No New Phone Today
Jul. 28th, 2007 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drewanJoe's been having problems with dropped calls while using his cell phone at home. He's had this phone for three to four years, so I think it's time for him to get a new one.
We went to the nearby AT&T Wireless store today (over at Southdale Mall). We walked around looking at all the different options, including the iPhone. We finally settled on a BlackJack, because the syncing features seemed really nice.
We started to ring up the BlackJack when we hit a snag. They wanted to confirm that we wanted the $39.99 data plan. Umm... no. We don't want to pay that much for data. I had previously asked a different sales guy there what the data plans cost, he said $39.99, but that there was also a $19.99 plan. So I told the cashier that I wanted the $19.99 plan. She told me that our only option was the $39.99 PDA plan.
After calling over another sales person (manager???), who told us again that our only option was the $39.99 PDA plan, which we also needed to get in order to get the $100 rebate on the phone (which we hadn't even noticed), we decided to not get a phone today.
That was really disappointing. I was so proud of Joe for choosing a more advance phone, but then AT&T slapped us with the heavy data plan charge. They have a $19.99 "smartphone" data plan. The BlackJack *is* a smartphone. But because it has a keyboard, they consider it a PDA and make us get the big PDA plan.
I don't have the pda plan on my 8525. I have an old Media Max bundled on my 8525, which I've carried over from an old non-pda phone. It works just fine, and I only pay $19.99 a month for it. I've never been charged extra.
And what really sucks is that there is an unlimited internet plan for the iPhone that only costs $19.99.
I think this is going to result in Joe just getting a basic phone.
His coworker Josh got an iPhone last month, so maybe he'll see what happened to Josh's old phone.
We went to the nearby AT&T Wireless store today (over at Southdale Mall). We walked around looking at all the different options, including the iPhone. We finally settled on a BlackJack, because the syncing features seemed really nice.
We started to ring up the BlackJack when we hit a snag. They wanted to confirm that we wanted the $39.99 data plan. Umm... no. We don't want to pay that much for data. I had previously asked a different sales guy there what the data plans cost, he said $39.99, but that there was also a $19.99 plan. So I told the cashier that I wanted the $19.99 plan. She told me that our only option was the $39.99 PDA plan.
After calling over another sales person (manager???), who told us again that our only option was the $39.99 PDA plan, which we also needed to get in order to get the $100 rebate on the phone (which we hadn't even noticed), we decided to not get a phone today.
That was really disappointing. I was so proud of Joe for choosing a more advance phone, but then AT&T slapped us with the heavy data plan charge. They have a $19.99 "smartphone" data plan. The BlackJack *is* a smartphone. But because it has a keyboard, they consider it a PDA and make us get the big PDA plan.
I don't have the pda plan on my 8525. I have an old Media Max bundled on my 8525, which I've carried over from an old non-pda phone. It works just fine, and I only pay $19.99 a month for it. I've never been charged extra.
And what really sucks is that there is an unlimited internet plan for the iPhone that only costs $19.99.
I think this is going to result in Joe just getting a basic phone.
His coworker Josh got an iPhone last month, so maybe he'll see what happened to Josh's old phone.
