The decision has been made, the move is done.  For years now I have been a loyal Verizon customer, going through many phones over the years and finally landing on the Blackberry Storm 9500.  At first the Storm was very cool; it has everything but Wi-Fi.  I really like the ability to use a Micro SD card, standard headset jack, the camera, etc.  However it didn’t take long to find the flaws.  The floating screen gets dirt down in the cracks around the screen very easy, finger prints are horrible, and it’s quite heavy.  Over all of that though, the biggest issue I had with it, was the constant locking up.  The phone could be sitting there asleep, someone calls, by the time I get it to wake up and do anything the call has gone to voicemail.  It also locked up quite a bit doing other jobs, such as taking pictures, opening apps, etc.  I had this issue on the first Storm I bought, though it was just that one so I swapped it out under the warranty to find out that it seems to be the case with all of them.  Sad to say, I am very disappointed with the device.   

So the hunt began, what device do I like, what do I want, who’s service do I want.   I looked at many different service providers, many different phones
and was considering a Pay as you go phone such as AT&T has with the
ATT GoPhone service.  However after talking to many different people, many different service providers and I decided to give the iPhone a try.  Let me say, I’m a PC person, never really cared about Apple or AT&T.  That is until now…  The iPhone has blown me away, it’s very responsive, has not locked up yet, has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and I can answer a call when it comes in.  The only complaint I have so far about the iPhone is the lack of being able to send picture text, but I hear that we will be able to do that later this summer.  The iPhone takes great pictures, has great sound, easy to use, easy to navigate, etc.  I really like how the iPhone handles email, visual voicemail, and the overall file management of the system.  I am impressed, surprised but still impressed.  I may have to try some other Apple products.