Prof. William Marquart
English 1301
Comparison and Contrast Essay Assignment
April 13, 2011
Comparing and Contrasting Cellular Phones
As a consumer, when in the market for a new cell phone and cell phone plan, the first important item to compare and contrast are the benefits and advantages of the major cell phone providers such as AT&T and T- Mobile. In order to find a plan to fit budget needs and coverage requirements it made sense to look at all of the major cell phone providers such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. After careful comparisons narrowing the choices to AT&T and T-Mobile made sense. The first item compared and contrasted between AT&T and T-Mobile’s was their service. All cell phone providers have some type of tool or map, either on the phone or their website, that shows their coverage areas and although T-Mobile’s coverage was exceptional, when compared to AT&T’s Nationwide coverage there was a …show more content…
AT&T and T-Mobile offered choices of different phones with different operating systems. Both AT&T and T-Mobile offered Window based phones and both carriers offered Android based phones but both carriers didn’t offer the I-Phone and that was a big advantage towards AT&T. Ever since the first I-Phone was put on the market it seems that all of the other cell phone providers have strived to match it for is price point and features. While T-Mobile has excellent smart phones that predominately use the Android system, have incredible amount of applications and software and do give the I-Phone serious completion it always seems that all smart phones are looking to be the next I-Phone. The I-Phone is the ultimate smart phone and when compared or contrasted to any other phone in today’s highly competitive market it is still the measuring stick for all smart phones. Once again advantage to