Choosing a new smartphone from Alltel, thoughts?

[InlineFive]

Hey folks,

I'm in the market for a new phone and currently have Alltel as a carrier. I'd like the ability to be able to check select email accounts so a smartphone sprang to mind. Currently I'm looking at the:

1. Blackberry 8130 Pearl
2. Blackberry 8330 Curve
3. Motorola Q 9c

The Palm option is allright but the platform hasn't impressed me terribly. And coworkers have the HTC products which have abysmal battery life.

Most of what I'd like is a good call quality, good reception and good sms/messaging/email support.

With that in mind, do you have any suggestions or thoughts?

Thanks,

I5

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[rudeguy]

Curve. I hate the Keyboard on the Pearl and haven't seen a reliable Moto phone in years.

You will also get flamed for posting in the wrong forum.

 

[Sasiki]

Curve 8330. Excellent reception, insanely loud speaker/earpiece, and bar-none, the best messaging device on the market. The new OS update seems to have increased performance a bit too. I went from 4.5.0.89 to 4.5.0.127.

 

[foghorn67]

The only good Q is what AT&T has. So I would get the Curve 8330. I have the Pearl, love it. Except the keyboard sucks when typing anything technical like URL's. And I hate the 64MB of memory. The Curve has 96MB.
I'm already trying to figure out what app I have to un-install. I only have Viigo, Opera mini, 1 game, MS Live Search, Google maps and Google Sync and Facebook.
Basically, I wish I got the Curve.

 

[SmoochyTX]

Curve

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: foghorn67
The only good Q is what AT&T has. So I would get the Curve 8330. I have the Pearl, love it. Except the keyboard sucks when typing anything technical like URL's. And I hate the 64MB of memory. The Curve has 96MB.
I'm already trying to figure out what app I have to un-install. I only have Viigo, Opera mini, 1 game, MS Live Search, Google maps and Google Sync and Facebook.
Basically, I wish I got the Curve.

Can't the phone use a Micro-SD card as additional?

 

[corkyg]

I would wait a bit and see how you end up after the merger.

merger

 

[uli2000]

If you are in a non-divested area and have 4 months or less on you current contract, you can already go to VZW and pick from their phones, but you've got to take a Verizon plan. If you want to keep an Alltel contract, Id go with the Pearl or Curve. WM Standard is useless, imo. Id take the curve personally because of the full keyboard, though my wife has a pearl and loves suretype and can type with it as fast as I can with my 6800. If you live in a divested area like I do, Id just wait and see who your new carrier would be. AT&T is looking at buying alot of the divested areas out west, and it would suck to have to buy a new phone in a few months because you get sold to a GSM carrier.

 

[InlineFive]

Dammit, too bad I hadn't checked for that link sooner. Apparently they won't be selling the Verizon or Alltel coverage for my area they will be selling the Unicel coverage. Wonder what that means since I'm an Alltel customer.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: InlineFive

Originally posted by: foghorn67
The only good Q is what AT&T has. So I would get the Curve 8330. I have the Pearl, love it. Except the keyboard sucks when typing anything technical like URL's. And I hate the 64MB of memory. The Curve has 96MB.
I'm already trying to figure out what app I have to un-install. I only have Viigo, Opera mini, 1 game, MS Live Search, Google maps and Google Sync and Facebook.
Basically, I wish I got the Curve.

Can't the phone use a Micro-SD card as additional?

only for media storage, like, pics, vids, mp3's, whatnot. It cannot be used for applications.

 

[uli2000]

Originally posted by: InlineFive
Dammit, too bad I hadn't checked for that link sooner. Apparently they won't be selling the Verizon or Alltel coverage for my area they will be selling the Unicel coverage. Wonder what that means since I'm an Alltel customer.

It means you are becomming a Verizon customer.

 

[MyThirdEye]

This merger business has me confused.