New Toy!
I’ve officially dumped AT&T (#ATT) and moved on to much greener pastures in the cell phone world. I picked up the new Palm Pre Plus which was on sale for $75. The phone absolutely rocks. Is much different than my iPhone, and has taken getting used to the “gesture” movements where you open, close and select various applications. I went with the wifi HotSpot package, which although expensive at $40 additional dollars per month (for 5gb of data transfer) should be the perfect solution for the times when we’re in tough to reach places. Prime reason is that we enjoy spending time at our sister’s house which is located in a remote area near Winter Park, CO. The place is a skiing/mountain biking/hiking mecca, but has the limits of a split phone line: maximum connection on a dial-up line is 26kbps. Unless you’re loading up google.com, it’s an absolute nightmare. The only option beyond that was Hughes satellite internet at $80/month which comes with severely limited upload speeds. The hotspot will alleviate that, but letting the phone act as a wifi hotspot for up to 5 devices thru Verizon’s 3G network. Bonus number one. I just took my “remote office” to another level.
I tested it out from our home in Denver, and it worked great – connected to the network on my MacBook Pro, and opened up the NY Times website – came up in a jiffy. Here’s to working from the park!
The camera is great – and comes with a flash as well. In addition, it has a built in video camera which takes pretty decent movies.
I was able to set both my Gmail and Godaddy IMAP email up without a hitch, and in fact this was much easier than it was on the iPhone.
All in all, I’m pretty happy to have made the switch. The phone is much easier to pocket since it’s shorter & more compact than the iphone. It’s easy to use, and has everything I need and then some – especially the wifi HotSpot app! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, AT&T. I’m not going to miss your horrific customer service and spotty network coverage one single bit.
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