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[surf]

who do you guys go with and who do you recommend? my sprint contract expires at the end of next month and me & the wife are looking to get some new phones. most likely blackberry. through your experiences, which phone/company would you recommend? would probably be using it for texting and email along with some web Ted Strikering. we sort of got frauded by sprint and would like to go with one of the others but i'm going for the best bang for the buck so i might end up staying with sprint if they offer the best deal. we get 2 free phones from them plus a monthly discount of 18% through my wife's work with sprint. i think it's 20% and 1 free phone through verizon but i'm not sure. since i have no idea where i'll be living in 3 months, good coverage is very important. i'd prefer to keep it under $100/month if possible

[Techsan]

I pay $130/month (after taxes, fees and discount) for 2 phones with unlimited everything...text, roaming, data, minutes. But, it is with sprint.

[Sooner Born]

web Ted Strikering

[hoodlumman]

The Ted Strikering in California is excellent.

That doesn't begin to scratch the Ted Strikerace.

Ted Striker's up.

A Ted Strikeractant is a chemical Dr Fistula capable of reducing the Ted Strikerace tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved.

[A History of Violence]

This will be the top tier phone when it comes out in 2 months:

http:www.sprint.com/evo

[yoshi]

This will be the top tier phone when it comes out in 2 months:

http:www.sprint.com/evo

great phone, but 4g doesnt mean much without the towers to back it up right now

[AggieJen02]

I'm partial to Verizon. I don't care if it's a little pricier. In my opinion, it has the best coverage of any of the carriers. And yes, I've had all of them...AT&T, Sprint, Cingular, etc. I even had a signal out in the middle of the desert with Verizon when no one else did.

I have the "new every two" plan were I get a brand new phone every two years. And I also get an 8% discount for my employer.

[Thethreeyardout]

cool phone

but if I had to listen to those two techno phone fags talk the techno phone fag talk for more than 30 seconds I would assisinate everyone in there techno phone fag store.

[mse1892sip]

I'm partial to Verizon. I don't care if it's a little pricier. In my opinion, it has the best coverage of any of the carriers. And yes, I've had all of them...AT&T, Sprint, Cingular, etc. I even had a signal out in the middle of the desert with Verizon when no one else did.

I have the "new every two" plan were I get a brand new phone every two years. And I also get an 8% discount for my employer.

That's funny regarding Verizon, I had the exact opposite experience. We go to the Frio every summer and the only phone that works out there is AT&T. We have to drive almost to Uvalde to get a signal, hence the reason we switched from Verizon to AT&T.

[surf]

probably sticking with sprint since it's the best deal for what we want

[HeyMoe]

cool phone

but if I had to listen to those two techno phone fags talk the techno phone fag talk for more than 30 seconds I would assisinate everyone in there techno phone fag store.

I work in the wireless biz. I hate fuckin techno phone fags; fuckers come in the store and want to hump your leg for 30 minutes about this phone or that. I've had 20 years of this shit and I've just about had it. I'm just about ready to enroll in truck driver school.

[Techsan]

HTC Hero is a decent phone for sprint. Not as fast as the iPhone, but plenty of cool features. Mines been very sluggish lately also.

[mse1892sip]

HTC Hero is a decent phone for sprint. Not as fast as the iPhone, but plenty of cool features. Mines been very sluggish lately also.

All the gay porn.

[Sooner Born]

I work in the wireless biz. I hate fuckin techno phone fags; fuckers come in the store and want to hump your leg for 30 minutes about this phone or that. I've had 20 years of this shit and I've just about had it. I'm just about ready to enroll in truck driver school.

Your plane is about to go into a flat spin and your head hit the canopy on your ejection. Nice knowing you.

[HeyMoe]

Your plane is about to go into a flat spin and your head hit the canopy on your ejection. Nice knowing you.

Someday you'll see me standing on a street corner with a month-old beard and scraggly clothes. Be kind.

[Nedley Mandingo]

I pay $130/month (after taxes, fees and discount) for 2 phones with unlimited everything...text, roaming, data, minutes. But, it is with sprint.

I'm on pretty much the same plan as Techsan. Plus, I recently got two Blackberry Curves for $50(mail in rebate). They are the new Curves with the pad instead of the roller ball.

Jen is right about the coverage, Verizon is the best but Sprint has the best data plans. I've got my phone to automatically roam if necessary and it works pretty well. Like Jen, I've been on all of them, but I prefer Sprint mainly because they are about $40/month cheaper than Verizon per phone.

