[Marilyn]

We're on the Cingular (now AT&T) Family Plan. I actually have two cell phones. One my company provides and my own personal phone. They are all AT&T (formerly Cingular) because they provide the best coverage in this area. Sprint, T-Mobile and Verison are all very sketchy and won't work everywhere. There a a few spots where AT&T cuts out, but for the most part, we get a strong signal.

My company phone is a cheap but very durable Motorola. I forget the model, but it's very thin, not a flip phone, and silver.

My personal phone is an iPhone, and I LOVE IT. My iPhone is absolutely wonderful. Love the touch screen with the icons for calendar, calculator, phone, text messages, etc. Everything is touch and APPLE had done an amazing job organizing everything to make it easy. You push a button to activate the screen and across the top is the time and date. Never have to hunt for a calendar. You touch and slide across the bottom of the screen to access the main screen or answer a call. No need to lock the keypad when you put it in your purse. There is a switch on the side to go from silent to ringing, no button to push that gets pushed accidently in your purse and set to vibrate when you did not want it to. There is an icon for Google maps, so if I need to know where something is, just google it. It has internet, so if you need to know the phone number of some business, google it. Any bit of information you need quickly while on the road, google it. I know I'm being redundent, but that's how useful and wonderful this little device is. I bought a silicone sleeve (pink) with a hard clear plastic case that it slips in to. It makes it a little bigger, but I really like the size. It's easy to find in my purse, and it's a good size to hold when on the phone. It is also an iPod, but don't use that feature, currently. I'm not much into music. I have XM radio in my truck and mostly listen to talk radio or news. I like to keep up on what is happening in the world. Whenever you want to reply to a text message, you touch a little reply icon, and a touch keyboard pops up across the bottom of the screen that's about the size of the one on the blackberry. It's pretty easy to type on. If you hit a wrong key, it anticipates what you meant to type and auto corrects, though you have to watch, sometime it anticipates the wrong word.

As you guessed, I could go on and on. Hubby got this for me for Christmas, and I thought it was an extravagance I did not need. As you can see, I don't want to ever have to give it up. On the family plan, to have the extra line is 9.99 per month. We pay about 30.00 for the unlimited data service. I share the family plan minutes and with free mobile-to-mobile (within AT&T), I don't think it's too bad. Hubby pays the bill on this one, so I never see it. The iPhone helps me keep in touch with our girls, so he thinks it's worth the extra cost, plus with as much as I drive, he likes me having the map feature. A GPS would do that too, but I like google maps.

Okay, I'll go back in my cave and be quiet now.