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Dan Hollis posted:Agreed, I'm waiting for the new HTC Jupiter: Hey, at least he's listening to Gnarls Barkley.
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WaffleStomp posted:Any guesses on how quickly the 4S will sell out at the Verizon stores? I won't be able to pick one up on the 14th until 5pm or so, and I'll need to visit a store to hop onto a family plan. Expect Apple to create tons of artifical demand by keeping supplies limited, or at least tons of rumors about said limited supplies, but I doubt you will have any trouble getting one unless you live in NY or the Bay Area.
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bull3964 posted:On a personal level, you couldn't force me to go back to an EVDO device. The difference in usability of data is that pronounced on Verizon. On AT&T, it's not as big of a deal. Then again, I don't remember Ev-DO being anywhere near this bad back when I had a Touch Pro on Sprint SERO. I feel like it was pretty consistently above 1mbps. Maybe Sprint took Ev-DO and Rev. A more seriously and made up for it by completely loving up 4G while Verizon took it seriously. The real shame here is that this iPhone is otherwise extremely impressive. I really don't get the negative sentiment other than the complaints over the LTE omission. The chassis and display were already best in breed, and now it's ludicrously powerful, 64GB, and has a camera that rubs shoulders with the best on the market. I swore I'd never go back to iOS, but that thing is an LTE radio away from being objectively near-perfect.
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kalibar posted:The real shame here is that this iPhone is otherwise extremely impressive. I really don't get the negative sentiment other than the complaints over the LTE omission. The problem for most people that I've been talking to about it, is that the event and rumors (and the strange new cases showing up at AT&T stores) made it feel like a revolutionary change was coming up (think original iPhone to iPhone 3G), and then when the announcement came down, what they got was an evolutionary change (think iPhone 3G to 3GS). The hardware inside last year's case and behind last year's screen is pretty impressive, but without a design change, people felt like they weren't getting much.
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kalibar posted:Then again, I don't remember Ev-DO being anywhere near this bad back when I had a Touch Pro on Sprint SERO. I feel like it was pretty consistently above 1mbps. Honestly it's capacity issues. Data usage hadn't yet exploded in the Touch Pro days.
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My evdo speeds vary widely by location. At my house, I can consistently pull about 2.3Mbps. At work however, I'm lucky if I get 300Kbps. It's not even raw speed either as there seems to be a decent amount of packet loss in places. LTE, the minimum I've seen is around 12Mbps and it's usually closer to 19-23Mbps. Even when I'm home and can get near max evdo speeds, there's still a very pronounced difference between it and LTE. LTE is basically indistinguishable from wifi most of the time.
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bull3964 posted:My evdo speeds vary widely by location. At my house, I can consistently pull about 2.3Mbps. At work however, I'm lucky if I get 300Kbps. It's not even raw speed either as there seems to be a decent amount of packet loss in places. With my lovely router, LTE is faster than WiFi for me at home. I have 30/3 cable, but my router shits itself anywhere more than 11Mbit.
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AlexDeGruven posted:With my lovely router, LTE is faster than WiFi for me at home. I have 30/3 cable, but my router shits itself anywhere more than 11Mbit. I don't have that problem with FiOS  .I can pull 47Mbps all day long on my 35/35 connection WHILE pusing 30Mbps upstream (they seriously never seem to limit my downstream to what my plan says it should be.)
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Pizza Club posted:Sorry, I meant the 4S. She's been waiting to dump her piece of crap Pre all summer. I think the point was: the Sprint's getting the iPhone this time around, too. On the same date, even.
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slackerbitch posted:I think the point was: the Sprint's getting the iPhone this time around, too. On the same date, even. Coverage is fine most of the time, but terrible out in the boonies where her parents and grandparents live. Verizon is the only option. Besides home and work, that's where most of her time is spent.
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Pizza Club posted:Coverage is fine most of the time, but terrible out in the boonies where her parents and grandparents live. Verizon is the only option. Besides home and work, that's where most of her time is spent. Oh! I misunderstood, that's all. I thought you were switching just because your wife wanted an iPhone, so I was trying to be helpful by pointing out that Sprint was getting its own shortly.
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AlexDeGruven posted:The problem for most people that I've been talking to about it, is that the event and rumors (and the strange new cases showing up at AT&T stores) made it feel like a revolutionary change was coming up (think original iPhone to iPhone 3G), and then when the announcement came down, what they got was an evolutionary change (think iPhone 3G to 3GS).
