Why Verizon makes life so difficult is beyond me…
About 12 years ago, I wrote a couple of reviews for pocketnow related to very early PocketPC phones – the Samsung i700 and the hands free kit that went with it. The i700 itself was about $500 – $600 depending on the length of the contract that your got with the phone. The hands free kit (read: car it), which in today’s much more advanced Bluetooth enabled world would be handled by your car radio and some kind of universal mounting kit, made it safe and easy to make and place calls on the go. It was $200. (I paid a combined total of $700, which translates to $987 in today’s dollars when you factor in inflation.)
The point in heading down memory lane is that back in the day, when anyone at Verizon Wireless saw a PocketPC phone coming, the store associates ran the other way. None of them understood it, and knew that their company made working with the devices very difficult.
Unfortunately, that hasn’t changed much…
