So, I realize I’m roughly 6 weeks over due for an update on this whole thing, but been busy so feck it. So apparently roughly around the end of July AT&T finally released the c905a Yippee!, right. Wrong. Yeah they released, I’m happy don’t own one yet though. I admit it, I expected it to be an expensive with all the stuff that Sony added into the phone. Wifi, 8.1 Mpixel, DLNA, geo-tagging, GPS, Video Share, Exchange Server support and so forth.
Well thing is first off, AT&T decided to rip all those out, no wifi, still got the camera & the geo-tagging, but the GPS & Video Share has to use their stuff. No Google Products allowed. I can get past that mainly because as a Sony it’s easily debrand-able and as such I restore it to its original functionality although doing so I might lose 3G functionality, but really who really uses 3G outside of a business setting. So the real bee in my bonnet is the price. I know I expected it to be high, but 179.99 not bad, heck even Amazon has it down at 124.99,cept if I use Amazon, there’s a fair chance I either lose my corporate discount or I lose my plan options or both.
SO that in mind, I can easily sacrifice 50 bucks now considering how much I’d save in the long run. After all, 50 bucks < 13% service discount. I think just about anybody can live with that. But then, they decide to mention that oh this is a rebate price, you really pay 229.99 and get 50 buck back in rebate. And I eventually get it back so maybe, just maybe I can live that, but the annoying part is the $18.00 fee they will tack on because (and I love this) I get a discount. Yes you can read that again, discounts = an $18.00 fee.
It’s not bad enough I got to spend an extra $50, just to get the phone and have the discounts applied and an extra $50 right off the bat because it’s a rebate, but an additional $18 because I have a discount. Boy, that other phone for $399.99 just keeps looking more and more like a better offer every day.