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i got the text yesterday and got the same old thing from the CSR. smartphone blah blah.
I was on the 30$ everything plan and now its 25$ for 2gb and $20 for unlimited texts.
Is there anything I can say to the rep tomorrow when I call back? I was on that previous plan ($30) for a long time, couple years I think.
Been at att for 13 years.
I have a tmo N1 also, I could switch but I don't know about their coverage down here.
I don't I'm beating a dead horse, I'm sorry. I did do some searching before hand.
any advice?
I can't help you but to say that I received the exact same awful news this week. I can't understand how they feel justified in doing this since I am not under contract and my plan was grandfathered in. I am going to call them tomorrow and let them know how I feel but I doubt it helps. I guess I'll just have to take my four phones elsewhere.
I literally had nothing to say to the guy after he came back from having me on hold. 30$ was the smart plan back two years ago wasn't it? So now it's not and we need $15 more dollars from you?
I'd rather pay google for good VOIP.
I can't find prices for tmo even more plus plans online anymore, I know they use to be there?
Legally, because they changed your plan, you can back out of their service without an early termination fee. That's probably the best thing you can do.
They do periodic scans... Once it happens automatically there's nothing you can do to get the cheap unlimited plan back. If you ask nicely you CAN get the unlimited data plan, but of course you'll pay $30 for it.
What can you do to mitigate it? I suppose you could use Wifi more, if you listen to streaming music a lot perhaps instead buy a bigger SD card and listen to music from there? Don't stream videos to it?
Personally I have only gone a hair over 1G since I've had my Nexus One, but I stream music only a few hours a month and otherwise it's market updates, email, data syncing etc.
I got switched back a few weeks ago myself too, but this time instead of exploding I figured there's nothing you can do about it, at least in the long term, except for talking from your wallet. When you contract is up, move somewhere else and tell AT&T why.
They keep giving us broader access to fast cellular data, keep making it faster, but continue to reduce what we can use of it. Same with home broadband, friend has 20mbit cable broadband at his house but it drops to like 1mbit/sec if he uses more than 5G/month.
I don't have a contract. I'm going to check a tmo sim in my house and see how the coverage is. Maybe switch after a final call to att. I have atmo n1 also.
silly thing is I've never went over 250mb a month. BUT what's the point of watching or keeping track of how much data you've used when you pay these Fu**s 1200 a year?
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I don't have a contract. I'm going to check a tmo sim in my house and see how the coverage is. Maybe switch after a final call to att. I have atmo n1 also.
silly thing is I've never went over 250mb a month. BUT what's the point of watching or keeping track of how much data you've used when you pay these Fu**s 1200 a year?
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exactly ! and, when the advertisement says UNLIMITED, by god that's what I'm paying for. if/when a telco throttles my account for using "too much" i'm suing.
so far this month, 4Gb. i'm on tmo, and while the out-of-town coverage isn't great, i'm never too far off the interstate for it to matter.
vote with your money. not like they care, with 20 million iphone users coughing up whatever amount they are told to. ;-)
well, there ain't jack the retention people can do. Been at att for 12 years now.
It's impossible to go back I guess. Also you can't just have voice voice or data alone. Thought about having two sims active at the same time, one from tmo and one from att.
According to him there is only 200mb or 2gb plans no matter what you had before they auto switch you.
What he did do was switch me to a 29.99 voice with rollover instead of the lowest advertised 39.99 450 rollover plan.
Drop to 1500 texts a month for $15 instead of unlimited for $20. (which I'm slowly swapping people over to my GV number)
and 2gb data for whatever that price is, I don't remember. But at least my bill is within $5 of what it was the other day.
Att just doesn't really care to much about what they're doing to customers.
I'm still going to go check out tmo and coverage at my house when I have time.
retention guy was cool. I recommend not hanging up or cussing these people.
Att is the devil.
wow, glad i'm on T-mobile i'm using a grandfathered G1 unlimited data/400 texts plan, but if i ever needed unlimited texts i could just upgrade to the even more plan and i would end up with 200 more anytime minutes and unlimited texts along with unlimited data, i currently pay 55 dollars a month total and the current even more plan (no contract plan) is 60 dollars a month.
