I finally picked up my Note 4 today at my local Verizon store and I'm loving this device so far. But when I got home to take my accessories out of the box, I noticed that I was missing a set of earbuds that I've seen included during the unboxing of this phone on other carriers. So when I called Verizon to see if the earbuds were supposed to be included in the package they informed me that were not. In fact, the customer rep told me that the only phone on Verizon's network that comes with earbuds was an iPhone. Then I made the statement "Well I guess I know who is on Apple's payroll" which in return the customer rep just laugh lol.
Now I have to go and drop around $50 I'm guessing to get a pair of decent earbuds with a mic and volume control to use with my new Phone.
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I finally picked up my Note 4 today at my local Verizon store and I'm loving this device so far. But when I got home to take my accessories out of the box, I noticed that I was missing a set of earbuds that I've seen included during the unboxing of this phone on other carriers. So when I called Verizon to see if the earbuds were supposed to be included in the package they informed me that were not. In fact, the customer rep told me that the only phone on Verizon's network that comes with earbuds was an iPhone. Then I made the statement "Well I guess I know who is on Apple's payroll" which in return the customer rep just laugh lol.
Now I have to go and drop around $50 I'm guessing to get a pair of decent earbuds with a mic and volume control to use with my new Phone.
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They didn't include it with the Note 2 either so I'm not surprised really. It sucks, I like Samsung's earbuds...
30 bucks will get you better than what comes with the phone, but yes, it's a cheap ass move on their part.
10 dollars will get you just as good or better. I can't believe people are still whining about this. go look for jbuds on amazon. they're cheap and last forever.
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I work at sprint come get them from me and pay off your Verizon. Plus unlimited data
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Beside the one that comes with HTC One series, the rest are junk. You are missing nothing. I'd invest in a decent set of headphone.
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I work at sprint come get them from me and pay off your Verizon. Plus unlimited data
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3 years of hirrible internet service...countless hours on the phone just to get a rep to talk to me...bad billing practices..ud have to kill me to leave my verizon unlimited data before i go back to sprint
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Samsung ear buds at Best Buy for 9.99.
tengtengvn said:
Beside the one that comes with HTC One series, the rest are junk. You are missing nothing. I'd invest in a decent set of headphone.
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Still got the ones that came with my old One M8. Love those damn earbuds. Some of the best I've ever used.
jayochs said:
10 dollars will get you just as good or better. I can't believe people are still whining about this. go look for jbuds on amazon. they're cheap and last forever.
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Yup, Panasonic ergofit goes around 8-15 on Amazon, best cheap earbuds.
Thank you everyone for the suggestions.... I'm new to Verizon so I wasn't aware that it was common practice not to have those included. I will definitely check out amazon and see what I can find :good:
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Thank you everyone for the suggestions.... I'm new to Verizon so I wasn't aware that it was common practice not to have those included. I will definitely check out amazon and see what I can find :good:
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This website might be of use to you.
http://www.head-fi.org/f/103/portable-headphones-earphones-and-in-ear-monitors
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I work at sprint come get them from me and pay off your Verizon. Plus unlimited data
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Grin I always in my mind after 7 years of Sprint read that as " Sprint® Unlimited Waiting Plan"
art90262 said:
3 years of hirrible internet service...countless hours on the phone just to get a rep to talk to me...bad billing practices..ud have to kill me to leave my verizon unlimited data before i go back to sprint
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I completely agree with you, Sprint customer care is terrible and I hate calling. I wish I could help every customer myself. I hope they improve Verizon customer care is amazing at least when I had them... then again if you have unlimited I could never talk you into leaving lol
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on vzw earbuds come with the s5 also.
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I work for coca cola and go to walmarts often just noticed they dropped the price of fascinate to $48 there is a sold out sticker on it at this location.
You don't have to be embarrassed that you shop at walmart. Im sure alot if us do lol
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If that's the case I'll go buy a few and sell them for a ton!
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Its probably due to the season.
And yeah, shopping at Walmart is nothing to be embarrassed about. Browsing at Walmart is another story. Its a good place to go if you know exactly what you want so you can leave as soon as possible.
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If that's the case I'll go buy a few and sell them for a ton!
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You prolly have to activate a new line to get them at that price
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Its probably due to the season.
And yeah, shopping at Walmart is nothing to be embarrassed about. Browsing at Walmart is another story. Its a good place to go if you know exactly what you want so you can leave as soon as possible.
