Robert and I are having one of the most difficult decisions in the last almost 12 years. Letting go of our Blackberry's! It's amazing how much we are sold on the need to have the latest and greatest gadgets. I remember receiving one of the first colored Motorola basic handheld Cell phone. We were as excited as a when a child opens gifts on Christmas morning.
Then we went through the Razor (wow what a phone we thought) we went through Iphone's and though he like it, I thought it was a silly invention. I like a Qwery keyboard. I never got used to that touch screen crap.
So back to Blackberry's we went. Well, when I was working, the Blackberry is a great tool. It sync’s everything (home/work schedules contacts etc), keeps me in touch with the BB user community through IM. No longer do we use MSN, Yahoo or Google IM's.
We have wrestled trying to reduce the cost of having a cell phone and we are still at 150.00 month for two Blackberry’s. With times being so tough and putting money to good use we need to reduce the cell bill. And so this is going on at almost 3 month decision. It's become as difficult as letting our Bam Bam go!
Today we are looking at Straight Talk (ST) $45 monthly service phone/plan. That almost cuts our bill in half, but we have to give up our BB. ST runs on a Verizon network, so at least we will have great service. I guess the best way to look at this is, can we live with a cell phone that can txt (a must) take pictures (damm no flash), communicate (hardly done anyore), Blue Tooth (damm no wi-fi) and provide access to the web (why who knows).
When Rob and I analyzed the issue, we decided we would like the new cell to sync with outlook (just to be fancy), txt and share info with our community that instead of being in our neighborhood is on the web via facebook.
And so Straight Talk may be a fit! But I have 5 more days with a trial offer from Sprint on our BB. We will miss you BB (just to note that BB stands for Blackberry and Bam Bam! What a coincidence!
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