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I literally had nothing to say to the guy after he came back from having me on hold. 30$ was the smart plan back two years ago wasn't it? So now it's not and we need $15 more dollars from you?
I'd rather pay google for good VOIP.
I can't find prices for tmo even more plus plans online anymore, I know they use to be there?
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The EM+ plans are still available, but you have to go to a store or call T-mo to sign up for that plan.
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exactly ! and, when the advertisement says UNLIMITED, by god that's what I'm paying for. if/when a telco throttles my account for using "too much" i'm suing.
so far this month, 4Gb. i'm on tmo, and while the out-of-town coverage isn't great, i'm never too far off the interstate for it to matter.
vote with your money. not like they care, with 20 million iphone users coughing up whatever amount they are told to. ;-)
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You realize the irony here is that the users who use hoards of data are part of the reason why they keep clamping down? How can you possibly use 4G of data doing semi-normal things? Must be tethering or doing nonsense (like one poster in the past; he was doing daily ROM downloads of multiple ROMs and associated packages...)
I changed my plan on my N1 to the unlimited web for 9.99 before the plan was expired. I love it. It's a savings of $240 a year, and also I think tethering was still not a criminal activity the way it is now (sarcasm).
I love my N1 but two things have really started to bother me about it, one is the battery life, and somehow I messed up my call speaker so now I have to always use the bluetooth when calling otherwise I can't hear anything (which isn't TOO much of a problem cuz I hate using the phone without the bluetooth anyway, but it's gonna be a problem if my bluetooth's battery runs out).
So I want to upgrade, but I really don't want to lose this plan.
Is anyone else in the same boat?
buy a phone out of contract and swap the sim, youll be paying the unsubsidized but the advantage of the 9.99 plan is worth the extra 150-200 youll pay for the phone.
or hit up ebay/craigslist.
thats what i did when i bought my n1 for att, out of contract and same grandfathered web plan
u can get a HTC hd2 or nokia N8 and still take advantage of unlimited 3.5G
I didn't want an N1 but it's the only Android device that I can use with the 9.99 web plan. (I'd kill for a pentaband Droid Pro) I don't like the way Nokia's stubbornness killed the momentum for advancing Symbian and above all else, Maemo/Meego but if battery and calling are of high importance an E7 or N8 would solve this and your tethering requirements.
I used an N900, E73 and E7 for quite a while and must say the E series / S60 devices made me realize how often good battery life gets taken for granted.
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buy a phone out of contract and swap the sim, youll be paying the unsubsidized but the advantage of the 9.99 plan is worth the extra 150-200 youll pay for the phone.
or hit up ebay/craigslist.
thats what i did when i bought my n1 for att, out of contract and same grandfathered web plan
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This doesn't work though. People who got the Nexus S were forced on to the 30 dollar android plan even if they bought the phone off contract and didn't let T-Mo know..T-Mo started blocking the phone unless you upgraded to the android plan..some people got it down to 20 with a little arguing, but that's it. Did anybody else find any other solutions?
Well I see that I am due for an upgrade on July 21st and am thinking about getting another device. I like the captivate but am wanting to get 4g as I will be going into 4g areas periodically and would like to take advantage of the speed.
Not sure which way to go. Get the Infuse for 149 in Walmart or the Inspire for 49 there as well. Wait for the S II to come to att. S II may be a bit out of my price range.
Att doesn't have real 4g, they just renamed their current 3.5g hspa network to 4g, a captivate will work just as fast as any other att "4g" phone.
The infuse is a bit too big imo and is based on last years hardware, the inspire is old tech too, i'd wait for the sgs2.
i want the sgsII but if the rumor is true that samsung will back down production of it in favor of the sgsIII to compete with iphone5 then ill wait even longer for that. my i897 is good enough so far but better save a bit of extra cash in the long run and get an even better phone
i maybe go for samsung infuse 4g or sgs II.
I have upgrade coming in December. considering how fast these things come out, the Infuse and SGSII will probably be old news by then. Definitely sticking with Samsung android. have had good experience with them.
