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[Catchacold]

Ting is pretty great, especially for light users. We are usually around $35 a month for 2 smartphones.

do you have to have a Sprint device or does any unlocked phone work? Their website makes it look like it has to be Sprint

yeah, sprint.

[pissclams]

Anyone tried the straight talk thing? My contract with Verizon is coming up and it looks like a good deal

my wife went from Sprint to Virgin Mobile.   Saved $60/mo, she had to buy an iphone at cost ($399) but also got a $100 statement credit.  This if for 300 min, unlim text and data

Virgin is great unless you are away from a populated area. Also I don't think there's any way you could use one of their phones internationally.

wrong and wrong

[michigancat]

Anyone tried the straight talk thing? My contract with Verizon is coming up and it looks like a good deal

my wife went from Sprint to Virgin Mobile.   Saved $60/mo, she had to buy an iphone at cost ($399) but also got a $100 statement credit.  This if for 300 min, unlim text and data

Virgin is great unless you are away from a populated area. Also I don't think there's any way you could use one of their phones internationally.

wrong and wrong

I know I'm right about service in rural areas.

[kso_FAN]

I get Verizon 4G almost everywhere I go, its really rare for me not to get a 4G signal.

[pissclams]

hayseed

[michigancat]

hayseed

confirmed

[steve dave]

well, not really surprising but the 5s beats the living crap out of all other phone hardware

http://gizmodo.com/iphone-a7-chip-benchmarks-forget-the-specs-it-blows-e-1350717023

(butthurt ensues in the comments)

Klutzy PuppetUMario AguilarXX161L
Of course it does. You're comparing it to phones that are now a few months old. And then in 6 months, the Samsung Galaxy S5 will make this look like a piece of crap. Why? Because we're comparing the S5 to a phone that's a few months old. Are you people too stupid to figure this out? It's like no one at rough ridin' Gizmodo has heard of Moore's Law

[Mikeyis4dcats]

Anyone tried the straight talk thing? My contract with Verizon is coming up and it looks like a good deal

my wife went from Sprint to Virgin Mobile.   Saved $60/mo, she had to buy an iphone at cost ($399) but also got a $100 statement credit.  This if for 300 min, unlim text and data

Virgin is great unless you are away from a populated area. Also I don't think there's any way you could use one of their phones internationally.

wrong and wrong

I know I'm right about service in rural areas.

VM uses the Sprint network, so if Sprint has service, so does VM.

[hemmy]

And then the next high end phone to come out will eclipse it. Its all just a back and forth, whats the point?

[steve dave]

And then the next high end phone to come out will eclipse it. Its all just a back and forth, whats the point?

[hemmy]

I don't read gizmodo, but I think the real issue is they will certainly not post an article like that when the next high end phone is released.

[michigancat]

Anyone tried the straight talk thing? My contract with Verizon is coming up and it looks like a good deal

my wife went from Sprint to Virgin Mobile.   Saved $60/mo, she had to buy an iphone at cost ($399) but also got a $100 statement credit.  This if for 300 min, unlim text and data

Virgin is great unless you are away from a populated area. Also I don't think there's any way you could use one of their phones internationally.

wrong and wrong

I know I'm right about service in rural areas.

VM uses the Sprint network, so if Sprint has service, so does VM.

Look at these two maps and let me know if you can pick up on any differences

http://coverage.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp?

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/check-cell-phone-coverage

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

got 5s this morning. pretty elite. finger print scanner works pretty well and like its way faster than my old iphone 4.

[Mikeyis4dcats]

Anyone tried the straight talk thing? My contract with Verizon is coming up and it looks like a good deal

my wife went from Sprint to Virgin Mobile.   Saved $60/mo, she had to buy an iphone at cost ($399) but also got a $100 statement credit.  This if for 300 min, unlim text and data

Virgin is great unless you are away from a populated area. Also I don't think there's any way you could use one of their phones internationally.

wrong and wrong

I know I'm right about service in rural areas.

VM uses the Sprint network, so if Sprint has service, so does VM.

