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Posted by: hahnyc87

who said they were getting a d357

Posted by: .7

A lot of hearsay going on, as I have seen nothing official yet, but I think someone made the claim on the PTT thread in the general forum.

I believe Alfred started a thread about it.

Posted by: SellPhones

cor employees in my market are getting it as a personal demo in about a month, I'd say about a 99% likelyhood it will happen based on the source.

Posted by: UnwiredOne

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Originally Posted by SellPhones

cor employees in my market are getting it as a personal demo in about a month, I'd say about a 99% likelyhood it will happen based on the source.

Why do you think I want a picture of this phone

Posted by: hppyfnbll

A message went out to all managers saying that samsung is providing the d357 to 18,000 customer facing reps, managers, arsms, etc... That was almost a week ago. And BTW this isn't replacing our COU phone, it is in addition to it.

Posted by: suicidal2af

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Originally Posted by hppyfnbll

A message went out to all managers saying that samsung is providing the d357 to 18,000 customer facing reps, managers, arsms, etc... That was almost a week ago. And BTW this isn't replacing our COU phone, it is in addition to it.

If by 'in addition' you mean 'required to put your COU sim into it for 2 months', then that is correct

Posted by: noodles5666

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Originally Posted by suicidal2af

If by 'in addition' you mean 'required to put your COU sim into it for 2 months', then that is correct

Not from what I'm hearing. You will have your COU and a COU PTT Sammy d357, until more PTT phones are available.

Posted by: hppyfnbll

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Originally Posted by noodles5666

Not from what I'm hearing. You will have your COU and a COU PTT Sammy d357, until more PTT phones are available.

Yep 2 lines

Posted by: Seltzer

They better add Bluetooth to that phone...it seems like no BT for now..

Posted by: suicidal2af

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Originally Posted by hppyfnbll

Yep 2 lines

This is incorrect.

Corporate has already suggested that we start submitting requests for PTT codes added to our COU lines.

They're not providing an extra line. Any SME should be able to tell you such.

Posted by: anubis9278

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Originally Posted by suicidal2af

agree, they are not giving us two COU's

2 cellphones cause cancer

Posted by: FishmanInd

We were giving the option to either recieve a PTT phone that works with our COU line or get a new COU line with a new number with the PTT phone but we must carry and use the PTT phone for the most part.

Posted by: Stick378

I know that in our market (and yes I'm a SME) we are going to br carrying 2 COU lines. I regular COU and 1 COU PTT line using the Samsung SGH-D357.

Posted by: hppyfnbll

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Originally Posted by suicidal2af

I am looking right at the email, and you are wrong. Take 5 minutes and go talk to your manager. As of right now it is 2 lines (atleast in the Northeast).

Posted by: obstacles can kill

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Originally Posted by suicidal2af

wrong

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Originally Posted by hppyfnbll

I am looking right at the email, and you are wrong. Take 5 minutes and go talk to your manager. As of right now it is 2 lines (atleast in the Northeast).

correct. i too read the e-mail

Posted by: noodles5666

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Originally Posted by suicidal2af

Man his posts are starting to sound like IHAP's posts. He's trying to sound like he knows all, when in all actuality he doesn't. My posts have all been legit and correct. This isn't his first post like this.

Posted by: .7

How about someone post the email, besides me?

Posted by: obstacles can kill

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Originally Posted by tripy

How about someone post the email, besides me?

in my opinion, discussing the subject shouldnt be a problem. but i think actually posting company e-mails and such would just be wrong and possibly cause some problems...

Posted by: .7

I know, I just dont want to be the one to do it

The comment was all in good fun. I wouldnt expect anyone to post the email.

Posted by: suicidal2af

Unless they're going to vary it by market, we've been told to submit our requests to get PTT added to our COU lines before the launch.

Per our product marketing manager, "You can use whatever phone you want when you're not on the sales floor, but during business hours we're requiring that you use the d357 as your COU. Switch your SIM after you get off work if you don't like the phone."

We were also told this will be the entire Northeast policy.

Posted by: obstacles can kill

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Originally Posted by suicidal2af

Unless they're going to vary it by market, we've been told to submit our requests to get PTT added to our COU lines before the launch.

Per our product marketing manager, "You can use whatever phone you want when you're not on the sales floor, but during business hours we're requiring that you use the d357 as your COU. Switch your SIM after you get off work if you don't like the phone."

