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I live in the middle of what they call “fly-over” country, Eastern Iowa.  We have a whole bunch of choices for cellular providers – but, if you want it to work more than 60% of the time…you pick US Cellular.  I used to complain quite a bit about US Cellular – they have good coverage – but pretty much everything else about them stunk.

I will have to admin, over the past year or so they have been fairly committed to customer service, so now they have good coverage, OK customer service – but still have stinky phones, stinky plans and super stinky data plans…all I have to say is Easy Edge.

About 4 months ago I took my quarterly parusal through their selection of phones and to my amazement, they had a windows mobile phone.  Now US Cellular has had some Blackberry’s for a year or so – but this is the first Windows phone to date.

I’m opposed to their “lock-you-in-plans” so I set off on eBay to find me a used one and after a month or so quest…I located one, bought it and finally, it was delivered.  I headed to the store – and with little trouble – within 20 minutes or so I was walking out with phone and data plan.

The HTC PPC 6800 is a pretty good phone.  It has a solid feel.  A bit heavy – and looks pretty good (for a windows mobile phone).  I really enjoyed the phone, it would lock up about 1 every day or two causing me to rest/soft re-boot it.  The more apps I used, the sooner I had to log off.

The slide out keyboard is good – not as fast as a Blackberry, but OK.

Overall – it was a pretty good phone, quite heavy…but nice.