Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
FOR SALE: Sprint Blackberry Bold 9650 w/ accessories
Comments (3)UPDATE – THIS PHONE IS NO LONGER FOR SALE
While i’ve truly enjoyed the Sprint Blackberry Bold 9650, the coverage and plan usage I have is just not justifying the cost. If I could easily port this over to a Verizon account, I would do it in a heartbeat. However, that’s not happening. More details about the device here – http://shop.sprint.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/DisplayPhones?phoneSKU=SPRIM9650
Phone is in average condition though it does work perfectly. Additional photos will be taken upon request. Software is currently the latest leaked build of OS 6, but I can downgrade to the latest Sprint OS 5 if you’re interested. The phone runs on EVDO here in the US, and roams internationally on GSM carriers worldwide. The SIM slot is unlocked, and any SIM can be accepted. I also have the MSL code, so you are free to hack away at the device as you please. The phone comes with a all original items, plus a few additional accessories. Total retail price of the package is over $500. Please leave your best offer for this entire package, $200 starting price.
Serious buyers only please. Leave a comment to the post if you’re interested, I will moderate/not approve comments, so your information will only be seen by me.
Buyer gets the following:
- Sprint Blackberry Bold 9650
- Original Battery
- AC Adapter
- microUSB cable
- Unopened stereo headphones
- Stock leather belt holster
- All packaging and paperwork
- Desktop/Nightstand Dock
- Extra Battery
- Standalone battery wall charger with USB outlet
- Hard side case
PSA: Halloween Warning, no texting while flying
A quick PSA on this Friday before Halloween. Make sure you pay attention when you head out trick or treating this Sunday. And of course, no texting while flying…
Fox News Parody – Social Media at its finest
Of course…this will be tweeted and posted on my facebook wall…
FOR SALE – iPad 16GB
It’s time…time for the upgrade to the iPad 3G for me. If you are interested, I am selling the iPad for $550 shipped in the US. To contact me, please leave a comment to this post with your email, and I will email you directly. Otherwise, send me an @ reply on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/tcpj_mickey.
See the gallery below, but the iPad is in pristine, just came out of the box condition. It comes with the power cord, box and all original packaging material. It will even be shipped to you in the same cardboard box Apple ships them out in.
mickeypapillon.com configuration change
This isn’t all that exciting for most of you, but something that I have been putting off for a while. I’ve finally mapped mickeypapillon.com to the wordpress site so all posts are now mickeypapillon.com/date/title. Prior to this, the wordpress address was the one that showed up for all posts, and I simply had the domain forwarded over to the site. Now after transition the site over, I realize how easy this is to do, and should have done it long ago!
Whitewater Rafting on the Poudre River and Skydiving above the Rockies
We had a very exciting weekend up in Colorado which included Whitewater Rafting down the Poudre River outside of Fort Collins, and Skydiving over the Rockies out of Longmont. Please click on the photo below to see the full albums.
Baseball is almost here!
I’m watching the news right now and they announced that pitchers and catchers for many of the teams are reporting for practice starting tomorrow.
Tomorrow!!!
I’m a huge baseball fan, and Spring Training is one of my favorite times of year. Can’t wait for it!
To SERO or not to SERO
My day job is contemplating providing Blackberry devices to additional positions, and I could be one of the recipients. If that happens, I wouldn’t need to use the workaround that I have to get my corporate email on my mobile devices. If that happens, I need to take a look at what I am going to do with my personal phone. Right now, we are AT&T subscribers and between my Treo and my wife’s Blackberry, we spend over $130 per month. This gives us 700 minutes, plus data and 1500 SMS messages on my line and 200 SMS messages on my wife’s. If a move was made to Blackberries for me, I wouldn’t necessarily need the Treo, so I started thinking about a SERO plan from Sprint.
If you haven’t heard of SERO, check them out at the SERO site on Sprint. The SERO plans that I am thinking of are the $30 per month plans that have 500 minutes. These plans give also include N/W minutes starting at 7pm, Unlimited Data, Unlimited SMS, Unlimited MMS, Unlimited M2M minutes and all the other regular features on a Sprint plan. I started doing the math, and the cost per month with these plans is about 50% of what we are paying now. If you take into account that we would have to pay $350 in early termination fees, switching would take about 6 months to save enough money to make it worth our switch. After that, we’d save $60 per month, very appealing.
So the question of the week for me has been, do we make the switch? As much as I’d like to call up and start the process right now, we are going to wait a few weeks to see if I actually get a Blackberry in my hand. Stay tuned!
Dialed in from CNET Podcast!
I had the opportunity today to be a special guest on the CNET dialed in podcast. We talked about text messaging rate increases on AT&T and the unlocking of iPhone. Head over to Dialedin.CNET.com to download and listen to the show. A special thanks to Kent, Bonnie and Nicole for having me on!
Sling on Blackberry
Uh oh, one of the last major obstacles from having the perfect mobile device may be out of the way now. Gizmodo has a story here where they talk about using the Slingplayer on the Blackberry in the near future. Let’s hope this officially gets announced at CES.
Next up, let’s see a 3G connection and I’m sold!
