So when I was in Seattle, a lot of my friends were on my case about my cell phone. All I kept hearing was how bad Verizon and it’s CDMA phones were. Mind you, a bunch of my friends worked for Windows Mobile and at the time, Verizon didn’t have any smartphones running our stuff. So, after my phone finally gave up the ghost, I switched to AT&T/Cingular and got myself my handy dandy smartphone. All was good. I had great reception. My phone was awesome. I had better mobile internet than anyone around. Life was grand.
Fast forward a year and switch up the locations. Now I’m on the east coast, where apparently, Cingular doesn’t care about anyone. My reception is bad everywhere. My calls are always dropping, and my phone is slowly dying. I wouldn’t mind so much about the phone, but I’m now hooked on having a smartphone, and Cingular refuses to insure my phone. Thus, they want me to buy one in full.
And oh yeah, Verizon now has mobile broadband. Super.
So…I’m going to be leaving my carrier when my phone dies. Given how much it would cost to get a smartphone; it’s a better deal for me to break my plan with Cingular, pay the fee, get a new smartphone from Verizon (which they will insure) and be done with it. Plus, the rate plan is better and costs me less money.
And the phone is better. The only thing holding me back is my desire to try and save a bit of cash. Plus my smartphone currently works…err..85% works. But I can feel it dying, so in the next couple of months, my wireless life will improve. Booo-yah. I can kiss Cingular and it’s awful service good-bye.
I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited about one of devices failing. But that should tell you how much I hate Cingular service. Love the phone, hate the GSM carriers. Oh well.
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So I’m trying to post this and Cingular has dropped my data call. Seriously, I have full bars, and they dropped my connection. This is so incredibly dumb. This always happens, I have good service and then… BAM…call is gone. This is exactly the reason I need to switch.
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