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Mighty Horse posted:The shared plans arent on tap until september-ish... I'm hoping the change will give enough time to be able to utilize the Costco 90-day return policy. If I can manage to get my wife a new iPhone AND keep unlimited data, I'll be flush in blowjobs for the next 15 years.
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Jun 4, 2012 21:16
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bull3964 posted:Costco doesn't sell iPhones. Well gently caress. I'll have to find another method, then. Maybe they'll change with the new one, who knows.
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AlexDeGruven posted:Well gently caress. I'll have to find another method, then. Maybe they'll change with the new one, who knows. Nope. Apple is really, really.....really restrictive about who can get an iPhone and I know Costco doesn't do business in a manner that would agree with it. Did I mention Apple is really restrictive? (Don't ask me how the gently caress Walmart got it, but then again, they are MASSIVE) The only reason most smaller retailers like me got it, was the sales of the iPhone 4 were total poo poo and they went into panic mode for a bit, when the 4S came out they couldnt exactly lock us out.
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I really want the Galaxy S III, but I really want to not give Samsung anymore money ever after the Droid Charge's unbelievable lack of support and the Galaxy Nexus's wildly lovely radio hardware. You can probably put money on the GS III having worse radios than the RAZR/RAZR Maxx. The problem is, nobody else is building anything I want.
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If you already have a Galaxy Nexus, why would the SGSIII be a compelling purchase anyways?
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For most people, nothing. For spergs like me, well, it's a no-brainer. Clarification here. I'm going to tread cautiously with the GS III. No purchasing until CM9 or AOKP is mature and ready to go (never again, TouchWiz). Anyone who purchases a GS III over the GNex without being an audio-sperg is basically doing it wrong. This would be a lot easier for me if the Droid Fighter just shipped with a Wolfson DAC, heh.
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I really hope there is something official on the RAZR HD/Fighter soon.
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stormrider posted:I really hope there is something official on the RAZR HD/Fighter soon. Speculation right now is that Moto may push it back so as not to directly compete with the SGSIII launch.
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bull3964 posted:Speculation right now is that Moto may push it back so as not to directly compete with the SGSIII launch. That's it. I'm writing my congressman.
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PitViper posted:I just want the better possibility of a rootable/flashable phone, so I'd rather not go Motorola. The only thing you can't do is install custom kernels (and there's some sort of work on a "second bootloader/kernel" project anyways). My D4 is rooted, for example.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57447129-1/android-4.0-for-droid-razr-delayed-verizon-says-june-12/ June 12th sounds about right for the Razr ICS update; I'd really like to see ICS on my Maxx before Q3. Then again, I really don't see how seeing as how there hasn't been a soak test yet. I really don't want to go the route of a rom since there's a locked bootloader and reports of all kinds of not working bits and problems in general. Argh. FAN OF NICKELBACK fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Jun 5, 2012 |
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Jun 5, 2012 06:21
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Just an FYI, double data for 4G ends today. Also had a last minute scheduled conference call, that got canceled at the last minute yesterday about commissions, so they are getting ready for something. But I don't think it will effect consumers yet.
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I was messing around on my phone this morning, and it appears Verizon is testing 4g in Binghamton, NY today. Speeds are only ok right now, but I don't know if that's indicative of final speeds.
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bull3964 posted:Speculation right now is that Moto may push it back so as not to directly compete with the SGSIII launch. 
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mrchina posted:Galaxy S III announced to drop at the end of the month. Hopefully data plans don't change till after its released. I pre-ordered a 16gb white SIII this morning and was able to keep the $29.99 unlimited data package. The ship date said by 7/6/12, but I would suspect shipment somewhere around the 20th since all other carriers are releasing on that day as well. Historically phone releases have been around 2 weeks after pre-orders go up.
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What is the advantage of pre-ordering the SG3? Just knowing you'll get it if it gets backordered on release?
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Mighty Horse posted:Just an FYI, double data for 4G ends today. Just curious, do you know if it's positive or negative for you guys on commissions? One thing I've noticed with the cost of cell phones is carriers try to take some of it from commissions, which is drat irritating.
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IMM76K finally came through for me yesterday, too. I updated at about 9 am CST with 90% battery left pre-update. Here I am, 24 hours later, with 50% battery left. I left Wi-Fi on all day, as well. Screen was on auto brightness and I used the phone for a couple of hours throughout the day. I don't want to get hopes up, but my battery is lasting at least three times as long as it was with 4.0.2. Edit: also gonna note that the screen dims after a few seconds, even if brightness is set to max. Finally time to show off this beautiful screen without using half of the battery. Bloodplay it again fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Jun 6, 2012 |
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Bloodplay it again posted:IMM76K finally came through for me yesterday, too. I updated at about 9 am CST with 90% battery left pre-update. Here I am, 24 hours later, with 50% battery left. I left Wi-Fi on all day, as well. Screen was on auto brightness and I used the phone for a couple of hours throughout the day. I don't want to get hopes up, but my battery is lasting at least three times as long as it was with 4.0.2. LTE enabled or just on CDMA mode?
