[Rjsumthin]

PS: Price drop while may seem inevitable I wouldn't imagine it dropping much if at all. Blackberries and PDA's are already heavily discounted with Discount + Rebate + Advanced Device Incentive.... While you may not see it like this.... the Curve is 99.99, It's still new, I don't see that phone going much lower.

[sdotmiles]

Last I checked Verizon is intending to make a profit off of it's services. Get off the nickel and dime quote, AT&T, Sprint, T-mobile, would ALL do it if they could...
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So yeah, they nickel and dime, but to many people look at it from a negative perspective, try to look at it in the positive. No reason to give away the farm when you can just sell the cow.

lmao! reminds me of that chappelles show skit with rick james.

and "nickle and dime" will always have a negative connotation, so maybe you should tell VZW to advertise it as "� la carte," or they could license "have it your way" from burger king lol. also, selling the cow wouldn't be such a bad idea if they didnt try to sell you the grass it ate, the bell around its neck, premiums for spotted vs brown, etc etc.

[scurvydlicious]

Last I checked Verizon is intending to make a profit off of it's services. Get off the nickel and dime quote, AT&T, Sprint, T-mobile, would ALL do it if they could. It's good business, and makes sense, you get what you pay for, it's the nickel and diming that allows verizon to invest probably double what AT&T does in it's network, and be the first choice for phones like the I-phone and the Storm, because the network is portrayed **To each their own I know** as a better network. It's that nickel and diming that pays the trainers to train the employees to give the better customer satisfaction ratings. That same nickel and diming that pays the network technicians, deploy portable cell towers in crisis situations where other carriers are deemed useless. **Katrina anyone?**

I'm not saying I LIKE paying money for everything, but I expect to get charged so a company can make money and stay in business and provide me what I want.

So yeah, they nickel and dime, but to many people look at it from a negative perspective, try to look at it in the positive. No reason to give away the farm when you can just sell the cow.

Oh. My bad.

[Rjsumthin]

While understood they don't charge that much more dramatically for premium services. Compare all the same stuff on at&t vs verizon you will get a 20 - $30 at most, IF even that, and that's a big if.

AT&T Navigator 9.99 vs VZ Navigator 9.99 - Granted AT&T Doesn't force it so chalk this up to Verizon being more expensive.
PDA Personal: 30 at&t vs 29.99 Verizon, it wins by a penny, both service through only internet on phone is unlimited **if not tethering**
If Tethering: $60 vs $59.99, Same rules.
Backup Assistant: Free - Sim card = comes with phone, pay extra if you lose it
Unlimited text for single lines: 20 vs 20
Push to talk: 5 vs 5
Enhanced Voicemail: 1.99 vs 1.99
Usage controls: 4.99 vs 4.99


I'm not arguing the point that verizon is expensive, but almost every feature verizon has at&t charges the same amount.

Few differences = forced GPS for audible turn by turn directions.... and that's about it.

Honestly I was expecting a way different comparison, but side by side for the same exact features it's like 15 - 20 more a month, and that's just adding on top of vznav, for premium services, it's just the bandwagon thing to do to bash on verizon.

GPS
Wifi
Bluetooth

Other than that, AT&T vs Verizon is identical from pretty much everything I saw. Granted I looked at the most used features I didn't dig deep on every subject and every single feature.

[sdotmiles]

^^the vzw vs sprint, or vzw vs tmobile comparisons are much more compelling since so many features are included in a flat rate. but these can only be suggested to people in metropolitan areas where coverage wouldn't be an issue.

[chaseh140]

PS: Price drop while may seem inevitable I wouldn't imagine it dropping much if at all. Blackberries and PDA's are already heavily discounted with Discount + Rebate + Advanced Device Incentive.... While you may not see it like this.... the Curve is 99.99, It's still new, I don't see that phone going much lower.

curve got down to 49.99

[Rjsumthin]

curve got down to 49.99

Wow, from verizon without a VIP benefit or ne2? Like a new customer could buy online for 49.99 or in a corporate store for that much? Either or, not a huge difference over 99.99 personally,