Where I stand on a new phone with Data plan
Here’s an email I just wrote to my friend summing up my predicament regarding purchasing a new iPhone vs. staying with VZW and getting a blackberry Tour.
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more iphone hell,
One of the limitations for me are my Verizon IN-calling friends and family.
When I switched to Cingular for the Razor, I never had a minute to roll-over because my friends were on VZW.
In order to get a safe, but still less than I use now, plan of 900 min. with ATT it will cost me just over $30 more ea. month.
Yeah, because I can stick with my 450 min plus in-calling of over 600 additional. adding the blackberry service for $29.99.
With the iphone I’m going to have to pay $105 plus 12% plus other small fees for a whopping $120/mo.
An upside is, when you’re paying $120/mo the ETF of $175 is easy to swallow, so really there is no minimum contract period.
Ok, so I made the decision to stick with VZW and I go to crackberry.com and I see the #1 application is called iBerry which….. turns your fucking blackberry into an iPhone skin/function (makes the Storm look like an iPhone) Reading down the list, like the 5th most popular one is an application that adds a “slider” to the screen so it looks like an ipod when it’s off.
How is that supposed to help? The Bberry I’m looking at is missing Wi-Fi…. but is always online with the blackberry service. Tim says you need Wi-Fi to DL/UL at internet speeds not phone data speeds.
I’m still pissed about the whole adventure. I want a data phone, but hate the crippling VZW does, yet distrust AT&T even more. What to do….
_kim
It comes down to $30 more per month to hold an iPhone.