Yup, that's the store.
Trouble was, and is, I'm married to a girl I still like, and who says she
still likes me.
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From: Scandals & Animals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> That sounds like a Cingular store, all right. Had you omitted Cingular,
> with that description, I still could've told you which carrier it was. I
> tell you, if the girl at the Cingular store wasn't so dang cute...
>
> ...... Original Message .......
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:04:05 -0400 J Messeder wrote:
> >At my Cingular store, I could have any color 680 I wanted, as long as it
> >was red. The camera was mandatory, and a good deal, the sales folk
> >informed me. And the rebates in large print were followed by
> >exceptionally small print that said I couldn't have them.
> >So I bout an Arctic-colored device, with a camera, from Palm. And I
> >may be about to learn whether Palm's support is as good as it was when
> >PDAs were all they sold.
> >
> >Roger Prokic wrote:
> >> I'd also love to have a copper Treo 680... But with no camera. Cingular
> >> only had the graphite color.
> >> ---
> >> Roger Prokic
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *NEW*
> >> Moderator of Palm_Treo_680 Yahoo group
> >> Baltimore, Maryland USA
> >>
> >> -=[ This email was sent from a Palm Treo 680 palm computer using
> >> SnapperMail Enterprise Edition v2.3.7.01 ]=-
> >>
> >> _
> >> ( ) The ASCII ribbon campaign
> >> X against HTML e-mail
> >> / \
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> >> ...... Original Message .......
> >> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:31:04 -0500 "Richard E Johnson, MD"
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Apr 11, 2007, at 12:53 PM, J Messeder wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Why, for instance, can Palm not sell
> >>>> unlocked Copper and Red 680s after Feb. 15. You want a pretty Copper
> >>>> case, you gotta buy from Cingular.
> >>>>
> >>> Interesting comment. I just bought a Treo 680 after a series of Palm
> >>> handhelds died [IIIc->m515->Zire 31->Zire 72s] (loved them but they
> >>> died, in my view, unexpectedly early/untimely deaths from un-
> >>> repairable crashes of unknown origin). In any event, I did a lot of
> >>> research not only on CDMA vs. GSM, but memory, functions, etc. I
> >>> wound up wanting a copper-cased Treo 680, but the only way I could
> >>> get one in that color was to buy it directly from Palm and then pick
> >>> up a Cingular package, but that would have a) given me far less
> >>> discount than buying it from Cingular, and b) Cingular claimed they
> >>> would not support any problems with the physical 680 unit, for which
> >>> i would have to contact (and then possibly ship to/from) Palm.
> >>> However, Cingular had some deal with Palm whereby they could only buy
> >>> the standard/silver colored units from Palm to supply to their
> >>> customers. Thus, I either spent a lot more money (less discounts with
> >>> the Treo/service package) or settled for a silver Treo. Now, my wife
> >>> and I are both copper enthusiasts, and would make every metal surface
> >>> in our house copper if possible, but it wasn't worth the money or
> >>> aggravation. I wish I could have found a Cingular dealer (online or
> >>> local store = same problem) that HAD a copper Treo 680 2 months ago!!!!
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Dick Johnson
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------------------------------
> >>> Richard E Johnson, ScM, MD, DABA
> >>> Palm/Treo 680
> >>> Mac G4, iBook G3, PowerBook G4
> >>> Lawton, OK 73505 USA
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >--
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> >/The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if we
> >know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us
> >whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of
> >chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./
> >A Sand County Almanac, /Aldo Leopold, July 1949/
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