As a point of comparison, t-mobile offers an unlimited voice, text, and data plan for 2 phones for $140/month. Unlimited data means 2 gb at 4g speeds, and if you exceed that, they just throttle you back to 2g at no additional charge. They have lots of good android smart phones available (no iphones). I have had 4 phones with then for many many years, and I keep renewing every 2 years. Don't go to a franchise store unless you know it is a good one. Go to a corporate store for best service. Mark On Jun 23, 2012 8:42 PM, "Lyle Tuttle" wrote: > We have two Verizon HTC Thunderbolts - new in Feb 2011. > > $174/month, unlimited everything.....voice, text, data...' > > Have never had it freeze; rebooted on its own once but I think that was an > update. > > Worst problem is battery life.....very short, even with larger battery. > One day will go all day, next day need to charge twice in one day - low > usage.....go figure. > > Did you know verizon has a box that will serve as your phone? $20/mo > unlimited calls in/out......it received via cell signal and you plug your > phone into it.....and US Cellular has a small "deck of cards, only half as > thick" Samsung "hot spot"....$25 for up to 2 gig of data/month > > I learned the above after bad storm left sis-in-law without phone or > internet for 4 days......guess what she has now!!? > > > At 02:12 PM 6/22/2012, James Dugger wrote: > > I have been with Verizion ever since our other carrirer was buoght by them > in the mid nineties. I have had a Driod and currently have a Droid X. I > can't really compare the difference between carriers in dropped calls but > we get are share of dropped calls as well. My wife and son have the > iphone 4s and love it. My wife had an older Droid and it used to drop > calls more than here iphone. Having used both (my wife's iphone and my > Droid X) my comparison would be as follows: > > Screen Freeze > Droid - this happens quite often on both the older and newer Droids > (though not as much on the X) > iphone - rarely freezes. > > Keyboard key selection > Droid - They both struggle (especially in the portrait keyboard) to pick > the correct letter/number. > iphone - Even with fat fingers it is uncanny to me how the portrait > keyboard can still seem to pick the right letter/number > > Text completion > Droid - Okay > iphone - Great slightly faster > > Animatromics (screen responsiveness) > Droid - slight hesitancy at times > iphone - smooth and quick > > I have no experience with HTC however my brother has the Samsung Nexus II > through Version and says that it runs circles around his old Droid, and is > much closer to the iphone with respect to hardware responsiveness and > features. > > Since the versions of OS Android is somewhat splintered across different > devices, there are a couple of other points to consider if an android phone > is your preferred choice: > Google owns Android and Motorola ( Droid ), but Nexus is a Google > sponsored partnership program for application and hardware development for > the official release version of Android by Google. Currently Samsung is > the Nexus partner. > > This may have changed and I may be wrong, but it is my understanding that > anything Android with the Nexus name is part of this partnership with > Google. > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Stephen wrote: > > > Android brutally fc's inactive apparently to free space before that goes. > On Jun 22, 2012 9:59 AM, "Eric Cope" wrote: > Thats interesting to hear about not rebooting? Maybe the tide is > changing. Someone I carpool with is also constantly having to close apps > because the phone is "out of memory". Does anyone else experience this? > > I think the iPhone forces stale apps out of memory automatically (I never > get an out of memory notice). Can anyone comment on that? > > Eric > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Stephen wrote: > > I forgot. > > On a rooted phone there is an app that will backup your root so you can > switch root on and off easily so you can do some root only tasks and then > unroot for day to day. > > Its called voodoo ota rootkeeper > On Jun 22, 2012 8:46 AM, "keith smith" wrote: > > > Hi, > > This is very OT. > > I have been with verizon for 8 years. Voice only. It has been 4 years > since I upgraded our phones. It is just my wife and I. > > We are thinking of going with smart phones. > > A friend suggested HTC phones because of the better quality of speaker and > mic. Voice quality is very important to me. > > As it stands we can get unlimited voice for $120/mo, 1000 texts for > $10/mo and 2G of data for each phone for $20/ea/mo. Total is about > $170/mo + tax and fees. > > I like verizon because they have always provided top of the line service. > > I've briefly looked at Straigt-Talk, T-Mobile, and Sprint. My fear with > these providers is quality of the call, availability, and dropped calls. > > Any suggestions on which phone to get? From prior conversations on this > list it seems a Droid phone is the way to go. I don't think I will ever > want to take the time to root my phone, however you never know. > > What about phone apps and other things I might not be thinking about? > > I appreciate all the feedback you will provide! > > Thank you in advance for your help!! > > > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > James > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >