Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

[breadnatty08]

Have to say, this really grinds my gears! Still no respect for DC residents.
I'll hide it since it's political in nature.

Spoiler

Trent Franks on Abortion Bill: “D.C. Is Not the Issue” - City Desk

 

[HanSolo]

They aren't going to remove your unlimited until you take the action to upgrade, they will be honoring the current contract until you renew. So no get out of jail free card unfortunately.

I will look very closely at the contract and see if there is a loophole I can find. It is good being a lawyer sometimes, lol. And working with sharks.

Either way, I'll never buy another phone from those idiots again.

 

[HanSolo]

Or maybe I'll just stay with Verizon and let my wife go to AT&T when she wants the iPhone. I just checked our data usage. In 9 days, my wife has used 0.07 GB of data. I've used 11.2.

That's going to be a problem.

lol

 

[breadnatty08]

I'm honestly looking forward to shared data. The wife barely uses any and I max out at around 2gig a month. If we can get a shared 5Gig plan for less than 2 unlimited plans, I'm all for it.

 

[MSUgEEk]

I'm honestly looking forward to shared data. The wife barely uses any and I max out at around 2gig a month. If we can get a shared 5Gig plan for less than 2 unlimited plans, I'm all for it.

I agree. I barely use 1 GB and my wife might use 500MB. If we could get a 4-5GB plan for $40 it would be better than 2 unlimiteds at $60.

 

[AntimonyER]

Yeah, I agree with you, my wife barely uses any, and even I use only around 2GB/mo. A shared plan could very well save us money. But my concern is in the future, if we truly are going to mobile data culture, how valuable will that unlimited plan be 5 years from now...

 

[MSUgEEk]

Yeah, I agree with you, my wife barely uses any, and even I use only around 2GB/mo. A shared plan could very well save us money. But my concern is in the future, if we truly are going to mobile data culture, how valuable will that unlimited plan be 5 years from now...

True. The way things are going now, any kind of unlimited data plan would be very valuable in a few years from now. Even my home internet has a cap on it at 250GB. Don't see ever using that much, but it is a cap. However, we all know the Verizon "Unlimited Data" plan is not truly unlimited. They will shut you down if they decide you're using too much.

 

[AntimonyER]

True. The way things are going now, any kind of unlimited data plan would be very valuable in a few years from now. Even my home internet has a cap on it at 250GB. Don't see ever using that much, but it is a cap. However, we all know the Verizon "Unlimited Data" plan is not truly unlimited. They will shut you down if they decide you're using too much.

But doesn't the Block C thing prevent them from throttling LTE?

 

[breadnatty08]

I'm more looking forward to citywide wifi hotspots.

 

[The_Chief]

Man admits attempting to photograph Miss Tennessee in tanning booth | The Tennessean | tennessean.com

That's not appropriate??? who knew?? :dontknow:

Was it you Chief??

Nope... I prefer to photograph women with more teeth than the tanning booth has bulbs... hard to do in TN...

DID I JUST SAY THAT???? AIEEEEE

Well, I'm sure you guys already vented about this a week or so ago, but I just now saw it, regarding Verizon's latest "F-U" to its customers:

Verizon unlimited-data customers can keep plans -- with a caveat - latimes.com


My wife and I have decided that we are jumping to AT&T in the fall. She's an iSheep, and the iPhone 5 will probably be available then. Will we get a dramatically improved plan at AT&T? Nope. But we are so sick of Verizon's shitty tactics that this is the only move for us. AT&T's LTE is great in the Chicago area anyway.


Actually, once they do away with unlimited data, that changes the contract for us, which means we can cancel immediately with no early-termination fee. That's probably the way to go.

We have 4 smartphones, 3 of them are 4G. Used by 2 adult kids and me. That's a LOT of data... so we would almost certainly need the 10GB/mo bucket at $80.

We are currently locked in a mind-blowing promotion (no end date) of $9.95/mo for unlimited on each line . Which means that switching to a family data plan will COST us $40/mo MORE.



However: Losing the extra $960 over two years to Verizon is cheaper than buying 4 smartphones at full retail every 2 years... and they know it. They are also the only carrier with signal here - and no other company will even think of having 4G here for years. Once again, Big Red has us over a barrel and is picking our wallets (while insisting on having the best customer service in the industry).

TRIPLE

 

[AntimonyER]

Question for everyone. While I am waiting for a page to load, if I swipe my mouse over the page header (anywhere from the football app announcement and higher), it immediately stops loading the page. Does anyone else have this happening?

 

[Stigy]

Here we go again!

 

[Member112085]

Or maybe I'll just stay with Verizon and let my wife go to AT&T when she wants the iPhone. I just checked our data usage. In 9 days, my wife has used 0.07 GB of data. I've used 11.2.

That's going to be a problem.

lol

What the heck are you DOING with that phone? I never even break the 2GB threshold. I'm on wifi when I'm at home. Used to have it at work, but we don't anymore, but still not cracking the 2GB threshold. In fact, all 4 of our phones put together (mine is the only 4g phone, but all 4 are smart phones) don't hit 11.2 GB - and two of them are used by teenagers and they are hardly ever on wifi.

We are currently locked in a mind-blowing promotion (no end date) of $9.95/mo for unlimited on each line . Which means that switching to a family data plan will COST us $40/mo MORE.

How in the world did you end up with THAT sweet deal?

 

[blkbeltkid17]

Hello my loves long time no see how is everyone in here today

 

[Unforgiven]

Slow, how bout you blkbelt

 

[ajdroidx]

Good Morning Gnexers!

(1) AJ, I know you're frustrated with Android and are eyeing Apple. But whatever you decide know this: your contribution to these forums is greatly appreciated.

Wow, thanks
Glad my sometimes non incoherent posts are appreciated

I am still unsure which way to go.
Do I buy out my droid x contract or just kill the line. Either way it cost about the same as a new line and phone. Do I kill off my Xoom? If I buy out my contract by "upgrading at full price" I will go on a month to month contract.

My sister has a 4s I can mess around with.

What we need is some clever hacker that can stick android ICS and iOS in a blender to get the best of both worlds. Yup, not only do I like cake, I enjoy eating it too

Oh, and 500th post here on AF!

 

[Unforgiven]

Congrats on 500 aj, you are now a senior member. You may change your tag to assimilation complete.:rofl:

 

[ajdroidx]

Congrats on 500 aj, you are now a senior member. You may change your tag to assimilation complete.:rofl:

Not until I get an iPhone

 

[Unforgiven]

Having an iPhone doesn't preclude you from being assimilated to AF. Your always welcome here.

 

[AntimonyER]

Having an iPhone doesn't preclude you from being assimilated to AF. Your always welcome here.

Well, at least until you make the argument that even though an Android phone has higher ppi than the iPhone, the iPhone is better because of its retina display... I think we cut you off at that point

 

[Stigy]

Tah-dah!

 

[AntimonyER]

Congrats Stigy!

 

[Unforgiven]

Congratulations Stigy. Good job.

 

[BabyBlues]

Yay Stigy!!!

 

[CaptainRon]

Way to go Stigy.

I'll be interested in hearing the difference between downloads for Android and iOS