[SBE] T-Mobile

[John Merrill]

So Tom what is your suggestion?

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Thomas Shanks <tshanks at gatech.edu> wrote:


> T-Mobile has never done that to me when I ran out of minutes while

> overseas.  However, they did fail to receive a phone I sent back in on

> a warranty swap once, then tried to stick me with $400 in charges for

> a $100 phone.  I found the contact info for the head of the customer

> service department after nearly two months of arguing, and she finally

> worked it out.

>

> T-Mobile offers a Blackberry International plan which provides

> unlimited data usage worldwide for an additional $20/mo.  They will

> even turn it on the day you leave and off the day you return.  The

> locals will envy you in far-away places, as they are paying by the

> megabyte.

>

> The G1 is fragile.  Blackberry users will be sorely disappointed when

> the screen gets loose and stops recognizing touches after a few weeks

> of Blackberry-type use.  Unfortunately, the new Android phone is also

> a touch screen, so we will have to wait longer before replacing our

> Blackberries with something that offers contact and calendar sync to

> people without an Exchange Server.

>

> Don't use Blackberry Google Sync, though.  It ate all my contacts just

> last week.  My backup didn't include the 100 new ones I had just

> entered the prior week, either.  All in all, Blackberry has become an

> antiquated platform in the days of desktop web browsers and fast,

> threading email clients in your pocket.

>

>

> Thomas Shanks

> Chief Engineer

> WREK Atlanta, Georgia Tech Student Radio

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