We were also told this will be the entire Northeast policy.

but now tell me how this would make any sense. the point of our COU lines are to demo features out for customers and help our selling. the d357 is not a camera phone. so how are you supposed to demo MMS and other MEdia services? it also does not have bluetooth so good luck selling on the idea of wireless headsets.

so the reason they are issuing a SECOND COU line is so that you do not lose the ability to demonstrate all of the features we offer. your main COU will serve the same purpose it does now and your D357 will serve as a PTT demo.

however, this may vary market to market. but i honestly believe that if your market is doing it any differently, they are making a big mistake...

Posted by: suicidal2af

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Originally Posted by obstacles can kill

Because we can demo with the livebar. Hence the reason they make us load up the Mobile Email application on all the livebar Motos, make them active phones, tell us to keep MEdia Net pulled up on them etc.

Posted by: obstacles can kill

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Originally Posted by suicidal2af

well then like i said, it must vary from area to area. because my market as well as others in our region will be receiving second COU lines for PTT

Posted by: .7

I changed my mind, heres a thread for discussion on PTT lines for corp employees.

Just got off the phone with our manager, and he confirmed that for the Mountian Time Zone market, we will be recieving the PTT line in addition to our existing COU line.

This is not to say that anyones right or wrong, just a little FYI about the situation as a whole and how its panning out in our neck of the woods.

Their going to have to give us utility belts for all this stuff.

Posted by: anubis9278

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Originally Posted by tripy

Their going to have to give us utility belts for all this stuff.

Holy rusted metal batman
2 Phones

Posted by: .7

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Originally Posted by anubis9278

Holy rusted metal batman
2 Phones

Sorry, some of us have Blackberry's as well, so that would be 3.

Posted by: anubis9278

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Originally Posted by tripy

Sorry, some of us have Blackberry's as well, so that would be 3.

three, okay now thats overkill. Some of us would like to have kids in the future. Its a known fact that cellphones reduce sperm count.

But,

I just got my email. It said gas is going up, and I am ordered to carry a ptt enabled phone upon launch.

who knew!!

Posted by: noodles5666

Was it said yet that the Sammy is going to have BT. YAY!!!!!!!

Posted by: anubis9278

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Originally Posted by noodles5666

Was it said yet that the Sammy is going to have BT. YAY!!!!!!!

d307 not the ptt

Posted by: noodles5666

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Originally Posted by anubis9278

d307 not the ptt

No the d357 does. I just saw the packet for ordering the d357.

Posted by: anubis9278

BTW here is some eye candy

Posted by: Alfred_Neuman

yes we are. read csp. stated right smack in there.

(goes back to the dark realm where hes hiding)

Posted by: coinstar99

I looked on CSP and I didn't see anything about PTT. I have been curious, but at this point I don't think it matters, this is probably going to be my last month

Posted by: Soopafly

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Originally Posted by anubis9278

BTW here is some eye candy

Looks like the X497 with PTT... Great, I was hoping for a good phone...

Posted by: hppyfnbll

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Originally Posted by tripy

Sorry, some of us have Blackberry's as well, so that would be 3.

It is hard already with a V3 and the 7100, now a 3rd phone.

O well let's hope the launch doesn't get pushed back.

Posted by: Jovian

anyone gotta picture of the d357

Posted by: hppyfnbll

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Originally Posted by hppyfnbll

It is hard already with a V3 and the 7100, now a 3rd phone.

O well let's hope the launch get pushed back.

Won't let me edit this, I meant to say let's hope launch doesn't get pushed back. opps

Posted by: .7

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Originally Posted by hppyfnbll

Won't let me edit this, I meant to say let's hope launch doesn't get pushed back. opps

Taken care of

Members have a 2 hour limit to edit posts, Mod's dont have this restriction.

Posted by: anubis9278

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Originally Posted by Jovian

anyone gotta picture of the d357

post number 31. What you think its a photoshop?

Posted by: tuolumne

Looks fake to me.

If not, it has stereo speakers, a 65K OLED, BT 1.2, PTT, speakerphone, so WTF are you all *****ing over?