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Exactly. The only 2 things I hate at Wal-Mart is the stereotypical Wal-Martian, and checking out.
I swear to effing christ if I go to Wal-Mart tonight and have to wait a half hour to check out with 1 thing, I'm going to flipping scream.
On the other hand, if you don't want to shop at the Dub, Wirefly.com has them for 69.99 with free activation and shipping.
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Go away Harrison !!!!
Best buy has them for 49.99 just saying. Lol
These are all with new service activations right????????????? No way they are selling them like this retail
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These are all with new service activations right????????????? No way they are selling them like this retail
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It is probably only available to new users or upgrades signing a 2yr agreement.
I think the price is due to the fact that its a horribly made phone. I some how got verizon to take it back even though i was past my 30 days. thank god..set back is that im on a garbage flip untill something worthy comes out. Dont think im gonna go back to android though.
Notice even on ebay people are getting horrible offers for the phone. Samsung has a horrible name in the mobile phone industry....compare it to a moto phone,. Moto phones feel like quality
its free at my local best buy right now on an upgrade/new contract
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Samsung has a horrible name in the mobile phone industry....compare it to a moto phone,. Moto phones feel like quality
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I've never heard that Samsung had a horrible name in the mobile phone industry. I've heard that they aren't the greatest with providing updates, but the hardware in their phones is almost always the latest and greatest when the phones are released. Given the size and form factor, I can't say that my Fascinate feels flimsy either. If it weighed much more than it does, I'd wonder more about why it was so heavy over enjoying how much more sturdy it felt.
On a more personal note, if all you are going to do is come in here and bash the Fascinate, and not provide anything of any use or substance, I suggest you look elsewhere to read and post, possibly here
The Fascinate is among the best phone, hardware wise. Although, I do agree about the flimsy part. Coming from a Touch Pro, the Fascinate feels flimsy. If you feel that way too, I would recommend the verizon stand case. It adds a nice heft to the phone and feels very solid.
Also, ignore the trolls. I honestly believe that the iPhone is the ONLY way to go for some people.
no i know the hardware is great....if it works properly...ie:gps but cpu and gpu are great.
Yeah i got rid of my fascinate thank god. I came from the iphone on att but left because of the network. And now on verizon i tried android....but there are no quality apps, almost no push notification apps...ie:sports apps
I PERSONALLY believe that the iphone os is much better all around. Im gonna wait it out and hope the iphone gets released on verizon in the next 2 -3 months.
goodluck guys, hope u get gingerbread....
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no i know the hardware is great....if it works properly...ie:gps but cpu and gpu are great.
Yeah i got rid of my fascinate thank god. I came from the iphone on att but left because of the network. And now on verizon i tried android....but there are no quality apps, almost no push notification apps...ie:sports apps
I PERSONALLY believe that the iphone os is much better all around. Im gonna wait it out and hope the iphone gets released on verizon in the next 2 -3 months.
goodluck guys, hope u get gingerbread....
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Now this is legit trolling.
BigBonkers said:
no i know the hardware is great....if it works properly...ie:gps but cpu and gpu are great.
Yeah i got rid of my fascinate thank god. I came from the iphone on att but left because of the network. And now on verizon i tried android....but there are no quality apps, almost no push notification apps...ie:sports apps
I PERSONALLY believe that the iphone os is much better all around. Im gonna wait it out and hope the iphone gets released on verizon in the next 2 -3 months.
goodluck guys, hope u get gingerbread....
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For people like you, I really hope they don't bring the iPhone to Verizon, please go back to ATT.
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/06/0...-of-50gb-dropbox-promo-for-samsungs-galaxy-s3
As expected, VZW and ATT had to screw the users somehow
No surprise there.....US phones that are released worldwide are ALWAYS lacking features and bonuses that the rest of the world receives
Just came to post this. Such crap! I'm beginning to aggressively hate Verizon more and more each day.
Would we be able to "hack" ourselves around this road block?
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I'm sure the reason for this is the recently announced Dropbox video streaming. Now its very easy to upload all your media to the 50GB space, then stream it whenever you want without having to sync/download. It's like Google Music for videos, except it uses 10x the bandwidth.
Carriers are NOT happy about that because they can't charge you for it. Both VZW and ATT have lots of people with grandfathered unlimited data, and most who never come close to the bandwidth caps. So they are trying to prevent this.
