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I'll warn you in advance that my story will make me sound like an obnoxious brat, but I am really not, I don't normally do this sort of thing
I'm normally a very nice, calm person, but when I get legitimately angry (and it takes a LOT to **** me off) - I pretty much tell everyone around me to go far away, and then I start breaking things. And my poor iPhone ended up being the target of my rage... I smashed the crap out of it with my steel toed 7 lb combat boots (Mind you, I did get the iPhone for free from my old employer).
After being phoneless for a few days, I pretty much realized that I had absolutely NO reason other than its attractiveness and the fact that I'd gotten it free to own an iPhone - I don't play that many games on my phone, most of the Apps that the Blackberry lacks are useless anyway, and the touch screen is nice (and significantly better than the Storm's), but not necessary for me (and also far too delicate).
I then found out that my mother had still been paying for two phones on the old family plan we had before I used my iPhone, and she agreed that if I worked on my temper and bought my new phone, I could go back on my family plan. I did a bit of research, went to the Verizon store to test out phones, and pretty much fell head over heels for the tour, So, yeah, here I am. Ha.10-18-09 02:31 AM - I was supposed to be kicked off my parents Verizon plan come December which is when their 2 year contract expires. I had been using an old LG fliphone (the VX8350 or something like that) and really it didn't bring me any harm. It did everything I needed it to: make calls and allowed me to text. I was never really big into anything too flashy that did a bunch of things I didn't need (read: iPhone), but in the middle of September after some heavy binge drinking for my buddy's engagement party (I was asked to be best man) I tried to text one handed and ******* (wow I used the medical term and it still starred it out? I was taking a leak!) with the other. Long story short I dropped phone in the toilet and it stopped working after a few hours.
Sooooooooo I figured since it was so close to the time to get off my parents plan anyway I might as well just go ahead and get on my own, so I went out to Verizon after researching a bunch of phones on phonescoop and set up my own plan. It had come down between the HTC Ozone and the Tour (wasn't sure about either one since I have huge hands and didn't know how the typing would work out), and the [hot] saleswoman said "oh Tour for sure." So I got hooked up, and I've never looked back.
And damn this phone really opened my eyes about just being more than making phone calls and texting
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Moral: Don't try to multitask with one hand and use your phone in the other... it generally doesn't work out well for the phone
10-18-09 06:34 AM - That is a perfect summary. I have two phones right now, a Curve 8310 and an HTC Fuze. On paper the Fuze is a totally superior phone to the Curve. VGA touchscreen, slider form factor, 3G, WiFi, tons more RAM, accelerometer, and an awesome cooked ROM that makes the phone very useable. Yet, as a daily driver, I choose the Curve. I love the Fuze, it is very fun and is my "play" phone, but the Curve gets down to business. Everything runs perfectly (except for the memory leaks) and is well integrated.
Next month my employer is changing providers to Sprint, and I have to choose a new phone. I was given the choice of a Tour, Touch Pro 2, or Pre. As much as I enjoy tweaking Windows Mobile, the choice was pretty easy. I can't wait to get the Tour! I can still play with my Fuze, I'll just have to use it with WiFi.
My smartphone journey: Pearl 8100, AT&T Tilt, Curve 8310, HTC Fuze, (coming soon) Tour 9630.Last edited by captobie; 10-18-09 at 08:41 PM.
10-18-09 05:07 PM - I go way back to 1998. I first learned of Blackberry when I worked for a company that sold pagers, it was called PageNet. they had me carry 2 pagers, a Motorola for customer pages, and a Blackberry 850 for e-mails and what was simply called PIN Messaging at that point. It was the first time I was introduced to 2 way messaging, nobody else had heard of this, and the only ones I could text were my co-workers....it took awhile for this to catch on.
When I left that company I stayed in Tech Sales. I remember we worked with a vendor that was pushing hard for these on my company's Enterprise, they were selling it as an extension of Outlook as it would synch wirelessly between our workstations and our devices for Calendar, Contacts, and Emails. My Boss wouldn't bite. I loved that little 850 so much though I ended up getting a ridiculous device RIM put out with AOL so I could IM friends
Then the Palms started getting released, I fell on that bandwagon for a while as I liked that you could load different applications on those and use them. I was jumping from Palm to Sony Clies, and moving up from one Clie to the next. I always had a dumb phone and a PDA and wished these companies would get it right so I could enjoy the best of 2 worlds. Treos came out, but they were ridiculously priced, my company moved to Nextel, and after 2 dumbphones, Blackberry released the 7520.
That sucker was JUST what the doctor ordered, PDA plus phone, best speaker on a wireless I ever had, Walky Talky, everything I needed but a good network
I had that phone for 2 years dropped it on its face 10 times. It took a beating and kept on going. The boss went to Verizon as we needed a better network....I went back to Treo as I thought it would be better than the Blackberry.....was I ever wrong. Unlike Blackberry.....it just DIDNT work, too many crashes and poor signal.....Verizon gaciously agreed to let me trade it in for a Blackberry 8830, and I never looked at another phone company since.
The only thing the 8830 was missing was a Camera....and along came the Curve which I quickly jumped all over. Great phone...."It just worked" But the Storm came out and I had to have the latest and greatest....so I jumped in, and after an almost identicle experience with the Storm as I had with the Treo, Verizon released the Tour and as graciously as before....allowe me to exchange the Storm for the Tour. I've had a few bumps with the Tour, but after Verizon helped me finally get the Trackball issue taken care of (2 exchanges later) I couldn't be happier with it. Its quick, looks great, solid, and does what I need it to do.
It looks like Verizon will be releasing some new devices soon.....Storm 2, Palm Pre, Droid, and possibly iPhone at some point. The jury is out if these devices will make me look their direction....being the good gadget geek that I am....I always have to look....time will tell, but thus far, although the OS is growing a little old, 5.0 is just round the corner and I am curious what these companies will be doing to compete with each other. Sorry for the book....but enjoyed having me look back at my own little tech world since my Pagenet days10-20-09 08:13 PM