My ATT upgrade is 5/2012 so I'll probably see what is on the horizon then. I think everyone underestimated how well the captivate would run gingerbread. This is actually the first phone I've had where I didn't sell it within 3 months. Well, I didn't sell my G1 but I did give it to my wife within 3 months. I'm not in a huge hurry to get rid of it.
If I did had to pick something soon, I'd probably go with the SGS II.
I am praying ATT gets the next Nexus device. I'd upgrade again this year for that.
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I have an upgrade at the end of July. But I'm gonna wait and hope that att will get a nexus device.
I just really want android 4.0
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Waiting to see the samsung attain (att branded sgs II), should be out by the end of summer. I may also go ahead and get the sgs II international.
AT&T recently gobbled up Alltel in my area, so I'm in test-mode, trying to figure out if I want to stay with them or go for Big Red (or do the Walmart pay-as-you-go). I had a number of less than favorable experiences with Samsung in the last few years. My wife had a Delve that we replaced three times, and all of them were junk. The in-laws have a Rugby II that I'd happily throw in the blender (stupid PTT button!).
I hated the Aria that AT&T gave me, but I am a fan of HTC in general. My opinion has radically shifted with this Cappy. I love the deep black of the unlit OLED, and the over-saturated colors are to my liking as well. I'll have a hard time giving up my Captivate, but if I do, I bet the SGS II (or III, if rumors are true) will be the next pocket processor for me.
<<<<< Edit: Since I have a grandfathered unlimited data plan that AT&T is desperate to steal away from me, and they won't activate a 4G device w/o a data plan change, I may just see if I can find a SGS II.
Just purchased a Atrix today, I like it so far.
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<<<<< Edit: Since I have a grandfathered unlimited data plan that AT&T is desperate to steal away from me, and they won't activate a 4G device w/o a data plan change, I may just see if I can find a SGS II.
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the good thing about sim cards...take it out of one phone, put it in another phone. Im grandfather employee plan since 2001 and havent had the slightest problem changing phones
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<<<<< Edit: Since I have a grandfathered unlimited data plan that AT&T is desperate to steal away from me, and they won't activate a 4G device w/o a data plan change, I may just see if I can find a SGS II.
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You are sorely misinformed about that. Have been speaking with att for the last several months now and every rep that I spoke to both in store and on the phone assured me once you have the unlimited plan they won't take it away as long as you stay with a smartphone. So it doesn't matter whether a 4g or 3g device you get to keep.
So if someone in the store told you that then tell them to go pound sand and get there facts straight
Still up in the air. May just wait till Sept or Oct and see what lands. LG is coming out with a 3d phone on ATT may look at that though I would think battery life would be sucky. Moto phones are not an option for me as I despise them for personal reasons.
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Still up in the air. May just wait till Sept or Oct and see what lands. LG is coming out with a 3d phone on ATT may look at that though I would think battery life would be sucky. Moto phones are not an option for me as I despise them for personal reasons.
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Att should have a few Android devices we haven't seen yet coming out. They said 12 Android devices this year. I think we have only seen maybe a little over half of those so far. I am going to be shocked if their isn't another high end Android phone by Oct-Nov. I hope ATT gets the rumored Nexus phone.
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You are sorely misinformed about that. Have been speaking with att for the last several months now and every rep that I spoke to both in store and on the phone assured me once you have the unlimited plan they won't take it away as long as you stay with a smartphone. So it doesn't matter whether a 4g or 3g device you get to keep.
So if someone in the store told you that then tell them to go pound sand and get there facts straight
Still up in the air. May just wait till Sept or Oct and see what lands. LG is coming out with a 3d phone on ATT may look at that though I would think battery life would be sucky. Moto phones are not an option for me as I despise them for personal reasons.
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I'll try to re-verify that. I have been told the exact same thing by four different store employees and two phone reps. No 4G for me without a data plan change. Not only that, but they are adamant (and I have confirmed this with a guy who bought an Inspire on eBay) that data does not work at all with a 4G phone on a 3G data plan. I need more information, I guess.
