{"id":106,"date":"2008-01-12T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegobutton.net\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2011-07-01T20:15:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T00:15:22","slug":"i-have-left-verizon-and-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/i-have-left-verizon-and-palm\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Left Verizon and Palm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/att_tilt_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/att_tilt_large-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"att_tilt_large\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3456\" srcset=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/att_tilt_large-300x243.jpg 300w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/att_tilt_large.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One thing I haven&#8217;t mentioned because of all the time I spent working and blogging about <i>Frankenstein<\/i>, is that I have had a major shift in my telecommunications life.<\/p>\n<p>To recap:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have been a Palm user since 2000 (my first Palm phone was the Treo 650 in 2005)<\/li>\n<li>I had AT&#038;T from 1997-2003 and HATED it &#8212; couldn&#8217;t make calls indoors<\/li>\n<li>I switched to Verizon and despite hating their policy of crippling all the good features out of their phones, their reception is pretty much perfect in NYC.<\/li>\n<li>I am a Mac user and as such am opposed to Windows Mobile for both philosophical and logistical reasons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then this happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As I excitedly <a href=\"http:\/\/thegobutton.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/treo-755p-released-for-sprint.html\">blogged<\/a> in May, Palm released the Treo 755p for Sprint.  My Treo 650 at that time was dying.<\/li>\n<li>Verizon was rumored to be releasing it in July, then it failed testing<\/li>\n<li>I bought a 700p and extended my contract because I seriously needed a new phone<\/li>\n<li>I was one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/thegobutton.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/i-am-chosen-one.html\">first people<\/a> to get the maintenance release for the 700p that supposedly fixed it.  This blog made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/news\/8907\/verizon-treo-700p-update-available-in-some-locations\/\">PalmInfocenter<\/a>, which I thought was the coolest thing in the world, despite being labled a &#8220;he.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The Maintenance release turns out to have some horrible bugs, and a relatively minor one which causes the phone to randomly make audible DTMF tones even when silenced.<\/li>\n<li>After way too much time they release another fix which still doesn&#8217;t fix the DTMF bug (which I was able to notice within 30 seconds of buying the phone).  It turns out the 755p also has the bug.<\/li>\n<li>At this point I give up on Palm OS.<\/li>\n<li>Months go by, the 755p continues to not be released, and the 700p continues to be buggy.<\/li>\n<li>Palm announces that their next generation OS is at least 12-18 months away.<\/li>\n<li>Verizon is rumored to be soon releasing the HTC XV-6800, known as the Mogul on Sprint.  This is a Windows Mobile 6 device.  By now (September) I&#8217;ve decided to turn to the dark side for multitasking and a modern OS.  Meanwhile AT&#038;T is about to release the Tilt (aka HTC Kaiser), which is the next generation version of the 6800.<\/li>\n<li>The 6800 fails testing.  AT&#038;T announces the Tilt release for October 5.<\/li>\n<li>October 5, I call all over town before I find an AT&#038;T store with one in stock and jump in a cab on my lunch break.<\/li>\n<li>I try out the Tilt for a month and decide to keep it and cancel my Verizon account, with 20 months left in my contract.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So my AT&#038;T experience has been quite good.  Reception is definitely not as good as Verizon&#8217;s, but it&#8217;s the difference between being able to make a call from the basement of a basement behind a cinderblock wall or not.  My usage has shifted a lot in the last few years, too.  I use my phone far more for data than for voice, and I find AT&#038;T&#8217;s 3G and HSDPA networks to be very fast.  Overall my Tilt accesses the internet much faster than my Treo, which is probably more to do with the phone&#8217;s hardware and software than the network, but the important thing is that it&#8217;s faster.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be posting more details about this whole experience in the future, specifically from the perspective of someone moving from Palm OS to Windows Mobile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I haven&#8217;t mentioned because of all the time I spent working and blogging about Frankenstein, is that I have had a major shift in my telecommunications life. 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