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12-02-2008, 01:37 PM | #1 |
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| best for texting- at&t Hi everyone! I am shopping around for a new phone for my daughter for a Christmas present. I am completely overwhelmed- I do 0 texting. If you have at&t, love to text and love your phone- could you help me out? I'm thinking the qwerty boards look pretty good. We don't have the data plan so it doesn't need to have a bunch of cool features using the internet like the iphone. Asking my daughter is pointless. She is ridiculously easy to please and will just say she's perfectly happy with her Razr. I know she'll end up loving an upgrade- I actually had to force an ipod on her last Christmas- she kept saying she'd never use one and didn't need it and now I don't think it's ever turned off. I know I'm lucky she is so easy to please but it makes buying gifts really hard. TIA!
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12-02-2008, 02:23 PM | #2 |
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| I had a blackberry pearl through att but we canceled it when we moved to Germany. It was really easy to txt on once you got used to the way the keyboard is set up. my husband has the pearl and hes also a big fan. It has a more traditional qwerty keyboard. We had internet in the states, but not here. We use the smae phones but just through the German version of T-mobile instead. They're still really nice phones even if you don't use the internet. lol. sorry its long. To sum it up. Both my husband and I had blackberrys with QWERTY type keyboards on ATT and loved them and have kept our blackberrys through change of service. hope that helps. |
12-02-2008, 02:31 PM | #3 |
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| I definitely do NOT recommend a BlackBerry Pearl for texting. That's what I have and while I love all of the great features a BlackBerry offers, half the time when texting on it I want to throw it out the window . The keys are very small and very close together and half the time you can hit a key 50 million times and it still puts the wrong letter in. However, I've had several phones - different brands since I was around 15/16 & the BlackBerry is the best one by far. It gets good service, never shuts off randomly (this happened a lot with my Razr) and has quite a few cool things you can do with it. Good luck!!!
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12-02-2008, 02:32 PM | #4 |
My Little Man! Donating Member | I have AT&T and I have blackberry curve. I cannot live without that phone. LOL It is so great for texting as it has a full keyboard. So it is just like typing on the computer. I text everyday so I got the unlimited texting plan. I think its $40 more every month. I chose the plan where I dont need many minutes so it works out as I text a lot. If you choose just a regular plan AT&T has a certain amount of texts you can send a month.
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12-02-2008, 02:40 PM | #5 | |
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12-02-2008, 03:35 PM | #6 |
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| Thanks everyone! I also just noticed that Jenn started a thread asking almost the same exact thing and I know our girls are the same age so I'll go check out those responses. Sorry Jenn- I just got back in town and haven't caught up yet.
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12-02-2008, 03:54 PM | #7 |
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| I have the Pantech Duo. I like it. It has the qwerty keyboard, also.
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12-02-2008, 04:21 PM | #8 | |
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Okay, I just finally read through Jenn's thread and I see she is thinking about changing carriers. We have had great luck with AT&T so want to stay with them so please keep those AT&T phone suggestions coming. So far I'm going to look into the Blackberry Curve and the Pantech Duo. Any other comments on those or any other phones are appreciated.
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12-02-2008, 04:28 PM | #9 |
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| My bf has the blackberry 8820 and he LOVES it! he had to have a phone with no camera and thats one of the only ones made like that anymore! But the phone is great for txting! It has a very generous keyboard. But if you really feel like spoiling her, get the iphone 3G i can't live without mine!
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12-02-2008, 04:37 PM | #10 | |
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Thanks- she does use her camera on her phone. I did look into the iphone because I'm having such a hard time coming up with presents and the iphone would be a great 'wow' gift. Then when I looked at the plans it looked like I couldn't get a family plan unless I also had an iphone. I don't need one and the iphone family data plan plus unlimited text was going to be too expensive since I wouldn't even be using it. Getting an iphone with regular family plan like we have now without the data plan seems silly so I ruled it out. It is a really neat phone though.
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12-02-2008, 04:45 PM | #11 | |
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| I have the Iphone with ATT and I get great service, etc. However, texting on the Iphone isn't the easiest thing to do. I have had a BB Pearl and Curve and I prefer texting on those a million times over Iphone. That is my opinion. Iphone does have a lot of cool features that BB doesn't have. BB has a new phone out called the BB Bold and it's one of the newer blackberry's and has a lot of improvements. Goodluck. Quote:
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12-02-2008, 05:06 PM | #12 |
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| I have a Razr and love it. It's great for texting. It's actually much easier than the other phones.
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12-02-2008, 05:38 PM | #13 | |
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If you like texting the iphone is not that easy to use. The touch screen makes it hard. It would take me time to get use to it. That is the reason why I got blackberry instead.
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12-02-2008, 05:49 PM | #14 | |
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There is a blackberry 8800 that is really nice and it has a camera! Good luck! I hope I have helped!
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12-02-2008, 05:52 PM | #15 | |
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The iphone is super easy to txt on, I'm really happy with it! Not to mention all the cool apps!
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