Hi all:
New guy here. I've been a Verizon customer dating back to the time when their phones looked something like WWII walkie-talkies...
As a resident of the Pacific NW who travels frequently between coastal WA, ID and MT, I've never been in a place where my Verizon phone didn't provide a great signal. Dropped calls? 99% non-existant. It doesn't seem to matter if that place is a back woods location of the Olympic National Park or a great little restaurant buried in a metro basement somewhere. I haven't been able to ask anyone here about ATT as 100% of my colleagues and business associates use Verizon (given Verizon coverage in ID and MT).
I've been so close to buying an iPhone on multiple occasions as I'm an entrenched Mac user but fear giving up Verizon's coverage in my part of the country. I would really appreciate being able to send/recieve business e-mail pretty from pretty much any location I find myself at (even Verizon is not 100% with their mail for me). FWIW, I played with a friends brand new Storm for a week (he was on his honeymoon so I talked him in to letting me cover his e-mail while he was gone. Hey, what are friends for?...

) but wasn't smitten with the Storm's quirks.
So here's my noob dumb question: I was looking on ATT's site and wondered if anyone has tried this experiment? I noticed they offer pay-as-you go plans under their Go Phone option. Has anyone picked up a Go Phone for a few months to "test the water" of ATT's coverage in the areas they frequent prior to jumping in with both feet with an iPhone contract? I don't see that there is a long term contractual obligation and it might be worth the $29.99 if this is indeed the case? My thought was to run it side by side to Verizon on the road and see if I could live with ATT's coverage in the aforementioned areas? I realize one could utilize the return option with an iPhone but I'm afraid that once I actually have an iPhone in hand...
Thoughts anyone?