Z500a release ?

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In <10i9ptf5gsnhv78@corp.supernews.com> on Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:47:26 -0500,
"arm" <allenr@airmail.net> wrote:

>I am very interested in the new Z500a to take the place of my ATT t68i.
>...

I was initially pretty excited by the announcement of the new EDGE-enabled
Z500a ... until I noted that for some inexplicable reason, Bluetooth was left
out! Likewise IR (unlike the K500), so only cable connection is possible.
Whatever were they thinking?!

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> In <10i9ptf5gsnhv78@corp.supernews.com> on Thu, 19 Aug 2004
> 12:47:26 -0500,
> "arm" <allenr@airmail.net> wrote:
>
>>I am very interested in the new Z500a to take the place of my ATT t68i.
>>...
>
> I was initially pretty excited by the announcement of the new EDGE-enabled
> Z500a ... until I noted that for some inexplicable reason, Bluetooth was
> left
> out! Likewise IR (unlike the K500), so only cable connection is possible.
> Whatever were they thinking?!
>

It does seem strange that the Z500a doesn't have IR but the Z500i does, and
God only knows what they were thinking by leaving BT off the phone.

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In <Qs9Vc.3329$qE.39916778@news-text.cableinet.net> on Thu, 19 Aug 2004
22:03:28 GMT, "Richard Colton" <webmaster@NOSPAMuselessinfo.org.uk> wrote:

>"John Navas" <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote in message
>news:4x7Vc.8623$54.124766@typhoon.sonic.net...

>> I was initially pretty excited by the announcement of the new EDGE-enabled
>> Z500a ... until I noted that for some inexplicable reason, Bluetooth was
>> left
>> out! Likewise IR (unlike the K500), so only cable connection is possible.
>> Whatever were they thinking?!
>
>It does seem strange that the Z500a doesn't have IR but the Z500i does,

That's not clear -- while some spec pages list IR, it's missing from the
announcement press release (which does list IR for the S710a) -- see
<http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=global&lc=en&ver=4001&template=pc1_1_1& zone=pc&lm=&prid=1984>
or <http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2C313819>.

>and
>God only knows what they were thinking by leaving BT off the phone.

Indeed!

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