A few weeks ago I did the stupid thing of buying a new phone.
Sick of MetroPCS lousy coverage (and I won’t tell them to stop advertising and start investing because I know it’s not the same budget and I hate when somebody tells this to a company blah blah) and bored on a Saturday morning, I went to the AT&T to buy the iPhone 4.
There, a very obnoxious lady told me quite aggressively that yes indeed I had to pay a $500 deposit to get a contract with AT&T.
Indeed AT&T has the annoying habit of charging a new customer $500 for a deposit if this customer has no credit history. I have had my SSN for now a year so I was in this situation. The same argument they always give you after is: “you’ll get it back in 12 months”…”Geez thanks can I pay credit? *facepalm*”… Besides I don’t even know where I’ll be in 12 months.
So I was all “Ok AT&T have rude CS but they have the iPhone 4, wait a minute $500???”, so I was bored and on spending frenzy (just gotten my paycheck) but some of Mother’s genes found their place in my system and that little voice in my head screamed “Josephine, that will be over $700 for a phone, this is ridiculous”…”yes but I love Apple and I don’t want the other Apple fanboys/fangirls to make fun of me”…”then keep your MetroPCS phone and save up”…”no way”. But well, all in all I listened to the voice (we argued for a while) and left AT&T, quite depressed for not getting the iPhone 4. Actually very depressed.
I ended up going to Radio Shack to see if they had anything to say about the $500 deposit. They had not. Grand.
I won’t expand on the story but I ended up buying the HTC Hero on Android, with Sprint (affordable plan… somewhat, and only $50 deposit).
And I was pretty excited, being a true Apple fangirl there was NO WAY I was going to buy a CrackBerry so Android, even though it’s Google operated and blah and blah, was a pretty good compromise. I wanted a Smartphone.
It’s been 3 weeks I’ve had my Android now (more or less) and I can give a pretty good feedback of this product: It is NOWHERE near as good as the iPhone. The problem now is that I still use my French iPhone as my MP3 player (well… duh) so I do use both all day to go on the Internet. The touchscreen on the HTC is slow, the entire phone is slow! Turning it on takes forever so I never turn it off, therefore I always have to charge it because well the battery is so damn retarded (and I’m retarded for not turning off 3G). Sometimes also the phone will just shut down and restart. It also has this annoying habit of vibrating whenever I dial a number or pick up a call (but consider the 0.5 seconds lag that never ceases to make me believe I have a call waiting or I just received a text). I also dropped a bunch of calls for my phone being too freakin’ retarded to let me hit the “pick up call” button.
Well now I’m not saying I don’t like my phone, it’s maybe that the iPhone is too good and I got used to it. And also when you compare it to my old phone…. Well you better not. At least now I can hear when people talk, I can write more than 120 characters in my text messages and I have coverage in my apartment.
So do I wish I had waited to buy the iPhone 4? No, the old phone was way too much hassle. Will I pay the $200 early termination fee if the iPhone really goes to Verizon? Probably.
As for Android, it’s cool, I really like this, the apps are good – sometimes better than the App Store (you can try an app before buying it, but apparently same for the Apple Store now), and it’s highly customizable, widgets are nice too. I just wish I had another phone…
(pss, don’t tell Mother, she’ll say that’ll teach me how to spend my money)
Posted via email from Jay Gee
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