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Three-Phase posted:Remember when you had only a certain number of minutes or texts each month and if you went over you had to pay extra money? Strange to think about. With my current subscription/plan, I've got 50 GB of data in country (10 GB in the rest of Europe), unlimited calling, and free text and MMS messages. This for $45 per month.
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Three-Phase posted:Remember when you had only a certain number of minutes or texts each month and if you went over you had to pay extra money? Hell, back in the day, Sprint used to advertise $0.10/min long distance on land lines. I lived in Wisconsin for awhile, and despite being in the same area code, I racked up a ton of long distance charges using AOL.
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Aug 8, 2016 21:28
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Kidney Stone posted:Strange to think about. God drat. Where do you live?
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Aug 8, 2016 22:52
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My dad is the only one on the family plan still grandfathered into unlimited data he uses on average 200Mb a month 
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Aug 8, 2016 23:15
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I'd love a plan that was unlimited data but no talk or text for a reasonable fee because I got my first smartphone a couple of months ago and its connection is several times faster than any ISP around here.
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Aug 8, 2016 23:57
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:I'd love a plan that was unlimited data but no talk or text for a reasonable fee because I got my first smartphone a couple of months ago and its connection is several times faster than any ISP around here. T-Mobile use to have one, I think it's 5gb for $20 or something now.
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Aug 9, 2016 01:08
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drunk asian neighbor posted:My dad is the only one on the family plan still grandfathered into unlimited data I think there's some convoluted way he can give it to you. Something about him signing ownership of the phone over to you. There's people out there with unlimited Verizon data plans that sell them for like $2,000 and the way they get them to you is by doing this "signing over" method. I still have unlimited data with Verizon but I can tell my days are numbered. They tried boosting the price up $20 a month, but luckily I saw some awesome post on Slickdeals that prevented it from happening for like 2 years. If Verizon had a plan where it was 2GB and anything after that is 2g or 56k speeds or something I'd jump on it in a second. My problem is I tether a lot for web browsing; I really don't care much about watching Netflix on my phone. Too bad Verizon will never do this because they want everything to be on 4g towers anyway.
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Aug 9, 2016 01:24
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i dont think ive ever gone over on my data. i dont do much on my phone. and when i do i guess i'm always on wifi. i stream music while i drive around but never for long periods of time.
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Aug 9, 2016 01:30
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I think there's some convoluted way he can give it to you. Something about him signing ownership of the phone over to you. There's people out there with unlimited Verizon data plans that sell them for like $2,000 and the way they get them to you is by doing this "signing over" method. Even if they were on 4G towers, they could still throttle your speed.
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Aug 9, 2016 01:31
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I think there's some convoluted way he can give it to you. Something about him signing ownership of the phone over to you. There's people out there with unlimited Verizon data plans that sell them for like $2,000 and the way they get them to you is by doing this "signing over" method. Yeah, it's too much of a hassle. Biggest annoyance is every time he wants to upgrade he has to buy a phone off like Amazon or something since upgrading would lose the plan. I'm not that bummed, I pay for 2GB but get 4, and I've never gone over. Come close a couple times, but I have an alert and a soft cap enabled.
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Aug 9, 2016 02:06
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Did anyone mention that somethingawful thread from forever ago where everyone degaussed their CRT monitor and posted what sound it made?
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OJ.SImpson posted:Did anyone mention that somethingawful thread from forever ago where everyone degaussed their CRT monitor and posted what sound it made? Sorta like this right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHc288IPFzk wait a sec
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Aug 9, 2016 05:12
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Data Graham posted:Sorta like this right? That just made my day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-FXeu1gf7Y Humphreys has a new favorite as of 07:18 on Aug 9, 2016 |
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Aug 9, 2016 07:15
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Every time I have changed cell providers I have gotten more data and better service at a lower price. I'm currently at $35/month for 4GB of data and unlimited talk and text, with mediocre 4G coverage in town that is gradually improving. I don't tend to use much data anyway, since I use wifi the vast majority of the time I am doing anything Internet-related on my phone.
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Aug 9, 2016 07:26
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I really liked my plan with T-Mobile but they had no signal anywhere. I'd drive out the city limits of a major city and I'd be on 2G or emergency only until I hit the next city.
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Aug 9, 2016 14:27
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Yeah i have tmobile but the signal is pretty bad especially outside of the city and inside big office buildings. But its so cheap and their international stuff is the poo poo. AT&T cost more especially when traveling but i never had service issues even in elevators
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Aug 9, 2016 15:03
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Cojawfee posted:I really liked my plan with T-Mobile but they had no signal anywhere. I'd drive out the city limits of a major city and I'd be on 2G or emergency only until I hit the next city. Wait... It isn't like this with other providers? I've always used t-mobile so I've always just assumed it's like that with all of them.
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Aug 9, 2016 16:30
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Three-Phase posted:Remember when you had only a certain number of minutes or texts each month and if you went over you had to pay extra money? In Canada this is still a thing with a lot of cheaper (read: sub $50/month before data) mobile plans, at least the minutes. Hell, we still have long distance charges on some plans 
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Aug 9, 2016 16:36
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tmobile's service is sooooo lovely but man, they are always real nice on the phone when you complain about it
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Aug 9, 2016 16:38
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GutBomb posted:Wait... It isn't like this with other providers? I've always used t-mobile so I've always just assumed it's like that with all of them. Carriers like at&t and Verizon have LTE all over the place. Some of my strongest signal is in rural areas.
