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Big Phoenix

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Tenks_sl said:
Can anyone recommend a company/plan for my wife and I? Both would need talk/text/data. Right now we're separate and pay about $100/mo each which I feel is insane.
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Pretty sure tmobile has like unlimited talk/text/data(only first 5gb lte) for $70-80
 
Joeboo

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Vaclav_sl said:
Joeboo: You looked at Family Share sticking with Sprint? $100/mo for any number of lines until the end of 2015 (then +$15/line I think? Will suck then) and apparently an AAA discount of $10/mo will stack with it if you have AAA (AAA for me ran $92/yr so just the Sprint discount will pay for it)
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I've looked at that new plan. Seems great for one year, when its just $100 with no extra line pricing. After that point though, they charge either $15 per phone if you are buying your own phone, or $35 per phone if you are subsidizing. So with my 4 phones that puts me at either $160 with no phone subsidy or $240 with 4 subsidized phones. Right now I'm basically at $200 with 4 subsidized phones, and its a plan that doesn't exist anymore so I couldn't go back to it after 2015. So that 1 really cheap year probably isn't worth it to me long-term.

I'll happily pay an extra $40 a month to get phones for 1/3 to 1/4 price, especially when I'm buying 4 every 2 years. I generally spend $200/$200/$200/$300 for phone upgrades every 2 years(my wife and parents phones are always standard LGs or Samsung Galaxys, and I see myself sticking with the more expensive Note going forward), otherwise, those payments would be something like $700/$700/$700/$850 every 2 years.

If you upgrade regularly(which I do every 2 years, religiously) it's easily worth an extra $40 a month to not pay an extra $2000 out of pocket every 2 years.
 
Joeboo

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If most phones didn't start to get shitty and permanently lose significant battery life after 2-3 years, I sure would be happy. I don't really want to have to buy new phones every 2 years, but more often than not battery life is abysmal by that point.
 
Jysin

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It's simply lithium-ion battery tech in general. They basically start to lose their ability to hold charge from the minute they are assembled at the factory. There are a million factors into how quickly they degrade, but in general, typically 2 years is the best I seem to get out of mine before I lose patience with them. Apple purposefully make it a pain in the dick to swap out the battery for monetary reasons. ("Come visit our Apple store and fork out $85!")

Meanwhile, I can order an actual OEM Samsung battery for $15 off Amazon (cheaper alternatives for non-OEM), then pull the old one out of my Galaxy phone and drop in the new in about 5 seconds flat.
 
Gnomedolf

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I'm so used to the days when if you have Verizon or Sprint you couldn't just swap the sim card to swap a phone. The bluetooth in my iPhone 5S went bad so they replaced it with another one. All I had to do is place my sim card in the new phone one and it immediately worked.
 
Lanx

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verizon has this new thing called verizon edge, i kinda looked at it and it's a lease basically. instead of paying the 2year contract phone you lease the phone under a different plan (it's actually a good plan) but you don't own the phone afterwards.

don't do it.

if your wife has verizon you can probably checkout the upgrade options on her account and even see the new edge plans, but again i wouldn't do it.

if you never used verizon wireless online, the account number is the phone number, so at least that way you can send a password reminder to the registered email.
 
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I'm pretty sure you could own the phone afterwards on edge. Only difference is you're financing the full price of the phone vs paying a 2 year discounted price. You COULD lease it for 1 year and trade it in, or just keep on paying off the phone until you own.
 
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From how I understand it, you own the phone once you finish the Edge payments, and you can then trade it in (for a somewhat lame trade-in value) or keep it and get something else via either of their methods.
 
Denamian

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Deathwing_sl said:
None of them had GSM radios with the correct bands? Usually that comes standard and the CDMA radios for VZW and Sprint are just tacked on.


Hmmm, SIM card support, nevermind. I remember my phones on VZW being stupid like that too.
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As far as I have seen, phones normally do GSM or CDMA, rarely both. The only one I can remember off the top of my head is the Nexus 5, which works on all the major carriers except Verizon, though I know there are a few others.
 
Palum

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Duppin_sl said:
From how I understand it, you own the phone once you finish the Edge payments, and you can then trade it in (for a somewhat lame trade-in value) or keep it and get something else via either of their methods.
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Yea this is how I interpreted it from the tags in the Verizon store (I just expected it to be like every other retailer's monthly payment plans) only the sales associate was very careful to mention the word lease several times. Looking at the website the way it apparently works is after 60% is paid off you can trade in your 'lease' phone at any time in lieu of waiting two years - provided you get on another edge plan or what not. So I guess that's how they're trying to 'sell' it, just 'lease' your phone and upgrade every 6-12 months.

That said, I still have unlimited everything on Verizon, so they can suck a fat donkey dick, I'll buy my next phone in full before giving up my data plan. At first I didn't care because I don't really use more than 2-5GB a month, but after they've attempted to squander me out of it every time I have to call them to doanything, it's a point of pride now. I can be all like "Bitch, I'm a Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile customer with UNLIMITED DATA, I can't talk to you child's play, go get your manager. Old school."
 
Lanx

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i remember right before the merger, they called the mobile division BAM, bell atlantic mobile. should have kept it.
 
Siliconemelons

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Yeah EDGE is 20 payments now- thought it was 24...but whatever... if you complete the full cycle you get the phone, as you paid full retail +tax (your first bill will have the full price tax on it along with your monthly installment) - after 6mo with at least 60% of your total paid you are eligible to trade it in for another, starting the cycle over- this is basically giving you an "at least" amount for the trade in.
EDGE gives you 25$ off your per-line access if you are on the everything plan with 10 or more GB per month- so rather than 40$ per line, its 15$ per line that is on edge. Your edge contract/agreements are technically not "linked" directly to your line- I am doing it on my 3rd line that I used to get my wife her iPhone 5- its contract expires in Feb- so instead of paying 40$ per month for that line, because its the line I am "putting" that edge phone on it will be 15$ and after my contract on the line is up I can turn it off and continue to pay off the edge phone as it is its own separate agreement.
 
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