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" <
l.tuttle@cox.net> 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.Â
>
> 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 <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Android brutally fc's inactive apparently to free space before that goes.
> On Jun 22, 2012 9:59 AM, "Eric Cope" <eric.cope@gmail.com> 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 <cryptworks@gmail.com> 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" <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> 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.Â
>
> 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.Â
>
> 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.Â
>
> 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.Â
>
> 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!!
>
>
>
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