!!Viva La Muerte!!
So... as a Cingular user, I have an account with two lines. My Bl(cr)ackberry constitutes line 1, and the second line was used by a friend of mine. Well, due to situations too long and drama-encapsulated for me to want to retell, she jacked up my phone bill to almost an $800 balance due. Needless to say, I can't afford to pay that all up front, especially with moving at the end of the week. So I'm going to have to have that line "interrupted" while I make payments to reduce the amount (and no, I pretty much don't expect any monetary contributions from the guilty party) back to underneath my $400 spending limit... sheesh. Anyways, seeing as I can't be without a phone, I went to Best Buy last night investigating Amp'd Mobile. While they are an MVNO operating on a CDMA network (as opposed to my preferred GSM), their rates and EVDO line-up are pretty hard to beat pricewise, especially when compared to other shitty MVNO's like Virgin Mobile or Net10. So here's what I left the store with:
Based off of Verizon's Motorola E815 VCAST EVDO phone, the E816 has made some vast improvements to an already good thing. It runs on both CDMA 800/1900, the E816 is also EVDO, which transfers data faster than my Blackberry's EDGE connection could ever dream of... and while the web browser isn't a full one, I have yet to encounter a website that I can't view. The thing came with a 128MB transflash card for MP3's, and the Amp'd music store is actually relative decent (I've been able to find obscurities ranging from Skinny Puppy to an unreleased Napalm Death track), and music downloads are only $0.99... or I can just drag and drop mp3 files onto the memory card from my computer. Guess which option I prefer. Anyway, I'll update everyone with the number at a later point... it's a local (206) area code, so that's pretty schweet.
Five more shifts at Radio Shack after today before I'm done with this dead-end job... New manager comes in to take my place on Thursday, at which point we do the take-over inventory and then I'm fucking out. Gotta ship some boxes on Monday, but it's looking like I will have plenty of room for everything I want to bring back with me... it'll be a tight fit, but it ought to work out... word.
Based off of Verizon's Motorola E815 VCAST EVDO phone, the E816 has made some vast improvements to an already good thing. It runs on both CDMA 800/1900, the E816 is also EVDO, which transfers data faster than my Blackberry's EDGE connection could ever dream of... and while the web browser isn't a full one, I have yet to encounter a website that I can't view. The thing came with a 128MB transflash card for MP3's, and the Amp'd music store is actually relative decent (I've been able to find obscurities ranging from Skinny Puppy to an unreleased Napalm Death track), and music downloads are only $0.99... or I can just drag and drop mp3 files onto the memory card from my computer. Guess which option I prefer. Anyway, I'll update everyone with the number at a later point... it's a local (206) area code, so that's pretty schweet.
Five more shifts at Radio Shack after today before I'm done with this dead-end job... New manager comes in to take my place on Thursday, at which point we do the take-over inventory and then I'm fucking out. Gotta ship some boxes on Monday, but it's looking like I will have plenty of room for everything I want to bring back with me... it'll be a tight fit, but it ought to work out... word.