Posted by: drinkbrew

i would love to know because my manager just told us that we are supposed to get the phone for free but was under the understanding that we would have to use our exising cou sim/number if anyone has a confimation either way that would be great because i am not giving up my 6230 for a samsung but i would keep it as a second phone. so far i havent been able to find anything on csp, and very little as far as specs on the phone. we are supposed to be getting lg f7200 for displays but i havent seen anything for the samsung

Posted by: BellaDea

The manager at our store (we're in mountain time zone) has told us that we will have to carry a 2nd phone. the reason being is the PTT codes cannot be added to our current COU lines. as stated before, it could be a market by market decision. Being that Cingular didn't exist in Utah before the merger, doesn't surprise me about having to carry 2 phones.

Posted by: elushon

Eh, the most we'll get is a couple in store demo phones with this, no employees packin this around.

I wouldn't mind having one to take home for a couple weeks and play wih, but such is life.

Posted by: JRM

every retail rep gets a 2nd phone, the samsung. Its in the managers news letter.

Posted by: drinkbrew

i agree with jrm i have seen the news letter saying cor employees get the samsung d357 for free, the thing i havent found out as fact is weather we get a second sim to use with it?

Posted by: anubis9278

how many retail reps are there nationwide? 20,000+. thats a lot of phones

Posted by: unknown162

In MTZ markets or atleast the one I am in is DEFINATLY getting a 2nd line. I rang out all the sim cards for all our employee new lines today and I helped the manager enter them into an E-mail to get them activated with the PPT service.

Posted by: cellboy42

Thank god somebody is forcing you to quit using that overpriced slow-*** junk sony ericsson phone.......

By the way...do you remember the date we are supposed to receive the new phones?

Thanks buddy

Posted by: SE Aholic

According to a friend in Orance County the option is either the market issues a second line for cou use with the ptt device or the market opt to have the existing cou line have the ptt feature added to it. It varys by market But everyone will be getting the Samsung in retail.

Posted by: grifflax

I work at a corporate Orange store in Northern Cal and we were initially told it was going to be an LG slider, but now have heard that the Samsung is on the way...anyway has anyone heard about when it might happen? Last I heard it was going to be around the end of this month.

Posted by: obstacles can kill

let me keep this short and sweet just to kill some rumors. and im not going to say much but lets just say that this is coming from personal experience

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1. yes, second COU lines are being issued. so lets stop the arguing (at least in my market)
2. i dont know about anyone else but we were sent two demos of the LG F7200. so that is what im currently using to test out PTT
3. rumor still has it that our actual PTT demo phones will be the samsung. but for now, a coworker and i are testing out PTT with the LG

i value my job very much. so as ive already mentioned to some people, don't expect me to divulge too much information here on the board. i just wanted to clear the air of some things. including the argument about the second COU lines...

Posted by: phonegeek2379

I know that in my market we are only getting 1 phone. Our SIMS will have the PTT feature on the account. I am in the GLR market. We had initially thought that they were going to send us a new phone as a secondary but according to the lastest info we are only going to be getting the one.

Posted by: anubis9278

release date still schedule for Oct 13 in the SE Markets

Posted by: drewpost

Wirelessly posted (Nokia6682/2.0 (3.01.1) SymbianOS/8.0 Series60/2.6 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0)

So my question is- can we use the PTT app that is available on nokias website for the 6680 that works on my 6682?

Posted by: anubis9278

I was wondering the same thing.

Posted by: suicidal2af

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Originally Posted by drewpost

Wirelessly posted (Nokia6682/2.0 (3.01.1) SymbianOS/8.0 Series60/2.6 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0)

So my question is- can we use the PTT app that is available on nokias website for the 6680 that works on my 6682?

Nope, it's not Kodiak.

Also, as of yesterday, WAS has changed to 2 lines issued.

Posted by: Soopafly

Whether you get another line for the PTT phone is a market dependent, supervisor dependent issue.

First... your market must allow for you to have a 2nd line for the PTT phone which most are.

Second... your supervisor must fulfill the request for you to have that 2nd line.

Have fun

Posted by: audiovoxx

COR employees will recieve the Samsung D357 in addition to their COU now at first point managers assistant managers and 2 or 3 reps from stores will recieve demos, as far as the rest of the employees we will have to wait, but at least in the san diego/nevada/hawaii i heard that the president of the region said he wanted every employee with the ptt service.

Posted by: timinstl

I've yet to hear anything on us, I work for Corporate, getting a ptt line. Not saying that it's not true, just saying I haven't heard anything. We got two LG sliders the other day for push to talk. kind of stupid looking phones, I don't really want to carry that junk.

