Sometimes I think its fun to hear other people's experiences with consumer products. And most everyone on this forum is articulate and a good storyteller, so I figured I would ask this question and see if anyone else was interested in sharing their experience.
Mine started when I finally left T-Mobile in 2010. Up to that time I had always had a simple basic or flip phone. I had heard about the iPhone since it came out, but I was just out of school in 2007 and $599 for a phone seemed like insanity to me( since I was used to paying $0-20 for basic phones). And since I didn't have that kind of money at the time anyway, I was easily persuaded that all those people lining up for days in advance to pay 600 bucks for a CELL PHONE were just crazy. So when I was in the market in 2010, I had pretty much written the iPhone off as overpriced, way overhyped, and probably just a gimmick.
My first choice after T-Mobile was Cricket, because of their alleged low prices, and not knowing any better, I assumed that they had phones with similar capabilities as the iPhone claimed. I went in and told the rep that I was ready to ditch flip phones, and wanted a smartphone capable of surfing the web, doing email, and all the other stuff people do with smartphones. The salesman pointed me to their top of the line model, the Motorola Evoke, which was a touch screen phone with a slide out number pad for calls and a 2.8 in screen, all for about $200. This was hands down the worst piece of cr.... I mean tech I think I ever owned. The screen was very unresponsive, the data service was atrocious (the web browser rarely worked, and was slower than dial up when it did), and it locked up all the time. Because of the poor data service, none of the widgets like news, email, or weather ever worked, and it the phone and screen automatically came on when you plugged it in for charging, which you had to do constantly. I had to turn it upside down at night to keep it from lighting up my entire room while I slept. On top of all of that, cricket's coverage wasn't a fraction of what their maps showed, and I had to pay $15 a month extra for their useless data.
After about three months, AT&T ran a promotion selling the iPhone 3GS for $49, which made me cringe to think I had just paid $200 for Motorola's smartphone parody. My time with Cricket and Motorola had disabused me of all my previous prejudices against apple. I now understood why people would spend that kind of time and $$ to get a smartphone that simply did what it claimed it could do. I went to AT&T the next day and got my 3GS, and haven't looked back since. Over time, pretty much all of my family & friends have switched to the iPhone after similar experiences with competitors phones that simply don't work.
Anyhoo, I like to hear people's experiences, so if you feel so inclined please post
Mine started when I finally left T-Mobile in 2010. Up to that time I had always had a simple basic or flip phone. I had heard about the iPhone since it came out, but I was just out of school in 2007 and $599 for a phone seemed like insanity to me( since I was used to paying $0-20 for basic phones). And since I didn't have that kind of money at the time anyway, I was easily persuaded that all those people lining up for days in advance to pay 600 bucks for a CELL PHONE were just crazy. So when I was in the market in 2010, I had pretty much written the iPhone off as overpriced, way overhyped, and probably just a gimmick.
My first choice after T-Mobile was Cricket, because of their alleged low prices, and not knowing any better, I assumed that they had phones with similar capabilities as the iPhone claimed. I went in and told the rep that I was ready to ditch flip phones, and wanted a smartphone capable of surfing the web, doing email, and all the other stuff people do with smartphones. The salesman pointed me to their top of the line model, the Motorola Evoke, which was a touch screen phone with a slide out number pad for calls and a 2.8 in screen, all for about $200. This was hands down the worst piece of cr.... I mean tech I think I ever owned. The screen was very unresponsive, the data service was atrocious (the web browser rarely worked, and was slower than dial up when it did), and it locked up all the time. Because of the poor data service, none of the widgets like news, email, or weather ever worked, and it the phone and screen automatically came on when you plugged it in for charging, which you had to do constantly. I had to turn it upside down at night to keep it from lighting up my entire room while I slept. On top of all of that, cricket's coverage wasn't a fraction of what their maps showed, and I had to pay $15 a month extra for their useless data.
After about three months, AT&T ran a promotion selling the iPhone 3GS for $49, which made me cringe to think I had just paid $200 for Motorola's smartphone parody. My time with Cricket and Motorola had disabused me of all my previous prejudices against apple. I now understood why people would spend that kind of time and $$ to get a smartphone that simply did what it claimed it could do. I went to AT&T the next day and got my 3GS, and haven't looked back since. Over time, pretty much all of my family & friends have switched to the iPhone after similar experiences with competitors phones that simply don't work.
Anyhoo, I like to hear people's experiences, so if you feel so inclined please post
