The whole verizonsucks thing is a bit old hat, but I came across a deeply frustrating ‘feature” on my service today.<\/p>\n
An upfront disclaimer: I’ve generally been very happy with my service and coverage. A vast improvement over my previous provider which was SunCom.<\/p>\n
We’ll put aside the incomprehensibly bad web site design…well, maybe I shouldn’t….here’s what happened:<\/p>\n
I do not have a particularly fancy phone, no bluetooth, usb, or whatever. I do have a camera though. I tried to take a picture with my phone the other day and got a warning about not having enough space. So I figure I’ll download some pictures and delete them to save space. That should be easy enough, right?<\/p>\n
How to get the pictures off the phone? To send a picture message requires an incomprehensible number of button presses, but I noticed a feature “Online Album” and chose that. Hey, cool, it uploads in two clicks. Excellent.<\/p>\n
Wait a minute…where is the online album? Hmm…let’s head to verizon.com. Nope. Sign in. Nope, not there. Hmmm…verizonwireless.com<\/a>? Nope, not there. No sign of it either. Support<\/a> section (which is not linked from the home page by the way)? Nope, no mention of it. Hmmm…data technical support FAQ<\/a>. Nothing. Try a search for “Online Album”<\/a> (and don’t click any of the first 10 links). Aha, I need Verizon Wireless PIX Place<\/a> (although I have to google for the url – it’s not actually linked from the Verizon site). Cool.<\/p>\n Alright, let’s head over there. The sign up process isn’t bad. I can handle that. Let’s log in and see my picture. There it is. That’s great.<\/p>\n …wait a minute…that looks a bit fuzzy and small. Click it and it opens in a bigger window. Great, but wait…the file size is one third of the file size on my phone.<\/p>\n Grrrr…….<\/p>\n Now what? Well, maybe I don’t really care too much about picture quality. Maybe I can upload and then send them all somewhere else?<\/p>\n I test it. When you send a picture to someone else, you use a flash interface, and … wait for it…yes, the recipient gets a link back to the Verizon web site.<\/p>\n So, let’s summarize<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Sigh…yes, verizon does indeed suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The whole verizonsucks thing is a bit old hat, but I came across a deeply frustrating ‘feature” on my service today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nWeR-6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n