1272: Can You Hear Me Now?

[sex_n_diamonds]

Micah's got a sexy voice. Phone sex with him must be fun

[marina]

I said no, I seriously doubt he would date me either.

He seems like a cool guy, I would be friends with him, and if we were friends I would probably try to hook him up with other more compatible friends of mine.

[lizsquiz]

I didn't hear the show yet so I don't know quite what I'm getting myself into but I would absolutely date Micah Sherman, I'll be in New York for the next five days.

[fluxquanta]

I always find it interesting when people talk about wet dreams because I've never had them. Maybe that's because I've been jerkin' it since I was 10, I don't know.

[picard102]

Never had a wet dream either. Anytime I'm about to cum in my dreams I wake up. Very frustrating to say the least.
Have always wondered if dream orgasms would be different somehow, maybe better.

[Leentron3030]

T-Mobile represent!!!

I know, nerdy, but whatever.

[fluxquanta]

Originally Posted by Leentron3030

T-Mobile represent!!!

I have Sprint. I love how everyone always gives them shit, although of the three cell providers I've had, they've been the best. Lower prices than Verizon and AT&T, but I can roam to the Verizon network for free, since it uses the same technology and Sprint doesn't charge extra for (voice) roaming.

[DWarrior]

Originally Posted by fluxquanta

I have Sprint. I love how everyone always gives them shit, although of the three cell providers I've had, they've been the best. Lower prices than Verizon and AT&T, but I can roam to the Verizon network for free, since it uses the same technology and Sprint doesn't charge extra for (voice) roaming.

Yeah, Sprint is pretty good. I haven't used any other provider though (had Sprint for 6 years now), but I've been happy with all their stuff. I originally got it because they had one of the lowest plan prices, but now I have internet access and pay much more than I'd like to pay for a cellphone. It's so weird to hear all these stories on KATG about AT&T service, I've never had anything remotely close to the problems they've described. Dropped calls? Only if I enter a tunnel.

[fluxquanta]

Originally Posted by DWarrior

It's so weird to hear all these stories on KATG about AT&T service, I've never had anything remotely close to the problems they've described. Dropped calls? Only if I enter a tunnel.

My first phone that I paid the bill for (as opposed to my parents) was an AT&T Blackberry that I bought when the iPhone 3G first came out (I remember, because everyone in the store wanted one).

I was away from home using a phone on my dad's plan with a tiny carrier from the middle of nowhere (that has since been absorbed by AT&T, I believe). Anyway, while I was away I was racking up roaming charges, and when my dad got pissed I told him I'd just get my own phone. So I go to the AT&T store and sign up for a Blackberry 8820, which has WiFi but NOT 3G. I knew this going into it, and I didn't think it would be a problem, because I was coming from a Nokia shit box with no internet anyway.

I go into the store, sign up for an account and ask, "Can I transfer my number over from my dad's service to this one?" They say sure, and they "try" while I'm standing there for over an hour. One of the things they said they'd do was set me up with a temporary number local to the store (not my home area code), and then transfer my old number over. They tried this, it failed, so then they offered me a new number in my home area code, and I took that. More on this later.

At the same time they convinced me that it would be a good idea to sign up for "their most basic data and texting plans". I asked how much they said it would be, and they said "about $80/month", which I agreed to. First bill came around and it was almost $95, and apparently their "most basic data plan" is the 3G plan, and I couldn't even access 3G speeds with that phone, but by this point I was already hooked on the internet over the phone, so they "got me".

Now everything's going fine with the Blackberry until I start getting bills in the mail for an AT&T account that's overdue. I call them and explain that I've paid my bill every month and on time, but they say I didn't. I look closer and see that the bill I'm not paying consists only of a $35 "activation fee" for the "temporary" line the AT&T store setup when I first tried getting the phone. After the call I thought I had this resolved, but apparently they sent it to a collection agency.

It took a year and a half and dozens of calls to clear it up, and as soon as I did, I dropped the phone, paid the early contract termination fee, and transferred my number to Sprint and a new Palm Pre a year ago last month. Since then I have had zero problems with a phone and plan with WAY more features, and a bill that's $20/month less.

[DWarrior]

Damn, that sounds like a nightmare.

I got Sprint because I had just moved out of my parents' house (~2005) and didn't own a cell before, and they had the cheapest "brand name" plan going, $24.99/mo for phone and no texting. I figured I'll need to make calls from somewhere, so I went with that. First bill I got was $30 because they automatically included $5 for unlimited texts. I got pretty pissed because I was almost broke, and I had heard a lot about the "hidden charges" cellphone companies were springing on the unsuspecting customers, so I called customer service expecting some weird phone-fight (after hearing the KATG stories, I think they were in their "fuuuuuuck yoouuuuu" phase) and when I told the customer service lady what happened, she just said "oh, I see you didn't use that, so let me take that off for you, and you won't be billed for it from now on" and I wasn't billed for it next month, I was so amazed.

Of course, a couple of years later I got a Palm Treo with WiFi (since I didn't want to pay for cell internet), but I got so frustrated trying to find unprotected networks all the time that I eventually caved and upgraded my plan to the 3G internet. Then I got the original Palm Pre and can't envision my life without internet-enabled cellphone ever again.

My only problems are with the Pre itself. It's made of plastic, so it's starting to crack around the edges, but I've had it for almost 1.5 years now so I probably should upgrade soon anyway. My other beef is no way to download arbitrary file extensions to the pre, which I was used to coming from WM5 OS (this problem only manifests when I'm out somewhere and want to listen to the latest KATG, but the only way I can do that is to stream it, which means if I want to re-listen later I'll have to stream it again), but other than that I think it's a kickass phone. Oh and the PDF support is a bit shoddy (can't rotate it, and if you turn your phone off for a bit, you can't zoom in the PDF without restarting the app).

But my old landlord had the iPhone and he had to go in to the apple store several times because his phone would lock after software updates, and he'd regularly lose all his data. It seems that Palm phones don't compare if you actually want to use your phone for anything besides the brand recognition.