Thanks for the compliments. That's the whole mission of the RT; to create unbiased reviews. In my mindset, I want to expose the product for everything it is. This includes the good, the bad, and the ugly. By the end of the review, if the reader hasn't been shown the worst case scenario of the product/app, then I haven't one my job. Now for the money saved, you're right, at the beginning, you aren't saving much. However, in the long run, an iPhones plan costs around 60 dollars minimum a month (most likely more) where as a Dumbphone plan can go much lower 45 for unlimited everything except minutes (I don't know a single person so far that uses all their minutes each month). 15 dollars a month pays off in the long run since it compiles for 2 years. Like you said, it is up to opinion. The speeds and everything are a lot lower as well. So in a way, everything balances out. The real question, like you put it, becomes: are the drawbacks of the product worth the positive features of the product? And it can go either way depending on how you use your iPod. Once they support volume changing on headphones (I'm a man that loves his music and headphones if you don't already know), I'll be switching myself to the Raisoo and adding a data plan.
I haven't done my homework so I was hoping someone could show me the 10 dollar data plan with Unlimited Texting on ATT seeing as how I have a "feature phone" (dumb phone) (HTC Freestyle) this could be of interest to me.
You'd have to go see an AT&T salesperson/rep and ask them to attach a dumbphone (or non-smartphone) dataplan to your account for your specific phone.
LMAO you haven't met my mom...she wastes average 600 minutes, and the other two people on my acct besides me and my wife use 1200 together...but yea, I think there's benefits to both sides, people just have to know what exactly it is that they're looking for
OMG... Like... I don't know how to respond to that. So many minutes. Only thing I have to say is... I stand corrected LOL.
Well you guys haven't met MY mom. We have a 1400 minutes plan. Last month she used up 1000 of our minutes. My dad used up about 200, and the rest of us kids used an average of about 30 each (4 kids). Crazy.
yeah and way too thick. I thought the photo on the top was it compared to an iPhone 4...I'm still not convinced that it's that thick..
Styling is fine, I'm fine with the styling. As for the thickness, it's .5 inches thick. In reality, compared to most phones, it isn't that thick. It is quite large though, I'll agree with that.
As for the initial cost argument, you can subtract 199 to that price for users who already own an iPod (which is many on this site). Also for the time being, the audio fix can be expidited with a volume control adaptor or headphone. Although not ideal, I am considering this option for my peel 520 (which you will read about next month).
