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February 26th, 2006 | general

Many times when people are on holiday (a.k.a. vacation) they want to at least make an attempt to blend in, so here’s a hint: if you live in North America and find yourself touring the U.K. or some other place in Europe avoid using the word cellular. Saying something like ‘where’s my cell phone?’ will instantly peg you as being a tourist. Yep, it’s called a mobile over there.

While I’m not taking any trips to across the world, I am looking at finally getting a new phone. My two-year contract ran out about a year ago (er, maybe longer) and I’ve just been going month-to-month ever since, keeping the same phone the whole time. It’s not that I use the thing alot, but it’s getting old to the point where the battery dies after using it once or twice, and for the amount of money I’m paying each month I should have a better phone.

My current carrier is fine as far as service is concerned, but they tend to be on the crappy side when it comes to offering cool phones. They just recently got their version of the Motorola Razr; so while other carriers are charging $50 for it, my carrier is still charging a small fortune for it, and that’s with a two year contract. But sadly where I live I don’t have much of a choice when it comes to choosing carriers. No Verizon, no Cingular, Sprint doesn’t even accept my zip code. What do I mean by that? Let me explain.

I like looking at different plans and products available from different carriers, like exclusive phones/PDAs. But it seems like the thing to do is block web users from info if the company doesn’t have service in that area. For example, if I want to look at the current plans for Verizon, I need to first type in my zip code. If Verizon doesn’t offer service in that zip code, it says sorry try again. This is where knowing zip codes of bigger cities comes in handy. Unfortunately it’s just to look at as I still can’t get the service.

Anyways, back to phones. Sprint has a cool black Samsung phone. Cingular has the Moto Slvr. I’m sure Verizon has some exclusive I would find interesting. But the daddy of them all is T-Mobile with the currently exclusive Moto Pebl. I really like the phone. The problem is, besides the fact that they don’t offer service where I currently live, is that I know people who have had T-Mobile and none of them had anything good to say about them. Oh well, maybe I’ll move to some big city and get T-Mobile anyways.

2 Comments

  1. matches
    February 27th, 2006 at 11:00 pm

    Since Sprint redid their website my zipcode doesn’t work either even though we do have their service. I have a thing for the Samsung A900 (the sleek RAZR-looking one) but it’s still ~$200 even with a contract. The other problem, and I never got around to writing about this, is that the multimedia stuff only works on Power Vision networks which haven’t expanded out of metro areas yet.

  2. majafa
    February 28th, 2006 at 12:45 am

    oi! i think that sammy sung a900 is the one i mentioned liking, but i didn’t know the name of it. yeah i first saw it when you wrote about it. sucks all the features only work in metro areas though. who’s to say we ain’t metro?

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