Why You Can’t Get a Good Phone With Verizon
My beef with Verizon started long before the iPhone ever came out. I think I may have left in 2002. The reason was because these superior devices were coming out on other networks that did really cool stuff with Bluetooth. Verizon didn’t have a single Bluetooth-enabled device on their network. When they finally got one, I believe it was a Motorola 710 or something, the Bluetooth was disabled in such a way that you could only use a Bluetooth headset. No sharing data between computer and phone and certainly no sharing data between phone and phone. It was obvious to me that they were about bending you over for all they could get from you. At that time, I switched to AT&T (which later became Cingular and then became AT&T again) where I found really great phones that didn’t disable any of the technology. It was great. And I never had a dropped call or call-quality issues during that window between when I switched and when the iPhone came out. In fact, I didn’t have these issues with the original iPhone. It was only when the iPhone 3G was released that the problems started. AT&T is no saint, they’re a heartless corporation too. But in the end, Verizon is full of such greedy shitheads at the top of it’s management that I would always put them last. I would take T-Mobile or Sprint if I decided to give up on AT&T.
