I have mentioned that I began using T-Mobile exclusively as my Mobile Phone service back in the end of November. Since then I canceled my old AT&T account. I still have a phone and account with Verizon sitting in a drawer. I used verizon before I went back to T-Mobile and I still have several months left on my contract. I have lowered the price plan I have but I have been slow to cancel the account. I wanted to be sure T-Mobile worked everywhere I went. It seems like it does, but now that I waited 2-3 months to cancel the Verizon account I am not sure if canceling is worth it.
In December I added up how much it would cost to keep the phone until the contract ran out, vs paying the $175 early cancelation fee. Back then it was cheaper to cancel the account, but I wasn’t ready to get rid of it at the time. I am known for changing cell phones allot, but I have never ever paid the cancelation fee. I don’t want to start now. Now it is March, I think it is cost effective to just keep the phone until the contract is up and then cancel it.
I bring all this up because I am trying to figure out what service I can use to solve a problem I have. I love my Treo 600, but it doesn’t have bluetooth. I want a bluetooth phone with internet access so I can use it to connect my laptop to check email and browse the web when out of the office or home. Right now I am on amtrak and am able to get my mail off the Treo, but it would be much better to download it right into my mail app (outlook 2003 for the PC, or Mail on the Mac). That way I could write real response to messages and not just the 1 line comments I can eak out on the Treo.
My options are to get another phone and service, or get another phone with bluetooth and swap the SIM card when I want to use it. I do not want to spend money on a new service. I can’t wait to get rid of my Verizon account as it is. FYI, verizon does not offer bluetooth phones and they have a really expensive data plan. The other option of swapping the SIM card can work, but it can get messy with all those small parts of the phone lying around while I am making the change.
The dilemma continues…