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ShittyFunny how the "scarcity" of bandwidth and spectrum instantly disappear when we pay companies like VZ more money.
I'm still on VZ unlimited using a total lag infested piece of horsecrap Droid Razr Maxx from 2012. I usually consume under 2GB each month but still dislike the idea of that arbitrary limit. For me it seems unfathomable that browsing web sites or streaming a couple hours of radio every day could possibly result in a even more expensive bill. Monitoring your data usage seems so damn silly. Who has time for all that shit? Remember when Hotmail had a 2MB limit on the capacity of their inbox? That wasn't too many years ago. And that's what the 2GB limit for LTE personally feels like to me.
I think it's so stupid that downloading 4.7 GB a month on a phone is considered by Verizon to be a problem.
Throttling, locking, blocking competing apps, insane SMS prices, toll bridge networks, hidden monthly charges, forced bloatware that always runs, updates that always make your phone slower etc, etc. Verizon is evil like Mr. Burns. And why is Verizon's logo on the front of my phone? It makes no sense to me. Imagine if Comcast forced you to put their logo on the front panel of your computer's case? |
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Nanaki (banned)aka novaflare. pull punches? Na join:2002-01-24 Akron, OH |
Nanaki (banned)
Member
2014-Jul-25 1:56 pm
said by NLiveris:And why is Verizon's logo on the front of my phone? Lets say you out and out buy a samsung galaxy s5 it will run you around 700. Getting it from your carrier could be any where from 400 down to zero (no such offer yet but there will be in a few months time) That logo and that carrier lock is why you can get a expensive phone for the price of a cheap kyrocera or the like. BTW netbooks (hate the things) use to be offered by both carriers and isps for next to nothing or you could buy unbranded for 300+. So while comcast may not have done it other isps infact did offer a computer for cheap for having their branded unit. |
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said by Nanaki:That logo and that carrier lock is why you can get a expensive phone for the price of a cheap kyrocera or the like. That's all well and good but if I'm paying the full $700 for the phone I don't want their crap on it. Sadly you get it regardless of what you paid. |
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to Nanaki
The S5 is $649 regardless of how you buy it. Pay straight up, finance it over 2 years or buy it on their Edge program. |
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Nanaki (banned)aka novaflare. pull punches? Na join:2002-01-24 Akron, OH |
to itguy05
You bought from verizon they can brand it any way they like. You could buy a unlocked phone with no branding. |
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said by Nanaki:You bought from verizon they can brand it any way they like. You could buy a unlocked phone with no branding. Not on Verizon you can't. |
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IPPlanManHoly Cable Modem Batman join:2000-09-20 Washington, DC 2 edits |
to NLiveris
- iPhones don't have a Verizon carrier logo (or any carrier logo for that matter) whether you buy it subsidized or not. - Verizon's iPhones are also unlocked out of the box for GSM. T-Mobile's are unlocked as well. - iPhones have iMessage to avoid carrier SMS bs. - There's minimal if any "bloatware" on an iPhone. - iPhones receive system software updates from Apple, not the carrier. They almost always make the phone better, not worse. Of course, a two/three year old phone may run on the margin with the latest system update.
As for data usage... First they made money on minutes... then minutes became commoditized. Then it was texts... and they became commoditized with iMessage.
Now it's data... and they're milking it for all they can. That aside, maybe you should get an iPhone... both Sprint and T-Mobile offer unlimited data. |
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delusion ftl
Anon
2014-Jul-26 1:24 am
I dont want to have this come across negative, but I want to clarify a couple things.
1. Iphones absolutely carry the carrier logo, and in my opinion in a much more invasive way (cannot be covered by a case or something like that). It sits in the corner of the screen in most applications as if you may accidentally forget what carrier you were on. 2. Unlocked iphones cannot be brought to verizon. Their imei has to be in verizon's system AND Apple has to have enabled the CDMA portion of the chipset which they do not do on the Tmo/ATT purchased models. 3. Insane SMS prices can be avoided in various ways many of which have nothing to do with iphones 4. There's tons of bloatware on iphones. It may not be verizon's bloatware, but there is bloatware. Every new iphone I get I have to make a folder for all the junk apps that will never be used and put them on some side screen since you can never really get rid of them. Imagine if his Droid put every single app all over his home screens by default. 5. Tell that to the legacy iphone users like the 3GS, 4 and 4S crowd who's device was reasonably fast when it was on the original iOS, but now is pretty laggy. |
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