AT&T messed up my wireless order, the phone number they assigned me was not in one of the area codes that I requested. The first customer service rep I spoke to was helpful and friendly enough, but was unable to change the phone number assigned to my SIM card. Ultimately she directed me to a local AT&T Wireless store to obtain a new SIM.
Getting the new SIM was painless enough, except that I had to stand around waiting for half an hour. While I was there I scoped out the new Panasonic GU-87 and the Sony-Ericsson HCB-30 Bluetooth speakerphone. The GU-87 is a gorgeous phone, the display makes the Nokia 3650 look like crap, but the $400 price tag seems out of whack with it’s features. The HCB-30, on the other hand, is a beautiful piece of kit at a great price ($250). The only part that has to be visible is the control piece pictured on the Sony-Ericsson site, and it is miniscule. The speaker and control box are small enough to be easily conceal in any car.
Back to the SIM, the AT&T store sent me home with a new SIM but I still had to call customer service again to activate it and get a new phone number. The process took 45 minutes over the phone, plus three hours for the new SIM to become active.
I’m not ready to say much of anything about the new phone itself yet. It’s been off the charger for about 40 hours now, with 35 minutes of talk time and a dozen photographs taken the battery gauge has dropped just one bar.
I still don’t have a Bluetooth adapter for my PC. My nearest Best Buy and Circuit City don’t carry any Bluetooth products. The Miami CompUSA had one USB adapter for $55, not any of the cheaper ones listed on their web site as being in-stock… I would have bought it anyway, but their single register was running slower than molasses going uphill in the winter time. I’ll probably hit the Sunrise CompUSA tomorrow, they usually have better stock and tolerable check-out times.
It’s probably bad form to leave both a trackback and a comment (albeit on different topics), but I just remembered you mentioning not finding the cheaper bluetooth adapter at Compusa despite it being listed in stock on the website.
I hit the exact same issue at my local Compusa, until I got a hunch and looked in the Mac section — the cheaper Belkin USB adapter was on the shelf with the Mac stuff, while the more expensive ones were over in the notebook section. Works fine on XP regardless.
Hope this helps.
I had that hunch too, but their Mac section was devoid of Bluetooth gear. Or anything else interesting. A sales droid finally found the $55 adapter for me, in the notebook area.