Spint has a "credit limit" for each account. Supposedly this credit limit is supposed to "go up" every 3-6 months or so, but for some reason my account never did for 3 years.

Eventually the PPC 6700 comes out and I order it via telesales since it wasn't in stock at any of the stores. Or more accurately the stores were reserving the phones in stock for "new customers only."

Whatever.

So when you order anything on your account it bills your account and then if you pay immediately it cancels out the item you paid for.

Example: Credit limit of $126 monthly. My monthly bill was around $62 dollars.

The new phone was $399..

So the telesales bills my account $399 (399+62=461) putting me $335 over the "spending limit."

This kicks in Sprints automated "shut off if over limit" feature and my phone gets cut off. Never mind the fact that I paid immediately via CC. Since the bill went over my spending limit it immediately shut off my service.

So I call in to clear this up and they explain to me i went over my spending limit. I ask them to check my balance which they say $62.

Seeing an error the CSR rep tries to "help" me. I have no clue what they did, but my phone turned on after 3 hours.

Afterwards, every month when my bill was due I would start getting text messages at 6 am, every hour letting me know my phone would get cut off if I didn't pay my bill.

Except my bill is automatically paid and that I was well under the "spending limit".

Soon at 8 am I would get automated phone calls about this too.

It was driving me insane.

Eventually I called up sprint and no one would talk to me because some how, my account was listed as an "employee account".

I called up the "employee account" service department number i was given and they too could not help me because my account was (to them) not an employee account.

I spent about 14 hours of 3 days calling back and forth to get this straightened up.

Eventually I went to sprintusers.com and got the number of the business and executive services department.

The business department never got back to me but eventually someone in the executive services department helped me out. It took 3 days to resolve and on the 3rd day I got a call saying they have removed my "spending limit."

pnkssbtz

ackthbbft

johnniewalker

love the iphone, hate the verizon (and hate apple for being dicks about unlocking and 3rd party apps).

ntrgc89

gazorp

itchytooth

ekornblum

ThriftyTechie

50% of the folks inline with me on iDay were swapping from another carrier to AT&T.

MINI Driver

Simpsons-Movie-ruled

It really is the Jesus Phone. Especially when you have it hacked with 3rd Party Apps. The wealth of awesomeness this phone can provide is almost limitless because of the hackers.

iPhone. Best. Gadget. Ever.

ITsPennywise

If my employer were to ditche Lotus Notes I would consider switching to a hacked iPhone.

freelunch

It's awesome. 3G, Edge when 3G isn't available, hardware keyboard, touch screen, windows mobile apps, AND GPS built in. Tilt screen for easy viewing while you type.

Can use it as a modem for your laptop, as well.

All this for $299. PDAs need keyboards if you want to do anything serious with them. Virtual keyboards are for the birds.

dcartist

mstolfe

I too just got the Kaiser. It's fantastic.

Neight

Ashman

thud3333

I doubt the watermark status of asking Giz readers. Since in the wild I have now only seen 3 since launch, on being returned one at an art thing and one in a very bad neighborhood(all three I'm not joking). What is you guys compared the sales figures for the HTC Touch that I hear is doing really well without all the Apple hype.

Ultraorange

Kryptinite

SirIsaac

pgh

bowpair

Oneon1isto

leicaman

mechanisma22

I don't miss either of them. The Treo was fine but the Motorola UI was (is) such garbage.

chefmitch

mechanisma22

ProtoDAda

liquidsoapdispenser

SpacePenguinBot

It was definitely a touch transition though.

I also have a blackberry curve for work, and I don't understand people who claim that it can do everything an iPhone does. The only thing that makes me use it is the integrated BES (which is all server-side).

InfoMofo

emergeoriginal

Neight

danmandle

Mr. Black

Nyle

SockMonkey

mcgarry83

Checking my corporate e-mail using IMAP with the iPhone is fine. It just doesn't delete from the server when you delete a message. It will mark them read though.

Also, for you non-IMAP people- I usually for crackberrys just forward peoples stuff to them as well as their exchange mailbox for example. You could get your IT to do the same and forward it to a yahoo account. Yahoo's supposed to have push on iPhone. Let iTunes sync your contacts from outlook.

The only thing not friendly is the billing. AT&T will not do iPhone on a business account. I have to bill to myself at my work address and have the receptionist make sure she gets that bill to accounts payable.

Oh, and the fact that I can't get insurance.

NNTPgrip

shukcb04

Joseph

bms

websyndicate

Riemannian

PJK

Oh. Wait, no they don't.

- Xidius

Xidius

PJK