Andy Chase

I upgraded my cell phone service to a FamilyShare plan so that Kim can have her own phone. Since switching plans requires a new service agreement anyway, I took advantage of the equipment upgrade credit Verizon gives you every two years and ordered a free Motorola e815. It's got all kinds of bells and whistles - most interesting to me is the 1.3 megapixel camera, which appears to be capable of some pretty decent photos. The ability to capture video clips will be novel, too.

Still, I am left with a bad taste in my mouth knowing that Verizon has crippled most of the phone's useful features like Bluetooth OBEX file transfer; they want you to pay through the nose to shuffle your photos, videos, and music around even though the phone is capable of transferring all of those things right to your desktop. From what I have read you can get around this by using a TransFlash card for the photos and video.

If this is the case, I can probably live with that arrangement... I expect I will be taking quite a few photos with the thing. Five years ago, when I carried my Handspring Visor with me religiously, I took hundreds if not thousands of photos with my Eyemodule camera.

When the 1 year warranty is up I will probably take a stab at the seem hack so I can use the damn thing the way Motorola's engineers intended.

Tagged:

• motorola
• e815
• cellphone
• cameraphone
• eyemodule
• handspring
• visor
• camera
• verizon