Our contract with Cingular has been upfor a few months now and we need to do somethig with it. The wife wants a phone that does everything but fix dinner. A phone, internet, GPS, camera and text message. Don't care anything about music on it. So I'm lookin for recomendations, not even particular about which company to use yet for service. Probably go with who ever has the right phone available.

 

I don't know about GPS on any phones but i have had internet on my phone before and it was WAY to much of a PITA with the small screen. I mean full HTML. If you just want to connect and read the news or look at weather, any of the new phones will do that i think. I have a motorola KRAZR and it plays MP3s, takes pics/vids, bluetooth capable, is internet capable and if you have a laptop, you can get cingulars 20 dollar internet package and connect your cell phone to a laptop and have wireless internet anywhere you can get a phone cignal. Granted the internet isn't really fast...slower than dial up i think but its internet.

 

We got the Razor V3i's now that are still more advanced then you can get at the cingular stores. But ya the screens suck for internet and she wants an actual key pad for texting. She's looking for something like the Blackberry. A small computer type thing. I just don't anything about em to know if there is anything better out there now then the the Blackberry's. Or if they are even worth it.

 

Blackberry will cost you an arm and leg for there service through cingular.

 

take a look at these guys. i've been looking at them for a bit. had some good reviews on the web about them. they offer gps service and their phones aren't priced too bad.

 

I've heard the Blackberry Pearl's are good through cingular and I have seen a few people who have these phones that slide apart and they look like they are perfect for text messaging, little computer like keyboard and all just not sure who carries them

 

The prices and phones seem to be right on these plans, but have never heard anything good or bad about quality of service. They are somthing to check out though. If they turn out to be a good service they look like the company of the future.

 

yah they're new. think only a year or two old. atleast that's when i remember seeing commercials and hearing about them. i'm locked in with t-mobile right now, and am really happy with them, but i might switch to helio next year.

 

Have you been happy with Cingular?

 

They played some contract games with me. I told them a one year contract and paid the extra money for, but come to find out they changed a meaningless document to one year and left the primary contract at 2. A little game of shuffle the papers. But that's nothing that would stop me from signing with them again if they had the right equipment. Just be a lot more carefull about what I'm signing.