New Cell Phone Time!

[fairyrune]

I am getting a new cellular on April the 26th.

We have AT&T, and I definitely want a phone with a QWERTY keyboard.

I'm thinking of getting the Palm Centro in ice blue. Right now, it's thirty dollars after rebates and all that jazz.

I played with a display model in Best Buy a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't an actual functioning phone so I didn't get to mess about with the features, but I'm fine with the size of the phone and the buttons.

It has gotten fairly decent reviews, but I want to know a couple of things.

The AT&T site doesn't mention anything about MP3 ringtone capability. I love using my Beatles and Fraggle Rock MP3's as ringtones, so that's something I'd like to know about.

There's also no mention of data plans in conjunction with that phone on the AT&T site. It's brought up in one of the reviews, though. I don't want to have to pay extra every month for a data plan that I probably won't end up taking advantage of.

Anyone have any knowledge of this phone? (I'm looking at YOU, RadioShack people!)

Comments

[odogonefishin.livejournal.com]

*cracks knuckles*

I'm *not* a centro fan. I ran into issues with it (more notably the sprint version).

It does need the $30 PDA data plan, on top of the voice plan.

I believe Archie has/had one and could better speak to the ringtone situation. It does allow custom music ringtones.

You may want to consider the Samsung Propel or the Pantech Matrix for a qwerty phone that doesn't require a data pack

[fairyrune]

Hell. There goes that plan.

Ah, well. Back to the drawing board!

[nycrandom.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine is on AT&T (can't figure out why) and has that same phone. She did not get a data plan. The problem with not getting the data plan is that the rebates (at least the ones she had) aren't valid without it. Other than that, the phone seems to be working fine. And, I'm pretty sure you can use mp3 ringtones. (don't hold me to that, though)

[fairyrune]

Thanks for the input! This is good to know.

Personally, I'm on AT&T because my family is. I give my mom twenty five bucks a month for my cell. Can't really beat that, can you?

[mynock25.livejournal.com]

I love my Centro (Sprint version).

And yeah, you do need the data plan to get the rebates, but not to make the phone work. (But really, once you have a PDA, you're going to want the data anyway.)

By MP3 ringtones, do you mean you want to turn your MP3s into ringtones, or you want the ringtones that actually sound like music? (It does the latter, and you can download apps to do the former.)

[fairyrune]

Hrm. I think I've decided that it's not worth it. I don't want the data plan on account of I should do other things with my money every month, and I don't love the phone enough to spend the extra hundred bucks on it.

As for ringtones, right now I can use my MP3's straight, as ringtones. I kind of like that, but I wouldn't mind some sort of conversion thing as long as it wasn't infuriatingly complicated.

If you were me, what phone would YOU get?

[mynock25.livejournal.com]

go for the Propel. Full qwerty, not a PDA (so no extra data plan) and it's made by Samsung, I've always had success with their phones

[jedi-007.livejournal.com]

I has it... if you want to play with the Sprint version, let me know...

You can do custom ringtones... I has a murloc from WOW as my text message for example.

I like mine a lot, and would recommend it... however it's a dead end platform, since Palm is discontinuing support for it. They're moving on to their next type of phone the Palm Pre (for Sprint initially). When my contract is eleagable (9/1/09) I will probably be going to that instead

[fairyrune]

I think I've decided to go with something else. I don't want the data plan, OR to spend $130 on a phone, so it's out.

If you wanted an AT&T phone with a QWERTY, mini-SD slot, and MP3 ringtone capability, without spending more than thirty to fifty bucks, what would you get?

[jedi-007.livejournal.com]

http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/finder_results.php?m=s&w=s&car=r&ca_4=y&avr=r&av_2=y&f58r=r&f58_1=y

should be a list of all of AT&T's current qwerty phones

I'd probably look at the Matrix or the Duo from Pantech. They seemed to be of a reasonable size, yet have a decent keyboard

[jedi-007.livejournal.com]

Also... go to Eric or Jamie to purchase it if you can... they'll be much more sympathetic to you if you've had a problem with it (at least enough to go ..... hmm... RMAC time :) )

[fairyrune]

Weeeellll, I'd like to, but that part's not really up to me. It's Mom's account, and she's planning on ordering the phones online.

[mynock25.livejournal.com]

But first, they have to release the Pre. Arg.

I'm gonna get mine in November.