For the last week or two, I got excited when I found out that Verzion finally released a phone with Wi-Fi that doesn't require me having to pay $50/month for EV-DO access to get on the internet. I use the Wi-Fi when I'm home (I want it to sync with Exchange as soon as I enter my house -- with no docking) and when I'm at work (I want it to sync with Exchange again with no docking)
Well, it was too good to be true. I just found out, after much pain, that I do not want that phone. Verizon has actually gone out of their way to hack the phone. What they did was make it so that you can't use the Wi-Fi and the phone at the same time. They deliberately damaged the phone. Sprint is currently the only carrier that carries this phone in it's original up form. To use the Wi-Fi, you have to restart the phone -- at that point, the phone won't work. To make the phone work, you have to restart it again. So, the way to use the internet their way is to pay their stupid EV-DO $50/month thing -- which I want absolutely no part of.
This is evil, evil, evil at its worst and I hate this.
I'm so depressed.
I hate cell phone companies. Why must they be so evil.
I'm not going to switch to Sprint either. I switched to Verizon back in 2001 because Sprint was being diabolical back then.
I felt the same way when Road Runner turned off static IPs and then decided that the only way you can get one is if you upgrade to their commercial service which is a little faster, but far more expensive. Then they go and release their "gamer" service which is really fast, but I can't have it because I have the static IP. Grrrr. I royally hate this. Forget trying to reason with the reps on the telephone. They know nothing about the technology they sell. I wish there was a special "programmer" hot line -- where you can call and talk to a System Admin who knows his TCP from his IP -- and understands that we don't want no stinking rules and crap to prevent us from using the technology as it was made to be used.
The rep told me that the reason they did that was because regular users would use the EV-DO without knowing it and without a plan. Then end up with a $3000 bill that they couldn't pay. My ass, this is diabolicalness at its best.