Other than the iPhone, is there an AT&T phone for me?
I got my Centro for $39 at Radio Shack last year. I resisted a smart phone for years because I didn’t want to carry a brick in my pocket. The Centro is tiny, has a tiny but very useable keyboard and for about $100 in add on programs you can customize the damn thing to the point it puts any iphone to shame.
BlackBerries have featured factory installed web browers for years now. I browse more on my Curve than I do on the PC. The stock browser is ideal for single-column browsing and handles most sites fine. For a more “real” Safari-like experience there’s Opera Mini, but I’m accustomed tqo using the stock browser for hours on end, hitting the space bar (“page down”) like a coke-addled monkey in a lab experiment. No, no YouTube or 3G yet (until the Bold is released) but I tried a 3G iPhone for several days and really got sick of stroking the screen in order to scroll. I do a lot of reading and I think it was the Sarah Palin thread that convinced me I was much happier with the BB. I was gonna sign in on a PC to write this comment but decided to proceed with the BB instead. The Curve keyboard is awesome to me; I used the 7100 Pearl-predecessor with the two-letters-per-key “SureType” keyboard and was truly annoyed with it. The Curve is better as an MP3 player too, if only because you can plug s
Sorry for the confusion; the Curve is a superior MP3 player to the Pearl, not the iPhone, though I have never experienced the issue bitr0t mentioned. I always “pause” with the extremely handy mute button, if that explains anything. Beyond constantly having to stroke the screen in order to scroll, my next biggest annoyance with the iPhone was the touchscreen keyboard. I know I was supposed to try it for a week or two and get accustomed to it (along with “training” the device to anticipate my word choices) and I did notice some improvement over time, but I found it headache-inducingly tedious to use. I don’t like typing for long stretches on tiny devices in the first place, but this was ridiculous to me. Couple that with the fact that you can only use it in widescreen mode when typing a URL in the browser, and I was truly perturbed. The keyboard on the Curve is perfect to me, like they took a page from the Treo and the 8700 to come up with a perfectly functional and yet relatively tiny l
