Hi CT Community,
I’m currently a satisfied Dare user wondering if it’s worth it to upgrade. I have searched the forum – found answers to a few questions but still have more before I pull the trigger to switch over. I’m getting conflicting info from different VZN reps with respect to the required data for the CT. Some say that V-Cast (which I currently have @ $15) can be grandfathered in, meaning that I’d maintain the unlimited data cap, as opposed to the $10 25M data cap. Anyone able to utilize the grandfathered V-Cast as opposed to a required data plan?? Another question please… anyone know if the CT can be tethered (temporarily switching to broadband service, 5G cap) like the Dare?? Thanks for the help..
jerry
Well, I just switched from the Dare to the CT and I am pretty happy with my choice.
In my other thread I talk about the advantage of the CT over the Dare. It's mostly to do with it's functionality as an MP3 player. As far as that goes, it's got many advantages over the Dare.
Other than that, there are still a bunch of small things that you can tell they gave the CT more thought when building it, than the Dare. The Dare makes a descent music phone, considering it wasn't really geared for that purpose. But the CT was clearly designed with that in mind.
I was looking at iPods and Zunes and such online this morning, and I was thinking cellphones are going to totally make those things obsolete in about 5 years. For my purposes, it already has. I own a 5th generation 80Gb iPod (Video), and it just about never gets used anymore. I have a 16Gb Micro-SDHC card in my CT (had it in the Dare too) and I've got about 2000 songs on it, and plan on putting about 1500 more on it soon. (My MP3 collection is just short of 8000. But a lot of songs I don't ever listen to. But even with just 16Gb, I can put the majority of songs that I like to listen to on the phone. And since I have the phone with me everywhere I go anyway, I don't have to carry an iPod around with me too. I have a thing where I can plug my phone into my car, and play my music through my stereo (and talk handsfree as well). I can plug it into my PA system at home, if I want to jam along with a song in my garage. I can plug it into my church's PA system if I want to show the praise band a song I want to try out. And of course I can plug headphones into it as well, though I rarely do.
It's just about the perfect phone for me. The Dare was almost the perfect phone for me, but the CT definitely is.
It's not perfect of course.
I've had a couple of random reboots so far. And for some reason when I take a picture and try to save it to the memory card, it fails. I don't know what is causing that. It just started doing it lately. I can still save pictures to the phone, but not the card. I am gonna contact customer service about that one, maybe today actually.
And I think the landscape keyboard is a little laggy compared to the Dare. I mean, it's not like I'm typing 45wpm on that thing anyway, but even as slow as I type, I can sense some lag. It's not a huge problem or anything, and if I'd never typed on the Dare before I probably wouldn't even have noticed it. But it is what it is.
Overall, I think the CT takes most of what the Dare was good at, and improves the few things the Dare was not so good at, and makes a very good phone, especially for those of us who like to use our phone as an MP3 player as well.
PS. I don't know about the grandfathering-in of the V-Pak plan, but that would be a great deal if they did that for you. Half as expensive as the unlimited data plan nowadays.
