Top Ten Things Wrong with the Pixi

That's a good list. I like this, instead of "The Pixi sucks."

1, 3, 4, 8, and 10: Applications and/or OS updates will fix these. Especially video, the camera is capable of video, there just isn't software yet.

2. Apps like Nascar and NFL do not hog your phones memory if you do not run them, place them on the bottom of your third application page, and you won't see them.

6. Why would you want an alarm to just vibrate? You must be a very light sleeper.

7. That sucks, really. I never use the alarm so never noticed that.

9. Too me, the volume is perfect. I never strain to hear a voice. I actually can't stand when people have phones so loud that you can hear the entire conversation, even the other side, when the phone is up to their ear.

11. Not sure what PRL is...

6. He said why he wants an alarm to just vibrate. If you're in a place where you need an alarm but don't want it take make a noise (e.g. a meeting) then it would come in handy

7. The snooze has always worked for me

9. BriZimm is right, the volume is perfect for me too

11. PRL stands for Pixiferred Roaming List. For example, say you have a Pixi (just for the sake of argument), and were travelling in an area with no Sprint coverage, weak Verizon coverage, and strong Qwest coverage. The PRL would tell the phone to look for towers using Sprint's band for that area. Finding none, it might tell the phone to search for towers in Verizon's band next, perhaps because Sprint's roaming agreement with Qwest was not as favorable, or none existed. The phone would use Verizon's towers, as dictated by the PRL, even though Qwest might provide a better signal.

And since carriers are constantly updating their network coverage the prl sometimes needs to be updated, it doesn't happen too often in my experience though.

Thank all of you for the responses.  I am reminded again that there are will always be condescending little people who are unable to have a professional and constructive dialogue in forums such as these as evidenced by at least one reply, so I'll keep that in mind.

To clarify item 2 on my list, having Nascar and NFL forced onto my phone is like getting a computer preloaded with all of the junk that comes with new computers.  Perhaps one responder doesn't mind all of the clutter, but most people uninstall unwanted programs.  I am unable to uninstall these pre-loaded apps.  It was a simple thing, really, to ask if anyone knew how to get rid of them.  I have not yet downloaded video or audio files.

Items 3 and 4:  The Sprint store told me a video update was forthcoming, probably before the month was out to allow video camera feature.   They also stated that anything you can access on the Web, Skype included, would be available on the Pixi.  So, I addressed these issues BEFORE I bought the phone, and expected these (at least Skype) to work.

Item 6:  Some people have jobs that require a silent alarm so as not to disturb people around them.  The whole reason they invented a vibrator function in the first place was to give the user an option to receive a tactile alert as opposed to an aural or visual.  People in the business world use this all of the time to receive an alert without offending the person with whom they are speaking.  On every other phone I have ever had in the past 7 or 8 years the alarm function had this handy and useful feature.  I sometimes like the alarm to go off at a certain time to remind me to follow up on something without having to go to the bother of using the calendar.  Other times I don't want a lecture to run too long so an alarm reminds me that now would be a good time to begin my summary.  So, here is a perfect example for the use of an alarm clock that doesn't make noise.

Item 7:  I suppose my alarm feature is broken.  I set the time for 10:10 (EDT), hit the snooze button when the alarm sounded, and am still waiting for the second alarm.

Item 11:  The reason I said the PRL update didn't work was because it didn't.  Customer service couldn't get it to work.  The error code says I need to be connected to the network of the wireless provider in order to get the update.  So I switched to Sprint only (disabled roaming) and it still didn't work.  So, yes, it is very easy to do if when you push the buttons the feature actually updates the PRL.

I tried the PRL update on mine just out of curiosity and received the same message.  I dont know that I need to do it, but I guess i should work in case I do.

Ditto.  Mine works fine.

when i snooze, the alarm reads it has been moved to the next day at the original time but still resounds ten minutes later.  and you can get rid of that nascar app if you root