For those of you who may be interested in buying a “smartphone” (and accessories) on eBay at a ridiculously reduced price, you’ll want to check out my latest eBay auction where I’m selling my Treo 700p!

The software upgrades for the phone have pretty much taken away all of the problems that I had with it, so you should be good to go!

Enjoy!

The worst phone that I have ever purchased in my entire life is broken once again. This phone is the Treo 700p from Verizon Wireless. It’s a disaster - a complete and total disaster of a phone. Not only have I had problems from this “smart” phone in the past, but the contract that I’m locked into keeps me with this piece of shit until August 2008.

I’m being held hostage by Verizon Wireless.

The problem this time around is that my touchscreen seems to work on all parts of the screen, except the middle. So this means that any time I put the stylus on the center of the page, the phone doesn’t recognize it. And what’s so bad about that? Well, the obvious - I can’t get this thing to work the right way and I spent over $600 on the package when I purchased it.

But through some no-good online help, I’ve managed to reset my phone and gotten it stalled out where it asks me to “Use stylus to tape center of target one last time.” And where does this target appear? That’s right - the exact middle of the touchscreen!

So I have a stalled out, piece of garbage phone. Not only is this the worst phone that I’ve ever purchased, but I am going out of my way to dissuade other people from buying this piece of shit. I’ve already gotten two people to stay away from this phone (and the now-tarnished Palm brand) - here’s hoping that this post gets more people to stay away from this brand.

Each morning when I wake up I take a quick scan of my various e-mail accounts and then give the news a quick before I get in my truck and go to work. I give them a quick scan because I know that I’ll have some time at the office to do a full review of both the e-mail and the news. Sounds logical, right?

Well, I get into the office this morning and there’s no internet! At the office we have Verizon DSL and our resident tech woman said that the only thing the call center told her was that all subscribers in the area were down. Now everyone knows how completely horrendous Verizon is when it comes to customer service and how they live and breathe by the mantra of “the customer is always wrong,” but when you have the internet shut down right at the prime time of the day when office workers throughout the region are looking to check their latest e-mails, you need to give more of an explanation.

But what does it matter? Verizon knows they can have shitty, arrogant customer service people because if we all switch to Cablevision, their call center people are even worse. In our free market economy, it absolutely sucks that consumers are so limited with their choices in terms of high-speed, reliable internet access.