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T-Mobile Wants Me to Switch to AT&T
My phone is just about dead, as you know if you’ve tried to call me in the last week or three. I was thinking of getting an iPhone, but in browsing around found this BlackBerry 8320 Curve
So I’m just about to hit the final confirmation button on the order page when I decide to read the fine print. And there it is, under conditions that would disqualify me from getting the $250 discount:
(6) use this line of service to replace an existing account with the carrier.
Excellent. I’m out of contract with T-Mobile. I’d like to stay with them, but they’ll charge me $250 extra if I do. I see an iPhone in my future…
I have been playing with an iPhone for the past 2 weeks, I definitely think its worth the hype. Truly disruptive technology. It just works, nothing even comes close to it in terms of browsing the web. If you do lots of email, iPhone may not be the way to go…keyboard is a bit tricky on the thumbs in landscape mode.
I’ve been enjoying my iPhone much more than I thought I would. I expected the experience to be similar to the Sidekick I once had, basically a marginal phone plus a few somewhat-usable mobile internet apps. I got it because I already carried a phone and iPod everywhere, so combining the two made sense. The rest (if it worked) would just be frosting.
Turns out it has better phone sound quality than my stand-alone Nokia (and I’m a real stickler for that), a decent iPod + video, and excellent SMS. I’ve also discovered that the Google and Facebook web-based apps aren’t just well-done, they’re actually timesavers. Checking the address of a Facebook event is handy, and checking GMail and Reader whenever I have downtime is even handier.
The downside: AT&T and Apple’s death grip on the device is seriously annoying. Few plans, crazy restrictions, jailbreaking it just to install apps, what’s all that about? I also have a few minor quibbles about the hardware itself, like having to get an adapter for the inexplicably-recessed headphone jack. I still rate it worthwhile, though.