Verizon VX9900 or... Cingular phone?

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Kyaw Soe O

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I currently have a Sidekick III with T-Mobile and hate it. Long story short? I was mislead into buying it. Love the unlimited texts, hate the camera and lack of MMS. Love the price, hate the service. I wrote an angry letter to T-Mobile with no reply yet.

I'm considering switching back to Verizon or going with Cingular. After reading through the forum I'm in love with the LG VX990 (enV). I love qwerty keyboards, love the clamshell, the MP3 player, the camera, the separate phone keypad and qwerty keyboard.

I have yet to find a Cingular phone I'm in love with and that's where I'm torn. I haven't even seen one I liked except for the 8295 or some such number and even then it was only a tiny amount.

Verizon has great reception and service but no unlimited texts besides IN and PIX messages are $.25 per message... Then it's another $15 for VCast. Plus $35 for 450 minutes. Cingular has 3000 messages for $20 and 450 minutes+ rollover for what, $39? I don't understand the AIM/Yahoo deal with either of these services... is each message considered a text message? Are they considered data?

I need a camera, I need pix sending, I need an MP3, I would prefer qwerty keyboard and dual screens...

Someone help!!
 
From what I have heard the enV from Verizon is a great phone, everyone I know who has it loves it. I have Verizon and the service is amazing. I always have service. The trade off with that is the price. Verizon's txt/pix message packs are expensive and there are not unlimited packages. However, if most or even some of the people you text are on verizon, there are IN packages which give you unlimited messages to other Verizon users. With regard to AIM, on Verizon phones text messages are used. It takes one text to sign on, one to sign off, anywhere from 1 to 3 to get your buddy list depending on size, and any message you send or receive is a text. They can really add up quickly, so if you are going to use AIM you want to make sure you have a large text pack since they are not considered IN, and are therefore not unlimited. From what it sounds like the enV is the perfect phone for you, but you would have to deal with issues that come with the service (standardized UI, inability to quickly switch phones, higher prices, expensive text packages, and lack of unlimited messaging package etc.) hope this helped, good luck
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