[surf]

which blackbery would you recommend then? curve or tour? they're not going to be used as a business phone, just web/email

[Thethreeyardout]

get that fucker up there in the video....that looks cool as shit.

if you are not doing business applications like spread sheets and shit, you don't need a black berry.

[surf]

got a curve today. plenty of shit i'll use it for. loading some tunes on it now and will have a new theme created sometime in the very near future

[surf]

theme for the curve 8500 series

[A History of Violence]

great phone, but 4g doesnt mean much without the towers to back it up right now

Most Texas cities that quality as metro areas -- except for B-CS, of course -- have this shit. We're talking Houston, Metroplex, Austin, SA, and even Tyler, Abilene, San Angelo, etc. Texas, in fact, is the most heavily covered state, with SEVENTEEN markets right now.

I have a Clear 4G modem for my laptop. Speed varies by where you are. Generally, if 3G sucks in an area, 4G will, too. My 4G has gone as slow as 2 Mbps, and as fast as 10 mbps. That ain't cable modem speed, but it's pretty MFing fast for a wimax signal.

[yoshi]

Most Texas cities that quality as metro areas -- except for B-CS, of course -- have this shit. We're talking Houston, Metroplex, Austin, SA, and even Tyler, Abilene, San Angelo, etc. Texas, in fact, is the most heavily covered state, with SEVENTEEN markets right now.

I have a Clear 4G modem for my laptop. Speed varies by where you are. Generally, if 3G sucks in an area, 4G will, too. My 4G has gone as slow as 2 Mbps, and as fast as 10 mbps. That ain't cable modem speed, but it's pretty MFing fast for a wimax signal.

well if you are in the same geographic radius for most of the year and it has 4g sure. i personally spend a lot of time on the road so i have to assess the trade offs on all that. i highly value a phone/network/plan that works anywhere in the americas/asia/europe/mid east/down under. im not doggin 4g, its badass, just a different perspective on its value as a customer.

[yoshi]

just saw your clearwire thread on the nerdery. solid fail first response you got there.

[Sooner Born]

I saw that too, yoshi. What a fucking idiot.

[A History of Violence]

well if you are in the same geographic radius for most of the year and it has 4g sure. i personally spend a lot of time on the road so i have to assess the trade offs on all that. i highly value a phone/network/plan that works anywhere in the americas/asia/europe/mid east/down under. im not doggin 4g, its badass, just a different perspective on its value as a customer.

I'm in the middle of nowhere quite a bit. I hear you. But here's the secondary value of a Clear 4G plan: It comes with 5GB of Sprint 3G, which is available in most places, except BF nowhere. Pull up the Sprint map. It's magic.

And 5GB is what Sprint calls their "unlimited" 3G plan. Before Clear, I had a 3G modem for years and I never, ever came anywhere close to using 5GB. I may have hit 2 GB once in a while.

Plus, these days, you can get free wifi in a lot of places, i.e. all McDonalds' stand-alone stores, most Schlotszky's, many Whataburgers, and buttloads of other bar/restaurant chains. That's a nice back up in case you're nowhere near 4G or 3G coverage. Even small Apu-run motels will have unprotected wireless. Wardrive their parking lot and get the best signal.

[A History of Violence]

This will be the top tier phone when it comes out in 2 months:

http:www.sprint.com/evo

This phone, by the way, is coming in June and will be priced around $200 with MIR, 2 yr plan. If it's like Sprint's other smartphones, you can get an Everything (txt, voice, data, MMS) plan for $99, or a plan with unlimited text/data/MMS & 450 voice minutes for $69. There's going to be a $10 monthly fee, apparently, to use the 'hotspot' function. Frankly, I'd sit tight and root (that's android for jailbreak) the phone and see if someone has an app that does it for you. There's one for the jailbroken iPhone, for example, called MyWi, that does that.

I was going to hit that phone ASAP, but since I redid my jailbreak, and since I've got a badass laptop that boots from cold in 10-20 seconds & a 4G card, I might sit tight until December. Expect Sprint to drop the price like a MF for the holidays.

[hoodlumman]

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Edited by hoodlumman, 07 May 2010 - 09:48 AM.

[surf]

I suck dick.

no fify

[hoodlumman]

no fify

Mod pwnd. On both sites.

[yoshi]

AHOV, certainly a rave review from the engadget guys. im getting antsy about finally ditching my iphone.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/12/sprints...-sucking-paces/