An Adventure with the IPhone 4

So, you know we are newly a Mac family.  I have been debating (for literally a year-asking people on both sides of the "issue") on whether or not I wanted another BlackBerry when my renewal came up or whether I wanted to go IPhone.

I made a bunch of pro-con lists (here are the main points I kept writing down).

BlackBerry 
Pros
Instant Email (I mean faster than my computer sometimes)
Click screen of the Storm (wasn't ready to go all the way touch screen back when the Storm came out)
Cons
Yucky apps (okay, almost non-existent)
Storage memory allocation was silly (umm hello- if I have a memory card in my phone, shouldn't I be able to save my apps (the few I could find) there??)

IPhone 
Pros
Awesome Apps
Better product organization/function
Cons
only on AT&T
Not instant email access (do I really need this??)

Well, now Verizon is carrying the IPhone 4!  Hooray!  Scratch the "Only on AT&T" point.

Matt and I both have upgrades available on our accounts.  He thought he originally wanted an Android phone, but was very interested in the phone "Skype" type chatting we could do together (with Isabella) on the IPhone.

Well, on Tuesday Matt (and inevitably I) got up at 2:30 in the morning to log on to Verizon's site and order our new IPhones.  He actually go in before the 3am opening (who knows how that worked- maybe b/c the site went down at 2:45 due to too much traffic), selected the phones we wanted. 

Now comes the LET'S TALK A DEAL portion of the story!!

We got the smaller IPhone- 16 gig- since we both have IPods dedicated to our music libraries and knew we wouldn't be using the Phone for a lot of music.

The IPhone 4- 16 gig version sells for $199.

So, like I mentioned, our account had upgrades on both phone numbers (Matt's as well as my number).  That right there is $100 off each phone.  Rock on.  Now they only cost $99 each.

Then we had previously done some research to find out that we can sell our BlackBerries back to a company that Verizon uses for 50 buck a pop (Cha-Ching!).  That brings each phone down to a whopping $49.

So our family got 2 IPhone 4s for a whopping $98 (less than I was going to spend to buy myself one at AT&T) and our data package (unlimited use) didn't change a bit!!  WAHHOOO!

Verizon is shipping the phone directly to current subscribers' homes OVERNIGHT FREE OF CHARGE, so after processing the order and shipping it out- we got our phones today!  Rock on AGAIN!

Three whole days to download whatever I want to customize it to my tastes before we can set it up for the network on Thursday.  Setting it up on the network can be done at our home!  Wahoo again.  We don't have to go to the Verizon store and fight the MADDENING CROWDS to turn it on.  yay.

Go us for getting a great deal on a cool phone!