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Aug 9, 2016 16:38
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None of those pesky towers in the way blocking the signal.
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Aug 9, 2016 16:42
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Three-Phase posted:Remember when you had only a certain number of minutes or texts each month and if you went over you had to pay extra money? Charging for individual texts was a great racket, since I'm pretty sure they just jam them into the spare bandwidth that exists in the regular pinging back and forth between cell towers and the phone.
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Aug 9, 2016 18:53
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CubanMissile posted:I remember being super jealous of people who had Razrs because Sprint didn't carry them so I had to go with the ol' Sanyo Katana and tell my self it was just as good. I remember finding a Pebl in the lost and found early 2006, used it till my first smartphone. I still have it in a box somewhere  Was like the Lexus version of the RAZR.
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Mak0rz posted:God drat. Where do you live? Denmark. I forgot to mention, that Spotify is also included in the subscription for "free". There's also a subscription with the same things included, but with 100 GB data for $60 per month. Kidney Stone has a new favorite as of 19:52 on Aug 9, 2016 |
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Batterypowered7 posted:Charging for individual texts was a great racket, since I'm pretty sure they just jam them into the spare bandwidth that exists in the regular pinging back and forth between cell towers and the phone. That's literally what it is. The pings back to the cell towers have room for 160 characters. Your phone does it all the time without you knowing but they'd charge a nickel per message.
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Aug 9, 2016 20:03
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thathonkey posted:Yeah i have tmobile but the signal is pretty bad especially outside of the city and inside big office buildings. But its so cheap and their international stuff is the poo poo. AT&T cost more especially when traveling but i never had service issues even in elevators They've been enabling LTE band 12 on a lot of their towers and it makes a huge difference you have a phone which supports it. I spent Saturday driving around rural Wisconsin and only very rarely lost coverage. The rest of the time I had LTE service. With my old phone I dropped to 2G as soon as I went beyond suburbia.
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I've been considering ditching Verzion and going to Google Fi recently but you dudes are scaring me. Does anyone have any experience with Google Fi's signal quality specifically in New England?
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Gay Weed Dad posted:I've been considering ditching Verzion and going to Google Fi recently but you dudes are scaring me. Does anyone have any experience with Google Fi's signal quality specifically in New England? There is a Google Fi thread in Inspect Your Gadgets, if you want to check it out. I don't live in New England, but rather the greater Philadelphia area and I have no complaints.
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azurite posted:There is a Google Fi thread in Inspect Your Gadgets, if you want to check it out. I don't live in New England, but rather the greater Philadelphia area and I have no complaints. There's also a prepaid phone thread that covers all the providers, including some weird little MVNOs: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652174
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azurite posted:There is a Google Fi thread in Inspect Your Gadgets, if you want to check it out. I don't live in New England, but rather the greater Philadelphia area and I have no complaints. Powered Descent posted:There's also a prepaid phone thread that covers all the providers, including some weird little MVNOs: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652174 Thanks alot guys!
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Aug 9, 2016 23:57
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the Nokia 6820 is still the best phone of all time
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TenementFunster posted:the Nokia 6820 is still the best phone of all time Odd way of spelling Nokia 1110, the only phone that will survive inevitable nuclear war.
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Aug 10, 2016 23:21
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Nokias can survive lots of things, but unfortunately they are not immune to crushing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCgVgaEYFAM
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I've been helping my grandma move. She has a VHS rewinder that she never took out of the box.
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Aug 11, 2016 06:34
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I don't get it, wasn't a VCR also a VHS rewinder?
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BattleMaster posted:I don't get it, wasn't a VCR also a VHS rewinder? Technically, but the dedicated rewinders were able to rewind a tape much, much faster than a VCR was. They were very prevalent at rental stores like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.
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Aug 11, 2016 06:42
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Oh yeah I know about their use in rental stores but I don't understand personal ownership of one unless you're so serious about watching movies that you don't want to spare a minute to rewind before starting your next film.
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BattleMaster posted:I don't get it, wasn't a VCR also a VHS rewinder? Yeah, but there were a few things that having a rewinder was good for: 1) If you wanted to immediately watch another movie, you could pop it out and start rewinding it while starting the next movie. Otherwise you had to sit there for the 5 minutes or so it would take to rewind the movie (in the older VCRs, anyway... newer ones added faster rewind speeds). 2) There was a fear that rewinding in your VCR would wear out the rubber "idler wheel" inside it faster than normal, leading to premature failure. This was a real thing, and again, later models tried to solve this by making the rewind function work in a different way that would relieve the stress on the regular playback mechanism. 3) Most rewinders were able to rewind tapes WAY faster than most VCRs of the time. Even VCRs with "fast rewind" features were considerably slower than a little machine whose only job was rewinding tapes. The downside was that many cheap rewinders found their way to market that either didn't work well, or straight up broke tapes. Ahh, the good ol' days. Edit: BattleMaster posted:Oh yeah I know about their use in rental stores but I don't understand personal ownership of one unless you're so serious about watching movies that you don't want to spare a minute to rewind before starting your next film.
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BattleMaster posted:Oh yeah I know about their use in rental stores but I don't understand personal ownership of one unless you're so serious about watching movies that you don't want to spare a minute to rewind before starting your next film. That's basically what I used mine for. As soon as I was done with a movie, it went right in the rewinder and then back on the shelf so I didn't have to bother with it next time.
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I got drunk last week and watched The Who's Tommy on my cell phone. Wonderous times we live in, gents.
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