I was on Verizon for several years. Pretty much from the time I graduated high school until a year and a half ago when I switched to get the iPhone on AT&T. I had really good cell service on verizon, but they're charges and customer service in general were really bad. Bad enough that I left mid-contract to go to AT&T where my bill was only $10 more for the iPhone than it was on Verizon with a crappy featurephone. I would really like better 3G service from AT&T but as a whole my experience has been so much better with AT&T than Verizon. Verizon loves to load all sorts of crapware on their featurephones and then lock them down so you can't even put mp3's on them from you PC.
Yeah, I was just speaking of featurephones like the krazr and the razr and the env2 I had when I was with them. They were all very handicapped when compared to the same models on other carriers.
Had they gotten the Droid sooner I would have stayed with Verizon, but I definitely don't regret my decision right now. Their rate plans and charges are ridiculous. Plus I get a 22% discount at AT&T through their premier program. I only saved 11% at Verizon through my workplace. Right now on AT&T i pay $74 after all fees and taxes for 450 minutes, rollover minutes, 200 texts, unlimited data (and I do mean unlimited, two months ago when I was still tethering I used 9.5 GB in one billing cycle), and free nights and weekends. I don't think I could get a plan with the same stuff for that cheap at Verizon.
I was on AT&T for several years. Pretty much from the time I graduated high school until a year and a half ago when I switched to get the Droid on Verizon. I had really good cell service on AT&T, but they're [sic] charges and customer service in general were really bad. Bad enough that I left mid-contract to go to Verizon where my bill was only $10 more for the Droid than it was on AT&T with a crappy featurephone. I would really like better 3G service from Verizon but as a whole my experience has been so much better with Verizon than AT&T. AT&T loves to load all sorts of crapware on their Android phones and then lock them down so you can't even put mp3's on them from you [sic] PC.
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I was on Verizon for several years. Pretty much from the time I graduated high school until a year and a half ago when I switched to get the iPhone on AT&T. I had really good cell service on verizon, but they're charges and customer service in general were really bad. Bad enough that I left mid-contract to go to AT&T where my bill was only $10 more for the iPhone than it was on Verizon with a crappy featurephone. I would really like better 3G service from AT&T but as a whole my experience has been so much better with AT&T than Verizon. Verizon loves to load all sorts of crapware on their featurephones and then lock them down so you can't even put mp3's on them from you PC.
@purfikt
they stopped that practice about 1.5 years ago...GPS,WiFi are now unlocked...
@purfikt yeah. I got a lot more freedom on my Droid. Plus I ditched my iPod and loaded my music right on my phone.
@purfikt
Yeah, I was just speaking of featurephones like the krazr and the razr and the env2 I had when I was with them. They were all very handicapped when compared to the same models on other carriers.
Had they gotten the Droid sooner I would have stayed with Verizon, but I definitely don't regret my decision right now. Their rate plans and charges are ridiculous. Plus I get a 22% discount at AT&T through their premier program. I only saved 11% at Verizon through my workplace. Right now on AT&T i pay $74 after all fees and taxes for 450 minutes, rollover minutes, 200 texts, unlimited data (and I do mean unlimited, two months ago when I was still tethering I used 9.5 GB in one billing cycle), and free nights and weekends. I don't think I could get a plan with the same stuff for that cheap at Verizon.
@purfikt
I was on AT&T for several years. Pretty much from the time I graduated high school until a year and a half ago when I switched to get the Droid on Verizon. I had really good cell service on AT&T, but they're [sic] charges and customer service in general were really bad. Bad enough that I left mid-contract to go to Verizon where my bill was only $10 more for the Droid than it was on AT&T with a crappy featurephone. I would really like better 3G service from Verizon but as a whole my experience has been so much better with Verizon than AT&T. AT&T loves to load all sorts of crapware on their Android phones and then lock them down so you can't even put mp3's on them from you [sic] PC.
@sonicyoof
Wow, it's hard to even imagine the snarky-ness with which you fashioned that reply. It's too bad you can't troll blogs with FaceTime yet.