After much deliberation, I’ve decided to switch to AT&T Wireless from Sprint PCS. We’ll see if frequent dropped calls and poor service are just a Sprint thing.
The fun part is that I now have a shiny new Sony Ericsson t68i to play with. I’ve already very pleasingly used iSync over Bluetooth, putting all of my phone numbers on the new phone in under a minute and set “Take On Me” as my ringtone.
Even better, the phone works on AT&T’s GSM network, which is some sort of next-generation digital technology that isn’t at all backwards-compatible with other towers. So with the features and potentially near DSL-speed data transfer rates comes the problem that my new phone won’t work outside of major cities (and the entire state of Florida for some reason). The upside is that they’re only building GSM towers now, and at the rate of one or two a week, so within a year it’ll be an amazing network. It seems odd to be moving to a superior technology that doesn’t work as well, but I like to live on the cutting edge. And hey, without the “eXtreme” I’d just be “dav.”