OT Verizon Smart Phones

[James Dugger]

With the exception of SF and northern Idaho (never been) your list and
comments would match exactly to my experience with Verizon.

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

> You can check coverage at http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/pcc.aspx(drill down to the street level).
>
> My personal experience....
>
> Seattle - great
> Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, Chandler, etc. - great
> Payson - 4G - I loose connectivity in the mountains on the way to Payson
> Pinetop/Lakeside/Show Low - 2G/4G roaming - depends on location
> Greater LA - great
> SF and Bay Area - great
> Northern Idaho camping near the Canadian border - no coverage...ATT has
> some coverage in this area!
> Driving to Tucson - no loss of signal as far as I remember. Tucson has
> great coverage
>
> YMMV
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:49 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> ------------------------
>> Keith Smith
>>
>> --- On *Sun, 6/24/12, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
>>
>> Subject: Re: OT Verizon Smart Phones
>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>> 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" <l.tuttle at cox.net<http://mc/compose?to=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 at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=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 at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=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 at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=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 at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=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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