Sony Ericsson S710 Questions

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"skrooby" <skrooby@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Gang,
>
> I'm switching from Sprint and am considering the S710. I was wondering
> if any of you have any comments on the following:
>
> 1) I've read opinions that say the menus are not very responsive, is
> there anyone else who has noticed this?

I've had mine for a few months. The menu response time seems OK to me.

> 2) I asked a salesdroid how easy it was to import phone numbers to the
> phone. I mentioned that I had a PDA (without mentioning what type) and
> he said that the S710 will import from anything with an IR port. Is
> that true? Can the S710 sync contacts from Outlook through the USB
> cable?

I use a program called DataPilot. It came with the required USB cables for
practically every cell phone. It will sync Outlook calendar and, though I
haven't tried it, Outlook contacts too.

> 3) Out of curiosity, I asked the same salesdroid why Cingular supports
> AOL and Yahoo! instant messaging but not MSN. He said MSN support is
> possible, is that true?

Don't know. Don't care.

> 4) The Cingular site says that it doesn't have a vibrate feature, that
> can't be true can it?

It vibrates.

>
> That's about all I have for now, thanks in advance!
> Jeff
>