On Wed, 30 May 2007 06:31:52 -0700, Evan Platt
<evan@theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 28 May 2007 23:03:56 -0400, The Ghost of General Lee
><ghost@general.lee> wrote:
>
>>Certainly a viable option. I left VZW almost two years ago because of
>>their pathetic phone selection. Some may say the overriding concern
>>should be the network. While the network is important, for me its
>>usefulness would be lessened by using a phone I didn't like.
>
>I personally would rather have a phone with crippled features that
>works when and where I need it to, then a phone with nothing crippled
>that doesn't work.
>
>I always laugh when I sit there with my phone able to make a call, and
>someone next to me has their Cingular phone going "Crap! No signal."

The funny thing, Evan, is I got the phone I wanted (KX440/444) with a
decent network (Alltel), and wasn't forced to purchase their PTT
service to get the phone, as I would have been with VZW. It wasn't an
issue of crippled features for me. It was purely phone selection. I
will NOT EVER use a flip phone, and VZW has increasingly become the
flip phone king. One of their salemen told me that "98% of their
users prefer flip phones." I told him that was an easy claim to make
when basically all they sell is flip phones. None of my friends who
have had flippers liked them. They've all gone back to candy bars.