Posted by: spartacus13b

In my market the story right now is that we are not getting another line we are using it with the existing one that we have right now, Also the phone that employees are getting are Samsungs and the stores are getting 2 LG phones as demos.... We are to carry our PTT phones while at work and after that we can do what we want...

Posted by: cingularmanager

got an email today ptt release is delayed until 11-15-05. [B]go figure!!!!

Posted by: anubis9278

got the same email.

Posted by: spartacus13b

yeah got the same email today, but this is one of those things I am getting any gray hairs about

Posted by: makhay

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Originally Posted by phonegeek2379

I know that in my market we are only getting 1 phone. Our SIMS will have the PTT feature on the account. I am in the GLR market. We had initially thought that they were going to send us a new phone as a secondary but according to the lastest info we are only going to be getting the one.

Can vouch for that, im in IMI area...

Posted by: tendura

Same thing here in Saint Louis. My manager confirmed that we would be required to carry our PTT handset while on the sales floor for demo purposes. Interesting that since the focus lately has been on data features, they're giving us a PTT handset with no camera. I work in a corp kiosk and we have no live bar.

Just kinda bothers me.

in any case, i just hope that PoC works.

Posted by: Freakshow105

Well in my store, the PTT SIM's are already active, just waiting on the phone. Our market is requiring us to carry both. One thing to be aware of is our ptt trainer hinted that there is not a easy way to transfer an existing customer to a ptt plan...it isn't a bolt on like we all thought...i wonder if this is why they are not just adding ptt to our cou lines

Posted by: spartacus13b

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Originally Posted by MrDJ

Well in my store, the PTT SIM's are already active, just waiting on the phone. Our market is requiring us to carry both. One thing to be aware of is our ptt trainer hinted that there is not a easy way to transfer an existing customer to a ptt plan...it isn't a bolt on like we all thought...i wonder if this is why they are not just adding ptt to our cou lines

I am not sure how it is done in your market but we are not getting new SIMs we have to use are COU lines and adding PTT in OPUS is as easy as adding 7 o'clock night and weekends... Not sure which system you guys use..

Posted by: Freakshow105

Who knows...We use Opus, but when I went to a PTT training class she said that it can't just get added like adding 7pm that it has to be created from start to finish. I dunno we will see in November

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Posted by: makhay

PTT has been added to my cou account... cs just confirmed it

Posted by: xplode

i think its about time they release the phones i hope it doesnt get bumped again

Posted by: KaBaL666

i have gotten to play with both of the phones, i just got back from Full Time Training (i've been with the company like 6 months, go figure). anhwho, i played with push to talk for about an hour, took it to lunch.

one feature that really took me by storm is the yahoo-like buddy list feature. if they dont want to p-t-t then you will know, right off hand. instead of like nextel wondering if they will answer.

the LG felt a little bit cheaper, but there is ONE key differance between the two, and thats bluetooth. hmm....

Posted by: shawncv79

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Originally Posted by spartacus13b

Its as easy as adding a feature, since it is a feature.

I set up our 2 demo LG phones today. Its easy...you add the feature, hit the PTT button for the PTT service to initialize and then you setup your 'user name' or how other ppl see your phone number in their name. Thats all. Its very simple.

Posted by: ecoll39637

Our store employees just got there PTT D357 phones they seem pretty good. These lines are in addition to our existing COU lines, so yes we now haw 2 COU lines. However, we cannot have the PTT phones on the sales floor until the launch. AT&T, I mean Cingular is pushing features and from what I understand PTT is being paid as a feature so for every customer we sign up for the $9.99 service, we get a whopping $4.50.

Posted by: Soopafly

The LG phone sucks, and sucks big time compared to the Samsung. Just got my Samsung today and wow... If only there was a camera, color external LCD, a louder earpiece volume, and removable memory then it could replace my 6620.

But seriously though the Samsung is cool. It plays Mp3s almost as well as the ROKR. And has bluetooth!

Posted by: IDjXpLoDe

alright... here is the deal.... just got the pushed to talks as we all did... first of all the if anyone has played with the LG one; you should have noticed that the initial connection with the LG PTT is only 5 secs... and the d357 is about 9 secs.... ALSO , if anyone is having trouble setting it up.. just call customer care or tech support and just have them take off the PTT feature (care code: PCOU) off the mobile level of your account and put it back on... that should resolve it....