[Captivate General] Dani897:
no hating on visa is very well founded. 7 is awesome though. every laptop i have seen pre installed with vista was basically unusable without major registry tweeking and bloat removal, even after you lighten it up it still took about a week and a day to boot and shut down. also had more bsod problems than 7. but i abmit that xp and 98 and especially me and 95 were all just as bad at launch. 7 and 2000 and nt4 and and server 2008 were acceptable at launch. did i miss any?

on the otherhand att hatred is not well founded except for area where the network policies boot you for talking too long when there is traffic, it sux to loose a call when you have 5 bars.

the alternative is really just verizon which is acceptable as a neccesary evil if you package it with fios tv phone and internet. but there advertising and bloat all over there better phones ruins everything. i dont want my cell phone hyjacking my browser when i plug it in to transfer files or charge and taking me to verizon sites to download verizon crap software that i dont need to manage music on my phone when the phone manufacturer and microsoft and apple all gave me similar programs for free that i didn't want either but need for various reasons. the insurance is expensive (but you can apply it to the iphone, so if you like apple go verizon) throttled data, obserd overages if you have a limited data or text plan, and did i mention that they lie through there teeth? when discussing whether i would switch over a verizon sales rep showed me a map that was of att's hspa coverage and it was antiquiated. there was very little coverage and no coverage showing in areas that i knew had coverage, they told me that it was att's 3g not the hspa and passed it off as current, ten showed me there 3g with no reference to what data speed i might expect on that map and tried to pass it off as a fair comparison showing how bad att was... they thought i was that dumb! that was enough to decide not to switch. oh and the sales reps dont help people in the store they stand around and chat and look over everything, my att reps are always working when i walk in and dont let customers go unserved.

i mean the other alternatives are run t-mo and never have service and throttled data and a weird 3g band that some international phones probably don't support. otherwise i dont know much about t-mo because noone i know has it

or go with sprint which is cdma has slow 3g. a 4g network that you cant find anywhere, unlimited everything for $60 a month that actually costs $85 for some inexplicable reason, cant surf web and talk at the same time very well, large, thick, cheap looking smart phones, throttled data, charge for call forwarding so you cant use google voice, charge for voicemail transcriptions on there own visual viocemail, load ther phones with bloat, charge for teathering, (att you can add to the plan as you need it and remove it. it is supposed to be prorated and can be added or removed at will as can any feature only excluding talk plans which can be expanded but not reduced) the service sux, the sales reps are rude and dont know the product but think that they know it better than you, there is little care for warenty and insureance repairs, they told my sister she had water damage on a blackberry after the destoyed her bezels and failed to get the phone open to check the indicators which did not show water exposure (i checked myself before we found a qualified repair center), the phone was just plain broke and more so after they took a screwdriver where a soft tool was needed when screws were still in place holding it together! the insurance is more expensive, big deductable on smartphones, did i mention that they suck?

ok im not an att lover but without t-mo what is your choice?