This reminds me of when I opened my HOX and the beats headphones weren't there!
Stupid ATT! I
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SlimJ87D said:
This reminds me of when I opened my HOX and the beats headphones weren't there!
Stupid ATT! I
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Not supporting at&t but HTC didn't put beats headphones on the international one x as well. They said they won't be doing that going forward.
Interesting to see what sprint and tmobile do with sgs3 dropbox.
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Makes me like Sprint more and more. I guess Verizon and Att want to sell more SD cards?
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This reminds me of when I opened my HOX and the beats headphones weren't there!
Stupid ATT! I
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HTC stopped including Beats headphones with their phones a few months back. That's across their entire catalog not just in the US.
While this would not have stopped me from purchasing the phone, I'm pretty frustrated and feel cheated because Verizon decided to drop something that the phone was presumed to come with, and without notifying customers whatsoever that they opted out of the otherwise standard promotion.
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I'm sure the reason for this is the recently announced Dropbox video streaming. Now its very easy to upload all your media to the 50GB space, then stream it whenever you want without having to sync/download. It's like Google Music for videos, except it uses 10x the bandwidth.
Carriers are NOT happy about that because they can't charge you for it. Both VZW and ATT have lots of people with grandfathered unlimited data, and most who never come close to the bandwidth caps. So they are trying to prevent this.
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This doesn't make any sense to me. Are you saying that accessing dropbox data doesn't count against your monthly bandwidth total? I find that hard to believe.
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This doesn't make any sense to me. Are you saying that accessing dropbox data doesn't count against your monthly bandwidth total? I find that hard to believe.
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I believe he's referring to the people with unlimited data plans.
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I believe he's referring to the people with unlimited data plans.
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If that's Verizon's thinking it makes me question what percentage of their customer base still has the unlimited plans. While people with unlimited plans can abuse something like this I have to believe that the people who don't have unlimited far outweigh those that do. Furthermore 50GB of easily accessible storage seems like a good way to induce people into data overages.
Not sure if anyone saw this. If you purchase a S3, Dropbox is offering 50gb of storage for free for 2 years. If you purchase a HTC One X you get 25gb of storage for free for 2 years. So you can tell Verizon and AT&T to stuff it because Dropbox is being the nice guys here.
http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/06/08/dropbox-for-android-updated-with-streaming-video-support/
EDIT - Please OMIT what I just posted. Apparently I failed to read the first link or I need some sleep.
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Not sure if anyone saw this. If you purchase a S3, Dropbox is offering 50gb of storage for free for 2 years. If you purchase a HTC One X you get 25gb of storage for free for 2 years. So you can tell Verizon and AT&T to stuff it because Dropbox is being the nice guys here.
http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/06/08/dropbox-for-android-updated-with-streaming-video-support/
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I believe that's what we're discussing- the Verizon and AT&T versions of the Samsung Galaxy S III are not eligible for this promotion.
ExodusC said:
I believe that's what we're discussing- the Verizon and AT&T versions of the Samsung Galaxy S III are not eligible for this promotion.
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Oh so sorry. Didn't even read the first link. I know AT&T is evil, but I didn't think Verizon was like that. I hope Rogers doesn't pull an AT&T and Verizon on us.
I think we should protest against this. I'm definitely going to ask about this, and if Sprint/TMobile had any sense they would advertise this.
There's little chance this decision will be reversed but we must fight.
Ok ATT One X gets the 25GB promotion but not the SGS3? Wow can't even say how much i hate all carriers...they control too many things. Im happy to have the international version and ill drop by their store flaunting my sgs3 and show my middle finger to them
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Sucks that this happened for all the people that planned on using this, but it doesnt really bother me as I had no interest in using it.
OMG! I didn't care so much before. Now I need it and can't live without it. I never knew how much it would mean to me not to have it.
All kidding aside, it would have been nice.
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Sucks that this happened for all the people that planned on using this, but it doesnt really bother me as I had no interest in using it.
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Same here. Due to Dropbox's shady business practices and ever changing ToS, I never planned on using them.
Hi,
I was debating whether I should ask this question here or at Spring GS3 forum. I think asking here is more fitting.
I am wondering if I should stay with Sprint or not. I am honestly sick of slow data speed and delayed updates for CDMA phones.
But with wonderful dev magic shown here for our Epic4G, I think there won't be much software issues for GS3.
