Tales from the mobile impaired

I recently upgraded phones from a problematic Blackberry to a slick Droid touchscreen.  The salesman at T-Mobile told me "welcome to the modern mobile market."

I purchased a Motorola DEFY.  A slick touchscreen, water and scratch resistant, and most importantly 3G data speeds.

Courtesy of Motorola

It's a cool phone, and I like it a lot.  Droids are smooth machines, and I'm never touching a Blackberry again.

However, there's one small problem...  T-Mobile didn't mention coverage.

You see, they don't have 3G coverage in this area.  Nor do they have any plans to add 3G in this area.

Light Pink = 2G  ALL of Idaho is this shade of 'lame' pink...

The salesman assumed we had the coverage, because he kept telling me how much faster it was.  He actually tried to upsell me to a 4G phone, but I was happy with 3G, since it was 20 times faster than I was used to.

But wait!  I still don't see a change in data!  Why?  Oh yeah, it's Idaho.  T-Mobile doesn't care about Idaho.

Meh.

I wish I would have known that before I got a new phone & extended my contract.  It's also a shame, because other larger carriers have 3G.  Verizon is working on 4G around here.  They're just way more expensive than T-Mobile.

But, I guess this is a perfect example of 'you get what you pay for' isn't it?

This feels like the driving speed post from months ago (link), about buying a beefy sports car and only being able to drive 25 in town.  I have a hot-rod phone, but am limited because of lame-ass coverage in my local area.

I'm like a caveman, writing messages on slate with a chisel, while everyone around me is emailing or texting.  *dink dink dink* "Hi honey..." *dink dink dink* "What sounds good for dinner tonight?"

Notice how I'm not even talking about 4G?  I'm trying to be only one step behind technology, instead of 2...  I don't even wanna think about 4G until I can step up to 3...

Oh well.  At least I have Angry Birds...

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