<p>I spent over an hour at the ATT store today looking at the Blackjack2. My S has the Blackberry Pearl and H has a Blackberry (his job requires it). The ATT store is having a special the next 2 weeks where if you can upgrade (I can) you can get the Blackjack2 for $78 (combo instore and mail in rebate). I really really liked the Blackjack2. And I am getting it for the texting as I don’t do all the fancy stuff and our plan has unltd text and the keyboard is very easy for me. I’ve spent time with the iphone and it just doesn’t click like the BJ2 (for me) and for $78 that makes it a no brainer. My S really likes his Blackberry pearl but is spending his graduation money for the new iphone, waiting for July 11. Yeah, it’s cool, but my brain doesn’t work with it.</p>
<p>Another plus for BJ2 is the sound quality of phone calls. I called H from the store on different phones and the BJ2 was the best. Phone call quality is why I got a Samsung last time. The iphone is good too, but the cost! S says the call quality is good on his BBP.</p>
<p>I have the Blackberry Curve and really like it (got it for next to nothing due to a corporate discount).</p>
<p>I was with AT&T before the Bberry and am now. I COULD NOT just move my SIM card from my Motorola to the Blackberry. Nobody else seems to have brought that up, so I don’t know if I was misinformed.</p>
<p>For me, it didn’t matter because I am synced to Outlook and just moved all of that data onto my Curve. But your D should double check about moving the SIM card.</p>
<p>I do think you are able to have it at AT&T without an Internet plan, as I turn that “off” when I am out of the country because I don’t want to pay international roaming charges. If she does have to have the plan, they’re not all that cheap I don’t think ($30-50/month?)</p>
<p>jmmom- they told her she can just move the sim card. Unfortunately we are getting the rebate in the form of a gift card. So guess who fronted the extra 100 dollars. I hate those cards but we do have something big to buy soon so we will use it. Nothing is worse then the 25 dollar rebates that you don’t use up the whole card. When we got 4 new phones last year each came with a 25 dollar rebate. Drove my H batty trying to use them up and figuring out which had money still left on it.
The majority of her friends have fancy phones. Quite a few have the iphone. She also goes to school with girls who routinely wear 180 dollar jeans. She doesn’t. She has bought two pairs of expensive jeans with her own money. She is not a fashion person. She still loves to receive hand me downs from boys. I know that will change in the next year.
She is already thinking what she is going to save for next.
The weird thing about this is that we ordered her phone online. Two hours later my phone died! 2 weeks out of warranty. I have my old phone to switch back but if I hadn’t used up our one upgrade on her I would have been able to get a new phone for me.</p>
<p>I think with ATT you have to pay extra to get some of the services. But I think you can still “do” certain things on a pay per use way. Found out D1’s phone did the internet that way when the cell phone bill came. Since I don’t plan on doing the extra stuff, it doesn’t matter to me, but I would agree to ask questions to see how much it will actually cost if you do everything the phone is capable of. If my S gets his iphone they are going to force him to get some $30/mo pkg add on, but he is going to pay for it from his job.</p>
<p>I went from the pink razor to the bb curve. I got to keep the same sim card. I also didn’t get the email/internet.</p>
<p>My only problem is that when I have it on vibrate and I hit the button on the top (it standby or lock or something), it randomly gets out of that and I’ll here beeping because something is hitting the number keys. I just wish those keys were silent like the rest of them.</p>
<p>You know those free pocket calendars you can pick up at any Hallmark store? That’s been my scheduler for umpteen years… until last week. I bit the bullet and bought a BlackJack. I’ve spent the last couple of days manually entering information that I’ve had located in several different places (paper address book/paper calendars, etc.). Then synched it on my laptop. I am giving myself a month to get efficient at it, then will throw out the paper calendar (followed by a brief, yet difficult mourning period) and be digital only. </p>
<p>D1 got a Blackberry the day after I got my BlackJack and loves it; with both we were able to transfer information from the SIM card. However, with mine, it transferred my address book and listed everything by last name first. So I had to manually go in and change each listing to first name first.</p>
<p>We just bought two BlackBerry Curves with the new Sprint data share plan.</p>
<p>Check this plan out - the Sprint Talk/Message/Data Share plan:
(1500 min for 2 lines/$129.99/mo)
This plan includes
* Unlimited data and messaging: Web surfing, email, BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), GPS Navigation, Sprint Music Premier, Sprint TV® Premier, text, picture, and video messaging
* Unlimited mobile to mobile, night calling and weekends starting at 7 p.m.