My alternative is Tmo's prepaid monthly4G for $30 per month. I really like the idea of owning GSM phone and getting unhindered updates from google. But there aren't any nexus phone that is better spec'ed then GS3. Also buying GS3 outright is pretty expensive, +$500.
So, if any of you guys switched to GS3, how are you guys? Any issues or regrets?
How is Sprint's data speed? I just found out from today's news that Sprint's gonna roll out LTE to LA, Boston and NYC area within months.
I just don't want to risk locking in 2 years with Sprint and be miserable...
Best
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But I like Touchwiz.
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My phone is better than yours kenny
Its stands above all galaxy s3 as their emperor
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gtuansdiamm said:
My phone is better than yours kenny
Its stands above all galaxy s3 as their emperor
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(My phone bows down)...lol
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Well, if you get the Galaxy Nexus, Sprint will offer you a free slim extended battery, it has official 4.1.1 now, and is only $50 for the upgrade at Radio Shack.
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I saw it free on Newegg.
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I saw it free on Newegg.
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Even better.
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GS3 is a great phone, but unless you need a phone _right now_ would avoid locking yourself in contract until Sprint rolls out LTE in your area. Sprint 3G speed/coverage is very YMMV.
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I saw it free on Newegg.
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But its not free its $49 like most places.
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But its not free its $49 like most places.
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Yeah, my bad. The Verizon one is Free. But they are giving a $25 Newegg gift card on most and waiving the $36 activation fee on some too.
http://wireless.newegg.com/mobile/?...12-Simplexity-_-Verizon-_-content-_-promoword
Galaxy Nexus is $19.99 with an upgrade from wireflyfriends.com. I'm definitely considering it. The lowest I can find the s3 with an upgrade is $149.99. If you ask me I don't think its worth it.
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Glad I stopped by ive never even heard of wireflyfriends.com.....awesome I'm available for an upgrade and been wanting the nexus. Awesome deals they have here!
I'd never heard of the 'friends' site either. Just looked though and only certain people can apparently use the 'friends' site....it says Simplexity employees and their family & friends (hence the name basically). Wirefly itself though I was already well aware of.
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I'd never heard of the 'friends' site either. Just looked though and only certain people can apparently use the 'friends' site....it says Simplexity employees and their family & friends (hence the name basically). Wirefly itself though I was already well aware of.
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I notice that too and went through almost the entire checkout process and it never asked me if I was a Simplexity employee.It also didnt show up on the site rating function through AVAST which most sites I go to have ratings for.
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I notice that too and went through almost the entire checkout process and it never asked me if I was a Simplexity employee.It also didnt show up on the site rating function through AVAST which most sites I go to have ratings for.
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And here I was all excited about a $20 nexus. not cool
I'd say wait for the note ii if you can handle the size which should arrive by the holiday probably
Already got a sprint leak
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To directly respond to the OP, regardless of what you decide on phonewise, if it were me, I'd definitely stick with Sprint, particularly if T-mo is the only alternative you're considering. Yeah, Sprint's speeds where NV hasn't hit yet suck, but if they stay on schedule, everything is supposed to be upgraded by the end of next year. And alot more is being done by the end of this year than I'd have imagined when I first heard of it a few months ago.
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To directly respond to the OP, regardless of what you decide on phonewise, if it were me, I'd definitely stick with Sprint, particularly if T-mo is the only alternative you're considering. Yeah, Sprint's speeds where NV hasn't hit yet suck, but if they stay on schedule, everything is supposed to be upgraded by the end of next year. And alot more is being done by the end of this year than I'd have imagined when I first heard of it a few months ago.
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Well, I am in LA area so I kinda expect LTE to open soon...
But, T-mo prepaid already has HSPA+ working well in my area.
I am guaranteed at least 3mbps with Tmo HSPA+ for sure, and that is all I need.
I like their cheaper plan, but it is bummer to pay lump sum of ~$350 for a year old G-Nex or ~$600 for GS3...
I am hoping for a new nexus device, but no solid rumors about when it will be available... just speculations.
It might come next year, which is too much waiting for me...
If Sprint somehow offers me free GS3 I would stay, but I don't think Sprint can. So I am ready to walk out...
It comes down to if you want the fastest software updates or the best hardware available..
I went gs3 because the hardware is amazing.. and touchwiz really is nice on this thing.. its not like the epic where it just kind of makes things uglier.. it actually adds a lot of usable features on the gs3.. to the point where I would rather run a custom tw than aosp.
