 N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
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kudos:1 | reply to IowaCowboy
Re: No iPhone, no sale I'm due for an upgrade soon, but I'm not sure what direction I'm going to go in. I currently have an iPhone 4s that's in mint condition (I bought a Lifeproof case for it when they came out).
Some of the Android handsets from Samsung look interesting. My last smart phone was an HTC Incredible which I was generally satisfied with.
I like my iPhone is a good product, but I don't think it's that "head & shoulders" above the competition as it once was.
I'm seriously considering NOT upgrading when I'm due in July. The phone is in excellent condition, and with a 4G phone you get an upgrade fee & data caps. The 3G is working just fine for me right now..
I may purchase a new battery from iFixit and roll with what I've got right now & go out of contract.
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| IMHO, keep the iphone4s. You can take it to a growing number of Verizon MVNO, pay 50% less and have the same service level. Only the contract hamsterwheel makes people think a phone is only good for 2 years. Apple is still selling the 4 and I hear they are coming out with a ghetto iphone.
And if you want a droid, sell your iphone and buy one. No contract you can do whatever you want to do. But be warned, firmware updates on droids is pathetic and pretty much you will need to root to get any newer functionality unless you buy a nexus phone. TP firmware support depends upon the dev community so watch out for that.
If it's not verizon, well take your pick and still save 50%.
Verizon: TFG, PPC
Tmobile: Lots, straighttalk
AT&T: Dwindling and expensive. I think they are having a hard time getting people off into LTE. They are about one year behind VZ here
Sprint: Take your pick, but be warned. Their network is the farthest behind...
Buying an LTE phone today is practically locking you into a vendor because there are so many frequencies. If you can hold out for a while, you can see how things progress but right now only Verizon is really there w/ LTE. And they are going to move to LTE advanced soon enough... |
N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
kudos:1 | That's a good point. I was looking at some of the MVNO's. Have to see if I can port my number at the end of my contract. I use it for my business & I've had it forever, so changing it is not an option.
Excellent point on the updates with Android v. iPhone as well.
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