Ok just bought the HTC Inspire and I was able to keep unlimited data. There is a 4g unlimited data plan for those folks already on unlimited 3g data
SmartPhone Personal
$30.00 N/A Unlimited Current
SmartPhone Personal
Data Plan for SmartPhones. Unlimited domestic data usage. Only available for upgrades. Requires customers to be on a "Gold List" SmartPhone Plan prior to upgrade to 4G device.
So as I said Owen you are being told mis information. If you have a current 3g unlimited data plan you are able to upgrade to a 4g device and get the unlimited 4g data plan. I JUST DID IT
Awesome! I'll try harder next time. My unlimited plan is $20, and they really hate it, but I love it. You listed some exclusions, but if I stick to my guns, I should be OK. I've had a rough time with AT&T and my wife's unlimited BB plan. They have revoked it three times now, and I have to keep going all the way to their mergers and acquisitions group to get it fixed.
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You kept leaving out the most important piece of information the 20$ data plan. That is your issue. Of course they are not going to do. See if they will upgrade you to the 30 and then you will be able to keep if not then cie la vie and don't get a 4g device.
i have been trying to figure out this question for weeks. The only phone that i can image upgrading to would be the infuse and thats not really hooking me like the Captivate did.
id say wait for the SGS II...its just gonna be a phone i believe that would be a true value for your upgrade option.
I do have to say am liking the inspire alot GPS is spot on out of the box. Ran a 20 mile round trip on it and didn't wavier once. Locked on in 10 secs in the car and 30 secs in my house.
I am linking Sense alot too. Speeds are awesome. Now to root and find a rom for it.
Reason I didn't wait is I can't afford much more then what the inspire was cost wise. I was reading alot about it went to 3 different corp stores in town and asked them what where people with captivates upgrading to and they said the Inspire. Infuse is more money for not alot more. Screen is a tad bigger both phones have screens almost identical. Came down to price. HTC seems to push things quicker for updates.
Sprint has HTC Evo 3D and Samsung Galaxy SII
T-Mobile has G2X, HTC Sensation, MyTouch 4G
Verizon has... well, the Bionic
I really want to stay with Verizon, they have the best network and the absolute best more reliable network.
So, anybody knows if they will have a decent dual core phone any time soon?
I need
1) descent screen. Super AMOLED cool, but any phone will do. HTC and LG usually have good screens. I love the screen of my G2X for instance
2) 1GB of RAM, or maybe even 728MB, but preferably 1GB
3) At least 1GB of space for apps, I believe that is called Internal Storage
4) 4G. At least >= 4000 kbps/s inside malls
5) Nvidia Tegra >=1Ghz would be nice
If you Google it you will find that VZW is not going to sell the GSII because they don't think it has enough to compete with the IP5 when it drops. They have a newer offering from Samsung called the Prime that they hope to have on the market in time for the holidays. Possibly as early as next month.
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If you Google it you will find that VZW is not going to sell the GSII because they don't think it has enough to compete with the IP5 when it drops. They have a newer offering from Samsung called the Prime that they hope to have on the market in time for the holidays. Possibly as early as next month.
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Well my main concern if I switch to Spint is that I will have to pay around $80 per month or something like that
I don't have a problem with having two carriers within the family, but with Verizon I only have to pay a cheap $50 per month price
I like the fact that Sprint has the Samsung Galaxy SII, the HTC Evo 3D
They even have a Motorola Dual Core as well
All 4G, Dual Core, nice screen, good RAM
So 3 devices vs 1
From what I am reading, if I use this phone from Verizon, I will use it for at least 6 months, till January or something
I know how technology works, and how long it takes for new devices to appear
example the GTX 600 series will appear in January, AMD Bulldozer still hasn't arrived, Intel took forever to fix their motherboards, and 6 months after they released the Intel Sandy Bridge, they were still releasing new chipsets
Here is how much it will cost me to switch carriers for the next 6 months
If I stay in T-mobile and stay in no contract
$120 every month.
