Cellphone advice?

[usernamenumber]

Sequoia and I's Cingular contract is about to expire. I haven't had any problems with them, but am considering using the opportunity to change as a way to leverage a better phone, better plan or something. I can probably do this while staying with Cingular, but I figure I might as well ask: does anyone have suggestions for providers I should consider-- or avoid, in the Boston area?

Comments

[natbudin.livejournal.com]

Oh man, do I wish I still had Cingular.

I have Sprint. They suck. Avoid at all costs.

[cindy-lu.livejournal.com]

I have been happy with T mobile for the last several years. I had sprint before that and was NOT happy. I personally am looking to be switching to Cingular soon, both because that is what my parents use, and more importantly because I want an iphone, and they will be the only carrier. Is it June yet?

[kamianya.livejournal.com]

Well, My family and i have been quite happy with verizon. They have some good plans, and i know that when we signed on, we got $200 off the price of our new phones by agreeing to a two year contract, meaning my mom's was free and mine cost $20....

[doctor-samuel.livejournal.com]

Wow! I've never seen anyone write "X and I's" before! Neat!
I love genitive case assignment to personal pronouns across conjunction structures in English. They're just too wacky!

[sprrwhwk.livejournal.com]

Wait until next month and then look into the iPhone?

[sprrwhwk.livejournal.com]

ergh, sorry, not actually answering your question -- I've had good luck with Verizon (though I barely use my phone these days), but I'm going to at least consider switching to Cingular to get an iPhone in a couple months.

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

Idunno. I already have a good media player and, really, I wouldn't want to have to worry about not being able to make calls if I listened to too much music. It looks like a gorgeous interface, but it combines two devices I'm not sure it's really a good idea to combine.

[doctor-samuel.livejournal.com]

and in a way that really minimizes the usefulness of the mp3 player, IMO. what's the storage on the iphone? 3 gigs?

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Aside from a couple really crappy customer service encounters with Verizon, I've been pretty happy.

Service is good, and they have good phones. I'm really looking forward to the Samsung i760 (http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/samsung-sch-i760/), which is the next iteration of my current phone.

[sprrwhwk.livejournal.com]

4GB or 8GB, (I presume) all Flash like the nanos.

[sprrwhwk.livejournal.com]

Verizon's data plan is expensive, though -- $80/mo. for data on top of a minimum $40/mo. for voice, etc. service is *waaaay* more than I want to pay. I don't know if anybody else has a data plan that sucks less, though -- I think obra is decently happy with T-Mobile's data plan right now, though you should ask him for details. And you may decide not to care about a data plan. (obra's a power user -- I can ask him for details if you'd like.)

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Verizon's data plan is expensive, though -- $80/mo. for data

I dunno what plan you're looking at, but I'm paying $40/mo for voice and $45/mo for "unlimited" (read: we whine if you go over a few gigs) data. And $5 for 250 text messages.