Cell Phone Suggestions/Experiences?

AKiss20
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:07:02 +0000

Hey all,

As part of Verizon Wireless’ 2 year contract thingy, I am up for an upgrade on my cell and have been wondering what to get. I see two basic plans

1)My planned computer purchase for school is a Macbook Pro 15". I hope to use iCal to do all my scheduling because I am a digital, not paper person. I think it would be really useful if I could get that to sync with my phone. Now no smartphone can sync directly with iCal, but iCal can sync with google calendar, which can sync with windows mobile devices using something called goosync. My current top contender for a smart phone is the Samsung SCH-i760, as it has physical number buttons (something my current phone doesn’t and it annoys me) for calling, WM6, and wifi. Most VZ phones are wifi crippled (grrr) and I refuse to shell out 50 a month for the dumbass data plan. Using wifi I hope that I can sync with google calendar relatively quickly, as well as check the shuttle etc etc Some of the blackberrys seemed good but VZ has the stupid policy of requiring the dataplan with a blackberry, no exceptions (Why VZ WHY!?!).

2)Get a smaller, more standard phone with a QWERTY keyboard (I can’t T9, I never learned how but I like to text) like the enV2 or the Samsung Alias. Biggest advantage to this I can see is battery life. Smartphone battery life (as I can attest with my current phone) is not great and can be downright terrible sometimes.

So basically these are my questions:

1)To you as a college student, how important has having good battery life been?
2)How important is it to have wifi access and your schedule on your phone?
3)How important has size of the phone been? (Do most people carry backpacks everywhere, making size a null issue? etc)
4)Do you have any other suggestions/experiences that may help me?

I know this is a long and seemingly stupid post, but I am in a bit of a quandary.

Much thanks!