Look at these two maps and let me know if you can pick up on any differences

http://coverage.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp?

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/check-cell-phone-coverage

eh, my wife was lied to.    Good thing we don't often travel to Wyoming.   I'll still keep the $60/mo.

[michigancat]

yeah, it's a great deal. My wife is still on it.

[steve dave]

I don't read gizmodo, but I think the real issue is they will certainly not post an article like that when the next high end phone is released.

good, good

[WillieWatanabe]

I don't read gizmodo, but I think the real issue is they will certainly not post an article like that when the next high end phone is released.

Actually i think they do. I remember seeing articles talking about how average the previous Gen was.

[Catchacold]

well, not really surprising but the 5s beats the living crap out of all other phone hardware

http://gizmodo.com/iphone-a7-chip-benchmarks-forget-the-specs-it-blows-e-1350717023

Congrats on the awesome processor, Samsung

[Rams]

Anyone tried the straight talk thing? My contract with Verizon is coming up and it looks like a good deal

I've done Virgin and T.Mobile prepaid, which are similar. I think Straight talk really throttles your data quickly. T. Mobile and Virgin do, also, but not as bad as Straight Talk.

There's no reason to go on a contract unless you can't afford to pay cash for the phone you want.

my contract with verizon is up soon and I've been looking into switching to t-mobile.  it actually it seems like there's no reason to not go with verizon unless you can't afford to pay the higher overall price of the contract.  seems like their coverage and speed is far and away bitb and they have all the best phones available.  what am I missing?

[kitten_mittons]

What's the deal with the Sprint one up program?  Do I want to do this?

[CNS]

Anyone tried the straight talk thing? My contract with Verizon is coming up and it looks like a good deal

I've done Virgin and T.Mobile prepaid, which are similar. I think Straight talk really throttles your data quickly. T. Mobile and Virgin do, also, but not as bad as Straight Talk.

There's no reason to go on a contract unless you can't afford to pay cash for the phone you want.

my contract with verizon is up soon and I've been looking into switching to t-mobile.  it actually it seems like there's no reason to not go with verizon unless you can't afford to pay the higher overall price of the contract.  seems like their coverage and speed is far and away bitb and they have all the best phones available.  what am I missing?

Rams, I don't spend much time in Lawrence, but in the areas immediately east of you as well as the entire KC metro, Tmobile is a crap shoot.  For instance, very often I drop calls in Waldo or Brookside.  Also, pretty much anytime I go from tower to tower I drop my call. 

Also, dropped calls in general are much more frequent than when I was on Verizon.  Tmobile didn't start out this way for me 3-4yrs ago, but has gotten progressively worse since. 

I wouldn't recommend.  I would spend 10%-20% more to have more reliable coverage.  However, it's a work phone so I don't have that choice.

My wife has verizon and very often I have no service where she has full service in the greater KC area.  However, I can't think of one time in the last several yrs where the circumstances were reversed.

[michigancat]

Anyone tried the straight talk thing? My contract with Verizon is coming up and it looks like a good deal

I've done Virgin and T.Mobile prepaid, which are similar. I think Straight talk really throttles your data quickly. T. Mobile and Virgin do, also, but not as bad as Straight Talk.

There's no reason to go on a contract unless you can't afford to pay cash for the phone you want.

my contract with verizon is up soon and I've been looking into switching to t-mobile.  it actually it seems like there's no reason to not go with verizon unless you can't afford to pay the higher overall price of the contract.  seems like their coverage and speed is far and away bitb and they have all the best phones available.  what am I missing?

Their coverage and speed are not better where I spend 99% of my time. But I guess it's different where you are so my statement was incorrect.

[kso_FAN]

Tomorrow.



 

[kim carnes]

Tomorrow.



 

did you mean to post a picture of an iPhone or wtf did you buy?

[kso_FAN]

Tomorrow.



 

did you mean to post a picture of an iPhone or wtf did you buy?

I like big phones and I cannot lie.

Had an iPhone once. It was fine.