New cell phone time

[B-O-B'03]

So, AT&T tells me they no longer will be supporting my 2004 vintage Nokia 6820 (which was a pretty high end phone at the time) after May 15th.

I think it is more that they don't want to support my old AT&T - pre-Cingular plan any more.

So I have choices for carrier and phone.

I really don't want a smart phone, I just need something comparable to what I have now, I like the fact that it only needs charging once a week and it works well, as a phone.

What is out there and which service providers?

Thanks,

-Brian

 

[Silver2003Cobra]

good luck.. I just upgraded to the motorla Atrix, nice computer/smart phone but WOW does it go through the battery..

 

[tnuce10]

My new Palm Pre 2 JUST arrived from FedEx, loved the first one so I'm going with the next one from Verizon

 

[346CamaroSS]

black berry....

My old palm pre sucked

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

if you're planning on going to verizon, here's a feature phone which may work for you:

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has a qwerty keyboard like the 6820 and i don't think makes you get a smart phone data plan to use it. there are others, that's just off the top of my head.

 

[lobra97]

+1 on blackberry i love mine

 

[zerocool]

good luck.. I just upgraded to the motorla Atrix, nice computer/smart phone but WOW does it go through the battery..

Send it back, they seem to have a bad batch that do. On a whole it seems the Atrix might have the best battery life of any of the high end Android phones out right now.

 

[65x2]

good luck.. I just upgraded to the motorla Atrix, nice computer/smart phone but WOW does it go through the battery..

That it does... my charger goes with me everywhere! Great phone though.

 

[jpro]

So, AT&T tells me they no longer will be supporting my 2004 vintage Nokia 6820 (which was a pretty high end phone at the time) after May 15th.

I think it is more that they don't want to support my old AT&T - pre-Cingular plan any more.

So I have choices for carrier and phone.

I really don't want a smart phone, I just need something comparable to what I have now, I like the fact that it only needs charging once a week and it works well, as a phone.

What is out there and which service providers?

Thanks,

-Brian

I recently got the HTC Inspire...love it, but if you don't want a smart phone, there is very little out there for you to choose from.

I think it is odd ATT won't grandfather in your current plan. I've had my Cingular plan since 2003 and I've gone thru many phones but I still have my original plan. So they're not supporting your phone, but that shouldn't effect the plan.

 

[FordMustangLove]

get a prepaid and switch your sim

 

[slowr w/o blowr]

I'd recommend taking a look at the Walmart straight talk plan. They are using Verizon towers, and while they don't have the "newest" type phones, its hard to beat 25 bucks a month-- 1000minutes, 1000 texts and 200mb download on internet.

 

[wvmystichrome]

^^^^ This! My buddy has one and he goes all over with it and never seems to have a problem. Thats the way I need to go in a year or so.

OP Good luck. I was in the exact same boat around here about 4 years ago and that was why I went to Verizon. AT&T sucks around here very bad. I have an older Nokia phone I keep for when I am travelling out of the normal cell coverage. It picks up great and all. Verizon hounds me constantly trying to get me to give it up, just as AT&T did. But nope and hopefully they don't force me to.

 

[CobraBob]

I'd recommend taking a look at the Walmart straight talk plan. They are using Verizon towers, and while they don't have the "newest" type phones, its hard to beat 25 bucks a month-- 1000minutes, 1000 texts and 200mb download on internet.

Wow, that IS a great deal for those who don't want a smart phone. Definitely worth looking into.

 

[B-O-B'03]

I recently got the HTC Inspire...love it, but if you don't want a smart phone, there is very little out there for you to choose from.

I think it is odd ATT won't grandfather in your current plan. I've had my Cingular plan since 2003 and I've gone thru many phones but I still have my original plan. So they're not supporting your phone, but that shouldn't effect the plan.

I think the problem is the fact that I am on the old AT&T plan, before the Cingular merger. When they merged, they went to Cingular and dropped AT&T.

Thanks for the suggestions all... I just might get dragged ito the 21st century, kicking and screaming :shrug:

I wonder if I could just take what ever POS cheapie AT&T gives me, get my 6820 unlocked and put the sim card the new phone comes with in it?

The phone is a tri-band GSM.

-Brian

 

[B-O-B'03]

I'd recommend taking a look at the Walmart straight talk plan. They are using Verizon towers, and while they don't have the "newest" type phones, its hard to beat 25 bucks a month-- 1000minutes, 1000 texts and 200mb download on internet.

Damn, should have read all of the posts and used multi-quote :bash:

I think Verizon and Sprint are both CDMA and I am not sure how well that works outside of the USA? otherwise straight talk sounds pretty good, might have to find out more, thanks!

-Brian

 

[thomas91169]

I wonder if I could just take what ever POS cheapie AT&T gives me, get my 6820 unlocked and put the sim card the new phone comes with in it?

The phone is a tri-band GSM.

-Brian

Try it :shrug:

 

[chevysRslow]

Was also thinking motorola atrix for my next phone.

How bad is the battery life??

 

[zerocool]

Was also thinking motorola atrix for my next phone.

How bad is the battery life??

As I said, it looks like there may have been a bad batch of batteries sent out because some people are getting terrible (like 4 to 5 hours with minimal use) while others are getting 24-40 with heavy use. Even though aOS isn't fully optimized to run on dual cores yet, it seems that the dual core design is already saving battery.

 

[VirtualSVT]

What color is your SIM?

Is it a AT&T WIRELESS SIM?

Did they refer to your plan as a blue plan?

 

[VirtualSVT]

Oh no advanced phone will go a week between charges.

Even dumb phones don't do it anymore. Any 3G voice/data phone will eat batteries.