Never Again!
So in case you guys never read my previous blog post about Sprint’s Palm Pré, let me fill you in.
Similar to the iPhone. Pretty awesome. I love it. Blah blah blah…
FAIL!!! SPRINT & PALM PRÉ ARE THE WORST COMPANY/PHONE EVER!!!
So first let me start off by saying that I do in fact love the Palm Pré. It is pretty awesome. It just doesn’t work. I love the idea of being able to multi-task with it. I can be on the Palm Web OS or something like that, pretty much the internet. I can play music, I can read emails, I can check my calendar, etc. You can do a lot at once. I love the fact that, like the iPhone & iPod Touch, you can sync to your iTunes Library. You can download music through Amazon MP3, (which is kinda like the iTunes Store except its only MP3 files), you can sync your emails to your phone, (I have most all of them syncing to my phone), you can watch YouTube videos, & it has a QWERTY keyboard, (which means it has the full keyboard for texting). So it sounds amazing on paper right?
Well, the problem is, is that it freezes waaaaaaayyyy too much. When I try to get online, usually I can. But its a pain because I have to make sure that the little [Ev] sign at the top of the phone is all active and there if not, the phone pretty much doesn’t work. Sometimes, its not there and then I have to restart my phone. Next, the battery life. Oh boy! I thought the battery on my old phone was bad. This is supposed to last about 8 hours with all the settings at a normal setting. Well I dimmed the screen all the way down. I put my emails to never sync automatically. I rather sync them manually. I put it so the within 30 seconds the phone goes into standby mode if its not being used. So pretty much I have it at the most power saving settings I could possibly have them at so you would think it would last longer then 8 hours. My phone doesn’t last longer then 3 hours. So I don’t know what the eff is wrong with it.
Today I called Sprint because I’m tired of it and I really don’t want this phone. I don’t want it, I don’t care for it. The only thing they could do for me is send me a referbished phone. Same model and everything, just referbished. WTF?! What is referbished? The lady told me is, when someone buys the phone, has a problem with it and returns it. Umm… So I tell her, “So what you are telling me is that I am getting a referbished phone that had a problem with it, and I will have to return my phone that also has a problem?” (When I’m angry, I’ll say I am instead of I’m. Haha) Now I said “had” a problem because they “fixed” it. But what I don’t understand is that I paid for a brand new phone but I will be getting a phone that used to have a problem. Hmm…? WTF?
Okay, but that’s not all. My phone selects its special moments. So its not always being stupid, but most of the time it is. They told me they will send me a new one and when they receive my phone back, if they don’t see anything wrong with it, they will charge me for a brand new one!!! WTF?!?! So if you find it works fine and you charge me the original price of the phone, shouldn’t I be getting a brand new in the first place? Yeah. I don’t understand that. So I hope that one, my phone doesn’t all of a sudden start working perfectly because I need them to see what is going on with it. And two, they better to be ready to deal with me bitching at them. I’m serious.
So finally, I recommend that you never go to Sprint. My parents have had them since they pretty much started and they’ve had an awesome experience. I get them and I have hell. And if you do get Sprint, don’t ever EVER get the stupid wannabe a smart phone/iPhone Palm Pré. The worst phone you can possible get. I wish I just went with my first choice, the HTC Touch PRO. I’m so mad at myself for being so stupid. Ugh!! I will talk to you guys later.
Prince_Basil
I know how it feels man, I know how it feels. With verizon they would only let me switch phones when I went through 3 replacement phones in like a 3 month period or something like that. You know how much trouble I was having with my old phone. As for the HTC Touch PRO, you're not missing too much. I know a lot of the problems I have with this phone may be because verizon pretty much murdered the phone when they got their hands on it. But the battery life on the touch pro is just as bad as your palm pre. My screen has recently started doing this weird thing where it's kinda jumpy at random times. I'm hoping it sorts itself out because I don't feel like going through all the stuff I had to go through the last time. I've heard sprint is a bad phone company, but I don't really recommend verizon…they're phones are sucky
Sprint Sucks so bad!
I think spending a lot of money on a phone is absurd because they all work the same. I was watching a documentary about how they make it so phones last about a year and than they start acting funky so you have to buy a new one. It's not worth it.
Cool blog Alexis, keep up the good work!!Your favorite PS trainer, lol