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Author: keith smith
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Subject: Re: OT Verizon Smart Phones

What about service - like out in rural areas.  Between here and Tucson.  I like T-Mobile's plan and price points, however I am concerned about coverage. 

Please share your thoughts.

Thanks!

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Keith Smith

--- On Sun, 6/24/12, Mark Phillips <> wrote:

From: Mark Phillips <>
Subject: Re: OT Verizon Smart Phones
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <>
Date: Sunday, June 24, 2012, 9:22 AM

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!!






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Keith Smith



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