<p>The Southeastern US in general has good AT&T reception, presumably because their headquarters are there.</p>
<p>Yeah I have a BB as well kara. I looooooooooove the keyboard but bloody hell BB OS feels so… old. A lot of business users swear by it, but I wish RIM bought out Palm so they could put webOS on their devices. Still, it’s a testament to my hatred of AT&T that I chose to switch to a Blackberry rather than stick with my iPhone.</p>
<p>Exactly how I feel about the OS, too. I tried earlier in the year to upgrade it to OS 5.0.1, which apparently has text message threading similar to BBM’s, and it was such a hassle, and in the end, didn’t even work, even though I got it directly from RIM’s website. I definitely did miss the physical keyboard when I had my iPhone, but I feel like BB is used to resting on its laurels: they know that those businessmen will buy it, whether they keep up with current technology or not, so they don’t even try to appeal to anyone else.</p>
<p>I agree on how awful AT&T’s service is. I go to school in Nashville, TN and live just outside of the city, and my phone calls get dropped all the time in both locations (that is, if I can make the call to begin with). Meanwhile, my friends with Verizon and Sprint have full bars almost all the time…</p>
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<p>Not having to deal with ATTs abysmal service is probably the biggest upside. Otherwise, when you compare the latest droid phone (HTC incredible, which came out a while ago) to the iPhone 4, you realize that apple isn’t really at the top of the class anymore in a lot of ways. The Incredible has an 8MP camera with dual LED flash (compared to 5 on the iphone), a bigger screen, support for Flash (really, Apple - still no flash support?), expandable memory, etc.
But Apple can pretty much put out whatever they want and lots of people will line up to buy it.</p>
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<p>My thoughts exactly. It would have been much more impressive if the Evo 4g didn’t just come out and these were all brand new innovations, but that’s not the case. Granted, the iPhone does have a larger app market–with over 100k more apps on the Apple app store-- and better battery life, but some specs on the Evo are actually better. It’s certainly not a contract breaker like the other iterations. Some people don’t like Sprint, but I’ve had the service since my freshman year of high school, and it’s been fine for me. Some of the complaints may be valid, but I’ve noticed that when I travel, those people with AT&T and Verizon never get the consistent service that I do. In fact, I had to travel to the boondocks a couple of weeks ago, and only those people with Sprint got any service at all (the boonies don’t speak for all areas, but you see what I’m saying.) </p>
<p>Sprint is really an underrated service IMO. I haven’t had a dropped call in about 4 years and the rates are pretty reasonable.</p>
<p>Coincidentally enough, my upgrade is also coming up in November, and as you can probably tell, I’ll also be getting the Evo.</p>
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<p>I really can’t say much more after this.</p>
<p>I bloody love Sprint to be honest. $70 a month gets me unlimited texts and data, free GPS, and essentially unlimited minutes (it’s technically unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile on any US carrier, but since I almost exclusively call cell phones it’s pretty much unlimited for me). Great coverage and speeds where I live, and great customer service.</p>
<p>I couldn’t ask for much more. If T-Mobile had Sprint’s coverage I would switch to them since they are a bit cheaper.</p>