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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #20 on: June 19, 2013, 11:50:15 PM »
This question has been answered above.  Palm Centro
Someone tried activating a centro with Verizon on line and in store, and they were considering it as a smart phone. What is the way around it?

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #21 on: June 19, 2013, 11:55:10 PM »
Centro is dumb, Pixi is smart on both Sprint and VZW.

HUCA if you are told otherwise.
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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2013, 01:25:22 AM »
Centro is dumb, Pixi is smart on both Sprint and VZW.

HUCA if you are told otherwise.
On the same old f&cf with Sprint, the one that had a pixi when that rule came into effect ( I don't recall exactly when we realized this)  was allowed to replace with another pixi, while a line that didn't have a pixi wasn't allowed. (I know this from our personal experience)

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #23 on: June 20, 2013, 03:19:47 PM »
I see that a lot of people have the Brightside.

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #24 on: June 20, 2013, 11:19:35 PM »
HUCA if you are told otherwise.
+100

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #25 on: June 20, 2013, 11:20:07 PM »
I see that a lot of people have the Brightside.
nothing special about it.

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #26 on: June 21, 2013, 02:38:08 AM »
everyone has brightside, simply cause there is nothing better.

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #27 on: June 21, 2013, 02:57:45 AM »
I see that a lot of people have the Brightside.
I think they ask $100 for it.

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #28 on: June 21, 2013, 09:55:19 AM »
I bought someone one on eBay, for less than $80 3 months ago.

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #29 on: June 23, 2013, 01:46:46 AM »
everyone has brightside, simply cause there is nothing better.
Its a regular dumb phone with a touch screen. Unlike the centro...;)

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #30 on: June 23, 2013, 10:00:08 AM »
elikay - Your saying that the centro is better?

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #31 on: June 23, 2013, 11:39:15 AM »
elikay - Your saying that the centro is better?
Than a dumb phone? Absolutely!

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #32 on: June 24, 2013, 08:39:46 PM »
PLEASE PLEASE, can someone help. I tried Verizon 2 times, and they are insisting that a palm centro is a smartphone. Has anyone done it recently? They say that its no longer possible.
Does anyone have a contact that can do it for me?

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #33 on: June 24, 2013, 09:00:28 PM »
You thinks 2 times is HUCA??
With calling 4-5 times you're not eligible to even say the words that you 'tried getting approved'.
HUCACACACACACACACACACACACA!
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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #34 on: June 24, 2013, 09:06:44 PM »
You thinks 2 times is HUCA??
+1000
I know someone who actually asked a guy at verizon for his direct number once the he found someone to do it for him. The fact is that it is allowed, but you'll have to do a lot of HUCA.

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #35 on: June 24, 2013, 09:25:56 PM »
+1000
I know someone who actually asked a guy at verizon for his direct number once the he found someone to do it for him. The fact is that it is allowed, but you'll have to do a lot of HUCA.
He agreed with me that it WAS allowed. He says its no longer the case. Of course I will HUCA all night, but does anyone have recent experience?

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #36 on: June 24, 2013, 10:20:52 PM »
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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #37 on: June 24, 2013, 10:59:45 PM »
Call number 4- No success. I can usually feel when its a lost cause. They all put in the MEID HEX number on my palm centro 690, and the system keeps calling it a smartphone, even though they claim that they would love to help me, but its hard coded in the computer for all palms...

EDIT- 5th time no luck...since it can be tethered to a laptop, its a smartphone
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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #38 on: June 24, 2013, 11:07:50 PM »
Anyone in Lakewood that can lend me a old basic Verizon phone for about a week? Thanks. Much appreciated.

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Re: Best Verizon Non-Smartphone.
« Reply #39 on: June 25, 2013, 01:37:38 AM »
Call number 4- No success. I can usually feel when its a lost cause. They all put in the MEID HEX number on my palm centro 690, and the system keeps calling it a smartphone, even though they claim that they would love to help me, but its hard coded in the computer for all palms...

EDIT- 5th time no luck...since it can be tethered to a laptop, its a smartphone
Dumb phones can also be tethered to a laptop. I know that it is hard coded and that is exactly why it is so hard to do. I know to people who are using Centros as we speak on Verizon as a dumbphone.