"Shopping" for a phone on AT&T's site has become next to impossible when considering availability and pricing. My wife and I got our Focus' for free within the last month and now they are up to $49.99 on contract. The HD7S is all of a sudden only $0.01! No more Surround...at all. I was shopping to find my son his first phone. I had decided on an HTC Freestyle (it's like a stupid smartphone) running HTC's Sense UI. Found it on the site free for the refurbished and $49 for a new one. Now it's $100 and no refurbished!? The teeny bobber HTC Status didn't last long. It's now only available online. The one thing that makes one heck of a presence is the frigin iPhone 4s. They have pretty much dedicated the website and automated phone service to the 4s. There's even a standalone "press 9 now" option to preorder the gadget. Bleh. 13 choices of Android, 7 choices of iPhone, and a mere 3 for WP7. Technically I guess there's only 3 choices of the iPhone if you don't count storage as a difference. I'm horribly bitter. It bothers the crap out of me that Apple will succeed in selling the bee-jesus out of the 4s regardless of the actual specs of the device. I hope Siri is one heck of an addition to the 4s to get this much hype. Dear AT&T, I just want to get my son a fancy feature phone without the price changing every other hour and without being treated like a complete moron for not placing my crapple preorder.
My conversation with AT&T store salesman:
"You know the Freestyle isn't a smart phone right?" Yes, I know what it is. "Have you heard about the new iPhone?" Really? Yeah, I may have heard a thing or two. "Can I tell you about it?" Go ahead. "It's got lots of great new features." Like what? "A better camera, it records in 1080p super high definition (super?), it has a better screen with more pixels and more colors, I heard the screen may be a little bigger than the iPhone 4 also!" Okay...thanks for that...so do you have the HTC in stock?
Exit ****** with his otterbox wagging on it's belt clip...bleh.
I'm really not a jerk...I'm just so sick of being force fed iOS as if it's the definitive answer to all of the worlds pocket pc wants and needs. GO AWAY!
My conversation with AT&T store salesman:
"You know the Freestyle isn't a smart phone right?" Yes, I know what it is. "Have you heard about the new iPhone?" Really? Yeah, I may have heard a thing or two. "Can I tell you about it?" Go ahead. "It's got lots of great new features." Like what? "A better camera, it records in 1080p super high definition (super?), it has a better screen with more pixels and more colors, I heard the screen may be a little bigger than the iPhone 4 also!" Okay...thanks for that...so do you have the HTC in stock?
Exit ****** with his otterbox wagging on it's belt clip...bleh.
I'm really not a jerk...I'm just so sick of being force fed iOS as if it's the definitive answer to all of the worlds pocket pc wants and needs. GO AWAY!
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