Blackberries

Verizon
I will be the first one to say that there customer service is past horrible to me it just seem like everyone in customer service does not care about losing a customer and that is what i am trying to improve know i just took a postion in sales at the request of the district manager There network is pretty good and improving but they did put alot of time into the v-cast that will pay off sometime soon i hope so pretty much there biggest con is there customer service there pros the are a well established wireless company that has been consistant but as far as i know dont plan any major updates for a while other then the improving of v-cast as far as i know some time soon v-cast should be streaming with no download time it is supoose to be like having a tv in your phone no buffering but that is still being worked out .


att wireless
a very good company that invest alot of money to try to be number one 3g is the shit as soon as it is complete and up and running like is should everyone will enjoy except the people with i-phones that is the biggest down fall to the i-phone but that just my 2 cents but pretty much 3g is the future dropped calles will be a thing of the past honestly if i had to choose i would probaly go with att the prices are alot better and coverage is getting better

 

This is sooo very true i can't stand it either

 

yeah, the plan i'm looking at only has 450 minutes, but my work pays for me to carry a nextel phone. since they are paying for it i always use that phone when making calls but i usually have it turned off on weekends and after 6pm. I heard ATT was good and then got better after absorbing cingular. the only problem is that almost all of my friends have verizon, so whenever i do use my personal phone to talk to them i'll be using up minutes if i dont stick with verizon.

 

thanks for the info. my problem with Verizon is the V-cast thing. who the hell uses that shit?!?! my sisters high school friends get ring tones off of it but thats it. to me it is the most pointless cellular feature ever. as far as prices go, the service plans cost the exact same down to the penny, at least where i live. the only difference is that ATT pretty much be giving me a phone and Verizon wants me to pay almost full price. way to treat a 5 year subscriber right? teh only reason i haven't taken ATT hook line and sinker is cause of my other friends all having Verizon. Text is unlimited to any provider so thats not a problem, but having to watch my minutes will suck. but i also have a work cell that i use alot when i have to make a call to anywhere. i hate trying to make all these stupid decisions... somebody do it for me

 

I carried an AT&T phone (personal) and a Sprint Blackberry (work) for years. I finally got tired of it. I told my company that if they expect me to carry their phone then I have to be able to make personal calls on it - ALL THE TIME. They said, "yeah, you could have already been doing that - we don't care."

Turns out, my company gets a big flat-fee rate from Sprint on all PDA phones!

 

when i started my job i refused to give them my cell number. i told them the only way they would get a cell number from me is if they pay the bill. So i have a nice mil spec nextel phone that i love. no bells or whistles but solid as a rock. i still have my personal phone cause i can do more with it. but i have no restrictions on my work phone. i text and call on it all the time

 

So, why don't u just use that?

 

I have better US coverage with Verizon than I did with Cingular (wasn't joined with ATT then so I don't know how much better it is under ATT) or TMobile. Outside the US is pretty dismal with Verizon.

 

cause i need somthing to help with email and keeping things organized. I'm getting my real estate license in May so will need to have an easy way to do email and scheduling on the go. hence the blackberry. plus my work phone has no camera which i use alot. I will never let my work phone and personal phone "become one". i keep my GE life as far away from my personal life as possible. My work phone gets turned off when i'm not at work most of the time

 

ah - that makes sense...

 

Ok so i changed my plan to Alltel the other day. i also got the new blackberry Curve (8330). i have no idea how to use this thing. its like trying to use a Mac for the first time after using a PC you're whole life. it is cool though. although it did take me 9 hours to figure out how to change ring tones. not kidding, it took me all day. its kind of counter intuitive after using a normal phone. somebody come give me a tutorial....

 

Good luck with all that man.

 

You should have just gotten an iPhone. Then you could figure out the Mac thing at the same time. I looked at the blackberry offerings and hated them. I went with the iPhone. The big problem is the ATT data network. On WiFi it is great. On the edge network it blows. In a year or so when 3G is available in my area and on the iPhone it will be great.

 

there are alot of things keeping me from an iphone. there's no doubt that its cool as hell and is packed with ground breaking technology but its more of a toy than a tool. i have a friend with one and i love playing with it but i would never want to actually use it. he says the same thing, just a really pricey flashy toy

 

It's way more than a toy. If web browsing as well as email is important to you the iPhone is really the only compelling choice. The upcoming availability of third party apps will further increase it's usefulness. The second version with 3G is rumored to be coming in June. If ATT has a 3G network in your area it will be almost a perfect solution. The iPhone will also get push email, like the blackberry, with the 2.0 software release. I predict that in a year many blackberry users will move to it.

 

Be aware that with the Blackberry you have to get your email and internet account through them, which is anywhere from $50 to $75 a month. I was going with the pearl and then realized I could get a treo with windows and pay ATT $20 a month and have unlimited text, picture mail, email and internet. That is what sold me on the treo. This applies to all non-blackberry phones, as far as I know. I have the treo 750 and love it. Its like having a minature laptop in your pocket.

 

internet is not really that important. the blackberry works fine for most stuff. no youtube but i can check out most stuff. its not as pretty as the iphone but it works for me. so far no third party apps really work on it. i doubt many bb users will go over to it. most bb users are diehard and care more about functionality and reliability than the flashyness of the iphone.

I'm not sure what you mean about email and internet account through blackberry. i have to pay for a data plan but i use my gmail account for mail on the bb and alltel's 3G internet/data service. what do you mean you have to get all that through blackberry? i looked at the treo, its more attractive to me than the iphone but its microsoft based so that was enough to turn me off to it. i use a PC with windows but i still hate microsoft and dont want to be dependent on their technology

 

I am writing this w my phone. Let's see if this works.... I think I'm figuring this thing out