[JackG058]

Originally Posted by Protonus

LoL hi from Roclife... it's nice when others use their same alias elsewhere too.
So from someone who's lived in Rochester too as long as he's had a cellphone, like you said, sprint sucks. I've had since before they existed since they bought my previous carrier, Bell Atlantic Mobile. I've never really wanted to switch. Verizon's service and coverage has always been the best around here, hands down.

But it's not just the coverage, but the CLARITY as well. Take an identical phone on both platforms (I did this just last December with the Sprint Mogul vs the Verizon xv6800) and the Verizon phone will sound far better and less compressed.

Also the SPEED of the Rev. A EVDO service is superior on Verizon around here too. That may be just due to the fact that the signal strength is higher, but either way, I use my mobile internet a lot and that's big to me.

As you mentioned, Verizon to Verizon calling is huge, almost everyone I know has a Verizon phone, almost no one my/our age has a home phone anymore, so that means that I use very few of my minutes on a regular basis because the majority of the calls I make are to verizon phones. Furthermore, you get IN texting with a good text plan, so that all your texts are free too, and picture messages, and video messages, as long as it's to a Verizon subscriber.

The Sprint version of this phone is ugly... just throwing that out there too lol.

I just bought a Touch Pro2 to replace my xv6800 and it will be here Tuesday if not Monday. I've been waiting for a device like this since before my xv6800. Can't wait.

Pretty much everything you state is is strictly user preference, location, or personal experience. Just wanted to make that distinction. I can say pretty much exactly what you have said, except from the Sprint side. Most everyone I know has Sprint (but of course that doesn't matter anymore since I can call any cell phone without using minutes now), the Sprint signal in my area is best of all carriers, and I've used them all. And I like the Sprint look as much as I do Verizons. My point is that typically we either express opinion or give points based upon where we are physically located. What holds true for one will not necessarily hold true for another. Well, except the fact that Verizon will try and nickel and dime you as much as they can. That hold true across the board. I've experienced that one too.