Yeah well as it turns out, my new phone didn’t rock. I had a Sony Ericsson T608 from Sprint for about a week. The phone was amazingly slow when doing pretty much anything. I was able to pair it with my desktop and Palm T3 via bluetooth, but when I tried to access the internet on the palm using bluetooth and Vision I managed to get 3 pages on average loaded before the connection would just die. The only solution I found for this problem was disconnecting the palm and power-cycling the phone. This makes having the bluetooth wireless connection rather pointless since you still have to interact with the phone. Also it sucked having a phone that nobody had ever heard of or worked with. None of the sprint reps I showed it to or talked to about it had ever heard of it, nor did they know how to help me with it. I decided to look at other options. T-mobile offers unlimited wireless internet as an addon to their plans for $19.99. I know the speed is significantly slower than Sprint, but when you can’t load anything with the Sprint connection it doesn’t matter how fast it is. T-mobile’s coverage is much, much more limited than Sprint, but for me this is a non-issue since I don’t travel. I returned the T608 to Sprint. ( A minor hassle since they didn’t want to let me return it at a Sprint store even though I had pre-approved the return with customer service and had that noted in my account ) I got my old Sprint phone re-activated and headed for the T-mobile store. After much talking, they agreed to take $100 off the base price of the Sony Ericsson T610. The base price for my plan is now $18 / month higher, but I think I added some options I don’t really need and will probably remove later. This should bring the price to around $10 / month higher than Sprint. So far the experience with T-mobile has been great. With my Sprint phone in my apartment I have about a 50 / 50 chance of completing a call without getting dropped in the middle, with T-mobile the first real call I made lasted over an hour and I went to the basement twice to do laundry without any problems. I read that the T610 has RF signal problems but I haven’t seen this at all. The data connection from my new T3 worked perfectly last night and this morning, but then just stopped working completely. I have a trouble ticket in and I’m waiting for a Tier3 tech to call me. Also my picture messaging should be active this afternoon sometime so I can test that. The camera resolution is much lower than the one in my Samsung A620 from Sprint, but picture quality is reported to be much higher. I will certainly miss the speakerphone feature that the T608 had, but again, you can’t use a speakerphone when your call get dropped. Hopefully when I get GPRS working again I can post some thoughts from the bus.

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