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Originally Posted by TallMomof2
Guess I'm a Verizon fangirl because I have Fios with my landline, Internet, and TV along with a wireless plan with three phones. DH moved from AT&T to Verizon Wireless because of coverage so we're totally Verizon. I'm not a huge fan but so far they've delivered what they promised when promised. No skipped installation appointments and (knock on wood) absolutely no hardware problems. Customer Service is hit or miss but I usually can find someone who can help me if I can't find the answer on their website.
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If it works for you, splendid. They have to get it right
sometime.
FIOS is attractive but not available in my area. Given the nature of the technology, I don't expect it to be any time soon. Retrofitting fiber to the doorstep in NYC will be a very neat trick. There's already an enormous amount of stuff under the street. The last time I had a major cable modem outage, the Fire Department(!) had been running new emergency communications lines. I was a little startled to see the cable trucks with the huge coils and FDNY blazons. I hadn't known they had that equipment. Unfortunately, they weren't as careful not to disturb the other stuff under the street as Verizon and the cable company are.
My cable company keeps pushing a package with cable TV, high speed internet, and VOIP phone service. I've been passing, because it wouldn't be a net savings. It makes sense only if you make a lot of long distance calls (where VOIP is significantly cheaper), and I make next to none. For the occasional call I do make, I have a Qwest LD package with a 5 cent/min flat rate anywhere in the US.
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I did buy an Ipod Touch, only 8gb, to replace my dying T|X and with the eReader app it's half as good as the T|X. If a MobiPocket app with the ability to read DRM shows up then the Touch will be as good as the T|X for reading. I still far prefer my Kindle for reading but I recently went on vacation and was 3 hours from the house when I realized I forgot my Kindle. Since I was 30 minutes from my destination I wasn't about to turn around to fetch my Kindle. My Touch was an adequate substitute but I only read inside.
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Does the Touch allow you to completely turn
off the backlight? The Zodiac will do that, and I can read it quite well out of doors. I couldn't do so with the old Tungsten E the Zodiac replaced, which was a problem. It turns out there was a hack that would let me do so on the TE, but I didn't discover it till the E was dying and being replaced.
If the touch will let you turn the backlight off, you might see if it makes it usable out of doors.
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It was a snap to download a few books from my Fictionwise bookshelf and I had reading material for the vacation. But I can tell you that WiFi is less handy than Whispernet. There's not always free WiFi available and even if Whispernet isn't available, that hasn't been a problem for me, I can still move books from my tablet in a pinch.
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That's a plus for my unit. I just dump ebook files directly into the appropriate directories on the SD cards with a USB reader. 3,500 and counting thus far...
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Dennis