[peter679]

Originally Posted by C Squared

My contract is up for renewal. Been using a Motorola Sliver for 2 years. Great little phone, no problems. But time for something new. Not sure if its worth it for me personally to shell out for the iphone, especially when I can get a BlackJack2 or Blackberry Curve (amongst other models) for free with the upgrade.

Reliable phone with a qwerty keyboard is about all I'm looking for. They all have cameras and mp3 players.

You're in my ball park, I'm in the industry (back bone, billing signalling sms etc)...LOL..I say this..The Iphone is awesome! I'd love to have one! Flat out! But, is it worth the 30 on top of the extra packages you need? You can get an Iclone which is pretty awesome for less and not need the extra packages... it all depends on what you need! Do you need key board? do you sms that much? I know I can sms without looking while driving with my bag phone LOL..

The cost to have the blackberry's is not as much, but you stil lneed the extra package... I will say this, looks like your at&t, they have some new phones that just came out that also have wifi along with the qwerty and # pad.

Also, if your willing to go off the beatin path there are a boat load of better phones than these, if your willing to pay...
Communication/Industrial Handheld, PDA And Pocket PC
Glofiish awesome phone!
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Also, as I said, there a ton of phones from china that are just awesome that are not known here in the US and the best phones you can get are overseas.. the us is 4 years behind the times when it comes to telephone technology..hell we're JUST starting to digital.. LOL