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1 edit | It definitely looks as if a deactivated WiFi is just a rumor. The conversation I found turned into a Sprint hate fest anyway. 
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Onion, NJ | how much? How much do you have to pay for Sprint? $59.99/5Gig?
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| Re: how much? said by AVD:How much do you have to pay for Sprint? $59.99/5Gig? last i checked, it's the same as with all providers: $60/month for 5 gigs. | |
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From what I've heard the cap is kind of loose...can't confirm that though, as I'm no longer a customer. | |
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Onion, NJ | Re: how much? said by Fox McCloud:unless you're on SERO, upon which it's $49.99 a month for 5GB (if you were grandfathered, it's still infinite, however). From what I've heard the cap is kind of loose...can't confirm that though, as I'm no longer a customer. can you transfer your existing datacard account? (btw. I get an employer discount of 19% on my cap grandfathered datacard)
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kudos:3 | Re: how much? Doubt it.. it's obviously for new lines of service at the price rate they want.. I doubt they're giving virtually a free netbook for those already in a plan... that's discounted. | |
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Onion, NJ | Re: how much? said by fiberguy:Doubt it.. it's obviously for new lines of service at the price rate they want.. I doubt they're giving virtually a free netbook for those already in a plan... that's discounted. As far as I can tell, you can extend the datacard contract and keep the grandfathered soft cap.
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kudos:3 | Re: how much? There are no grandfathered soft caps... That's been escalated up to the presidents office at Sprint.. they changed all the services, both personal and business (as they are all the same anyway) and the rules are what they are for everyone now.. that's been told to me from the office of the president of Sprint.. if you know otherwise, please let me know.. would be interesting to see how they grandfathered.. Mine is a bonafide business account and have had it for quite some time now. | |
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1 edit | Re: how much? said by fiberguy:There are no grandfathered soft caps... That's been escalated up to the presidents office at Sprint.. they changed all the services, both personal and business (as they are all the same anyway) and the rules are what they are for everyone now.. that's been told to me from the office of the president of Sprint.. if you know otherwise, please let me know.. would be interesting to see how they grandfathered.. Mine is a bonafide business account and have had it for quite some time now. I don't pay for overages.... I have a grandfathered plan. Without reading the fine print, I can bet you a beer you pay dearly for usage above 5GB with this netbook.
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| | Specs misprinted Best Buy misprinted the specs in its flyers. It only has a 16 Gig solid state drive, not 160 Gig Hard Drive as stated. Was pretty disappointed in that when I went to store to look at it. No bluetooth either. But it does indeed have Wi-Fi. What notebook this day and age wouldn't?
As for the 99 cents, I think it's only a 1 week promo, and coming from Sprint, it's not competition, it's desperation. But tempting nonetheless, and if it helps Sprint recover some customer base then hey, go for it. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: Specs misprinted said by podstolomS :
Was pretty disappointed in that when I went to store to look at it. No bluetooth either. But it does indeed have Wi-Fi.
What operating system did it have? XP or Vista? The spec sheet doesn't say.
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| | | | Re: Specs misprinted More than likely it's got XP on it. | |
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Valencia, CA | Re: Specs misprinted For that price, I wouldn't be surprised if it came with Linux. | |
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| Re: Specs misprinted It had XP Home, 1 Gig RAM, 16 Gig SSD, Atom 1.6 N270, 1024x576 resolution screen, 3 USB ports, SD card slot and built-in VGA port. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: Specs misprinted said by podstolom :
It had XP Home, 1 Gig RAM, 16 Gig SSD, Atom 1.6 N270, 1024x576 resolution screen, 3 USB ports, SD card slot and built-in VGA port.
Thanks for info. I suspect that they will move to Windows 7 Basic by year end.
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kudos:1 | Re: Specs misprinted You could, you know, install linux on it.  | |
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| AOL I remember about 3 yrs ago CC was offering nice Toshiba laptops for 250 after a 2yr commitment with AOL at 25 a month. We bought two, paid one month of AOL and then reported our cards stolen so we could stop all charges and get new cards with new numbers. We never heard anything back from AOL. The laptops were 600 each without the commitment. | |
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Auburn, AL | said by malichi :
I remember about 3 yrs ago CC was offering nice Toshiba laptops for 250 after a 2yr commitment with AOL at 25 a month. We bought two, paid one month of AOL and then reported our cards stolen so we could stop all charges and get new cards with new numbers. We never heard anything back from AOL. The laptops were 600 each without the commitment.
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| Re: Netbooks aren't expensive enough to require a subsidy said by El Quintron:I like the idea of mobile carriers supporting netbook, and them having 3G/4G/LTE modems from the get go. I don't really understand why you'd bother subsidizing it... they run from $250-350 CAD and generally have a much longer shelf life than a cell phone (3-5 years vs. 1-3 years for a cellphone) A decent smartphone would run you at least $400 and be obsolete in 18 month... I can see the point of a subsidy there, but do we really need one for a netbook? because you're very likely to get people to go over their limits of 5GB/month and can get a lot more money in return. The subsidy gets people hooked onto netbooks when they otherwise might not.
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| Re: Netbooks aren't expensive enough to require a subsidy said by El Quintron: very small amount of Due Dilligence would make you think twice about signing any type of contract for it. bingo. people only see FREE! and jump like lemmings | |
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Valencia, CA | Re: Netbooks aren't expensive enough to require a subsidy Its sad that retail cellphones cost more than retail netbooks. | |
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| Re: Netbooks aren't expensive enough to require a subsidy said by en102:Its sad that retail cellphones cost more than retail netbooks. This is a very good point. My iPhone 3G cost me $199 subsidized... I think it's like $500 unsubidy... This netbook, $0.99. I wonder what the unsubsidy price is on it. I'm sure it's still lower then $500 though. sigh...
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| said by El Quintron:said by tiger72: The subsidy gets people hooked onto netbooks when they otherwise might not. a very small amount of Due Dilligence would make you think twice about signing any type of contract for it. Are you serious? This is AMERICA we're talking about. Land of the Free, home of the bailout. Due dilligence is like, soooooo last century.
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| | Netbook subsidies Personally I think the subsidies are a GREAT idea, provided your intention is to get the service anyway and are willing to commit, just as you do with a cell phone. Europeans hve been sucking these up in droves for about a year now.
I'm just not quite sure I'm willing to commit to a contract, even though I've never gone over a 5 Gig limit tethering a cell to my laptop when I had the tethering options.
And with Wi-Fi almost everywhere these days, 3G is becoming less of a "must have" for mobility. This of course, may change with the coming of LTE and (hopefully) no (or at least liberal) data caps. | |
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| at least Well, at least with them all doing this, maybe someone will eventually increase the cap from 5 gig to say at least 7 gig to entice people from other providers, and then maybe someone else will go higher, and eventually maybe they will return to unlimited (true unlimited, not the gay one )) and we'll actually have something to work with...
Oh wait... Might find a snowball in hell first.. :-/ | |
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