For the last 6 months I have been carrying two phones, a Razor and a Curve. Starting tomorrow I will only have one. Problem is now I have to decide if I want a Smartphone or not. I ended up with two phones back in January when I changed companies and for various reasons I choose to keep the number I had been using for business for the last 7 years as my personal phone/number and opted for the Motorola razor and got the Blackberry Curve for business. I am going to get rid of the new business number and only have my personal number so now do I upgrade my plan/phone to a Smartphone or not?
Reasons for NOT upgrading:
- I won’t be connected to work 24/7.
- When I am away from my laptop I would be away from email.
- The plan cost less
Reasons TO upgrade:
- I can send and receive emails on my phone
- I can get lots of work done without needing to drag the laptop out
- I would have access to blogs and twitter without a laptop (I currently don’t have any twitter updates come to my phone, I review them online through my Smartphone or via twhirl)
- I have had a Smartphone for almost 3 years.
They fact that I am even debating this question with myself is pretty interesting, have I become that much of a geek or is it just that I have adapted to the current culture and times?
I still don’t know which way I am going to go, any thoughts or opinions?
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5 comments:
I vote smart phone! You can always turn it off if you want to be unconnected, but you can never turn email on with any other phone!
Set some guidelines like... when i get home i will shut off the internet capabilities to my phone so I don't receive emails. Something like that.
P Travis:
thanks for the comment. So how is that working for you?
Honestly it is scary to even think of not having one. Crackberry?
I vote smart phone too. I think you'll be lost without it since you've had it. I have a feeling that I'll be getting internet access to my phone within the next 6mo. to a yr. It's just a little spendy, so that's why I'm waiting.
Lani:
I understand the spendy part, part of the change is that I will need to pay at least part of the monthly payment. a big consideration.
Ok, so I checked out what it would take me to upgrade last night. Because I have only been on this plan since the end of January the monthly extra isn't much, but it would cost about $400 for a new phone. May have to think about that just a little longer.
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