Chaos, panic, disorder and droids
Nov. 3rd, 2010 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigo_rose99I hate change. T has been talking about upgrading our phone/PDA technology for about a year. He wants a droid, but has not been too set on a particular one. This lack of being set meant I could stall on his urges to change without marital conflict. I LOVE my Palm Treo. Yeah, the browser is a bit clunky, but it does everything I want. Why should I change? Nothing in the droid market had anything I really want. The enticement is just lacking.
And then last Saturday while rollerblading, T dropped his phone. I drop my phone all the time, so this would not have been a big deal in my steel case. But his bare phone... it broke the microphone. His Palm Treo makes and receives calls, but the recipient of those calls cannot hear a word he says.
Since he leaves TOMORROW for the wilds of Nevada, he felt strongly that only being able to use a headset on his phone was an unacceptable stopgap.
So yesterday we went to the Verizon store to get Droid 2s. Yes, both of us. Well, he got an R2D2. Of course he did! After the initial fees, our phone plan looks really similar to what we had with AT&T. I did add texting so I could "talk" to him while he is driving to Nevada, but otherwise it looks about the same.
[Side note: For those of you thinking that this is a good time to break into our house while I am alone? Let me remind you: Paranoid. Jumpy. Fully armed with many many guns and backup clips. Not afraid to hack your bullet-ridden body into pieces just to make SURE the bullets did their job. Try the next house.]
So last night we discovered that while my new droid MAKES phone calls, it does not receive them. At all. Some serious searching on the internet (though the droid 2 internet refused to bring up any of these interesting and key links. Hmmm...) from my laptop led me to believe that my number has not been correctly and fully ported over from my old phone. I spent an hour on the phone with tech support at Verizon today. They claim that they are waiting on AT&T, and it should be fixed in the next four hours. Since T's phone was fully ported over in 10 minutes, I have to wonder what is the holdup on mine... *shrug* I'm guessing that AT&T and Verizon blithely had no idea there was a problem until I called them.
I declined the offer to have them port over my contacts. I was scared on what they would do. Since I now have 1200 contacts (only 40 of which I actually USE) input from gmail, I am a bit worried about the combining plan. Evidently I email way more strangers than people I talk to.
Now... I'm still using my Palm Treo as a PDA: calendar, to dos, contacts...
I just transferred over the memos. That was a big step. I am not sure I'm ready for anything more serious.
And then last Saturday while rollerblading, T dropped his phone. I drop my phone all the time, so this would not have been a big deal in my steel case. But his bare phone... it broke the microphone. His Palm Treo makes and receives calls, but the recipient of those calls cannot hear a word he says.
Since he leaves TOMORROW for the wilds of Nevada, he felt strongly that only being able to use a headset on his phone was an unacceptable stopgap.
So yesterday we went to the Verizon store to get Droid 2s. Yes, both of us. Well, he got an R2D2. Of course he did! After the initial fees, our phone plan looks really similar to what we had with AT&T. I did add texting so I could "talk" to him while he is driving to Nevada, but otherwise it looks about the same.
[Side note: For those of you thinking that this is a good time to break into our house while I am alone? Let me remind you: Paranoid. Jumpy. Fully armed with many many guns and backup clips. Not afraid to hack your bullet-ridden body into pieces just to make SURE the bullets did their job. Try the next house.]
So last night we discovered that while my new droid MAKES phone calls, it does not receive them. At all. Some serious searching on the internet (though the droid 2 internet refused to bring up any of these interesting and key links. Hmmm...) from my laptop led me to believe that my number has not been correctly and fully ported over from my old phone. I spent an hour on the phone with tech support at Verizon today. They claim that they are waiting on AT&T, and it should be fixed in the next four hours. Since T's phone was fully ported over in 10 minutes, I have to wonder what is the holdup on mine... *shrug* I'm guessing that AT&T and Verizon blithely had no idea there was a problem until I called them.
I declined the offer to have them port over my contacts. I was scared on what they would do. Since I now have 1200 contacts (only 40 of which I actually USE) input from gmail, I am a bit worried about the combining plan. Evidently I email way more strangers than people I talk to.
Now... I'm still using my Palm Treo as a PDA: calendar, to dos, contacts...
I just transferred over the memos. That was a big step. I am not sure I'm ready for anything more serious.
