I got sucked into the hype so bad and I must say even though this is a really great phone I can't justify paying over $700 and 60/month for a phone, any phone, but I waited 28 hours, I was #1 in line and I didn't care how much I was spending at that point but now that I think about it I realized how much I spent and how much I'm going to spend.
Phone:
$599.99
Case:
$29.99
Tax:
$48.74
Total:
$677.73
+ Activation Fee:
$34.99
Monthly fee:
$60/mo
What makes me sad is that I sell phones and Cingular plans indirectly and they still can't subsidize nor give a discounted monthly rate. At this point I'm not will to spend $700 for a phone thats cool.
My only cons about this phone besides the ones already stated are:
- Edge speed but the coverage is very nice even got it out at the beach.
- Screen can't help to get smudges and/or fingerprints and is prone to cheek prints
- No flash, and a lot of sites I go to are flash
- Mono speaker (not stereo)
- *** did they do to the headphone jack, they put a stupid little dip in there so you can't directly connect headphones w/o buying an adapter.
- Battery Indicator isn't accurate
- YouTube is watered down because not all the videos are converted to h.214 (w/e its called) format.
- Can't type in landscape mode for texting or note taking but that could possible change with an update.
-*No real time GPS
- Mail system won't delete e-mails from inbox from the actually e-mail provider but instead will just delete them off the phones display and you can't empty out the entire trash if you want to completely dispose of an email you have to delete it twice yet there still there in my gmail inbox.
- No custom ringtones
No 3rd party application support
- Can't play WoW on it (I'm just kidding I don't even play that game).
Pros:
- Built-in iPod
- Interface - Not crowded, very clean and easy to use
- 2MP Camera compliments 3.5" screen and it looks very nice
- Although there is no real-time GPS google maps works great!
- Weather widget is great, basic and gets straight to the point, current, highs, lows, mon-sun.
- Built-in Wifi and easily connects to any network
- All of the widgets work great and are easy to use. The stock widget I can really see a shareholder using it works great and looks fantastic.
- Size and battery life
I'm really on the fence right now and I'm really not sure what I'm going to do but I'll really miss this phone. But is anyone else feeling this way?
Phone:
$599.99
Case:
$29.99
Tax:
$48.74
Total:
$677.73
+ Activation Fee:
$34.99
Monthly fee:
$60/mo
What makes me sad is that I sell phones and Cingular plans indirectly and they still can't subsidize nor give a discounted monthly rate. At this point I'm not will to spend $700 for a phone thats cool.
My only cons about this phone besides the ones already stated are:
- Edge speed but the coverage is very nice even got it out at the beach.
- Screen can't help to get smudges and/or fingerprints and is prone to cheek prints
- No flash, and a lot of sites I go to are flash
- Mono speaker (not stereo)
- *** did they do to the headphone jack, they put a stupid little dip in there so you can't directly connect headphones w/o buying an adapter.
- Battery Indicator isn't accurate
- YouTube is watered down because not all the videos are converted to h.214 (w/e its called) format.
- Can't type in landscape mode for texting or note taking but that could possible change with an update.
-*No real time GPS
- Mail system won't delete e-mails from inbox from the actually e-mail provider but instead will just delete them off the phones display and you can't empty out the entire trash if you want to completely dispose of an email you have to delete it twice yet there still there in my gmail inbox.
- No custom ringtones
No 3rd party application support
- Can't play WoW on it (I'm just kidding I don't even play that game).
Pros:
- Built-in iPod
- Interface - Not crowded, very clean and easy to use
- 2MP Camera compliments 3.5" screen and it looks very nice
- Although there is no real-time GPS google maps works great!
- Weather widget is great, basic and gets straight to the point, current, highs, lows, mon-sun.
- Built-in Wifi and easily connects to any network
- All of the widgets work great and are easy to use. The stock widget I can really see a shareholder using it works great and looks fantastic.
- Size and battery life
I'm really on the fence right now and I'm really not sure what I'm going to do but I'll really miss this phone. But is anyone else feeling this way?