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September 23, 2009
Full Circle
I went tonight and got another RAZR, so I've gone back full circle. When my RAZR died, I bought a Palm Pre on Sprint, an iPhone 3Gs on AT&T, and then a Blackberry on Verizon. I despised the Blackberry. Easily the worst of the 3 new phones. I'd say that the Palm Pre was the best of the 3, with the iPhone a close second. But I'm going back to the RAZR because I really don't want to send emails with my cell phone, and I really don't want to surf the internet on my cell phone. It would be nice if I could use the phones as a tethered modem, but none of them are currently set up to do that. Possibly, if I cracked the iPhone, it might work, but the iPhone has a lot of issues.
So, I bought a Verizon RAZR 3m from a guy in a parking lot, I kid you not. He met me at the Verizon store because he wasn't sure if the phone's ESN was good or not. I wasn't clear what he meant by this, but the ESN is the Electronic Serial Number, or something like this. So, if you try to activate the phone, and if it's been reported stolen, they won't activate it. And, sure enough, he had 3 phones, and the first one was on the super-secret lost-or-stolen ESN list and they wouldn't activate it. So, the 2nd one, which was pink, worked fine. So, I now have a pink Verizon RAZR 3m. Hold the applause.
The beauty of the RAZR is that it's nearly indestructible and it's cheap. So I can't surf the internet with it or send emails with it. Big deal. As I see it, that means I can't send emails from meetings and from the bathroom. I'm ok with that. The win is that I can take it with me when I'm using the chainsaw out back without being worried about scratching it. So when the tree falls on me, I can dial 911.
Posted by Rob Kiser on September 23, 2009 at 9:40 PM
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Posted by: Robert on May 2, 2011 at 6:26 AM