We're Getting A Little Smarter - Slowly

After shopping around for smart phones and service providers, we finally decided on Sprint and iPhones.  Last Friday after school we went to the local dealer and got set up.  

Transporting our numbers meant we got the new iPhone 5c's free, instead of $100 each with a two year contract.  The activation fee was waived because we are members of a credit union.  There will be an 18% educator discount on the data charge.  

They had a limited color choice left.

 They didn't have any Sounders green left, so I got blue, Tom got yellow, and Jill got white.  Tom and Jill will get covers that probably cover up their colors, but I got a clear one so you can still see my pretty blue.

But there is a problem, and we have spent much of the last few days trying to decide what to do.  Sprint does not have a strong enough signal right here at our house so the actual telephone part works very poorly.  We checked out another carrier, but the switch over would have cost us another $400 in "restocking fees at Sprint",  and having to buy the phones at another carrier.

Sprint has come up with what I hope is a solution   We will be receiving a piece of hardware called an Air-Rave, which hooks up to our modem and will receive a boosting signal via internet.  This $100 item we are getting free because Jake at the Sprint store told me to tell them when I called that it should be free because it was Sprint's fault. It worked !

We are now free to get to know our phones, now that we know we are going to keep them!  I already have done a lot with mine  and I'm having fun learning.  We are getting smarter slowly.

Tomorrow we are off to the Oregon coast.  Hopefully our new phones will allow us to stay in contact at least with email and internet. You'll still have to wait for photos on the blog.

Oh, and we survived a very wet and stormy Sounders match last night.  Unfortunately it ended in a disappointing tie.  But, hey!  We didn't lose, and we're still very near the top.