P.s. the screens bigger too!
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Kenny!!!!
I just picked up my GS3 and I am lost in the gs3 forums! you are the name i came to trust with my trusty epic 4g, so my question is...how do i root? what rom are you using. would love to hear your input
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The only reason to do this is keeping up with the smiths. EE have stated their 4g network will be round 10-15mb/s. The same as I get now on 3.
The world is full of people getting phones and 2 months in they feel they are missing out, due to blogs & engadget,etc who are paid to make you feel this.
You only really need to update every other model.
Start thinking rationally on this,NOT how those who are paid to make you feel.
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Totally agree.
I went from galaxy s 1 to galaxy s3, galaxy s2 just wasn't worthy at the time. Nor is the note 2 ill be hanging out for the note 3.
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The only reason to do this is keeping up with the smiths. EE have stated their 4g network will be round 10-15mb/s. The same as I get now on 3.
The world is full of people getting phones and 2 months in they feel they are missing out, due to blogs & engadget,etc who are paid to make you feel this.
You only really need to update every other model.
Start thinking rationally on this,NOT how those who are paid to make you feel.
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Im on 3. You get 10 to 15mbps? Never heard of their network giving those speeds! You must be on top of a mast! Best i have ever gotten is 9mbps.
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Stateside here, phones are subsidized by the carriers which means the monthly bill is higher. When i was with sprint ild get a new phone every year amd could sell my "old" phone, the one year old one for more than the $200usd sprint was asking. I think this really what drives the phone markets.
Lucky for me i got off the phone treadmill, sold my S2 and bought a note for only about $150 difference. No more $90 monthly bills. I spend about $10 on prepaid a month and use voip for most of my talking.
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Im on 3. You get 10 to 15mbps? Never heard of their network giving those speeds! You must be on top of a mast! Best i have ever gotten is 9mbps.
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Stateside here, phones are subsidized by the carriers which means the monthly bill is higher. When i was with sprint ild get a new phone every year amd could sell my "old" phone, the one year old one for more than the $200usd sprint was asking. I think this really what drives the phone markets.
Lucky for me i got off the phone treadmill, sold my S2 and bought a note for only about $150 difference. No more $90 monthly bills. I spend about $10 on prepaid a month and use voip for most of my talking.
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Snap. I get 500min. 5000 txt ,unlimited data for $21- pre pay. As gf is in USA use voip.
Id never buy a contract phone. I wait 6months then trawl amazon....
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Its a conspiracy. The phone manufacturers only release a new phone to make us buy it. Someone call the press how could they not have noticed!
Sarcasm aside what really is the point your getting at? Do you actually want to start a movement of people no buying new phones every year? What's wrong with wanting the newest handset every year? If you can afford it then why not. Or is your point that you feel the media is playing you and manipulating you into wanting a new phone and you feel this is somehow unjust?
I was going to edit this and delete most of it but decided to leave it and just say after reading your post a few more times and reading my own I think mine sounds like I am being a real ass to you. Didn't mean it to be. Was meant to sound more playful than it does. Sorry if its not.
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howard bamber said:
The only reason to do this is keeping up with the smiths. EE have stated their 4g network will be round 10-15mb/s. The same as I get now on 3.
The world is full of people getting phones and 2 months in they feel they are missing out, due to blogs & engadget,etc who are paid to make you feel this.
You only really need to update every other model.
Start thinking rationally on this,NOT how those who are paid to make you feel.
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I'm guessing its actually yourself your aiming that at.
They stuck it in the farthest corner, between the Windows phone 8x and the Pantech perception...ha
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Looks like they want to push their Droid phones.
I thought they weren't even supposed to be in stores yet at all.
Exactly the place my local store had it. And then had no idea they had no inventory to sale it.
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Went into my local Verizon retailer and not only was there no Moto X, but there were also no displays for the new Droid line at all! When I asked my salesman he asked the other guy who referred to it as one phone called the Ultra Maxx. Then the salesman tried to sell me on an HTC One. Great story, bro.
