Comments on: Getting photos off a VX6000

By: Max

Max — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:29:35 +0000

I went to Radioshack, got the forbidden cable, downloaded the drivers and it worked!!!! Thanks.

By: Atrus

Atrus — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:37:42 +0000

The big thing you need besides a cable is the driver for your OS of choice. I found the following page very helpful:
http://homepage.mac.com/davidemm/vx4400/

By: Cass

Cass — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:53:54 +0000

Holy cow, how did you know that my crappy Motorola mobile phone tools software stopped working and I wanted to get pictures from my phone? (assuming this will work with my crappy Motola v220 phone). You must be psychic, I’ll bet that comes in handy.

By: Coelecanth

Coelecanth — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:54:15 +0000

Dear god, Blurbman you are the ubergeek! Not only don’t I have your skill, I don’t have the tech either. [looks around at his 5 year old computer, Sony Walkman (cassette only) and wall phone with only 12 buttons and weeps for the anacronism of it all]

By: Meggan

Meggan — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:45:28 +0000

Oh man, thanks for doing this tutorial! I don’t have the same phone as you, but I do have the same carrier and I’ve been wondering if there’s a way to connect my phone to my computer and avoid the .25c per photo email fee. Now I know!

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:34:45 +0000

Thanks for this post, Jon. I tried bitpim with my Sanyo PM-8200 and it worked very nicely. I had more or less given up and was thinking of coughing up money for proprietary software. (Ugh.)

By: becky

becky — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:59:41 +0000

jenn, it’s much more complicated than just the software. lots of proprietary stuff that won’t work together between CDMA & GSM unless you have a phone that’s specificially dual or tri-moded to CDMA & GSM. it’s not a do-it-yourself job.

By: Jenn Bowers

Jenn Bowers — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:36:05 +0000

I apologize for posting this on your site twice, but I put it under the wrong post!

Excellent tutorial, I shall have to give it a whirl!

CDMA is the name of the wireless technology used by Verizon (and Sprint) and your phone is setup to work on CDMA infrastructure. As opposed to GSM technology that is used by Cingular/AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile. This post makes me wonder if you can convert the phone from a CDMA phone to a GSM phone by installing new software directly on the phone. Since GSM phones use SIM cards, I suspect it requires more than software.

CDMA = Code Division Multiple Access
GSM = Global System for Mobile Communication
SIM = Subscriber Identity Module

By: John P. Speno

John P. Speno — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:41:45 +0000

I’ll bet you could use the same phone as a modem with your mac (I just assume you have a PowerBook). I’ve got a similar phone and it was cake to set up. No extra fees, just airtime. Slow, but handy sometimes.

http://homepage.mac.com/davidemm/vx4400/

By: Chanelbaby

Chanelbaby — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:38:19 +0000

I cannot believe I missed my ONE CHANCE to show my inner geekness, since I know what CDMA stands for, since I used to work in wireless and knew plenty of brilliant engineering dudes who worked for Qualcomm. In fact I even wrote an ARTICLE about it (CDMA, not the dudes) for the company newsletter. That is so sad and pathetic, I challenge you all to top it.