I need a Smart Phone, any suggestions?

[AZRaiderH8r]

Our contract with Verizon is up at the end of the month, and I'm thinking of going with a Blackberry or something. Basically, I need the ability to check e-mail with the phone while I'm out of the office. Any suggestions on phone and service provider? Right now we're leaning towards Spring because of their unlimited everything for $99.99 offer.

Thanks!

[KEEZY]

What kind of email do you have setup at GYG? If it's something like gmail or yahoo, I'd say go for the iPhone. I use the ish out of mine.

But if you get unlimited calling and data for $99.99, that's a pretty damn good deal.

[Peench]

I have a T-Mobile Dash that runs Windows Mobile 6.0 (about to upgrade to 6.1). I pay about $75 a month for unlimited data, several hundred text messages, 1000 anytime minutes and unlimited weekends (or evenings... one or the other). I check 4 different email addresses each with its own inbox, outbox, etc. I sync up with my outlook calendar and to do list. Overall this is the best smartphone I've ever owned.

[2Times]

BlackBerry is a good choice. I got one a few months ago and am happy with it. The interface is easy to move through and I set up an icon for my gmail and yahoo mail. Very easy to do. If you are going with sprint, you get a sprint.blackberry.net email address also. The desktop and media manager software is pretty good and easy to follow; and there are tons of apps both pay and free online for BlackBerrys.

I'm not sure if it changed with the $99 unlim plan, but when I got it, I was told I needed the BlackBerry data plan. It is basically all inclusive, unlim data, text, pic mail(through email), and navigation (blackberry has its own, but sprint also offers the service) for $30; With my old plan of $40 for 1000 min and unlim N&W. total $70 plus taxes.

Just a bit of advice. If you are getting a BB phone, make sure you play around with it a lot within the grace period to return the phone and make sure you will have no problems. After about 4 weeks with my BB Pearl, the roller ball started to become a little unresponsive sometimes. I didn't get sprint's warranty plan and they wanted to charge me to fix it.

[namehater]

Originally Posted by Peench

I have a T-Mobile Dash that runs Windows Mobile 6.0 (about to upgrade to 6.1). I pay about $75 a month for unlimited data, several hundred text messages, 1000 anytime minutes and unlimited weekends (or evenings... one or the other). I check 4 different email addresses each with its own inbox, outbox, etc. I sync up with my outlook calendar and to do list. Overall this is the best smartphone I've ever owned.

my wife uses the dash, but she doesnt do any of the fancy stuff so i cant speak for that, but i can say its a nice, solid phone, we recently had a buy a new battery for it because the original one wouldnt hold a charge for more than a day, i guess we can plan on putting a new battery in it annually

ive used a BB pearl before, i couldnt get the hang of the trackball on it, i know a few others that own, it seems to be one of those things that you either love or you hate

[Peench]

Interesting on the battery issue Name. My dash will hold a charge for like 3 days if I don't use it too much. But if I use it alot in one day I can kill the battery before the day is over. I wonder if I need a new battery?

[BrewCityUpstart]

(psst! smart phones are for smart people!)

[namehater]

@ peench- we replaced hers because it would die in one day without even using it that much, if she forgot to put it on the charger before she went to bed, she had to go without the next day. the battery we bought was an OEM replacement, i was wanting to get her one of the extended life batteries, but i just wanted to make sure it was the battery at fault and not just the phone. i say go for it peench, i think the battery shipped was like $10

[Peench]

Wow - only $10 - it might be worth it to have another one anyway. That's not a bad deal at all. Thankfully mine isn't that bad yet, but never hurts to have another one laying around eh?

[namehater]

thats kinda how i see it

[AZRaiderH8r]

Thanks for the feedback guys! Should be making a move in a few days here...