Rant incoming. . .
Look at it this way. . . Verizon told us that they would give us plenty of notice and a fair chance to do something about it once they were going to transition to the new share everything (including your bank account number) plans. I'm not particularily happy with the share everything plans but the fact of the matter is that I'd estimate it is only really going to really hurt roughly 1% of their customer base. . .those who are, in my opinion, abusing their data usage. If you want to listen to music all day pick a radio station, play mp3s, or get satellite radio. . . you have other, probably, better options for free or cheap. I estimate the new share everything plans will be cheaper for roughly a third of their customers, about the same for roughly a third and more expensive for roughly the last third. I've talk to plenty of people about it, if I were to change my plan to it I'd save roughly $10 a month (I choose to keep unlimited data until I can see a little more clearly where the direction of my data usage will be on a 4g phone over the next few years) but my parents would save about $40 a month (they simply don't use much data but do use a ton of minutes, so unlimited minutes and text with 2gb of data between the two of them would work perfect). As far as the ship by dates and "how long we all have to wait." PLEASE, just stop. As I mentioned, VZW told us we would get plenty of warning before they put these new share everything plans into affect. At least VZW gave us a great option of a phone with which we can keep our unlimited data plans. They didn't HAVE to do that. They have no good motivation for giving us a pre-order window so early or so long other. No pre-orders and your on the share everything plan no matter what you do if you want this phone. And frankly, I've been waiting for something with this next gen SoC, s4 or otherwise becase I'm into the die shrink and radio on chip to help with battery as well as the new architecture for better performance, to come out before upgrading. Would I prefer more options. . . sure, doesn't everyone prefer many options to just one?. . . Am I completely excited about getting the sgs3? absolutely. I'm a more excited that VZW finally went out of their way to try to make us happy by giving this to us before we couldn't have it with unlimited data? Of course I am and all of you should be too. I can put up with the I wish my phone would ship already talk that we see all the time, that is nothing more than unbridled excitement. . . I share that sentiment. What drives me nuts is how people think how poorly VZW is handling this. Think of the alternatives. . . and for once, pretend its thanksgiving and be grateful.
No need to be jealous.... none of us have one either
