exercise producing and selling a phone like this with such low specs, beats me!

    Colin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by joe greiner View Post
    How about re-setting your life, to just before the "gift"? Start over (reboot) from there, but without the "gift."

    Might be the path of least resistance.

    Cheers,
    Joe
    I agree, don't you hate it when you get something for FREE, and it's not perfect! I hate FREE stuff at the best of times, but when thet same FREE stuff doesn't do what I want, I get frustrated that I spent absolutely NOTHING to get it!
    It was a free phone, use it for what it's designed for (phone calls). If not go and BUY one that does what you want, then complan about it! Crikey, some people just want it all.

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