Cingular Sensation?
Dec. 14th, 2004 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eggwardsTonight was the team's christmas celebration at the exotic Chili's location across from work. Really, it was pretty much like being at work, but being at Chili's, with a few presents. My boss Lisa brought her husband, probably to try to prove to him that all of the stories are true, and we're crazy. the rest of us were coming from work, and even if we could, we left the spouses at home. Frankly Lisa's spouse didn't seem to be taking her side on much.
Since I drew our Yankees baseball loving guy Dominick, I resisted buying Stephen King's love note to the Boston Red Sox's season, and instead bought him a book about Yankee Yogi Berra that he appreciated. Marvin drew my name and gave me a basket full of beer. Several bottles worth. Now I'll admit it was several different kinds, so somewhere there's several 5-packs of beers waiting for Marvin.
Lisa and I went in together to by little punching bags for each of the team members as our gift to them. it's a little inside joke as they comment on how often that we fight back and forth. Lisa also got me a little desk dartboard that I'll have to resist putting her face on. I haven't found that gift for her yet.
After dinner I went to go look at phones a bit. My phone is about 4 year old now and is getting a little old in the tooth. My hands-free device went south on me last night as I was talking with Chris, so I needed to buy a new one, so I was tempted to just chuck the whole thing and start over.
What I really want is a phone that has bluetooth technology. my computer already supports it, and I love the wireless earpiece. My problem is, Houston is on some pretty old cell networks, and it's been a slow area for updating. The phone companies have not been updating the stuff quickly. Verizon offers only one bluetooth phone right now, and they are charging $300 for it (the Motorola V710), with a 2-year contract. I've been with Verizon way back when they were GTE, some ten years ago, but now that you can take your phone number with you, maybe I should jump.
Cingular has a bluetooth phone for $150, and I think there's a rebate that makes it $99. It's the Motorola V551 Camera phone. i don't care about the camera, really. I'm a little worried about their rate plans and their nationwide coverage, despite their takeover of ATT Wireless. I need to ask my sister about Cinglar's nationwide coverage as she uses them. Does anyone else use Cingular? How are they? Are they affordable because they look like they are more expensive than Verizon? I've been with Verizon so long I'm hesitant to change.
Since I drew our Yankees baseball loving guy Dominick, I resisted buying Stephen King's love note to the Boston Red Sox's season, and instead bought him a book about Yankee Yogi Berra that he appreciated. Marvin drew my name and gave me a basket full of beer. Several bottles worth. Now I'll admit it was several different kinds, so somewhere there's several 5-packs of beers waiting for Marvin.
Lisa and I went in together to by little punching bags for each of the team members as our gift to them. it's a little inside joke as they comment on how often that we fight back and forth. Lisa also got me a little desk dartboard that I'll have to resist putting her face on. I haven't found that gift for her yet.
After dinner I went to go look at phones a bit. My phone is about 4 year old now and is getting a little old in the tooth. My hands-free device went south on me last night as I was talking with Chris, so I needed to buy a new one, so I was tempted to just chuck the whole thing and start over.
What I really want is a phone that has bluetooth technology. my computer already supports it, and I love the wireless earpiece. My problem is, Houston is on some pretty old cell networks, and it's been a slow area for updating. The phone companies have not been updating the stuff quickly. Verizon offers only one bluetooth phone right now, and they are charging $300 for it (the Motorola V710), with a 2-year contract. I've been with Verizon way back when they were GTE, some ten years ago, but now that you can take your phone number with you, maybe I should jump.
Cingular has a bluetooth phone for $150, and I think there's a rebate that makes it $99. It's the Motorola V551 Camera phone. i don't care about the camera, really. I'm a little worried about their rate plans and their nationwide coverage, despite their takeover of ATT Wireless. I need to ask my sister about Cinglar's nationwide coverage as she uses them. Does anyone else use Cingular? How are they? Are they affordable because they look like they are more expensive than Verizon? I've been with Verizon so long I'm hesitant to change.
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Date: 2004-12-14 09:33 pm (UTC)I'm on a plan that's about $50/mo for 600 peak minutes with rollover of the unused minutes. I've also kept with Cingular since here in my area I've been able to have that bill combined with my home phone bill as well as having the two voice mail boxes linked together into one. If your landline provider (if you have one as I know some people rely totally on cel service these days) is SBC, you may want to check to see if they offer something similar.
I've found it a nice benefit to be able to know when someone calls the house line and leave a message when I'm not at home to take the call...my cel just lets me know with a quick beep when the voice mail is left on the house line.
Aside from Cingular having "roll over" minutes compared to "V" not having them...both have "Nights and Weekends" and "Mobile to Mobile" calling plan features. It's getting more and more to the point where service and customer service are the deciding factors with what carrier people decide to go with.
And...speaking of new phones...I am being sorely tempted to jump away from the Nokia brand thanks to the intro of the Motorola V3 RAZR...
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Date: 2004-12-15 06:05 am (UTC)Getting the same plan as yours should be fine, but now they charge extra for camera phones, so I bet it will be closer to $55 when it comes down to it. I don't have a land line anymore - I don't have a need for it.
The RAZR is way cool, but the only thing I'm spending $500 on is a new iPod!