That's what you see when I send you a message from my Blackberry. "Sent from my Blackberry smartphone with Sprint". But there are now 2 Blackberry Curves put out by Sprint and Nextel which, of course, is owned by the same people. You would never guess how huge the differences are between exact same Blackberry Curve models.
My very first cell phone carrier was Sprint. That was over 20 years ago. I had Sprint for many years but once the Push-to-Talk system came out with Nextel, I switched to Nextel. I was very happy with Nextel. The first big difference I noticed was that my monthly bill now came in at the amount of the plan. No overages or extras. When I was with Sprint, I never received a monthly bill that wasn't chock full of extra minutes used, text charges, fees, etc, etc. I felt very abused by Sprint and very relieved to make the switch to Nextel.
It goes without saying that I was one disappointed son-of-a-bitch when Sprint bought Nextel. And my fears were right on. From the very first bill that I received from the "NEW Sprint/Nextel" I was again over charged. I was again constantly calling them to ask about the new fees and charges. A lot of the time they actually took the fees off of my bill but most of the time, they didn't.
Another big difference is that the Nextel Curve does not have color icons which sucks. It also doesn't support Sprint TV. These are a couple of deal breakers to me.
But I had to put up with it because I needed to have direct connect for work and Nextel was the only carrier with this service.
*UPDATE
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