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 Originally Posted by godschoice
Sprint with the patch is the best solution for the Treo 650 today.
To my mind you just gotta shop for what's best for you. Most important is the reception in your local area. Nobody has a better deal if you don't have good service in the area. The other thing is plans are changing every day.
Last week ya got 50 more minutes per month w/ Cingular (850) than ya did with Sprint (800) for the same price. This week Sprint is $4.95 cheaper for 1100 minutes. At 2000 minutes, Cingular is a buck cheaper. I didn't go into all the deatils but Cingular has no roaming charge (Sprint does) on those plans; it's 40 cents (sprint) vs 35 / 25 cents on Cingular) .
2nd is who ya callin and what they are on .... On the surface, free M2M with 50 million phone users gives AT&Tingular a bit of a lead but again, if the most of the people you call are on a different plan that don't mean nuthin. And sprint doesn't say anything anymore on the site about free mobile to mobile, cingular still does.....doesn't mean ya don't get it, they just ain't pushin the fact....maybe ya do....maybe ya don't
As for data, again you have to look at your usage. I'm spending $4 a month so far after 2 months on the pay as you go plan. So whether it's $10 or $90 doesn't mean beans to me. If you are a "chatterer"...sending 100 or more short text messages / e-mails a day, the unlimted plan on Sprint is great for you. If you want to stream internet audio or if you ahve a lotta spare time and just like to surf the web on a 2" screen, again, Sprint data is the deal.
But if you need to use a Treo to get large files, quickly, then Sprint starts to look less attractive. Data speeds are comparable in small chunks due to EDGE latency but big files come down 2 - 3 times as fast. I won't do more than 10 - 20 word e-mails on the Treo ....when I gotta send a page and a half or send a large file, I walk upstairs from the lobby to my hotel room if need be and fire up the laptop. I can be much more productive multitasking with a full keyboard on a 17" laptop than single tasking and thumb typing on a Treo.
Verizon's plan at 1,100 Kbps is $45, Cingular's at 220 kbps is $25 and Sprint's at 80 kbps is $15. Again, latency may eat up a lot of that speed on Cingular for short messages and if that's your usage, no reason to spend the $10 each month. But if you have to grab a bunch of big files each day, the guy with the faster conenction is gonna get a few minutes jump on the guy with the slower one. Each user must decide if that's worth the $10 a month.
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