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I’ve been lobbying for 4 years to get my employer to dump Sprint and their PCS network. I’ve decided that PCS stands for “pretty crappy service” because for the past 4 years, I’ve had to deal with missed calls, dropped calls, bad signals, low signals, and poor customer service.

But the purpose of this post isn’t to bash Sprint…that’d be too easy anyway. We made the switch to Verizon this week. Verizon may not be wonderful in all areas of the country, but here on the NW side of Atlanta, it works great.

With Sprint, I had a good Samsung phone, but in this migration to Verizon, I did a migration to a PDA phone. I compared a few models, and the XV6700 is the one I chose.

The XV6700 is a great PDA. It’s got a full querty keyboard that even my big fat thumbs can use. Screen resolution on it is nice. It’s a little bulky, but it’s a PDA phone…but considering it’s a PDA, it’s not really that huge.

The reviews I saw said the XV6700 is a great PDA and a mediocre phone. The “features” complained about most were low speaker volume, no voice dialing, no modem support, and you can’t have the wireless NIC and the phone enabled at the same time. There are fixes to those issues.

• The volume isn’t terrible, but it is kind of low. A headset fixes that problem.
• There is voice dial software for Windows Mobile. I got it working with zero problems…and it does more than just dialing phone numbers.
• There’s a registry hack for the modem support (for using the phone as a modem for a laptop).
• There’s a registry hack for enabling the wifi and phone at the same time.

Out of the box, I’d agree that it’s a great PDA and a mediocre phone. With the tweaks, I’d say it’s great for phone or PDA usage.