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For a flagship phone, I'm really torn on what I want. I like the Galaxy S6 or the Note 4... (the Edge is just stupid!) but then - I really like my Windows phone too - problem.. I really want my Starbucks app back - I know it's lame but I do.. and I'll miss Google maps and Google Drive, etc.. Here maps is ehh at best!
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@Dashrender said:
For a flagship phone, I'm really torn on what I want. I like the Galaxy S6 or the Note 4... (the Edge is just stupid!) but then - I really like my Windows phone too - problem.. I really want my Starbucks app back - I know it's lame but I do.. and I'll miss Google maps and Google Drive, etc.. Here maps is ehh at best!
You may want to look at the LG G3 (is the G4 out?) I replaced my Note 2 with it. I heard the Note 4 is a huge step but I'm really liking the G3. I've been getting crazy good battery life with it recently too.
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Sammy's stuff is really nice and all but I can get that ZenPhone for $300USD straight up no contract, which gets me a 15% discount on my plan.
$80mth x 24mths x 0.15 = $288.....
Waaiiiiiiiiiit that's not a great deal at all........ glad I did the math now.
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@Dashrender If you are using Windows Phone 8/8.1, check and see if Waze is available (I think it is)... I've used that for a while. It's really cool.
I got the Note 4 and love it . I take notes with it, as well as draw (well doodle... I love to doodle, lol). It is generally fast -- even though I keep it on PowerSave mode all the time (habbit from my note 3, lol).
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@dafyre If you can get Verizon, you don't have to fork out the $$ for the phone up front... You can pay for it over a couple of years and then upgrade again at 18 months if you want.
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@dafyre said:
@Dashrender If you are using Windows Phone 8/8.1, check and see if Waze is available (I think it is)... I've used that for a while. It's really cool.
It was so dangerous for me to use and worked so poorly that I removed it from my phone. It felt like it was going to be good but once I used it for a bit I realized that it was dangerous and poor. I took it off my phone completely to keep my wife from opening it and making me upset. I found it mostly unusable, the interface was just terrible.
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@dafyre said:
@dafyre If you can get Verizon, you don't have to fork out the $$ for the phone up front... You can pay for it over a couple of years and then upgrade again at 18 months if you want.
Or TMobile and the savings in the service makes the phone more than free by comparison.
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@MattSpeller said:
Sammy's stuff is really nice and all but I can get that ZenPhone for $300USD straight up no contract, which gets me a 15% discount on my plan.
$80mth x 24mths x 0.15 = $288.....
Waaiiiiiiiiiit that's not a great deal at all........ glad I did the math now.
What? The S6 is like $699 or something.. with no contract - and of course no savings on your plan either..
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@dafyre said:
@Dashrender If you are using Windows Phone 8/8.1, check and see if Waze is available (I think it is)... I've used that for a while. It's really cool.
I got the Note 4 and love it . I take notes with it, as well as draw (well doodle... I love to doodle, lol). It is generally fast -- even though I keep it on PowerSave mode all the time (habbit from my note 3, lol).
Yeah the Note 4 is definitely a really nice device.. cool features etc...
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Getting ready to leave work.
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@scottalanmiller If you enjoy not having signal, then I agree! T-Mobile has a really bad rap around here. So does Straight Talk & Cricket.
AT & T is supposedly good as well as Verizon... but I've been with verizon a number of years and they have always done me right. I don't mind paying for a service that works. Even if it is one of (if not) the most expensive.
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@scottalanmiller said:
It was so dangerous for me to use and worked so poorly that I removed it from my phone. It felt like it was going to be good but once I used it for a bit I realized that it was dangerous and poor. I took it off my phone completely to keep my wife from opening it and making me upset. I found it mostly unusable, the interface was just terrible.
Are you talking about Waze? What is dangerous about it? I can't speak to the Windows Phone version, but the Android version has always been pretty good.
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller If you enjoy not having signal, then I agree! T-Mobile has a really bad rap around here. So does Straight Talk & Cricket.
AT & T is supposedly good as well as Verizon... but I've been with verizon a number of years and they have always done me right. I don't mind paying for a service that works. Even if it is one of (if not) the most expensive.
If AT&T works so would Circket as well as straight talk. ST is an MVNO on AT&T and Verizon (for CDMA). Circket is a MVNO fully owned by AT&T and operates on the AT&T network.
T-Mobile by far has the worst coverage of any I've tired. Way worse than even Sprint/Nextel.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
If AT&T works so would Circket as well as straight talk. ST is an MVNO on AT&T and Verizon (for CDMA). Circket is a MVNO fully owned by AT&T and operates on the AT&T network.
You would think that would be the case... but around here Cricket and T-Mobile have horrible reviews. (And this is coming from customers local to this area).
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
It was so dangerous for me to use and worked so poorly that I removed it from my phone. It felt like it was going to be good but once I used it for a bit I realized that it was dangerous and poor. I took it off my phone completely to keep my wife from opening it and making me upset. I found it mostly unusable, the interface was just terrible.
Are you talking about Waze? What is dangerous about it? I can't speak to the Windows Phone version, but the Android version has always been pretty good.
I use Here Maps but have used Waze in the past both worked fine.
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@dafyre said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
If AT&T works so would Circket as well as straight talk. ST is an MVNO on AT&T and Verizon (for CDMA). Circket is a MVNO fully owned by AT&T and operates on the AT&T network.
You would think that would be the case... but around here Cricket and T-Mobile have horrible reviews. (And this is coming from customers local to this area).
They think they are getting better coverage when it's the same exact thing with cricket but, they pay more so it seems better. . You're throttled to 5Mbps with HSPA, or 10Mbps with LTE, but no one would really notice that even with video streaming.
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With SIM based phones I suppose moving to one of the cheaper carriers is OK as long as service works... I was on sprint for over 10 years, but I finally was fed up with the lack of coverage that I moved to AT&T and now have 4 bars in my basement.
What phones are available on T-mobile and Cricket are one of the leading factors that kept me away from them.. but as I said.. if I can buy an unlocked phone today and move my SIM card into it.. that might be the way to go.
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@Dashrender said:
With SIM based phones I suppose moving to one of the cheaper carriers is OK as long as service works... I was on sprint for over 10 years, but I finally was fed up with the lack of coverage that I moved to AT&T and now have 4 bars in my basement.
What phones are available on T-mobile and Cricket are one of the leading factors that kept me away from them.. but as I said.. if I can buy an unlocked phone today and move my SIM card into it.. that might be the way to go.
Or get a phone that can do calling via Wifi/broadband and you really don't have any issues. If my company wasn't supplying my phone I would look at Republic Wireless.
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Don't you need a carrier who does WIFI calling too?
It's also ridiculous to pay these high phone bills to use your wireless to make calls..
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@Dashrender said:
Don't you need a carrier who does WIFI calling too?
It's also ridiculous to pay these high phone bills to use your wireless to make calls..
Hence the looking at an alternative carrier. I know a dozen people on Republic with Moto X and X2s. They have really good luck where ever they are, it roams to Verizon if needed, and when they are on wifi the quality is comparable.
