Originally Posted by SuperGreg

I WAS on the fence and starting to lean towards buying one on Friday until I learned the following:

1) You cannot take a picture and immediately send it with a text message. This is a BIG deal killer for me. What's the point in having a 2MP camera then? Most of my friends that I would have to "e-mail" the picture to, don't have access to e-mail on their phones.

Originally Posted by SuperGreg

3) You only get 200 text messages with their bundle plans.

Originally Posted by SuperGreg

- Verizon is still the #1 carrier in the PHX market, which means that I will not be able to take advantage of the free mobile to mobile minutes for ALL of my local calls. This is very important to me since I recently got rid of my land line, and am now 100% cell phone.

Originally Posted by PersonaNonGrata

I was never in the early adopter camp for the iPhone and after reading all of the serious limitations I am even more convinced that it would be foolish to separate myself from $500 for one. What a bunch of mistakes! :tsk: Perhaps they will have it all sorted by 4th Gen. :dunno:

This might be a nice alternative if they bring it over to NA. Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile, and perhaps most importantly Verizon all have HTC products now so we can hope they bring this in too. It looks pretty cool and does the things the iPhone doesn't.

HTC Touch

Originally Posted by Eric5273

Just so you know, all carriers have email address gateways for their phones.

For example, if you send an email with a picture attachment to [email protected], it will be received as a picture message.

For Verizon, it is [email protected]

That is actually the best way to send a picture message to someone overseas because you don't get charged. Here is a complete list:

http://www.hiptools.net/sms/





Verizon doesn't give any text messages with their data plans. On the iphone plans, you can increase your text message bucket to 1500 messages for an extra $10 per month and to unlimited messages for an extra $20 per month.






I'm not sure when you make most of your calls, but I faced this same exact issue when I changed to Cingular a couple of years ago. Most people in the NYC area still use Verizon and most of my friends and family are still on Verizon.

However......I don't use my phone much at all when I'm at work, and I don't get off from work until 6pm at earliest. Cingular offers 7pm nights for an extra $9/month. They also offer rollover minutes with all of their plans. I find that most of my use of "anytime minutes" was between 7pm and 9pm. So now with that added to their minimum $40 voice plan, I only use around 200 anytime minutes per month. And I talk on the phone A LOT. Still, I have accumulated about 3800 rollover minutes, so if I want to go crazy one month and talk all day long, it won't cost me a dime.

And I also don't have a landline anymore. I got rid of mine about 3 years ago.

Originally Posted by PersonaNonGrata

I was never in the early adopter camp for the iPhone and after reading all of the serious limitations I am even more convinced that it would be foolish to separate myself from $500 for one. What a bunch of mistakes! :tsk: Perhaps they will have it all sorted by 4th Gen. :dunno:

This might be a nice alternative if they bring it over to NA. Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile, and perhaps most importantly Verizon all have HTC products now so we can hope they bring this in too. It looks pretty cool and does the things the iPhone doesn't.

HTC Touch

Originally Posted by SuperGreg

Damn, I want THAT phone!!! The ladies will love it too since you can use a finger or a stylus (read fingernails).

Originally Posted by SuperGreg

Damn, I want THAT phone!!! The ladies will love it too since you can use a finger or a stylus (read fingernails).