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The Verizon store i went to has all the new higher end phones on the right side and slowly decreases. I found the HTC the week before on the right side of the store. I went today to check out the X and they didn't have it. I didn't ask and walked down the wall of phones and they had it
with the lower end phones right next to some Windows phones.
jmcharles said:
Went into my local Verizon retailer and not only was there no Moto X, but there were also no displays for the new Droid line at all! When I asked my salesman he asked the other guy who referred to it as one phone called the Ultra Maxx. Then the salesman tried to sell me on an HTC One. Great story, bro.
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You were at a Verizon reseller, not a corporate store right? The Verizon resellers by me are the worst.They have limited stock and totally want to push specific phones on you while also telling you whatever you want to hear regardless of whether true. Oh, and trying to upsell the hell out of some warranties. Bought the GF's iPhone 5 there (don't judge) and they totally lied to us about the 100 buck rebate. Took hours of time, tons of phone calls to their regional office and to Verizon, and two months later before we got that $100. Eff that noise.
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You were at a Verizon reseller, not a corporate store right? The Verizon resellers by me are the worst.They have limited stock and totally want to push specific phones on you while also telling you whatever you want to hear regardless of whether true. Oh, and trying to upsell the hell out of some warranties. Bought the GF's iPhone 5 there (don't judge) and they totally lied to us about the 100 buck rebate. Took hours of time, tons of phone calls to their regional office and to Verizon, and two months later before we got that $100. Eff that noise.
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Yea, a Verizon retailer. Speaking of $100 rebates, Motorola has a trade-up program right now where you get a $100 gift card for turning in your eligible Motorola phone for a new eligible phone. Our line that we're going to upgrade is a DROID 3, so I mention to the salesman that I would like to order the Moto X under this program, since it specifically states on Motorola's website that it is honored by Verizon. Dude has no idea what I'm talking about, so I show him the program on their website. He decides he'll have to talk to somebody more senior than him and get back to me on that. He also tried saying that companies like Motorola have 'made up' these programs before without Verizon's approval.
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jmcharles said:
Yea, a Verizon retailer. Speaking of $100 rebates, Motorola has a trade-up program right now where you get a $100 gift card for turning in your eligible Motorola phone for a new eligible phone. Our line that we're going to upgrade is a DROID 3, so I mention to the salesman that I would like to order the Moto X under this program, since it specifically states on Motorola's website that it is honored by Verizon. Dude has no idea what I'm talking about, so I show him the program on their website. He decides he'll have to talk to somebody more senior than him and get back to me on that. He also tried saying that companies like Motorola have 'made up' these programs before without Verizon's approval.
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Isn't that upgrade deal only if you go directly through Motorola?
But yeah, Verizon doesn't care about this phone. All of the places I called yesterday and today (corporate stores, indirect retailers, Best Buy mobile, etc...), no one seems to have a clue the phone exists. I guess if it's not a Galaxy phone or an iPhone, they don't care.
MVPete1 said:
Isn't that upgrade deal only if you go directly through Motorola?
But yeah, Verizon doesn't care about this phone. All of the places I called yesterday and today (corporate stores, indirect retailers, Best Buy mobile, etc...), no one seems to have a clue the phone exists. I guess if it's not a Galaxy phone or an iPhone, they don't care.
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Well look at that. Verizon's dumb.
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Well look at that. Verizon's dumb.
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For all the bashing of the retailer, I must say I just had an excellent experience with a customer service representative on the phone. She didn't know about the Motorola trade deal, but within a few minutes had looked up all of the info, noted it in my account, and informed me of the process for eligibility. She also knew about the Moto X and had actually just had a sit down with Motorola yesterday about the new phones.
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jmcharles said:
For all the bashing of the retailer, I must say I just had an excellent experience with a customer service representative on the phone. She didn't know about the Motorola trade deal, but within a few minutes had looked up all of the info, noted it in my account, and informed me of the process for eligibility. She also knew about the Moto X and had actually just had a sit down with Motorola yesterday about the new phones.
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Verizon Corporate is great, but they sell out their stores as franchises essentially, which makes them suck hard.
The Verizon store I go to has all of the Droids hidden behind a wall. It will be interesting to see where they put the Moto X when I visit them in a couple of days, a rep said that they had one demo unit in the back.
EDIT: They had the HTC One hidden behind a wall along with the Droids, the Galaxy phones and the Windows 8 phones are the first thing you see when you walk in, the iPhones and tablets are all the way at the other side of the entrance. The Moto X was nowhere in sight.
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Verizon Corporate is great, but they sell out their stores as franchises essentially, which makes them suck hard.
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Yes they do!
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