Blackberry 8310! – I love you
Posted on November 14th, 2007
Ok so I did finally snap with Verizon and headed straight over to my nearest AT&T store to get a nice shiny new blackberry. I decided to get the Curve primarily for the larger screen and although sure-type is really great on phones like the Pearl I find myself typing faster on the full keyboard.
The phone is extremely light to hold and has a great smooth surface. The screen is clear and reception is great. I’m not sure if it is the phone or just the GPRS network but my call quality is amazing compared to my previous provider. Life is to short to be stuck with yesterday’s technology! :) I installed google maps and have used that a ton already, it can even follow your position as you drive ;-)
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What is wrong with Verizon?
Posted on November 2nd, 2007
I’m sure we all have complaints about our wireless providers but I just wanted to vent publicly about these guys. Why? well because I think they’re loosing out and could offer so much more.
Verizon is a company that is either run by lawyers or greedy old men. It’s as simple as that. Why would a company that has such marketplace dominance be so slow, so backwards and so greedy? Think about it. They probably have the best wireless coverage of any provider in the US yet instead of rolling out WiMax they fight continuous legal battles to block other companies from doing so. If you aren’t going to roll it out some else finally will and you’ll get left behind. You guys have plenty of towers to get some extremely advanced technology rolled out, DO IT!
What about the lack of new device support? I thought that maybe they were just really careful about testing and always wanting to release a quality product but I actually think the delays are because it takes a long time to “remove” features …. yup – rather than make even more money just selling us what we want as consumers they force so many to switch networks just because they feel we don’t deserve the features our phones offer. Un-freaking-believable. Don’t you fools realize that there is an entire base of users who will upgrade no matter what new phone becomes available ….
I want a blackberry with a camera, with MMS support and a phone that can freaking read HTML emails. Although the latter is probably RIM’s fault … another mind blowing oversight. What really drives me nuts is that I can buy a phone for $30 that has all that and VZNavigator, VCast and a host of other features yet when I spend $300 on the phone and $140 a month I get nothing … just plain email and they lock everything else.
Well, not for much longer. Hello AT&T. Probably the bastard child but it will make me feel great to say goodbye and thank you for nothing you old buggers.
-c
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