Cell Phones

i usually wear a blackberry on my belt clip like a douche
and a small personal cell phone in my pocket

Keep 2 phones...

Most people have a 1 or 2 year phone plan with a hefty termination fee so it wouldnt make sense to get rid of your personal phone when you will need it again in 3 months after your SA stint is over. Also, it prevents accidental dialing to MDs/clients while some girl is on your lap at Room Service or Tens.

thanks, i'm actually starting as a full-time analyst, but I think that advice still applies.

Do some banks give their SA's phones for the summer? If so, I'm assuming this applies more to IB than S&T?

If your company offers to cover or reimburse for a significant part of your phone plan, you're probably best off keeping it all on a blackberry. I know that some people would say that they want two devices to separate work from personal life, but it's just an extra hassle to carry everything around. I keep everything on my Blackberry curve these days, and just downloaded the GMail application so I can access personal e-mail too. It also makes text messaging a lot easier. (disclaimer: I moved to the buy-side and didn't have anything like this on the sell-side, but I've heard that some boutique banks do cover some part of an employee's phone bill)

Most BB give IBD interns blackberrys, but ususally they only have data plans (from experience at the firm I'm interning at and two friends at other firms last year)

I think it's best to keep two separate cell phones. Especially since you can't access your personal email/aim/etc at work, having your own personal phone that can do all of those things is probably useful. Also, I'm not sure how closely they monitor those blackberries or if they even do, but I want to keep the bank from monitoring my browsing habits/who I call as much as I can.

I would definitely say that having two phones is a bit redundant, but I would prefer to keep the same phone number for as long as I can, so I would keep my personal phone. Although you just started, you won't be at that same bank forever (most likely) so why not just keep your personal number to take with you whenever you leave.

Good luck to you.

I would definitely use two blackberrys (get a personal Pearl) and your work one. You'll look like a nerd with two blackberries but having the Pearl is key for talking with recruiters / places you're interviewing at. Also the Pearl is great for texting, which is something you will do a lot more when you're in new york.

work blackberry and personal iphone is the way to go

i have no clue how blackberry's are set up, but is it possible to have two phone lines on one? like two sim cards or whatever? that way you could click between profiles of work/personal whenyou wanted to use the internet or whatever?

but that is a million dollar idea or just retarded..

not sure..i think a bunch of us should get together and pitch this idea to motorola or some telco like at&t.

just hope google doesn't beat us to it.

It may sound wonderful, but I doubt it would really work. You would certainly have to have the same carrier as your employer for this to even seem feasible as most cell phone companies would probably have very little interest in offering just strictly phone service to a person who got their cell phone from another carrier.

Its done in China, among other places, and is called SIM cloning

If you guys are referring to two-sim phones, this is nothing new. There are several phones out there which support this, mainly Chinese phones, but Samsung has one out too:

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_d880_duos-2156.php

Anytime you come up with a brilliant idea nowadays, you will find out someone else invented it way before you even thought abt it.

I've never actually seen someone call on their blackberry. It isn't very common right?