New cell phones

[Gomer]

It's not a super quick transition, but when my laptop bit the dust during a hockey game last week I used my iPod Touch to type out all of my game notes and the game summary in the third period and got it done in time.

Physical keys are nice, but it's like anything else - the more you use it, the faster you get.

 

[Beef03]

Beef, I'm pushing for an iPhone from Bell. They've got the best smartphone plan right now, $45 a month for pretty much everything you'd get from Telus at $55 or Rogers at $65 a month.

Bell is the only company with the Palm Pre, which is solid but hardly has anything in its app store. With an iPhone you have the biggest selection of apps to choose from which will, in many cases, make the phone even more useful to you.

Depends on what you want it for. Me, I'm getting a high-quality microphone attachment and it'll be my new voice recorder in addition to taking mugshots and web video on the fly for work. I've been syncing my wife's iPod Touch with the calendars, address book and mail on my work computer, then all of my media content at home and it's amazing how much I use it, both for entertainment and work (not surprisingly, she wants me to get an iPhone too). Throw a phone in and where there were once five things to carry around, now there's one.

I've got a request in to the bosses that I'll buy the phone and use it for work if they pay me $65 a month, which is how much they currently pay for my crappy Nokia with Rogers.

Yeah I was looking at those plans, they seem much more reasonable than my current plan with Bell which is costing me an arm and a leg to the point where I use it only when absolutely neccesary, and even then I think I'm still getting hit at more than $140 a month.

 

[patchs]

Loves my Palm Pre.

Supposedly Verizon is getting it within the next couple of months. Right now it's only Sprint. I had wanted to wait until Verizon had it, but my old phone finally gave out.

No complaints so far - coverage certainly isn't an issue.

I had some random guys I met on a train do a side-by-side comparison of the iPhone and Pre, and the Pre won-- even the iPhone guy admitted it.

What sold me is the normal keyboard that isn't a touchscreen. I can't deal with that ****.

You did get one!

Yep - couldn't wait any longer. I did one long last look at the iPhone then pulled the trigger on the Pre.

I'm still playing around with it, learning what I can do... But the internet is great. Posting here is a breeze... and let's face it, what's more important than that.

:)
I love my Pre, watched the Phins-Panthers game on it last night because I was working, amazing phone.
Luggs, if you need any quick help, go to the forums on PreCentral.net

 

[CitizenTino]

For what it's worth, I bit the bullet and upgraded my Verizon plan to the Connect level and got a Samsung Rogue. I'll echo what others who have it have said so far on this thread: It's freaking sweet.

My only regret is waiting as long as I did.

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

Does anyone have the Blackberry Tour?

I am with U.S. Cellular, and am thinking about taking advantage of its four-day free phone special. After looking through their phones, it seems that the Tour is the best.

They also have the Curve, the LG Bliss, LG Tritan, Samsung Caliber and the Motorola Crush.

 

[Lugnuts]

:)
I love my Pre, watched the Phins-Panthers game on it last night because I was working, amazing phone.
Luggs, if you need any quick help, go to the forums on PreCentral.net

Great tip... THANKS. :) I thought I was going to have a problem going from the Qwerty keyboard on my Treo to the smaller Qwerty keyboard on my Pre, but that has not been a problem. I can't even recall typing the wrong letter once. You talked me into it, fella!

 

[Beef03]

I suppose I should update with my final choice. I ended up with an iphone 3GS. It's been a week now and still no buyers remorse. Gotta say I love the thing. texting is so much easier than on my old phone, have had no issues with coverage, it's versatility has been a huge plus, and it's all at about 60 per cent of what I was spending with my old phone. Thanks for all of your help.

 

[JR]

I have a three year old Nokia which I guess in cell phone years is about 10,000. I talk to HC and my three kids and I don't take pictures

However, I think an Iphone would be extremely cool.

 

[Magic In The Night]

We are getting ready to ditch T-Mobile once our contract is up at the end of the month. I have the old Motorola smartphone, which was state of the art three years ago and he has some piece of crap that does nothing. We both have fairly new ipods so it seems silly to buy two new iphones. Any suggestions? We have major issue being right on the river across from Canada and our phones not infrequently roam over to Rogers Network, where they charge us an arm and a leg and we have to call and get it taken off which T-Mobile is nasty about. I've wondered if Verizon or AT&T w/iphone might work better.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

I suppose I should update with my final choice. I ended up with an iphone 3GS. It's been a week now and still no buyers remorse. Gotta say I love the thing. texting is so much easier than on my old phone, have had no issues with coverage, it's versatility has been a huge plus, and it's all at about 60 per cent of what I was spending with my old phone. Thanks for all of your help.

As an added bonus, your map won't block anyone's view of the TV. :D [/quoting stupid and false TV commercial]

 

[kokane_muthashed]

I just got a 16G iPhone 3Gs two days ago. Love it. I was looking to upgrade from my 8G iPod and buy a GPS for my car for Christmas. Instead, I just bought the phone since I get both with it. Got a great price during AT&T's Black Friday sale.

Anyone wanna buy a slightly used LG Xenon?

 

[Beef03]

I have a three year old Nokia which I guess in cell phone years is about 10,000. I talk to HC and my three kids and I don't take pictures

However, I think an Iphone would be extremely cool.

I had a samsung flip phone for the past three years with a very basic, low end camera. But it did also have Internet on it, but was very ineffiecient, especially compared to the iPhone. completely night and day. I used to consider myself happily low tech, but this phone I have to admit is a lot of fun so far.

 

[Beef03]

I just got a 16G iPhone 3Gs two days ago. Love it. I was looking to upgrade from my 8G iPod and buy a GPS for my car for Christmas. Instead, I just bought the phone since I get both with it. Got a great price during AT&T's Black Friday sale.

That would be the same phone I got. Have had it for a week and haven`t figured out everything it can do yet.

 

[Gomer]

Can't even tell you how jealous I am. Work came back saying Rogers won't let them upgrade my phone, even though it means I'd be paying them money to do so. Something about not being able to upgrade until a contract runs out. Ridiculous.

 

[CitizenTino]

Now that I have my new phone and I'm sure I'm going to stick with it, I'm thinking about selling my old one on eBay. I've never done this before, and my primary concern is having personal info fall into the wrong hands. Is there a way to "wipe it clean" and reset it to factory settings with nothing on it, or do I have to manually delete everything I've put in there (contacts, pictures, texts, etc)?

The phone in question is the original LG env.

 

[kokane_muthashed]

Now that I have my new phone and I'm sure I'm going to stick with it, I'm thinking about selling my old one on eBay. I've never done this before, and my primary concern is having personal info fall into the wrong hands. Is there a way to "wipe it clean" and reset it to factory settings with nothing on it, or do I have to manually delete everything I've put in there (contacts, pictures, texts, etc)?

The phone in question is the original LG env.

http://www.recellular.com/recycling/data_eraser/