So, I realize I’m roughly 6 weeks over due for an update on this whole thing, but been busy so feck it.\u00a0 So apparently roughly around the end of July AT&T finally released the c905a Yippee!, right. Wrong.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s a rebate,\u00a0 but an additional $18 because I have a discount. Boy, that other phone for $399.99 just keeps looking more and more\u00a0 like a better offer every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So, I realize I’m roughly 6 weeks over due for an update on this whole thing, but been busy so feck it.\u00a0 So apparently roughly around the end of July AT&T finally released the c905a Yippee!, right. Wrong.\u00a0 Yeah they released, I’m happy don’t own one yet though. I admit it, I expected it to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tecchief.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tecchief.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tecchief.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tecchief.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tecchief.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.tecchief.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.tecchief.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tecchief.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tecchief.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tecchief.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}