Cell Phone Carriers

[Homeslice]

Verizon period.........The network is more important than the features one phone might have over another

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by Trip

yep, you just need to figure out what each carrier's email txt format is, like verizon is:

XXXX represent numberes, just making up a phone number

865988XXXX@vtext.com for text
865988XXXX@vzwpix.com for media messages. I usually just send to media messages.


Yeah some people prefer buttons, there are some nice full button BBs with verizon.

Go to crackberry.com to look at reviews for each phone once you figure out which ones verizon offers.

No shit... So I could have everyone just text to 'my number@vzwpix.com' and everything will be neato burrito?

[Trip]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

No shit... So I could have everyone just text to 'my number@vzwpix.com' and everything will be neato burrito?

you would still have to pay for that as a txt. That's considered a txt.

if you got a blackberry, you could have everyone txt to your blackberry email address. My blackberry email is a gmail account.

[Corey]

Here's my list I snagged a while ago and saved. I used it mostly to mail ringtones to my old phone and to friends phones. Most of them are still up to date, but some might have changed. Dunno if Amp'd is even in business anymore.

Alltel = xxxxxxxxxx@message.alltel.com
Amp'd Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@vtext.com
AT&T = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.att.net
Boost Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@myboostmobile.com
Centennial Wireless = xxxxxxxxxx@myblue.com
Cingular (AT&T) = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.mycingular.com
Einstein PCS = xxxxxxxxxx@einsteinmms.com
Nextel = xxxxxxxxxx@messaging.nextel.com
Sprint = xxxxxxxxxx@messaging.sprintpcs.com or xxxxxxxxxx@pm.sprint.com
T-Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@tmomail.net
US Cellular = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.uscc.net
Verizon Wireless = xxxxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com
Virgin Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@vmobl.com

[Trip]

OSP in your case for verizon, I would probably look at the Blackberry 8830 if you want a full QWERTY keyboard.

[Corey]

Originally Posted by Trip

How much have you traveled with it beyond standard routes and cities? I had it and have friends who have it. AT&T severly suffers off the beaten path and that's probably where OSP needs it the most with his adventures on two. That's the main reason I swapped, it would be nice to have an iphone or another super cool phone (verizon for years had phones 2 years old as their "new" phones cause of their strict policies), but it's hard to use the phone part that you pay for, when there is no service. It's hard to find places my verizon phone won't work compared to my old AT&T phone where it was hard to find placees it did work.

I live between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, two large cities with supposedly excellent coverage area for AT&T. I know this because they told me every time I called to complain about dropped calls and my phone going straight to voicemail that I was in an excellent coverage area and shouldn't be having these problems. But still, didn't matter much.

Originally Posted by Trip

OSP in your case for verizon, I would probably look at the Blackberry 8830 if you want a full QWERTY keyboard.

Why an 8830 as opposed to the 8330? Or the eventual 9030? Unless OSP is in a field where a camera phone is a no no, the 8330 is a slightly more capable phone, and the 9030 is going to be even better.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Corey

Why an 8830 as opposed to the 8330? Or the eventual 9030? Unless OSP is in a field where a camera phone is a no no, the 8330 is a slightly more capable phone, and the 9030 is going to be even better.

just looked to see what was the newest blackberry qwerty out that verizon carries right now.

[Corey]

Originally Posted by Trip

just looked to see what was the newest blackberry qwerty out that verizon carries right now.

8830 is a nice phone and the keyboard is nice too, but it lacks a camera and is very much geared towards the business client, much more than the 8330 is. The 8330 Curve has all the featuers of the 8830, plus a camera, slightly better battery life, and a little more flash memory. It's slightly smaller too, if that means much of anything. The trade off between the two is the 8330 having a camera and more flash memory, and the 8830 having dual band abilities and a slightly better keyboard.

[z06boy]

AT&T 650 minutes + rollover minutes + 200 text per month...no I don't text much. $40.00 a month.

[Angee]

the bb bold 9000 is wifi, we have one...works great! of course we got the data pkg anyway.....