Total: $720
If I move to Sprint
$90 per month
I need to finish paying $350 to T-Mobile for the phone, Let's say I sell the phone in $200, $150 out of my pocket
$250 for the Samsung Galaxy S II
I still need to pay July and August to T-Mobile, so add another $240
Total: $1180
If I stay in Verizon
$50 per month
I need to finish paying $350 to T-Mobile for the phone, Let's say I sell the phone in $200, $150 out of my pocket
$350 for the Droid Bionic
Let's say I sell the Bionic for $350, let's say the Samsung Prime is $600, so $250 out of my pocket
I still need to pay July and August to T-Mobile, so add another $240
Total: $1290
In theory I want to stay with the cheapest one (T-Mobile), but again, I don't like them
I had no-contract plan with them, but now those plans are no existing anymore.
So I can't drop down to the $99 plan I had before, freaking idiot$..., they told me the ONLY way to drop my price is to make a new 2 year contract.
So if I want to cancel with them I have to pay them a ****load of money since I am still paying the phone
So even if T-Mobile is the cheapest, I wouldn't trust them with my credit card or bank account anytime soon, so I won't stay with them no way
I think I'm going to stay with T-Mobile, and then someday try to switch to Sprint
If I can switch to Sprint this week, that would be great.
If I can't, then I don't see what's the point of doing this deal with Verizon. I am 110% sure that I don't like this phone
now, with T-Mobile I had no contract, so I had the ability to go up/down in plans. Now those idiot$... removed all those plans, so they respect my rate but they won't allow me to upgrade/downgrade
So another nasty tactic would be to allow T-Mobile to send us to collections and hopefully we can go to court and explain to the judge that they can't destroy my plans, and then expect me to pay $120 forever
They actually want me to pay $120 per month, for 2 years (until I finish paying my phone), because those idiot$.. just say they don't have no-contract plans anymore.
So screw them, I haven't decided yet if I can sue them or if it's even worth my time
Anyway, if I just forget about them, maybe throw them a bone here and there, here are my new estimates
If I stay in T-mobile and stay in no contract
$120 every month.
Total: $720
If I move to Sprint
$90 per month
$250 for the Samsung Galaxy S II
Total: $790
If I stay in Verizon
$50 per month
$350 for the Droid Bionic
Let's say I sell the Bionic for $350, let's say the Samsung Prime is $600, so $250 out of my pocket
Total: $900
Now, my question would be
If Sprint and Verizon have good reception inside malls, Best Buy, Frys, Walmart... and the price is around the same
Which one would you chose?
My main problem with Verizon is that they only have ONE FREAKING PHONE that works with 4GB, and has a dual core CPU
So anyway, even though I hate doing this, tomorrow, if for some reason I don't sign up with Sprint, I am going to stay at $tupid T-Mobile.
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So another nasty tactic would be to allow T-Mobile to send us to collections and hopefully we can go to court and explain to the judge that they can't destroy my plans, and then expect me to pay $120 forever.
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Not worth it bud. You don't want ANYTHING remotely bad on your credit report, especially in these economic times. Creditors are looking for an excuse not to lend. You might not need a loan now, or in the near future, but you never know if an emergency comes and you get denied because of a not paid phone bill.
Just my 2 cents...
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If you Google it you will find that VZW is not going to sell the GSII because they don't think it has enough to compete with the IP5 when it drops. They have a newer offering from Samsung called the Prime that they hope to have on the market in time for the holidays. Possibly as early as next month.
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That's not even close to true. Verizon sees no point in selling the GSII because the Prime is the same phone except for the LTE radio and Ice Cream Sandwich (reported to be the first ICS phone).
The IP5 will probably be the IP4 running the iPad2's SoC and iOS5; the GS2 has been out for many months and can already run with that as can other devices.
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Not worth it bud. You don't want ANYTHING remotely bad on your credit report, especially in these economic times. Creditors are looking for an excuse not to lend. You might not need a loan now, or in the near future, but you never know if an emergency comes and you get denied because of a not paid phone bill.
Just my 2 cents...
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I know, but hey, not to brag or anything, but if I work hard I can make all the amount that I owe them (including the phone cost and the 2-3 months I will be behind) in a couple of days
The problem is that I have a NO CONTRACT plan with T-Mobile
Somehow I ended up stuck at $120 per month because those plans don't exist anymore
so they can't discount me or anything
From what I know, they do send you to collections after 3 months.
