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Cellphone conundrum -- serious this time
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unseelie is on month to month with Sprint.
This impacts me because most of the talking we do is with each other, so we really should be on the same plan.
He could stay with Sprint... if he buys a contract before Jan 3, he can get nights and weekends starting at 7 p.m. I could glom onto his contract when mine expires June 5th. And Sprint carries the Treo 600.
Or, he could buy a one year contract with Verizon and glom onto my plan for $20/month, and we'd have unlimited minutes to talk to each other. But when my plan expires, one of the following would happen:
(1) I would re-up my contract and nothing would change for him.
(2) I would stay month-to-month until his contract expired and then we'd go somewhere else together
(3) I would ditch right away and he'd have to start paying $50/month for the anytime minutes we used to share, plus we wouldn't have unlimited minutes talking to each other.
Verizon does not carry the Treo 600. In fact, right now the only smartphones listed on their website are Microsoft Smartphones, which I'm just not interested in. I don't know if they'd interact with my MAC, but part of it is just a matter of principle. I'm beginning to wonder if they signed a contract with Microsoft to not begin carrying any more smartphones that don't run Microsoft Smartphone or Pocket PC.
Verizon seems to be hands down the best network out there, but if that's the case, I don't see much of a future with them. How much of a difference is there between network quality with Verizon vs. Sprint?
I don't want to have my Kyocera 6035 for another year, but the 7135 is available on Verizon and can be bought used in the $300 range, so if I committed to another year with Verizon I might upgrade to that and then again when I switched plans.
This is definitely a tough decisions. If you have anything to say about the following factors (or any other related factors) it would be very helpful:
(1) Sprint reception quality across the Bay Area (including isolated places like, say Rohnert Park where Sonoma State is)
(2) Verizon reception quality across the Bay Area (including isolated places like, say Rohnert Park where Sonoma State is)
(3) Sprint vs. Verizon reception
(4) Sprint or Verizon customer service, or the two compared
(5) the likelihood that Verizon will carry palm OS phones in the future (I know they have the Kyocera flip-phone (7135) now, but will they carry the next gen kyocera smartphone when it comes out, and will it be as nifty as the treo 600?)
(6) Just your opinion on what we should do
Geeky advice desperately needed/wanted!
A thought... The treo 600 with sprint is available for $250 with new plan through Amazon right now... I buy that for Unseelie, and then when my plan expires he goes back to his Kyocera 6035, and I get the treo 600? It's a thought.
unseelie is on month to month with Sprint.This impacts me because most of the talking we do is with each other, so we really should be on the same plan.
He could stay with Sprint... if he buys a contract before Jan 3, he can get nights and weekends starting at 7 p.m. I could glom onto his contract when mine expires June 5th. And Sprint carries the Treo 600.
Or, he could buy a one year contract with Verizon and glom onto my plan for $20/month, and we'd have unlimited minutes to talk to each other. But when my plan expires, one of the following would happen:
(1) I would re-up my contract and nothing would change for him.
(2) I would stay month-to-month until his contract expired and then we'd go somewhere else together
(3) I would ditch right away and he'd have to start paying $50/month for the anytime minutes we used to share, plus we wouldn't have unlimited minutes talking to each other.
Verizon does not carry the Treo 600. In fact, right now the only smartphones listed on their website are Microsoft Smartphones, which I'm just not interested in. I don't know if they'd interact with my MAC, but part of it is just a matter of principle. I'm beginning to wonder if they signed a contract with Microsoft to not begin carrying any more smartphones that don't run Microsoft Smartphone or Pocket PC.
Verizon seems to be hands down the best network out there, but if that's the case, I don't see much of a future with them. How much of a difference is there between network quality with Verizon vs. Sprint?
I don't want to have my Kyocera 6035 for another year, but the 7135 is available on Verizon and can be bought used in the $300 range, so if I committed to another year with Verizon I might upgrade to that and then again when I switched plans.
This is definitely a tough decisions. If you have anything to say about the following factors (or any other related factors) it would be very helpful:
(1) Sprint reception quality across the Bay Area (including isolated places like, say Rohnert Park where Sonoma State is)
(2) Verizon reception quality across the Bay Area (including isolated places like, say Rohnert Park where Sonoma State is)
(3) Sprint vs. Verizon reception
(4) Sprint or Verizon customer service, or the two compared
(5) the likelihood that Verizon will carry palm OS phones in the future (I know they have the Kyocera flip-phone (7135) now, but will they carry the next gen kyocera smartphone when it comes out, and will it be as nifty as the treo 600?)
(6) Just your opinion on what we should do
Geeky advice desperately needed/wanted!
A thought... The treo 600 with sprint is available for $250 with new plan through Amazon right now... I buy that for Unseelie, and then when my plan expires he goes back to his Kyocera 6035, and I get the treo 600? It's a thought.