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Duckman2008 posted:Just curious, do you know if it's positive or negative for you guys on commissions? One thing I've noticed with the cost of cell phones is carriers try to take some of it from commissions, which is drat irritating. Commissions in wireless are a roller coaster. The commission structures are changed on a yearly basis. For the most part continuing to go down.
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Looks like the Galaxy Nexus is a penny with new contracts nowadays.
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Amazon does that with brand new phones as well. You have to have service for at least six months. The GNex is still 200 bucks at Verizon, or 150 at Amazon.
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kensei posted:LTE enabled or just on CDMA mode? CDMA. LTE isn't in my area.
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Looks like Incredible 4G launches June 21st and the SGSIII a week later.
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After getting 4.0.4 on my GNex, I'm at 82% after 8 hours with charging while driving home from work (which takes about 15 minutes. Phone idle finally takes up more than Android OS.
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Bloodplay it again posted:CDMA. LTE isn't in my area. CDMA I have life for about two days. LTE and I am done after about 8 hours.
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kensei posted:CDMA I have life for about two days. LTE and I am done after about 8 hours. If that's the case, once LTE hits my region, I'll probably just switch over to LTE only when I need it for moderate use. I wish I had this update two weeks ago when I went to a music festival. I really wanted to use my phone to record videos with my friends, but my phone was dead before noon the second day (with airplane mode turned on, lowest possible brightness, and very light usage) and five of the eight available MicroUSB chargers were broken.
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Bloodplay it again posted:If that's the case, once LTE hits my region, I'll probably just switch over to LTE only when I need it for moderate use. I wish I had this update two weeks ago when I went to a music festival. I really wanted to use my phone to record videos with my friends, but my phone was dead before noon the second day (with airplane mode turned on, lowest possible brightness, and very light usage) and five of the eight available MicroUSB chargers were broken. The battery life on my Bionic has been better since 4G came on for me. Might want to check it out for a few days first.
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metachronos posted:C'mon droid fighter! Yeah, I'm pretty much  every day at this point.To make matters worse, there was a new news result on a google search for "droid razr HD" that was only 11 hours old. "A release date, finally!" I thought to myself. Then I looked closer. It was for that stupid HD dock for the Droid Razr.
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Why has everyone slept on the Rezound? It has the nicest screen out of any Verizon phone and HTC actually updates their hardware. Sense is decent too. V happy with this phone.
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TenaciousTomato posted:Why has everyone slept on the Rezound? It has the nicest screen out of any Verizon unit and HTC actually updates their phones. Sense is decent too. V happy with this phone.
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TenaciousTomato posted:Why has everyone slept on the Rezound? It has the nicest screen out of any Verizon phone and HTC actually updates their hardware. Sense is decent too. V happy with this phone. Also Sense is just as offensive as ever IMO, but I'm pretty sure there are custom ROMs for the Rezound that strip that out so it's sort of a non-factor. kbar fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Jun 7, 2012 |
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Is the S3 likely to get an extended battery kit? I didn't see one on Samsung's website yet but they do have some for other models. If I can get a big battery for it that takes away my big reservation for getting one. If Moto doesn't want to let me buy their new phone then I guess I won't. 
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Are the batteries in G'Nexs' and such that bad? My razr used to last most of the day with pretty steady use but I just rooted it recently and put the eclipse GB rom on and bought SetCPU and now it's still at 20% after being on from 7AM to midnight with music listening and such all day.
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TenaciousTomato posted:Why has everyone slept on the Rezound? It has the nicest screen out of any Verizon phone and HTC actually updates their hardware. Sense is decent too. V happy with this phone.
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:It has an amazing screen, but it has poor battery life and is still running Gingerbread. The screen type and size were exactly what I wanted in a phone, but everything else was wrong, so i got the Galaxy Nexus instead. Battery life isn't that bad, if you're on WiFi at least half of the day you can easily make it till you get somewhere to charge. And it will (hopefully) be updated to ICS soon. Screen/radios/build quality are all better.
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TenaciousTomato posted:Battery life isn't that bad, if you're on WiFi at least half of the day you can easily make it till you get somewhere to charge. And it will (hopefully) be updated to ICS soon. Screen/radios/build quality are all better. My buddy has a lot of different HTC phones he tests. While he was happy with the phone when he first got it he did nothing but complain about how bad the battery was shortly after.
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JP Money posted:Are the batteries in G'Nexs' and such that bad? My razr used to last most of the day with pretty steady use but I just rooted it recently and put the eclipse GB rom on and bought SetCPU and now it's still at 20% after being on from 7AM to midnight with music listening and such all day. Battery life has dramatically improved since upgrading to 4.0.4. My stock battery lasts about 17 hours on a full charge with 3g. I'm sure the LTE radio uses more juice, though, so take that into consideration. I've seen third-party batteries (NFC) about double that of the stock battery, but it almost doubles the phone's thickness as well. All in all, the Gnex is the best phone I've ever had the pleasure of using. I haven't put a screen protector on and the screen only has a few tiny surface scratches. My only complaint with the phone is that I have to set it face down if I want to use the alarm because the speaker gets blocked and the volume is greatly diminished.
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