Cell Phone ...

[susandennis]

I've had a Sprint cell phone forever, but I'm giving serious thought to changing. I've been looking at T-Mobile. Specifically, I've been looking at the T-Mobile Sidekick. And now they have one in color.

I don't hate my Sprint quite enough and I don't know enough about T-Mobile to quite commit emotionally much less financially.

I really want always available email that is a phone once in a while. On a plan that doesn't cost me a fortune. I use my current cellphone probably 30 minutes a month max for talking and 30 minutes a month for email/web and games. Without a keyboard email is really read only.

Of course, no one is selling the color sidekick yet, but there look to be some good deals on the black and white. I'll probably talk myself out of the whole thing anyway.

Comments

[judith.livejournal.com]

I'll be waiting to hear what you learn.

I am trying to find an inexpensive way to go online wherever I am, whether with a laptop or cell phone or whatever, but actually preferably laptop (I like the larger size for the things I am often inspired to do). I have just begun to investigate.

[susandennis]

I pay $45 a month (including taxes and stuff) now to Sprint and can get web and email on my phone. And, if I had a laptop, I could hook the phone up to the USB port and use the phone for a modem. But, I don't want to haul around a laptop. And typing our web URL's and email on a telephone keypad is painful.

I will absolutely post what I do, if I do.

[fj.livejournal.com]

Note that T-Mobil has an all-you-can-eat data plan for 40 bucks a month with the Sidekick, which is a very good deal. Note that it is the data-charges can really sneak up on you, especially when web-browsing on a fun unti like this, since we are so conditioned by broadband or dial-up to hop from page to page. In mobile land, you end up paying for data by the packet.

I haven't met anyone with a Sidekick/Hiptop, but the online reviews from owners used to be pretty good. It retrieves webpages by putting them through a special gateway at the edge of the wireless net that slims webpages down before sending them to your pocket, and you can't really synchronise your contacts/data with your PC yet -- you can only back them up on a special server.

[susandennis]

Great info. Actually I don't even need synchronizing. But, I do need to check the all you can eat deal because I thought it included data charges. My current Sprint plan is all you can eat including data for $40. But it would sure be nice to have that keyboard and the web page striping. Typing in an email or even a wap url on a telephone keypad is just painful especially with the Sprint service dropping you every minute or so.