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To stay on topic: How much of a dick is Big Red going to be if I want to preorder an iPhone on Friday if I'm not up for an upgrade until Sunday? I have a long-time family plan, don't miss payments, good credit, etc; if that makes a difference. Assume they are going to be a dick about, how impossible is going to be to get on Sunday?
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DeNofa posted:To stay on topic: How much of a dick is Big Red going to be if I want to preorder an iPhone on Friday if I'm not up for an upgrade until Sunday? I have a long-time family plan, don't miss payments, good credit, etc; if that makes a difference. Won't know until you try!
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DeNofa posted:To stay on topic: How much of a dick is Big Red going to be if I want to preorder an iPhone on Friday if I'm not up for an upgrade until Sunday? I have a long-time family plan, don't miss payments, good credit, etc; if that makes a difference. You could probably call them/stop by a store now and ask how the process would go. Since you're eligible for upgrade by the time the phone releases, it shouldn't be a huge problem. If they give you a bunch of poo poo about it, just wait until Sunday and preorder then.
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Is there any way to break contract without actually canceling service? That is pay my ETF, go month to month immediately and be upgrade eligible? We're 3 months into a 2 year contract and my wife hates her Thunderbolt so we've decided to get an iPhone. Verizon wants $649 for a 4S apparently since I am not upgrade eligible. Being 3 months in, the prorated ETF is $320. I could port the number to a Tracphone or something and then back to Verizon to get an iPhone for $200 - making the whole affair $130 cheaper, except I'd lose unlimited data.
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Sell the Thunderbolt for a few hundred bucks to help subsidize the cost of an iPhone at retail...? edit: oh wow, they sure aren't selling for too much, are they? So glad I returned that pos phone before it was too late. doctor thodt fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Oct 5, 2011 |
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I was having a problem on my droidx where i couldn't dial new numbers. I was already on my third phone so I called up verizon and they let me upgrade a year early. I pretty much had to do it on the spot, but I went ahead and bit the bullet on a bionic. IF the vigor is announced next week... I'll trade my phone in for that one. The only stipulation was that I NOT get an Iphone.
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Holy poo poo, I'm about to travel overseas and decided tonight to test out Skype mobile so I could still make calls if I needed to. Now I find out that, on Verizon, I can't make calls over Wi-Fi? What the gently caress? What about internationally? That is ridiculous. What's the point? edit: turns out that's only "Skype Mobile on Verizon", there is a separate Skype app that will do Wi-Fi VoIP. How stupid. ALFbrot fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Oct 6, 2011 |
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I've been looking around for a while, but not finding info. Is there any info about a possible future 4G Windows phone coming soon. Possibly mango, and not Nokia? I'm really interested in a window phone but want 4G. It would have to be better than the thunderbolt I have now.
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While Microsoft took months to get CDMA support, Verizon dragged their heels on releasing a single, solitary, lone, device. A google search points to ZTE doing something but it obviously has been delayed considering Nokia apparently will be first to market. Maybe Q1 but I am not holding my breath. Verizon is merely too busy with iPhone and Android to even care about Windows Phone it seems.
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That's really depressing. I'm kinda over Android, given up on blackberry, and not interested in iPhone. But I do like what I'm seeing with Windows phone mango. Well, let's just see if someone surprises us.
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I'm currently on a Palm Pixi and my contract will be up within the next few months. I was wondering a couple of things. First off, I cannot for the life of me find how I am supposed to drop the insurance on the Pixi. Verizon lists it among the features, but give no helpful ways to remove or cancel it. Asurion's site is a mess, so I didn't see anything helpful there, either. Is this one of those things I will have to call Verizon to get done? I was also wondering about the new iPhone. I've seen you can buy Apple Care+ for $100, which seems to work roughly the same as total equipment coverage on Verizon, but overall cheaper and with a lower deductible for accident replacements. What kind of hoops would I need to jump through to use that instead of TEC? I imagine I would have to sign up somewhere other than the Verizon website, which is kind of a pain, but I do not have a lot of good to say about Asurion.
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kitten smoothie posted:Is there any way to break contract without actually canceling service? That is pay my ETF, go month to month immediately and be upgrade eligible? You could add-a-line. <thinks> But then you'd have to get data for that line, turning it into a $40/mo liability... hmm. Just so there's a point to this post, your port-out port-in method won't work without 90 days in between, because Verizon won't consider you a new customer. Unless you come in with your wife's SSN.
