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My New Blackberry 8900
This weekend I replaced my phone with this Blackberry Curve 8900 from T-Mobile. This phone while lacking 3G capability is very nice. I have been torn for sometime about whether I was going to change providers or stay with T-Mobile when my contract ran out. I think it was my son coming home to live with us that made up my mind because with four phones, the price can be very steep, especially if you have Internet capability. We have the 1800 minute family myFavs plan with each person being able to select five numbers where they can make or receive unlimited calling. Also we have unlimited mobile to mobile calling, and unlimited nights and weekends. We also have unlimited text messaging because after all, I do have teenagers. I cannot blame them because since I have Twitter, I get just as many texts as they do.
I considered switching to a new carrier but the cost of buying four new phones and the new, more expensive rate plans would have been just too expensive. Since we have been with T-Mobile since 2000, we have a good history to go on so we decided to stay. I have had flawless service in the last nine years with them so we decided to stay with them. When we signed up originally they were not even called T-Mobile but rather Voicestream.
It was going to be a toss up between this phone and the G1 but I finally decided on this one for one reason. I kept reading about how the G1’s battery life was very short. Secondly T-Mobile’s 3G rollout for Oklahoma City would not be until August. The 3G speeds were sure to make the battery run down even faster.
The phone that I settled on is this Blackberry and I love it. They may say that it has no 3G but the Internet is every bit as fast as my dad’s Iphone and my brother’s Blackberry through Alltel/Verizon. This phone also has Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) through wifi. The speeds are almost as fast on the mobile EDGE as it is on my home wifi making it very usable. The one thing that I love about this phone the most is the fact that I can be connected to Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, and Blackberry Messenger all at the same time. I have three different email accounts including my University of Oklahoma account. I have Twitterberry, and the Facebook for Blackberry installed and I can have all these programs running at the same time.
Of course yesterday was my first full day with this phone and with all the heavy usage on social networking sites and phone calls, the phone is still not dead. I charged the phone all day Friday and it is now Sunday. I am very pleased with its performance. I just love the message notification section where I can check any of those systems and respond to any of them from one spot. This is pretty amazing how smooth it works. It is almost as addicting as the computer itself. I just wanted to share how pleased I am with this new phone. Do not let the lack of 3G discourage you from this phone because it is quick enough to make it useful. I would definitely recommend this phone.