--Have been with Verizon for ages but they don't support Blackberry.
The only QWERTY keyboard phone they sell has a 4-hour battery. Can anyone
tell me what kind of battery life they're getting out of T-Mobile compatible
devices with similar keyboard layouts?

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Prepaid makes more economic sense for my current situation.
But the guy at the store says if I move from a regular billed
account to prepaid there's a significant chance that I'll lose my
phone number - which enough people have in their phonebooks that

Launched a website to protect you cell phone minutes to reach the
maximum allowed minutes.
www.stopoverage.com
its a free tool and you get free email alerts.

When aways from home, especially when driving, it's virtually impossible
to take notes while talking to somebody and it would be very useful if
there was some record button on the phone to capture any part of a
conversation. I haven't seen any such mobile phones. Anybody knows of ...