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News page is here: https://bigblueball.com/news2/article.asp?id=683
I MUST and AM going to have this. Seeing how I just spent 100$ on that IM free from motorola, I am completly pissed, and am set on getting Ogo. IM free is also 100$, and can only go 250 feet from my computer, can only have 7 conversations open at a time, and doesn’t have a color screen, nor a back light.
Originally I wanted a cell phone so I could use the IM’ing on it, but that costs 40$ for the phone calls and an additional 10$ a month for the IMing. Now I can JUST get this and its only 18$ a month.
Seeing as that I am completly obsessed withgetting it, I now know that I am a slave to IM.
I personally think this is the coolest thing ever. 😀
Edit: Heres Photos I got myself:
omg sweet! im so getting this………….my birthdays commin up soon in november maybe I can get it for that….I NEED THIS!!(hmm I wonder how I can afford 20 bucks a month…..and I dont have a credit card to charge it on…oh shoot thats why I have parrents) oh yeah my parrents aint gonna buy it for me cuz I recently bought an IMfree, I guess ill sell that on ebay or amazon:D accept im using virgin mobile (yes I gotta pay for that too) so I dont know how I could possibly afford that and the ogo, I can barly pay for virgin the way it is! maybe ill have to get a good paying job (hmmm mcdonalds?) I wanna switch from virgin mobile (its a rip off 25 cents a minute!) to einstein (only like 12 cents a minute) but thats another 70 bucks…hmm I guess ill be selling alot of stuff off ebay 😉 why am I talking about this anyways? it has NOTHING to do with this topic so ill get back on task, I did some research and found some cool pics n stuff: http://3gcoding.com/archives/2004/09/ogo_review.php
and heres a forum topic about it: http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=464059
i am so getting this no matter what I have to do!!
Me, having no life, went out and bought one. =)
I will come back and share my findings once it finishes spending it’s several hours activating.
Apparently since Ogo came out a few days ago, there is still alot of bugs being worked out by AT&T. I have found the following bugs when using mine on the AIM network:
– My buddylist did not update peoples status (if someone went away or signed off, my buddylist would say they were still online and wouldn’t update no matter how long I waited)
– Several people could IM me but Ogo would show them as offline. And since Ogo wont even allow you to try and message someone when they are offline, I was not able to carry on a conversation. (this problem only occured with several buddys, I am still trying to figure out how the buddys who had this problem are diffrent from others who didn’t have this problem)
– Every single time I sign on I am IMed by an Ogo bot saying the exact same thing; showing me a ‘welcome to Ogo” message and explaining that my Mobile contacts list has been merged with my Ogo buddylist. Apparently you are only supposed to recieve this the very first time you sign on and never again.
– My friends would try and copy and paste conversations and send them to me in HTML form (instead of pasting in plain text) and I would not recieve the message.
– Some messages experienced long delays being sent (I know this isn’t just because of lack of signal strength because in my house some messages went instantly and others took around 10 seconds for the person on the other line to recieve.
The actual Ogo device itself works great, all these issues seem to be network and connection problems.
Some things that are needed:
– A feature to refresh the buddylist (to avoid problems I had above)
– A feature to change your font
– The ability to try and IM people even when Ogo finds them to be offline (to avoid problems with ghosting)I used the Live chat support that was available from the Ogo (You click on a safety tab and are auto-connected to live IM support in which you talk to support by IMing them with the Ogo). I approached them with these bugs and they said that since it only came out yesterday, that there are still some problems, and that they will forward the issues to their manager, who will fix the bugs ASAP.
There’s cutting edge technology, and then there’s bleeding edge technology. You, my friend, are on the bleeding edge. Ouch.
I’m so jealous.
I dont understand why people would get this, and why people get IM for there cell phone? Cell phones are to place calls not to be IM’ing people….Personally I think it’s ridiculous.
Let me give you an example Scipiox.
Say I want to talk to my friends, but don’t want to sit in a chair and stare at a computer moniter. Instead, I can lay down on the couch and talk to my friends on Ogo while I am watching TV.
Say I am taking a drive to the dentist and its going to take an hour. I can sit back and chat with my friends on the way.
Say I am sick, I can lay in bed and relax while I talk to my friends on my Ogo.
Say I am walking home from school, I can talk to my friends on the way.
This Ogo of course, is targeted for teenagers. Notice how they don’t have a 2 year contract commitment, and you can cancel whenever you want with no cancellation fees. You sign up for the service (put in credit card info, social security info, billing info, email, adress information) all from the Ogo, not in the store. Also notice how the ad’s go for a fun but stylish sort of look, not trying to look professional.
But you have to pay for every im account you use? or was it every program you use?
Also the reason you cant change your font is because your ogo only accepts one font type. Maybe later AT&T will add more font files.Also, I would only buy one if the buttons werent shared (like 2nd functions)
If you can actually direct connect with somebody on aim and save mp3’s and pictures.
If your ogo could also have a radio built in or an mp3 player.
And to be able to have a spot to put in a memory card of some sort for extra storage.Heh, ys8er232, what your asking for is some sort of super cell phone. If you wanted a keyboard that didn’t share buttons, you would have a HUGE cell phone to make space for all the keys. If you wanted to add a memory card slot, that would be another half-inch on the thickness.
But I have found something similar to what your speaking of, only no Instant Messaging support (AIM, MSN, etc), just text messaging.
There are reports of another device that is being sold on Target for about $100 that does NOT have a monthly fee and is a Wi-Fi IM device. It’s called Zipit Wireless Messenger. Anybody know anything about it? Why would I give my teen an IM device that has cellphone like charges but does not have voice support? Sounds like the wrong product for me.
im just getting a att wireless go fone, 25 bucks month with mmode (has aim n email) plus 80 minutes
they have 2 refurbished fones for 10 bucks…sweetnessI have decided to return my Ogo. It’s not practical. I would keep it if it also featured a phone, but it doesn’t, so I’m returning it. 20$ / month isn’t worth it since when you really need to contact someone Text Messaging isn’t a proficient method.
I also feel like a beta tester, with tons of network problems being worked out, excessive updating issues, and tons of connection problems. Half the time I was using it I got “network unavailable” or “Unable to sign on AIM” or “You have lost your connection with AT&T, please try again later” and if you went out of the signal range for even a second you had to sign in again. All of these are apparently problems being worked out, but I have seen no progress.
I am now looking into the Tmobile SideKick 2:
It is a cell phone, a camera phone, can instant message people, can email, can surf the internet, etc.
http://www.t-mobile.com/products/overview.asp?phoneid=229040&class=pda
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