Nick Rogers got a cell phone the other day. He apparantly broke the antennae off his old phone, rendering it useless. Now, both of us got our phones at the same time, two years ago. So, naturally, since my Verizon contract is up (man, it’s been two years already?), I started thinking about getting a new phone. Nick got the Motorola V551, which is a nice phone. Looking through all the features I started contemplating getting a new one.
Some background. When I bought my Samsung a310, it was one of the more top of the line phones. I laid down some serious change for it. Three months later, color screens dropped like a rock in price, camera phones and downloadable/changable ringers became the norm. I then realized that spending that much money on a phone was rediculous. Never will I spend that much money on a phone. Now, the V551 is only $100 after MIR, which isn’t too bad.
However, when Nick and I actually went to the Cingular store, I started questioning purchasing it. I then asked about the 1000 minutes deal for $39.99, but I was told it expired on the 15th. The deal is getting less and less a better deal. The saleslady then told me that the current $39.99 deal was 450 minutes. Now, this is 150 minutes more than what I currently get with Verizon, plus I’d get Rollover minutes, but I never even come close to 300 minutes as it is. Plus, I’m not dissatisfied with Verizon. Arg
Well, I ended up passing on the deal. I mean, I don’t use half the features on my current phone, and it works. Granted, it doesn’t have all the new features, nor is it a GSM phone, but I really can’t justify spending $100 MIR for stuff that I’ll probably never use and then only getting an additional 150 minutes.
I’m so proud of myself, showing some constraint over this. Maybe sometime soon I’ll feel the need to upgrade.
your restraint was probably well enforced.
I have a GSM phone with t-mobile and my
reception is really spotty. verizon is
kind of expensive right now though.
Hey Ross, I saw you posted over on Colleen’s blog, so I knew you were lurking ;-)
Anyways, Nick hasn’t had any problems with Cingular and his GSM, at least not around here. Maybe it’s because of the AT&T merger, you know, they have 4 bars everywhere! With Verizon, you don’t get many of the perks (rollover, no roaming, etc), but I’m gonna spend no more than $40 per month for any plan no matter what, and as I mentioned in the post, Verizon works for me right now so I have no dire reason to switch.
aaron, are you getting the state employee discount with verizon? we get something like 15-20% off our monthly bill. if not, i think this is the current site:
http://business.verizonwireless.com/b2b/jsp/home.jsp?sectionDataName=NAV
That link doesn’t work, and even still, I’d be saving a max of $10. That’s not going to make up for roaming, rollover, and, potentially, 3 times my minutes (if I get in on a 1000 anytime minute plan).
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