Dude, I feel for you. Sounds like you got a totally f**ked phone. SD card shouldn't be a problem on a handset with less than 6 months on the clock.
Also, only half an hour of calls? What the hell is that? I can't remember what I get on my tariff cos I text more than call, but I get at least 10 hours of free calls, nevermind any after that. Why do they limit your calls to half an hour? Is it like a block to stop you running up your bill or is that the norm in the US?
actually i am in canada. I just moved provinces (similar to states in US). I moved from toronto ontario to halifax nova scotia,which is 3 provinces over and roughly 2000 km's.
In canada we are pretty screwed with lack of competition for service. It is not near as competitive as the US. It is improving, but slowly. Even when a new carrier tries to compete they cannot share any of the towers the others use, or something like that. So they only cover major cities and its roaming outside.
I am starting a new business and need a smart phone badly. Previously i had a basic nokia phone that had almost no smart phone capability and yet for calls was brilliant in sound and the handset i threw around hoping it would break..but it never did.
Now it appears in getting a new one, that in canada they get away with extremely tight limits on usage to determine if its a phone for you. Once you sign a contract (and unless willing to pay $500cdn or more) you sign 3 yr contracts. I wish it were shorter, but you then shell out way more money.
With this carrier which is typical. You get it turns out, fifteen days or half hr talk, whichever comes first. Well of course in driving to my new city destination, i used a few hours of usage in the first day or so alone. So already, based on that, i was stuck.
I just got off the phone and the carrier rep was informed of my problems from the rep helping me from the electronics seller. She did ask how i felt about apple iphone 4? I dont know why i am so iphone biased, vs android..but i just for some reason like my mp3's, like the look of most android formats and the open source.
Then again maybe i should have gone that route. Give in. Its a more expensive handset, and i am guessing after my issues she would not have made me pay it, due to all the problems i have had. Maybe an iphone 4 at least gives me security they control software development? i dont know.
She did not promise anything but said she wants me happy, even if it means leaving the contract. She did say i cannot go back to original seller but i have not shared on here all the issues i had buying it.
I have extenuating circumstances that could allow me to get out either with original electronics seller or with carrier rogers.
In brief...the guy selling to me told me my area of coverage is good with this carrier (turns out its the worst of all, even the rep on phone today admitted this), i asked if any promotions were on like gift cards, he said no. Then i saw and showed receipt to local rep after the fact at best buy and he said it showed not only was i entitled to a $75 gift card, but that it was issued at time of sale and more checking by sister company rep at future shop, showed it was already used up in toronto.
in other words guy ripped me off, knew i wasnt coming back to that province anytime soon, took my card, told me coverage was good, its not, told me the sony had multi touch.
yes, read that right, told me it had it! Then after i was ready to leave store i could not get it to pinch and zoom and at first he said i must not have it enabled...then he talked to someone and came back and asked "what is your definition of multi touch"
huh?
my definition? i said..i dont know..isnt there only one version...you pinch,you zoom. He replied that it is done different with sony and to play around at home, which at time sounded ok, till i got home. I would try zooming in on web pages and it was easy to accidentally hit an url and go to another page. Could never get it to pinch and zoom..which of course i know understand...doesnt have it.
so you see i was lied to, stolen from (re gift card) and so, i have to decide what do i do in this rare opp to get out.
Rep locally at rogers the carrier is leaning to getting me another x10 with opportunity to ensure it works for me. I assume that means if i change my mind a while from now, i can still get out, otherwise i will ask out of contract now.
or i go back to original store chain who ripped me off and ask for that to be cancelled and let them deal with it.
Or i get an iphone 4 and give in? She did throw one curveball at me, that they are have no other high tier quality android, only lower ones, but will be getting the samsung captivate in one mth.
I could go that route assuming she would do that.
But then i still have that coverage issue original seller lied about. He said coverage is good, but its only in the main city, outside a company called bell is great..or..funny enough..telus the company i left after 3 years, they share coverage of all of nova scotia and are good.
hopefully if you made it thru this long winded post, not only the member i am replying to, but all others that may have lumped me in as just a sony hater will understand me a bit more.
My sony crashes constantly and does not give me gps maps which i desperately need as i dont know this city and area and does many odd things, that lock up etc. I wanted it to work.
I have this rare opp to get out and yet dont know what to do..oh and one last thing..i would hate to lose the plan i have as not only was it limited time and current ones are not even close...but..it turns out to sell me on it, the sales person put in a feature the reps admitted i shouldnt have, its meant for students ony. I didnt know that....sigh.
Understand me a bit better? Any further advice...re how to proceed..anyone?
thx
) They said there was nothing that could be done about it. I went into 1 of their branches and spoke to someone and they sent it off for a firmware update. It fixed the problems, but removed some of the languages available, including Italian dictionary, which I use for texting family. No biggie, just inconvenience.
