I have Cricket with a phone bought off contract. $70 total for my wife and I. We each get 2.5 GBs since we're mostly on WiFi and are not data hogs. It works for us.
If stedd isn't, let me know if the offer would be on the table! Would help me out of jam and it'd kill two birds with one stone with the $$ going to cf. In any case, way to be generous dude. Repped.
thx man. dude said his phone broke so wanted to give him a shot. anyhow, someone on the board msg'ed me through google hangouts within a couple of minutes of posting the offer a few days ago (stalker :grin. if sted declines and the other guy declines, i'll just go through the posts to see who asked first and then do the tipjar thing.
Can't find it, thought I posted complaining about it but my AT&T 2 year plan ended middle of last year and I finally got around to looking for a new phone last fall as I stopped getting reception completely basically over a weekend in the Galleria area. It was so weird... went home on Friday and everything was fine, came back to the office on Monday and no longer got reception. No issues anywhere else. Don't know if AT&T was playing with their towers/bands at the time or what but don't really think it was the phone. So started looking for a new phone and after pricing out plans found AT&T wanted to charge me the surcharge for the two year plan mentioned by robroy, which basically over two years basically paid the hardware subsidy that the carriers have provided in the past for signing two year plans. I was not getting charged this in my old bills though. Would have preferred to stay on AT&T but between my phone stopping working in the middle of the city for what felt like no reason (friends suggested at the time it may have been due to AT&T switching around service on their bands) and what I felt were really misleading explanations of their plans and charges, decided to leave. At least the other providers that decided they didn't want to offer 2 year plans with subsidies were up front enough about it to stop offering them.
anyhow... sted, tried tacking on an extra day for you to respond. just gonna go ahead and do the tipjar thing with the next person. the person i alluded to earlier, biggiestuff, msg'ed me after posting the offer. we'll setup a time to get it done.
Yeah, i've done that but I really don't like mozilla on the phone it seems slow and has some other little issues that bug me.
I'm on Sprint and will stay as i'm grandfathered in with unlimited data. I'll probably get another 2 year plan and i'm currently up for a new phone. I've got a G3 and I really like it, but I want a removable battery, option to add memory, water proof if possible, and 3+ gigs of RAM. Seems that everything is octocore now so whatever I get will have plenty of power. The G4 was the natural upgrade, but reviews seem very mixed. The Note is awesome, but i'm not sure I want something that large. It seems like there were a lot more waterproof phones out a year or so ago, but now i'm not seeing as many. I'm too tied in to the android universe to consider Apple. As it stands now Galaxy S6 is my leading candidate, but i'll wait to see the S7.
The next generation of phones is about to come out. If you're still running on 2 year contracts with subsidized phones, wait a few months for the next set of phones to come out. The galaxy S6 and Note 5 are fine but the battery life is absolutely terrible and Touchwiz still causes performance issues. (LG's Android skin isn't that much better though and I personally hate LG's UI) Also not all Sprint grandfathered plans are money savers as some of their current unlimited plans via Best Buy are still good deals.
Samsung is absolutely HORRIBLE at rolling out their updates. I'm starting to think Marshmallow is just a myth.
How is it? Did it help out your G4? I realize you just got it, so you need time to play with it, but initial thoughts? The Edge I have is pretty sweet, aside from the fact that there are not waterproof cases for it, but the updates come soo slow, especially for a flagship phone
The funny thing is that Samsung promised that they'd be the first manufacturer to update their flagship devices to Android 6.0.
I'm aware of that. I was just commenting on how bad the battery life is as a whole on those since he said he was considering upgrading to the S6. There are plenty of phones with non-removable batteries that are just fine but the S6 and Note 5 are not part of that group.
I went from a rooted S3 to an S6 (Verizon). The two things I like best are the Samsung Pay app and WiFi calling (I moved to the sticks outside Montgomery, and the cell coverage near my house is so weak the wifi calls are often the only clear ones I make). That said, waiting on Marshmallow will be as frustrating as getting a working root. Samsung released 6.0 to Korea and will next go to Poland, but I suspect it will be many months before I see it here in the States (blame more to Verizon). And even then, it will only be 6.0, while most are already getting or have 6.0.1. And Marshmallow will be important to the S6 since Doze makes a big difference on battery life. The slowness in getting the MM update is especially frustrating as I have been running running 6.0.1 on my HP TouchPad for months... an almost five year old device that wasn't even intended to run Android (instead, webOS), that was abandoned by the manufacturer.
I would definitely wait a month ot so to see what Samsung and LG has up their sleeves with the new Galaxy S7 and G5. They both look interesting. The Galaxy S7 and S7 edge will have bigger batteries and micro sd card if the rumors are true. The G5 is rumored to have a 'magic slot' that we don't know much about yet. LG's event is on 2/21, so it won't be long until we find out.