So I can screw them and after 2 months and 29 days just pay them the cash and shut their mouth
I just dislike companies being dishonest
If I have NO CONTRACT how on earth did I ended up with such a high fee?
I can't even remove or add features to the plan, it's ridiculous
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That's not even close to true. Verizon sees no point in selling the GSII because the Prime is the same phone except for the LTE radio and Ice Cream Sandwich (reported to be the first ICS phone).
The IP5 will probably be the IP4 running the iPad2's SoC and iOS5; the GS2 has been out for many months and can already run with that as can other devices.
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But do you know if the Prime will take another 6 months to arrive or so?
I can't stand my phone it's only being 4 days of use
Well, from the daily reading I've been doing it IS a superior phone to the GSII. It isn't even going to run the same processor! It is based on Samsung's in-house Exynos CPU at 1.5 GHz with 1GB RAM. It will not be using the TI processor like the duece. The phone has a metal body. That's right, a Samsung with a metal body. It will also sport a 2000 mAh battery. On the soft side, there's a new browser that is said to be leaps and bounds ahead of anything else on the market.
Obviously, this close together it isn't extensively different, but quite a bit so at e same time. The plan is to have it on the market for the holiday shopping season. Probably within the month or not a lot longer.
Your back? You said good bye already what gives chief?
Just a heads up sprints unlimited data will be going away soon enough. Or at most switch to a $30 unlimited so either way sprint will be going up
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Well, from the daily reading I've been doing it IS a superior phone to the GSII. It isn't even going to run the same processor! It is based on Samsung's in-house Exynos CPU at 1.5 GHz with 1GB RAM. It will not be using the TI processor like the duece. The phone has a metal body. That's right, a Samsung with a metal body. It will also sport a 2000 mAh battery. On the soft side, there's a new browser that is said to be leaps and bounds ahead of anything else on the market.
Obviously, this close together it isn't extensively different, but quite a bit so at e same time. The plan is to have it on the market for the holiday shopping season. Probably within the month or not a lot longer.
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Based on my inside sources, the processor will be infact a TI processor, specifically the TI OMAP4460, and it will be housed in a plastic body to be released sometime in October, though that could change. Also, another tip: the official name of the rumored Prime has nothing to do with the word Prime or Droid, and that's all I can say about this rumored phone without getting into too much trouble.
Hands on reviews posted on-line dis-agree with your claims... I have been waiting since last year's CES for the Bionic. Waited thru all the delays/scraps. After 9 months, the phone looks to me to have landed with a resounding thud !!
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Hands on reviews posted on-line dis-agree with your claims... I have been waiting since last year's CES for the Bionic. Waited thru all the delays/scraps. After 9 months, the phone looks to me to have landed with a resounding thud !!
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I'm not saying you're wrong or I'm wrong, I'm just relaying the insider information I have. I have a friend who works for Verizon high up there, so I know his information is 100% correct and I've also seen the information myself.
Amazed nobody has mentioned this phone in this thread.
http://tinyurl.com/63a7rgm
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I'm aware it's out there but I've never been a fan of HTC products. Normally I really like Moto offerings but I am less than impressed with the Bionic. Especially after all of the hype surrounding it all year.
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Well, from the daily reading I've been doing it IS a superior phone to the GSII. It isn't even going to run the same processor! It is based on Samsung's in-house Exynos CPU at 1.5 GHz with 1GB RAM. It will not be using the TI processor like the duece. The phone has a metal body. That's right, a Samsung with a metal body. It will also sport a 2000 mAh battery. On the soft side, there's a new browser that is said to be leaps and bounds ahead of anything else on the market.
Obviously, this close together it isn't extensively different, but quite a bit so at e same time. The plan is to have it on the market for the holiday shopping season. Probably within the month or not a lot longer.
