In addition to my musings on a new phone, a new carrier is also up for grabs. I have been a happy Verizon customer for some time now, although there were periods of time in certain locations where the phone and the service just were not there. So much for the network, especially in Greenfield Industrial Park! A lot of my friends are also AT&T subscribers. I would give AT&T some serious thought for one simple reason… Rollover minutes! Since AT&T picked up Cingular a few years back they have taken the Rollover minutes idea and made huge leaps with it. A simple idea, I pay for so many minutes and if I don’t use them… I loose them? That’s bullocks if you ask me! I pay for them, I want them! But regardless of that, if I can get a good deal with my current carrier I’ll most likely stick with them… this deal being a very simple better offer on the new BlackBerry® Storm™ 9530 Smartphone.

The keypad on the Chocolate is just bad. It’s not a phone meant for texting, which I do often. It’s primarily a music player phone, however the built-in memory only holds about 8 songs before you need to add a memory card. Granted, this is a first gen Chocolate so there could have been a few more mods and upgrades made that my phone doesn’t have but I was still less than pleased once I actually received this phone. For this, and a few other reasons, I decided that I would like to try a smartphone or a PDA. I liked the idea of having a cool little keypad instead of hitting numbers a bunch of times to spell out “What’s Up”. As nice as that would be, I still need to take into consideration the fact that I don’t really need a new phone right now and Im fine with my month-to-month status with Verizon. So maybe it’s not the right time for a new phone, but I’m still gonna do my research and see what will be the best solution for me… Any suggestions or recommendations would be appreciated!