Using AT&T for your cell?

JoNightshade · Aug 26, 2010

Call them up and tell them you want to cancel your line and switch to Verizon. I just did this and they offered me all sorts of discounts and incentives to stay.

Too bad they still can't offer me a DROID X!

Shadow_Ferret · Aug 26, 2010

But.... but... they have the iPhone!

I'm kind of irritated at Verizon, if you want a touchscreen phone, you have to subscribe to their internet package even if I just want it because it's cool and to text.

No internet package and your choices in phones are extremely limited.

Williebee · Aug 26, 2010

That would depend on where you are in your contract, and also kind of depend on which phone you are using. Not all phones can float from provider to provider.

Williebee · Aug 26, 2010

Verizon does have one of the only phones out there (the Envy) where the touch screen is an actual "contact" screen, rather than requiring the physical contact of your finger. (The others don't react to the touch of a standard stylus or fingernail, for example.

JoNightshade · Aug 26, 2010

I'm trying to figure out why you would want a phone WITHOUT an internet package. I'm so frickin excited I can't wait to go down to the store tomorrow and buy it.

THE INTERNETS WILL COME WITH ME EVERYWHERE!

Shadow_Ferret · Aug 26, 2010

BECAUSE I'M UNEMPLOYED. THAT'S WHY.

Besides, I really don't need the internet with me 24/7. I'm not that addicted.

Williebee said:
Verizon does have one of the only phones out there (the Envy) where the touch screen is an actual "contact" screen, rather than requiring the physical contact of your finger. (The others don't react to the touch of a standard stylus or fingernail, for example.

I have the Voyager. I didn't realize other touch screens only reacted to your finger tip and nothing else.

thothguard51 · Aug 26, 2010

I have had AT&T in the recent past and find Verizon has better cell service, which is all I use my phone for, so I can't comment on the other services offered...

poetinahat · Aug 26, 2010

How bizarre that, in the US, phone models are tied to service providers.

leahzero · Aug 26, 2010

I am waiting out the last 6 months of my contract with AT&T with gritted teeth. And then I will be happily fleeing to another provider, and probably getting a pair of Droids.

What I pay for two phones with AT&T, compared to how much and in what manner I actually use them, is disgusting.

Shadow_Ferret · Aug 26, 2010

Yes, it is kind of odd.

thothguard51 said:
I have had AT&T in the recent past and find Verizon has better cell service, which is all I use my phone for, so I can't comment on the other services offered...

We didn't have AT&T. We had Cingular at the time it was gobbled up by AT&T. We moved into our house and couldn't get service in our own basement. So we switched to Verizon.

Smish · Aug 26, 2010

My private cell number somehow got leaked to my clients, so I had to change it, and AT&T charged me $36 to change my number.

RIDICULOUS. :rant:

Tirjasdyn · Aug 26, 2010

I stopped by at tmobile the other day cause I was bored. I have G1 and plan to upgrade next year. When I got it, it was the only Android phone on the market. I was surprised to find 7 android phones at tmobile....if I were upgrading now it'd be a tie between the Moto Cliq and the Samsung Vibrant.

I know Verison has three at least, the Evo and the Droid(X). My friends who have the Evo don't like it because it turns off completely with no usage instead of hibernating. Friends with the Droid and Droid X are pretty happy with their's.

BlackBriar · Aug 26, 2010

JoNightshade said:
Call them up and tell them you want to cancel your line and switch to Verizon. I just did this and they offered me all sorts of discounts and incentives to stay.

Too bad they still can't offer me a DROID X!

Be careful with this. My dad did the same thing, and on his last bill, they tried to overcharge him. It works, but you have to stay on them before they pull one over you.

Oh, and if you live in certain areas of the south, check out Cricket (cheap and no contracts). They're now using Sprint's network for roaming (no extra cost) and they now they have an Android phone (would wait for some vids/reviews of the final product before I buy it).

kuwisdelu · Aug 26, 2010

Finally got to use an Android phone for the first time today.

All I can say is I can't wait for the Verizon iPhone.

Unfortunate, because I don't like Verizon either, but they have much better coverage where I live.

mario_c · Aug 26, 2010

This is all good to know, as I'm dumping t-mobile the second my contract expires so I want to know who my next provider should be. I've heard AT&T sucks so the next round is between Sprint and Verizon.
As for phones, I love how phones have become the all-purpose fashion statement where I hang out :ROFL:

If you're an artiste, you've got an iPhone; if you're business class, it's a Blackberry; a geek/guru, you get an Android. And all the working class and other poor people get cheapass burners or other bargain basement text phones (that would be me). And I feel like putting "phone" in quotes as it's more a portable eMail device than a phone. The joys of not having friends...

JoNightshade · Aug 26, 2010

poetinahat said:
How bizarre that, in the US, phone models are tied to service providers.

Yes, it's an absurd, bizarre situation that I hope will fall apart sometime in the near future. I hate it.

kuwisdelu said:
Finally got to use an Android phone for the first time today.

