Comments on: AT&T Wireless: Can’t Quite Optimize, May Leave for T-Mobile

By: December 2008: Progress Update — Green Panda Treehouse

December 2008: Progress Update — Green Panda Treehouse — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:55:52 +0000

[...] AT&T Wireless: Can’t Quite Optimize, May Leave for T-Mobile [...]

By: Green Panda

Green Panda — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:12:38 +0000

You left a comment after I went to bed?! LOL, I love you!

By: Blue Panda

Blue Panda — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:57:22 +0000

I should mention that the 8% discount is because of a deal with AT&T and the company I work for and not my suave negotiating ability with sales reps.

As for iPhone vs Android, I’m disappointed with the lock-in with the iPhone and the hit-or-miss developer support (e.g., developers having apps they worked hard on rejected for reasons they couldn’t have known about when they started). Android looks like a much more enticing platform to develop applications for, from my perspective. But most end-users probably don’t care about that right now.

Anyway, the AT&T rep said that the company is “in talks” with other companies about Android phones. My guess is that they will get Android phones eventually, but I’m not sure if I want to wait however long it’s going to be.

Maybe another mobile carrier will pick up the Android platform. However, it looks like Verizon is going to pick up Alltel (the FCC just approved it) and I left Verizon for a reason, so that leaves.. um.. Sprint? On the other hand, Verizon will have to honor the “open access” clause of the spectrum it bought last year, which may be useful once more Android phones come out.

But I ramble. Basically, I want to wait and see, but I don’t want to wait, y’know?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:29:36 +0000

I have the iPhone as well. When reading the cell phone post I looked at my plan (again) but I actually cut expenses on my cell plan about a month ago when AT&T screwed up my bill by not putting the iphone data plan on my iphone!!! It doubled my cell phone bill!! I thought about T-Mobile (before the iphone) because I think you can use your phone in a WiFi and not use min! I thought that was WAY cool and it would cut down on the number of mins used. At least for me because I have wiFi in my home and at work. Check out Joes last blog post..Poem

By: Green Panda

Green Panda — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:48:15 +0000

Thanks Lee for your feedback on T-Mobile and AT&T. Our reception in NC by our apt hasn’t been great and we were looking at T-Mobile. Guess we might use Skype for making calls in the apt.