Sorry everyone. Either my ISP or the wireless radio my ISP installed messed up for eleven hours today (!?!) and thus I'm not putting an article up until now...but here goes...
First off, Pocket currently has the most phones available, retail, of any unlimited carrier, though I'm thinking it has the least *ever* available, what with it being only nine months old and all...anyway it has phones that range from the old but good, $90 LG vx3200 to the Razr v3m, at $280, to the $360 KRZR, to the $600 Palm Treo 650 (marked as "coming soon")...
Second, it looks so far as though Pocket is aiming to contigiously cover all of Texas' main cities, as opposed to other unlimited carriers' more scattergun approaches. This, plus an assortment of good high-end phones (Motorola v323i for example...my phone), plus just plain good (though PCS) coverage, gets this carrier high marks for service...as long as you aren't using the Audiovox 8910 or the Kyocera K132...ech...
Third, Pocket's plans are competitive feature-wise with everyone else's, or will be shortly (with the advent of roaming and a coming-soon ringtone\game store on-phone). Except they're invariably cheaper...Pocket costs with taxes and fees less than other unlimited carriers cost without them...which is very nice...except when CricKet purposefully cheapened their plans to compete...all of which is great...
Speaking of costs, the phones do cost more on average than they do on the other two unlimited carriers...up to $60 more, it looks like. But the price difference on service should make up for that discrepancy quickly...
Yes, I know, I'm right now a Pocket fanboy, simply because their service is fine and if it isn't there are people "on the other end" who will do their best to make it right. Plus, their phones are as of yet unbranded, which means that you can transfer files over Bluetooth to your heart's content, and use the phone's user interface the way the designer (now Verizon, for example) intended it...all in all very good...
Pocket was actually the main reason taht I started this site, along with Boost's new unlimited plan...there is now competition among unlimited carriers, and Pocket is a prime example of competition, so far, done right, to the tune of 100,000 plus subscriber signups in the carrier's first nine months of existance.
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