To continue my Pocket saga...
...thoguh it's not traditional prepaid, though it is pre-paid and it's cheaper than 99% of all contract plans...
...anyway, come to find out, my Audiovox's browser is crippled, in that it's not only slow for some wierd reason (phone processing power...or lack thereof...shows here) but it has no way to input URLs into it or provision for making bookmarks. Crippled? I call that simply lame...
...so my reccommendation of the phone is now modified to say "I reccommend the phone if you don't need a good camera and don't use web much"...
...but it took two hours at a Pocket store for them\myself to see whether the phone model itself was the culprit, rather than just my phone...
...and another fifteen minutes on the phone to pretty much assure that when the Motorola v323 comes out that my phone will get exchanged for it, though I will ahve to go all the way to San Antonio to do the exchange...
...ech...at least I'm getting an exchange for what will likely be a better phone...
...and yes, I said Motorola v323. The price point will be about the same as the Audiovox 8910 (hence the even exchange possibility) but the v323 is generally a nicer phone...
...except that the caller ID screen is shaped so you can't use it as a camera viewfinder (though it's not exactly an enjoyable experience on the Audiovox) and the phone is likely bigger (most Moto v-series flips are...but that's okay...they have bigger screens) and it uses Motorola's positively wierd iTAP predictive text system...
...but (yes I'm making it a point to use ellipses in this post) the camera is likely a good bit better than that of the 'vox, the screen is higher-resolution and bigger, and there are some other great features that I read about on Phonescoop but can't think of now that generally make the phone better than the 'vox it is replacing...
...so I'm currently apathetic toward Pocket. If they deliver on the Moto exchange, I'm a believer again, and I'll be reviewing the Moto here after playing around with it a bit. Apathetic due to the wierdness of the 'vox and my spending too much of my time figuring out. But such is life :)...
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You'll love the v323. We have one for my wife's US Cellular line. It may not have every feature available, it is one of my favorite phones. Great call quality, a very fast UI, (much faster than many Motorolas I've used) and good sound quality.
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