With your nextel it was not on the full Sprint Network. I was in the Up last week with people that had Sprint, Verizon and At&t. Sprint worked in the most places along with Verizon. At&t would not work in Paulding where we were staying. Sprint just came out with a smaller android with a key board I might of looked at if I did not have a Blackberry I live very much. Sprint has that $69.99 plan with unlimited data that is hard to beat. I just paid $50 to tether my phone to the internet and it works great from my computer. The $50 is a life time of internet so if it only works for a few months its worth it. Tired of paying 50 for the wifi now it looks like I can get it free.
And Sprint will convert your Nextel service to Sprint, no penalty, same phone number