After a decade being a Verizon (going back to Bell Atlantic days actually) customer, I'm contemplating whether or not to break my current contract and get an iPhone.
Buying that iPod Touch a while back was a big mistake. Because it's awesome... but I find myself wanting the additional functionality that would come from it also being an integrated phone.
I have never had any complaints about Verizon's service or coverage. But their phones leave a lot to be desired sometimes. Their proprietary menus, for example. Awkward and unintuitive. After exploring how easy to use the iPod is (without even cracking open the manual), I am just seriously tempted.
As far as I know, Apple has a 5-year exclusive deal with AT&T. It's been two years since the iPhone first launched. Meaning I'd have to wait another 3 before the possibility (and that's no guarantee) that it might come to Verizon. I had high hopes for the Blackberry Storm, but after reading many reviews of it, I think that it seems like a good device but still not AS awesome for my own personal needs. I'm just an average consumer level techno geek... I have no need for any enterprise level functionality that the Blackberry could offer.
Tempted... so very tempted. Figure it'd be the cost of the iPhone, activation, and then add on the $175 fee I'd have to pay to Verizon for ditching before January 2010 (when my current sentence is up).
Buying that iPod Touch a while back was a big mistake. Because it's awesome... but I find myself wanting the additional functionality that would come from it also being an integrated phone.
I have never had any complaints about Verizon's service or coverage. But their phones leave a lot to be desired sometimes. Their proprietary menus, for example. Awkward and unintuitive. After exploring how easy to use the iPod is (without even cracking open the manual), I am just seriously tempted.
As far as I know, Apple has a 5-year exclusive deal with AT&T. It's been two years since the iPhone first launched. Meaning I'd have to wait another 3 before the possibility (and that's no guarantee) that it might come to Verizon. I had high hopes for the Blackberry Storm, but after reading many reviews of it, I think that it seems like a good device but still not AS awesome for my own personal needs. I'm just an average consumer level techno geek... I have no need for any enterprise level functionality that the Blackberry could offer.
Tempted... so very tempted. Figure it'd be the cost of the iPhone, activation, and then add on the $175 fee I'd have to pay to Verizon for ditching before January 2010 (when my current sentence is up).
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dr_lizardo:
I'm still employed. Shit happens, as my boss says, but you can't keep having incidents and expect to stay employed. My boss runs loads now and then and he dropped a trailer a couple of weeks ago. I actually see it as a good thing when shit happens to to other people, it makes me feel less special.
dr_lizardo:
My phone is mostly ok, the finish is alll worn off from pocket transport. I'm much more of a digital camera freak, and my computer gives me whatever other connectivity I need.