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Well yesterday I went to Sprint and man that phone is absolutely gorgeous
However, my HTC Thunderbolt does a lot of the things about the same
Yes the Samsung Galaxy S II is thinner,and the screen a bit bigger
the MAIN difference is the screen quality, man NOTHING can beat Samsung now a days
However, I would like to know if there are news about HTC Vigor or the Prime
I am having a hard time figuring out why I should change to Sprint just for one phone.
Let's say Verizon does comes up with a phone that has dual core 1.2Ghz or 1.5Ghz in the near future, then that phone would be the best
the Samsung Galaxy S II was able to achieve 8000 kbps/s
The HTC Thunderbolt was able to achieve 16000 kbps/s
So, none of them is a clear winner, one has bigger more beautiful screen, but the other has faster internet
Anyway, I think I'm going to try the Samsung Galaxy SII, just because I bought the HTC thunderbolt cash, so I can cancel the contract, and I can go back to Verizon any day I want
Right now it's the time to test all carriers (I am testing all except AT&T which has a limited bandwidth for customers), and decide
My co-worker is amazed by his S2! He suggested I switch out of Verizon....Now! I laughed and told him my unlimited plan is keeping me with Verizon. He measured the speed of the phone and it was twice the speed of the bionic. Maybe that phone will come to the Verizon network as the Samsung Function soon!
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I to went into sprint and played with the sgs 2 and it is VERY nice. I was thinking about returning my bionic and going with sprint also. I know the quadrant scores are for losers but I was able to get about 2400 with my bionic. I ran it on the sprint store phone and was able to get repeat 34-3500 scores! However, I was only able to hit 4mbs down and .645 up on the same phone. My bionic in the same location hit 16 down and 5 up.
Latest word on PhoneArena:
Vigor release: 10/20
Prime release:11/3.
Take it with a grain of salt, but that's the latest word.
Not just about the LG Flex, but I thought this was an interesting story about what early upgrades actually cost...
Mods move this if its not ok to stay here.
http://recode.net/2014/05/15/att-t-...which-carrier-has-the-better-upgrade-program/
wase4711 said:
Not just about the LG Flex, but I thought this was an interesting story about what early upgrades actually cost...
Mods move this if its not ok to stay here.
http://recode.net/2014/05/15/att-t-...which-carrier-has-the-better-upgrade-program/
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I have been with each of the big four since 2001. Honestly I would only consider Sprint or T-Mobile because they are the only ones that still offer unlimited data. I've read that t-mobile will throttle data speed down but I have never experienced that and I use significantly more data than the average user. Having been with all 4 at some point I would have to say T-Mobile has the best offer(includes insurance) with "jump". In reality we always paid full price for our phones. That's why they had 2 year contracts with hefty ETF's. I understand why the ETF was so high. Obviously coverage is important so that might eliminate some choices. When I was with Sprint I had to use a Verizon prl on occasion just to have the ability to make/receive calls. Sprint also has horrible 3g speed on average. When my D959 loses connection with LTE it falls back to their fake 4G(really 3G) and I still get 4-5 Mbps. Sorry for rambling off topic
I feel the same way; I always liked Sprint too, but even their "upgraded" network needs alot of work.
Chicago is one of their main cities, but we had to dump them recently, since we couldnt make calls from inside our house..
Tmobile has been fantastic for us so far, and I cant imagine leaving them unless Sprint ends up buying them...god, lets hope not..
Is no one catching the BS in that article? She is including the monthly charge for usage I.e. mins for talk time , data, text. Take Verizon for example, if you didnt do the early upgrade subsidized plan then you would pay $200 upfront for that phone on new contract or upgrade. Then add that to their $90 a month plan for one year= 90x12= $1280 a year. Then add the $200 new customer or upgrade const for the phone and you get $1480 total cost. Not much different when you do it like that. The monthly cost for usage shouldn't be a factor or even added into the equation. That's bad journalism. Grasping at anything to do a story. And lack of common sense really.
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I guess they are just trying to show what it costs per year, per phone, on each provider; its not like you would get a phone and not have service on it..
We all know Verizon is the worst when it comes to emptying money from your pocket, and this shows that as well..
With att i pay 26.47 a month for 26 months. I pay t g e cost of the phone for the upgrade. 26.47 aint bad at all