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Centennial buyout phone choices

What an awful list of choices for a 'new' phone....

I am/was a long time Centennial customer and I recently recieved a letter about the fact that my phone (one that I paid good money for not even a year ago) will no longer be able to be used after July. The 'options' to replace my phone are limited and look like they come from the stone age. The options for my husband's phone is not much better and we weren't even given the same limited options. What awful, ugly, primitive phone choices all around. Seriously? *this* is the only option? I looked up the descriptions online to try and decide which phone to 'check' on their box and as far as I can tell, they're 'prepaid' phones!!!! WHAT?!?!?! I'm locked into a contract and I'm forced to choose these awful phones?!? It's not like I have the most basic plan out there.

At the very least they could continue to service my existing phone...but no...I'm heading backwards and will be a laughing stock with this crude ugly looking phone.

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Ann154

So... Exactly which phones are choices Verizon is offering? What type of phone or phones are you coming from? Maybe we can help you find the best comparable phone to what you are using now.

I recently had to go through a similar transition from Verizon to AT & T. The phone selection for that transition was pretty slim too. Especially for the smartphone comparables.

ChaunceyM_VZW

The current offer you received is for phones that would be free of charge. If you would like to expand your phone options, you will need to port your number to VZW. At which time, you will be able to pick any device we have available and get 25% off the cost. For questions about your phone options, you may call VZW Centennial Migration Support at 1-866-271-7623.

ChaunceyM_VZWSupport

nothappyinla

so I finally made it into a store to check on these phones that I'm supposed to receive and I wasn't even given this option. The lady basically told me "this is what you get, they're already ordered and I can't even show you the phone because we don't have them."

Regardless, 25% discount is not alot....I'd still have to pay for a decent phone when I have a phone I was perfectly content with....and I'm afraid to ask...but I'd probably have to sign a contract to upgrade, right? locking me in with a phone that's probably not worth it...BECAUSE: while I was there, I also asked about the reception, because I get crappy reception inside metal buildings. It took me forever to find one that would kinda work and now even this phone doesn't work. It's been getting consistently worse since Verizon took over. I work in metal buildings and I constantly have to go outside to get reception. When I complained, the sales lady compared the reception to her metalic roof, which is by no means the same thing!!! I can pick up a signal with a metal roof, it's in a totally metal building that I'm can't even text!! What I don't understand is why my coworker can get consistently wonderful reception with a little local company and a phone she's had for 5 years! but I can't get but maybe a few seconds of reception with the 'hear me now' people....

I'll wait to see how this *new* (gag, I still am upset on the 'sloppy seconds' of a prepaid phone) phone performs and wait til this contract runs out, if it's as much of a piece of junk as I'm expecting I'll be complaining to my local office yet again...not that I believe it will do any good, the people just smile at you like they didn't understand a word you said which makes me even more upset...don't smile, don't feed me stories...offer a solution!!!!!!!

Ann154

So which phones were your choices?

I asked before and you never answered.

nothappyinla

I didn't answer before because I rarely come here and didn't intend to come back, I just thought that maybe the powers that be might get ahold of this and consider their actions.

I was fooling myself, I know better than that! But because I was once again **bleep** off at this company, I came back and yet again, once more I am here today.

It really doesn't matter what I chose, they didn't send my choice to me anyway. I got this phone that has absolutely nothing on it and is difficult to determine if I can even send my contacts to it via bluetooth. I certainly can't send standard files that I tried to bluetooth from my laptop. And no way to save my contacts once I get them on here either, from what I can tell. At least with sim cards, worst case scenario, you could save it to the sim card and then save it to the new phone so if I lost a phone I could copy them from my husband's phone. This phone I can't even determine what the model is, the box is at my other home at the moment, and I had to use my laptop's bluetooth to find this much info: LG VX5600. I'm still getting service that is spotty at best and they freaking dropped a call while I was on the phone with my roadside assistance, when I was stuck on the interstate without emergency lights in the dark due to my alternator going out and the battery dying a mile from the next exit! I'd have been better off walking to the nearest phone!!! So much for the convience of a cell phone!

Crappy phone, with no features, no video, no games, nothing other than the very basic phone. It's an ugly clunky thing but oh wait! there is a camera but it LOVES taking pictures of the bottom of my purse!!! And no way to lock the external keys!!!!!

STONE AGE CRAP!

MojaveMoon_

to nothappyinla:

I apologize if you're already aware of this. I came across suggestions from a VX5600 owners and also from LG on transferring contacts.

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1627180-Advice-on-new-VX5600-transfer

(post #4)

http://www.lgforum.com/forum/boards/carriers/verizon/topics/vx-5600-bluetooth-connection

Ann154

That is curious that a clamshell style phone is capable of taking pictures on its own. While I didn't have that model, I don't recall my last clamshell style phone ever misbehaving like that.

What kind of phone were you using on Centennial?

There is a program called BitPim that might be able to allow you to transfer your contacts from your old phone to the current phone.

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