Comments on: Death Of The iPhone?

By: Gay

Gay — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:57:23 +0000

I had Cinguliar service when it was going strong. I built my anytime minutes up to 2000. Cinguliar sold out to AT&T. We were suppose to upgrade from an analog phone to the other. AT&T offered a free phoneso we took it. We bought so many daytime and anytime minutes.
They told us we could keep the phone for 30 days and if we didn’t like it then we could drop it. They said the contract would be in the mail.
Well, the contract came. They had us for 20 daytime minutes and a few anytime minutes on there and charged $40 for the free phone.
I got on the phome with an AT&T person and spent over 2 hours arguing with her. She tried to tell me that was not my contract and even got someomne else on telling me that. I said I can read and it says it is my contract. I said I ma not accepting this contract. She said you weren’t suppose to receive that now. I said oh then it was suppose to come in after my 30 days were up so I couldn’t do anything about this?
I told her I want dropped. She told me to wait till Monday. We argued about that contract. So I hung up. My hubby said he was not waiting till Monmday for them to cover their tracks. He took the phone to the local phone store and returned it and made them clear him with the contract. I sent the info to the Atty. General’s office for I didn’t want anyone else to have to go through this. That is why I do not have an AT&T phone service. I have a cheap over the counter phone and buy my minutes. It works really good.

By: Irisfleur

Irisfleur — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:37:05 +0000

That is exactly why I decided to get an iPod Touch and keep my current phone service with Verizon. I don’t have internet access on my phone. I don’t even text. I can use the iPod Touch wherever I can access free WiFi for internet functionality, such as email and a few apps that I use. I don’t even use it much as an MP3 player. I have a tiny Sandisk MP3 player with 8GB of memory and a 15 hr battery life.

By: Firesong

Firesong — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:44:55 +0000

I have to say around my part of Texas it really doesn’t matter who you are with the cell service stinks. I have AT&T and frankly I love my iphone. I wouldn’t trade it in. I do get frustrated with the lack of service. Some days I can talk inside the house others I have to go outside, but this isn’t just on my iphone, my daughter has a samsung solstice and my son and husband both have the LG VU. My sister is with sprint and my brother in law is with Alltell/Verizon. None of us get good service out here.
I think there are just things lacking in the service in general and as more people get on cells on a system that is already dragging I don’t expct any improvements soon.
Thank heavens for all that we do have!!

By: Kitty

Kitty — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:36:07 +0000

I guess, from these replies to the iphone, Droid thing, I am the only one who gets great, yes I said great, connections with my AT&T plain old flip phone. I always did think I was special. LOL

By: tech gadgets

tech gadgets — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:13:13 +0000

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By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:25:41 +0000

I agree with Chuck. As an “old-timer” for most WorldStart staff, i have no use for an iPod or a Droid. If the screen is at least 22″ diagonally, I can’t see what’s on it. Besides, when I’m traveling I don’t need anything more than the ability to make or receive voice calls. When at home, there are no cellphone companies that give sufficient service to use my cellphone, so I use my PC to communicate rather than pay a long-distance telephone bill. Employers who expect their employees to always be available for immediate contact are fools, bordering on being murders.

By: DJ

DJ — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:35:46 +0000

I have an Iphone and have traveled alot and seldom had a problem losing signals. I have had several carriers in past years and had more dead space and lost calls due to it. I like my iphone and will hang in there. I do agree that at&t needs to smarten up some. I will not change to anyother service.

By: Creakyjane

Creakyjane — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:57:22 +0000

Steve:

Thanks for the heads up on the AT & T coverage/iphone problems. We are now due to upgrade our Alltel/Verizon cell phones and we plan on staying with the service. Here in Michigan, some Alltel customers have been switched to the verizon cell towers but we are still connected with the Alltel cell towers. Something about they would have a monopoly on services in Michigan. We have traveled all over the USA and our coverage has been great. Other folks have had awful connection and dropped call problems where we have not. I hope AT & T get their act together soon. If not it will be one less cell phone company we will have to choose from. Somebody isn’t doing their job at AT & T. Thanks again and keep up the good work.

By: Eric Peterson

Eric Peterson — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:55:46 +0000

Steve, I’m glad someone else orher than myself have recognized what I have been saying for the last 2+yrs. I moved from Los Angeles, CA to the Dallas,TX area in 2007. In L.A. I had a Verizon phone for personal use and the company I worked for gave us Sprint phones. At the time I believed even Sprint was better than AT&T, althogh sometimes while I was out in the field I could not get a signal on my Sprint phone to call my dispatch. My faithful and trusty Verizon phone never let me down. Form the North Valley of L.A. county to the high deserts of San Diego County, I always had a Verizon signal.

Anyway, when I moved to the Dalls area in a job transfer, I still maintained both phones while my family that had live in the area for years said I should switch to AT&T because that’s what they had and we would all be on some friends and family plan or something.I resisted for awhile because the apartment I lived in was a dead-zone for Sprint and caused me nothing but headaches with my job. But alas, my Verizon bill was starting to get outrageous so I finally knuckled under and bought an iPhone. To this day I love my iPhone because of it’s functionability, apps, and ipod features. But the day I brought it home I found that my apartment was also a AT&T dead-zone. No calls in or out while I was at home. Imagine how pissed I was al my family for convincing me to switch from Verizon and at myself for doing it. Agian, I love my iPhone for it’s features, but I also have an iPod Touch that does all the same stuff except make phone calls.

But if I remember correctly, didn’t Apple sign some 5yr exclusive agreement with AT&T for rights to the iPhone back in 2006 before its introduction to the public. And if so, won’t said agreement be up next year. If that is the case, I would sincerely hope that Apple will come to it’s senses and offer the phone to other carriers, because if that happens I am definitely going back to Verizon at the end of my contract. Apple made a great product in the iPhone but a poor choice in carriers.

In the immortal words of Forrest Gump; “And that’s all I have to say about that!”

Eric

By: public adjuster

public adjuster — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:17:52 +0000

I still don’t understand the target group for this gadget. If you want something pocket sized without 3G – get an iPod Touch. If you want something more powerful and non pocketsized – get a netbook. What niche is this supposed to be filling?