New communications device en route.
Today on my lunch break I went ahead and ordered a Blackberry 8700g, refurbished, from T-Mobile. I’m going to need a phone of my own pretty soon, and my requirements were:
-QWERTY Keyboard
-TXT ability
-IMAP email support for multiple accounts
-MP3 ringtones
-Internet access
The 8700g does all of these. It is a 1.5 yr old model, but I don’t really care. I just need functionality. I like that I could get one of the refurbished ones. It was a lot cheaper, and I saved a phone from being tossed out. There is an incredible amount of waste from discarded cellphones already.
I went with T-Mobil because they have decent coverage everywhere. Their plan for Blackberry was $59.95 a month, and I get 1000 minutes and unlimited data (email, txt, internet), which I see as an ok deal.
A big reason for going with T-Mobil is that they do not participate in illegal data mining by the NSA, unlike ATT, SBC, Verizon, and BellSouth who all hopped into it 7 months before 9/11. I appreciate a company that believes in the due process of the law.