All I can say is I can't wait for the Verizon iPhone.

You... used an android and you want an iPhone instead??? Really? Which one did you try? My husband has had an iPhone for about 6 months now and he wishes he had gone for an android instead - now he's locked in a contract. I mean... iPhone can't even run multiple applications. Compared to the droid, the touch screen is terrible.

Anyway I'm not so much addicted to the internet... but I need the internet to do what I want to do, which is take my writing everywhere. And no, I'm not addicted to that either, I just have an eight month old that makes sitting at the computer for more than 2 minutes at a time almost impossible.

kuwisdelu · Aug 26, 2010

JoNightshade said:
You... used an android and you want an iPhone instead??? Really? Which one did you try? My husband has had an iPhone for about 6 months now and he wishes he had gone for an android instead - now he's locked in a contract. I mean... iPhone can't even run multiple applications. Compared to the droid, the touch screen is terrible.

I'm not sure. Just some friends'.

And iOS 4 introduced multitasking a while ago.

Personally, I thought the 'droid's touch screen was awful compared to my Touch.

But I don't care what anyone else uses as long as I can keep my iOS. For now, I'll stick to my crappy Verizon dumbphone and my Touch. Though it'd be nice to have a 3G plan for my iPod.

Kitty Pryde · Aug 26, 2010

I'm in the last two months of my family plan with AT&T...and my phone has crapped out on me

I'm telling myself i can go two months of shouted, unintelligible conversations before I switch providers.

I'm switching to Virgin Mobile--unlimited data + 1200 minutes for $40. I'm upgrading from a lousy phone to a cool internetty phone--the LG Rumor Touch!

Williebee · Aug 26, 2010

How bizarre that, in the US, phone models are tied to service providers.

Yes it is. It is also bizarre that how you can use your phone, on the same provider, changes from country to country.

I have only two complaints with the iPhone, and both of them are AT&T marketing decisions.

I live about a half a block from nowhere. My reception has been pretty much the same quality with Verizon and AT&T. Meanwhile the local provider... you can stand on the parking lot in front of the tower and get no reception.

Tirjasdyn · Aug 27, 2010

Actually we did an impromptu test of carriers above treeline (that on a mountain in Colorado near the peak) at 12,200 feet. We had an Iphone ios4, G1 Android, and a Verizon Droid.

The iphone was a brick, no internet, no phone at all, it could play music. Verizon we could make phone calls but no internet. G1, we had internet and GPS, but no phone.

Chris P · Aug 27, 2010

There's a reason AT&T's logo looks like the Death Star.

I have no internet on my phone. Since I spend 95% of my time at home or work, I pretty much have the internet whenever I need it. Cellular South had much better coverage, and if I'm still here when my contract expires (about 9 months, I think) I won't be back to AT&T.

Jersey Chick · Aug 27, 2010

I've been with Verizon since they were Bell Atlantic Mobile (almost 11 years now) and I won't change carriers. My husband had Sprint a while back, it would literally take him days to get voice and text messages. Once, I tried calling him all day to get him to come home from work early (I had a stomach flu and my kids at the time were 4 and about 8 months old) and he didn't get any of the messages until two or three days after the fact. He switched over to Verizon not long after.

My BIL has AT&T and his calls get dropped about half the time.

Verizon? I went skiing at End-of-the-World, Vermont and on the ski lift, at the top of a mountain, I had perfect service. Awesome.

I'll be getting a new phone in the next few months, and much as I would love a Droid, I can't justify the cost, so I have to do some serious comparison shopping.

Shadow_Ferret · Aug 27, 2010

JoNightshade said:
Anyway I'm not so much addicted to the internet... but I need the internet to do what I want to do, which is take my writing everywhere. And no, I'm not addicted to that either, I just have an eight month old that makes sitting at the computer for more than 2 minutes at a time almost impossible.

Wait. You're going to try to type STORIES on that little thing?

Jersey Chick said:
I've been with Verizon since they were Bell Atlantic Mobile (almost 11 years now) and I won't change carriers. My husband had Sprint a while back, it would literally take him days to get voice and text messages. Once, I tried calling him all day to get him to come home from work early (I had a stomach flu and my kids at the time were 4 and about 8 months old) and he didn't get any of the messages until two or three days after the fact. He switched over to Verizon not long after.

Our first phone was Sprint. My wife got suckered into a deal while at work, and without consulting me, and we were stuck in a contract for a phone that was as good as a paperweight. Coverage sucked. And if you walked into a building while talking? Call was lost.

As far as service, coverage, and all that, Verizon has been the best. I'm just unhappy that the coolest phones require an internet package.

Jersey Chick · Aug 27, 2010

I don't mind the internet package. Last summer, on vacation, I checked my email from my phone and ended up getting hit with a HUGE phone bill as a result. I really don't want that to happen again, so I'll suck it up and get the internet pkg.

Shadow_Ferret · Aug 27, 2010

Well, I guess the family could just cut out one meal a day for it.

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