Anyone else faced with this debate? My employer provides me with a blackberry for work and I never ditched my personal iphone. During the week I carry both devices however on the weekend I leave the BB behind. Since I started 2 years ago things have changed and we moved to Google apps for mail service so now I can get push business mail on my personal phone if I desire. My cell contract is getting close to up for renewel and I can either replace my BB with a company provided Samsung Galaxy S or ditch the company phone roll it all into my personal one, and the company will pay their share of my bill.

Pros:
Keep business and pleasure very seperate.
Save 50% of my bill

Cons: Carrying 2 devices.

 

Keep them separate.

 

I would carry two, just because you will go through the hassle of being busy on your personal phone with work, I just like keeping the two separate, maybe send email, text pics, to the wrong person who knows but I would keep my personal for personal stuff and use the galaxy for work

 

If the company will pay for the bill with your personal phone, I'd go for that since browsing on the web with the BB is crap. I had carried 2 in the past, but went down to 1 and let the company pay the tab. I use Google Voice for personal phone calls/text.

 

carry two...

I used to because if I kept the work one I wouldnt be able to text I had texting for a while then they took it away

 

I prefer to carry one phone, and let my company pay part of the bill.

And, my employer uses Sprint

 

I'll never understand the hate towards Sprint. Two phones with unlimited texting and unlimited mobile to mobile (anyone/anywhere) for under $100 a month.

 

I used to have sprint switched to Verizon 3 weeks after I switched I think, sprint went and started there unlimited deal

 

Sprint sucks in Georgia. My wife used to have it and we switched to AT&T. I had T-Mobile and it was like Sprint.

 

True, each area is different. Sprint's reception is tied with Verizon for the best in my experience. AT&T was awful and don't get my wife started on T-Mobile..

 

Keep them separate.

 

my company gave me an att bb and i have an incredible..i tried twice to use the bb for my smartphone needs and changed my personal phone to just a vanilla cellphone..each time i came back, i wont even try it anymore

 

If you use your personal phone a lot then keep it separate. If you barely use your personal phone and don't take pics of your cock with it then just one phone is fine.

 

I have a Galaxy S for work and it works pretty well. After a ton of discharges and recharges my battery barely lasts though, but at least it's a quick replacement at an ATT store.

 

Because they stay in the big cities and only follow major highways. There coverage map looks like a three year old coloring.

 

Let's not degrade this into which carrier is greater thread. Consider it all things being equal.

 

Keep them separate.







Terry

 

I have a Nextel BB for work they pay the bill, and I use a G2 for personal. During the day I use the BB and leave my personal in my office. After 5pm I ditch my BB. Friends and Fam have my work BBM so they know to hit me up there if I don't reply to a text. My managers have my personal but have never used it not even when I miss calls on my work BB. If I only had one then I know they would always expect me to pick up and be avail.

 

I'd get them to pay their share of your bill. It just seems unnecessary to have two cell phones, especially when you can get one capable of doing everything you need it to.

On the other hand you can get a brand-new phone for free, even if it is just for work.

 

It is unnecessary to carry 2 phones I agree 100%, especially when either can handle both duties. The real issue is task separation, as much as I don't want to carry 2 during the week it feels pretty good on friday at 5 to power off the work one and forget about all that until monday.

 

I prefer to carry a single device, so that's what I do (I only carry a company-provided BlackBerry).

That way my HandsFreeLink doesn't get confused about which phone to link to. If I'm talking on the phone, my calls go to VM instead of ringing a different phone. I'm not a gabber, so I use it maybe 5-15 minutes a month for personal calls anyway.

I don't do personal e-mail on it -- that's what my iPad is good for.

 

I'd prefer to use a single personal phone with the employer paying for part of the use, assuming that the employer cannot require that you turn it over for auditing or review of what could be personal texts/photos on the phone.

 

Carry two. It just seems to likely the possibility of getting stuff confused. Take the galaxy S and keep your iPhone as well. I would never want to have my combined. Even with the hassle of having two devices its just not worth the risk.

 

A company I used to work for paid for my phone bill completely (it was just basic phone), so I just decided to stay with one phone as opposed to getting two. However, I was barely on my phone for work and ended up using it more for personal use ( I don't talk on the phone much, so it wasn't a problem). So if you're constantly on your phone for work than I say get a second phone so you can shut off your work phone at the end of the day and relax. But, if you don't use it much for work, than just go with one and screw carrying two phones .

 

Burn th Blackberry

 

Welcome to the board. Did you know we have an entire forum related to this topic?

 

Carry one phone. As long as you have call display, you'll easily be able to distinguish if it's friends/family calling, or an unknown or business call coming through. When in doubt, answer appropriately with your name/work greeting and you're all covered. Do you really think you'd be having work-related calls coming through during the weekend? Do you have that happen now? Unless your duties include being on-call 24/7, I don't see why they'd be contacting you off-hours or why you'd be required to do work-related tasks (ie: take calls, answer emails, etc). So I don't see the downside.

 

This is very possible. I'd get a clear answer on this before you decide.

 

My company pays for my iPhone and the bill each month. The assumption is a portion is for personal calls and they are fine with that.

 

Why the F would you want to carry two devices when you can carry one? Are you really not capable of separating the personal stuff from the business stuff? Separate accounts, not separate devices.