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Mark Larson posted:You could add-a-line. <thinks> But then you'd have to get data for that line, turning it into a $40/mo liability... hmm. So what's stopping me from doing an add a line to get an iPhone at $199, then doing an ESN swap to put that phone on her line, and finally turning around and canceling the new line? At $350 ETF + $199 for the phone its still cheaper than $649. Edit 2: I assume this would keep my unlimited data too on that line, right? kitten smoothie fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Oct 6, 2011 |
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kitten smoothie posted:So what's stopping me from doing an add a line to get an iPhone at $199, then doing an ESN swap to put that phone on her line, and finally turning around and canceling the new line? At $350 ETF + $199 for the phone its still cheaper than $649. You forgot the month of service, I think that starts at $60 plus tax. if you cancel within 30 days you have to return the phone or owe them full retail. Do you feel like doing a bunh of work to save $40 or less?
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Flyboy925 posted:That's really depressing. I'm kinda over Android, given up on blackberry, and not interested in iPhone. But I do like what I'm seeing with Windows phone mango. Well, let's just see if someone surprises us. At this point, I have very little faith in Verizon. NofrikinfuN posted:I'm currently on a Palm Pixi and my contract will be up within the next few months. I was wondering a couple of things. First off, I cannot for the life of me find how I am supposed to drop the insurance on the Pixi. Verizon lists it among the features, but give no helpful ways to remove or cancel it. Asurion's site is a mess, so I didn't see anything helpful there, either. Is this one of those things I will have to call Verizon to get done?
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One oddity of how Asurion works is old phones that had insurance can bail you out. You can activate you Pixi on a line with insurance on you account and still maintain the insurance. Placehpldr device, sparw phone to activate in an emergency, etc.
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JayKay posted:I purchased the 3500 mah seidio extended battery for my thunderbolt. While it adds quite a bit of heft to the phone, its nice being able to run 4G and not be required to charge every 8 hours. Small update. I've switched ROMS from Sense(BAMF Forever) back to AOSP(CM7* and finished calibration. I'm currently at 78% after 12 hours off charger. While it was only light usage with 32 minutes of screen activation, I'm pretty happy. With my stock battery, it'd be long dead with 4G and probably in the low 30% with 3G only. While it no longer has its svelte and aesthetically pleasing curves, the fact I can actually an entire day on 4G without charging is so worth it. JayKay fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Oct 7, 2011 |
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EvilMoFo posted:Sorry to hear, the Pixi is an absolute piece of poo poo. Yes, you have to call. Thanks. There was a time I would have argued it had a certain charm, but I'm done defending it. Still, if I can remove insurance, I'll have a $25/m 5GB hotspot.
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I preordered my iPhone 4S, but unfortunately when I got to the shipping and billing address page, the shipping address form was broken and I couldn't change the shipping address. I tried multiple times with no luck. If I call Verizon, do you think I could get that rectified and have it shipped to my current address rather than the billing address (my parents, yay family plan!), or perhaps just have an in-store pickup? Otherwise I'll just hang out and have them mail it to me after it arrives on the 14th, I just don't want to wade through customer service reps only to have my hopes and dreams crushed.
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Is this forum public? I have certain information available and would like to avoid any hassling.
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thrannix posted:Is this forum public? I have certain information available and would like to avoid any hassling. This is a public forum, but membership costs money and Lowtax is pretty good about privacy, so you shouldn't be harassed by any outsiders for what you say here.
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Groovy. So, Verizon's next Droid WILL BE the Droid RAZR. Expect it out in early November. I have a source from a third party vendor of Verizons.
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BagelMaster posted:I preordered my iPhone 4S, but unfortunately when I got to the shipping and billing address page, the shipping address form was broken and I couldn't change the shipping address. I tried multiple times with no luck. If I call Verizon, do you think I could get that rectified and have it shipped to my current address rather than the billing address (my parents, yay family plan!), or perhaps just have an in-store pickup? Otherwise I'll just hang out and have them mail it to me after it arrives on the 14th, I just don't want to wade through customer service reps only to have my hopes and dreams crushed. Same situation. I will be calling them this morning and see if it's possible to change the address. I would like it shipped to my job, so we'll see.
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thrannix posted:Groovy. So it's essentially just a Bionic with a modestly-better display and more resilient body (possibly running ICS)?
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doctor thodt posted:So it's essentially just a Bionic with a modestly-better display and more resilient body (possibly running ICS)? 
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doctor thodt posted:What the hell, seriously? Nevermind, dealbreaker
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