Ohhhh... I get it, now.It only adds RED DASHES on the roads or streets that are slow. Here I was looking for the nice green/yellow/red Google Traffic overlays. When you think about it, it's less intrusive. The turn-by-turn 3D directions on the maps is AWESOME. I tried it with a few locations last night (home, Jack-in-the-Box), etc., and it kept rerouting nicely... Go to maps.google.com on Safari. Click the [add to] square with an arrow at the bottom, you're presented with 9 choices, the middle one is "add to home screen", but it really adds it to where ever you have space in any of your screens. Move it to your HOME screen. I'm having so much fun dictating in Spanish. Now you can dictate in many other languages... "Hola, Siri. Tengo hambre. ¿Dónde puedo comprar donas?" :grin:
Yes, for AT&T, that is correct. You should be unlimited anything data-wise unless you manually change it tino a capped plan. It usually tells you this whenever you're buying a phone online. To be safe, I'd order the iPhone through the AT&T website, but I've seen that it works just fine on Apple's site also.
I can vouch that this is how it worked for my iPad through AT&T when the new iPads came out. My 3G unlimited plan switched to 4G LTE when I transferred my current plan to my new iPad a number of months ago. I was pleasantly surprised. I had convinced myself that AT&T would take the opportunity to "un"grandfather me from the unlimited plan.
Will this get sold out on the first day? I never go and buy apple products the second they first come out, but my current phone is getting worse and worse by the day.
For Sprint, if you pre-ordered the first couple of days, you will get your phone on or near tomorrow, if you ordered by the 17th, it will ship in one week, if you ordered by yesterday, it will be shipped in two weeks. I suspect it will be difficult to find one tomorrow.
I doubt it. There were lines down the street in the morning for the New iPad and my boss strolled into the apple store after lunch (it was almost empty) and they had everything in stock
My wife got a 4s a not too long ago when her 2 died, and they did everything in their power to not allow the unlimited plan to continue. Every detail they had put things in place to either convince you to, or force you to, 'upgrade' to a capped plan. Of course the way they throttle high volume data users, or so I've heard, I'm not sure it's much of an issue, really. The unlimited plan is no longer able to be what it was once intended. Unlimited. This was at an AT&T store in person.
Sprint. We have been pleased with their service, although their 4G LTE rollout may take longer than the others, but I don't know. AT least you can get unlimited data plans through Sprint.
Yeah, I've heard similar stories. I think it just varies but with pre-orders and orders online, I think their system automatically recognizes what you have so all it does is change your data type rather than the actual cap, but it does give you the option to choose a capped plan if you want to downgrade for whatever reason. The throttle thing is pretty stupid, yeah. If you're looking for better coverage, Verizon. If you want faster LTE data speeds, AT&T. Verizon's better IMO, but more expensive too. AT&T's worse but I've had it for about 4 years now and I've been satisfied for the most part with my service.
I think it's huge that sprint/Verizon doesn't let you use data while talking. That's a dealbreaker for me. Verizon has superior coverage to AT&T if the aforementioned doesn't bother you.
If 4G or fast data is important to the guy, I would avoid Sprint if he's outside of a few areas (Texas is one good area for Sprint). This is a 4G coverage map: http://money.cnn.com/interactive/technology/4G-coverage-map/?hpt=hp_t3 It's ridiculous how far behind Sprint is. Their 3G speed, at least in my experience, was wretched. I got the 4S on there and compared (in various places in Austin) speeds and they were less than 10% of the AT&T and Verizon speeds. I returned the phone and got AT&T have been much happier, though coverage is still not 100%. Overall, I would say AT&T is faster, but Verizon has better blanket coverage. Sprint is cheapest and has unlimited data. So it really depends on how you use the phone and what is most valuable.
People who have ordered from the apple store before: My order says, "Preparing for shipment" with an Oct 5th delivery date. From what it says on apple's site that my order will be ready to ship soon, but oct 5th is 2 weeks from now. Do y'all think that my phone will come earlier than oct 5th?