* Lines 1-2 included, lines 3-5 are $19.99/line/mo.
* Domestic long distance and roaming</p>
<p>I was ready to dump Sprint and go elsewhere but this plan brought us back. I compared it to both Verizon and AT&T, which were more expensive for the same service. It seems Sprint is now trying to regain market share by offering attractive plans.</p>
<p>The BB Curves are backordered by Sprint. They apparently have sold out a number of the better smartphones with this offering.</p>
<p>^I would suggest Sprint is fine at least in those parts of FL, VA, CA, SC, NC, KY, WV, Chicago and GA that I have visited and actively looked for coverage issues.</p>
<p>I looked carefully to see if it worked over a period of years. I did not want to be stuck with a non-performing carrier for two more years. Note also that Sprint, Verizon and Alltel all have roaming agreements with each other.</p>
<p>Their customer service is also improving…they now handle issues via email.</p>
<p>I have the Blackberry Curve, daughters have the iPhone, and S has the Blackjack. None of us would trade with the other!–so it is all personal preference I guess. </p>
<p>Just one funny thing about the Curve–the phone number part of the keyboard doesn’t have the ABC code (duh) on the number keys, so I totally collapsed the other day when I was trying to figure out how to dial 1800COMCAST…I actually had to go get a land phone and figure out what numbers corresponded to the comcast part…</p>
<p>And yes, I use the calendar function on the Curve as my primary calendar, with a calendar deskbook backup. I have gotten pretty good about daily entry checks and so far have not failed to do double entries.</p>
<p>patient-My husband has the same trouble with his Palm not having the letters! We will be out and he will ask me what number is M. At first I didn’t realize he didn’t have the letters and could not understand why he didn’t just look on his phone.</p>
<p>My daughter bought the Blackjack during college so she could have a full keyboard for texting. She now has the internet and email on it for work, but the texting was the key reason for the purchase.</p>
<p>We recently upgraded my son’s at&t plan with a Samsung slider…didn’t even have it for 2 weeks when it somehow got wet…in my purse at the state track meet…but, my blackberry didn’t get wet…neither did my iPod… so I am still mad about the slider…cause it stopped working immediately. They want $240 to replace it. Instead we pulled out my older blackberry and put his slider AT&T SIM card in it and he is happy at this point…I think the reason kids like the blackberries are truly because of a keyboard for texting. My guy does not have a data plan…but has unlimited texting…and the blackberry keyboard makes that easier. I just wish there was not such a total ripoff program going on with these phones and how they self destruct if they sweat in the heat…ughhh…</p>
<p>lol, patient. That is my one pet peeve as well with the Blackberry Curve. Not only doesn’t it have the ABC-DEF-GHI… on the corresponding phone key pad numbers… It has DIFFERENT letters, using the qwerty layout, on the phone pad. Really challenges the memory. But I figure it is good memory calisthenics for the aging brain, lol.</p>
<p>There will several interesting choices for you soon. But there are still bugs in Windows Mobile 6.1 to be worked out so check those phones out carefully. One crashes a Sony Xperia to the point it may delay the release of the phone.</p>
<p>A Blackberry Thunder (9500) is RIM’s version of an iPhone 3g for Verizon. I need their service for some places I go on the Oregon Coast. The other services don’t work well.</p>
<p>Goodtohear - I really almost like my Wing, but I have far fewer problems with it than dh who has been known to throw his on the floor hoping it will break. (It didn’t.)</p>