That's the only reason that I don't currently have a smart-phone.
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That's the only reason that I don't currently have a smart-phone.
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They are totally worth the extra $$. I would be lost without my iPhone. We cancelled our home land line to offset the cost. We were paying $60 a month for home phone service when everyone just called our cells anyway.
severine
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That's why I said we'd cancel the landline if we got smartphones. Though our savings would only be about $40 on the landline, so it's still more money for both of us to have smartphones.
HD333
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+ 1 Totally worth it. I was a firm believer that these phones were not worth it. Now I would not have it any other way. Email, web, gps, music, sports updates, newspapers, etc...make it worth it IMHO.
Moto Droid by the way.
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I went the opposite direction. I'd been exclusively on cell phones for about 5 years. When I started telecommuting last September, I had to get a land line to get better voice quality for all the conference calls.
SkiDork
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I agree, cancelling the land line is the only way to go to higher cost cell service. Or maybe switching to VOIP and keeping my number which I've had for 20 years
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My wife got an iPhone when it first came out, and for almost 2 years I was against these types of phones. I finally got an iPhone when my contract was up and I also needed a new iPod, seemed like a no brained. Now I don't know what I would do without one.
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I love my IPhone
I'm sure they're worth it, and I definitely want one, it's just not in the budget right now with Carrie in school and 4 mouths to feed. Canceling the land line would help offset it a bit, but like Carrie pointed out it wouldn't cover the whole difference. We also have DSL, which needs to have the land line the last time I checked, I'm not really all that interested in switching providers right now...
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I have verizon DSL who was also our phone provider. It was not a problem canceling the phone portion of the service and keeping the DSL.
Geoff
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Beware: If you port your number to a VoIP service provider, it's often a real challenge trying to port it back out.
Looks like ATT offers that now too, but it costs more per month.
SkiDork
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I've actually already done that. I ported it to Packet8 about 5 years ago, the DSL was flaky at the time so after about a year I switched back to Verizon land line and got it ported back. Wasn't that difficult.
WJenness
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Ugh... if Verizon would just put the damn Droid X up on the site for Pre-order I'd do it already...
It seems they want me to go stand in line forever in a couple weeks.
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It seems they want me to go stand in line forever in a couple weeks.
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I had the same issue at first...but once we got the BB's..... I've had maps get me places, I not longer listen to broadcast radio, e-mail is really handy, I use Poynt to find things in cities I've never been too, weather, weather alerts...I could go on. Sounds cheezy, but I don't know how I lived without the darn thing.
Call up SNET....errrr, AT&T and see what they can do. I had called earlier this year to nix the land line and go DSL only. They offer a stand alone DSL package. it was actually cheaper to keep the phone (bare bones here...no long distance, no local just a basic dial tone) and have DSL than it was to have DSL only.
severine
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I have a GPS, I have the iPod Touch that I use wifi, B has Sirius... seems redundant to pay extra for things we already have.
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But the convenience of having everything in one device!
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Thats really what I love about smart phones...
One of my favorite things on my IPhone is the MLB app.. I got the premier app so I can watch games on the IPhone... Even works with a cell signal.
I've been in airports watching games with people looking over my shoulder..
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Randi picked up her iPhone 4G last night, it's pretty slick. I will probably get one In a month or two
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