• Android Thread - The only phones with patented Kernel Panic™ technology!
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[QUOTE=rhx123;43809811][t]http://s2.postimg.org/52jv5tt0p/2014_02_06_15_13_24.png[/t][/QUOTE] What app is that?
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;43813011]What app is that?[/QUOTE] [url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccc71.at.free&hl=en[/url]
[QUOTE=Del91;43805122]I had unlimited texts and minutes, but one GB of data and I was paying almost $120 a month for one phone on Verizon.... When I signed my contract, it was like $95 a month.[/QUOTE] What. I can get that for like $60/month in Canada..
[QUOTE=garychencool;43814575]What. I can get that for like $60/month in Canada..[/QUOTE] Verizon are kings of bleeding wallets dry.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;43815177]Verizon are kings of bleeding wallets dry.[/QUOTE] I heard they had the best coverage
[QUOTE=garychencool;43815626]I heard they had the best coverage[/QUOTE] They do by a longshot, but my family of 5 spends like $350 a month on the phone bill.
[QUOTE=garychencool;43815626]I heard they had the best coverage[/QUOTE] Like ridiculously so. There network pretty much has LTE coverage in every area except for fairly remote ones which are 3G. But god to do you pay the price. Our family pays ~$240 for 4 lines with 700 minutes shared, unlimited SMS/MMS and unlimited data. And you can only use their phones, which sucks. So no Nexus 5 for us. I'm going to try to convince my parents to NOT renew the contract though. Truly unlimited data is awesome for $30 a month. If I'm forced to go on tiered data, I might as well go AT&T (or one of their MVNO's) for a GSM phone.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;43805050]T-Mobile has a better plan if you get a new SIM and activate it online, where you can get 5GB of 4G and then unlimited 3G after that, for $30/mo. It's nice! (when the coverage in your area is decent)[/QUOTE] I dunno what plan you're on, but when I go over my cap i get throttled to 60Kb/s up and down
[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;43815884]I dunno what plan you're on, but when I go over my cap i get throttled to 60Kb/s up and down[/QUOTE] It's still [I]technically[/I]3G. Never said it was high-speed.
Considering I can pull double that on EDGE when not capped, i'd say otherwise
[QUOTE=Demache;43815730]Like ridiculously so. There network pretty much has LTE coverage in every area except for fairly remote ones which are 3G. But god to do you pay the price. Our family pays ~$240 for 4 lines with 700 minutes shared, unlimited SMS/MMS and unlimited data. And you can only use their phones, which sucks. So no Nexus 5 for us. I'm going to try to convince my parents to NOT renew the contract though. Truly unlimited data is awesome for $30 a month. If I'm forced to go on tiered data, I might as well go AT&T (or one of their MVNO's) for a GSM phone.[/QUOTE] I heard some had grandfathered plans with unlimited data and pretty much use it as their home Internet. It sucks it's restricted to their "branded phones" so you're gonna have to deal with whatever price they price it at.
[QUOTE=garychencool;43816464]I heard some had grandfathered plans with unlimited data and pretty much use it as their home Internet. It sucks it's restricted to their "branded phones" so you're gonna have to deal with whatever price they price it at.[/QUOTE] My friend has (had? haven't talked to him in a while) a grandfathered in family plan that was $20/mo for unlimited everything per phone.
Wow, Republic Wireless is dirt cheap. $25 for unlimited 3G, talk, and text. Of course, the ONLY phone they sell is $300 (but it's the Moto X) Why are there no GSM/AT&T, BYOD carriers like this? :saddowns:
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;43816885]My friend has (had? haven't talked to him in a while) a grandfathered in family plan that was $20/mo for unlimited everything per phone.[/QUOTE] Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I guess Verizon stopped the plan because it was too good
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;43817434]Wow, Republic Wireless is dirt cheap. $25 for unlimited 3G, talk, and text. Of course, the ONLY phone they sell is $300 (but it's the Moto X) Why are there no GSM/AT&T, BYOD carriers like this? :saddowns:[/QUOTE] Sprint 3G is like 2G GSM but even slower, Republic Wireless does seem pretty badass though.
Crap, I was about to flash cyanogenmod but realized my xperia v was sim-locked. Any way around this?
[QUOTE=slayer3032;43818024]Sprint 3G is like 2G GSM but even slower, Republic Wireless does seem pretty badass though.[/QUOTE] Huh, I thought Sprint was pretty fast. Surely it can't be as bad as 2G GSM speeds I've experienced? (about 10KB/s)
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;43818650]Huh, I thought Sprint was pretty fast. Surely it can't be as bad as 2G GSM speeds I've experienced? (about 10KB/s)[/QUOTE] 3G for CDMA devices is EVDO. Its maximum spec is ~2 Mbps up and down. However, that's like perfect conditions. Realistically, you're bound to get 600-900 Kbps with a good signal. I've encountered times where it fell down to 100 Kbps. Though, in my workplace with "no" bars on 3G on my VZW GNex, the signal is good enough to stream 64 Kbps AAC-HE audio with maybe a couple buffering spots. So there's that. But yeah, EVDO is a little better than EDGE, but not by a ton a many cases.
Good to know, I've never used a CDMA device in my life - always been on GSM networks. Thanks for informing me.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;43819084]Good to know, I've never used a CDMA device in my life - always been on GSM networks. Thanks for informing me.[/QUOTE] Yeah, GSM phones were way ahead when it came to their 3G tech. We literally jumped from barely ~1 Mbps EVDO, to 20 Mbps LTE. It was a substantial leap forward as you could imagine :v:.
[QUOTE=Demache;43819133]Yeah, GSM phones were way ahead when it came to their 3G tech. We literally jumped from barely ~1 Mbps EVDO, to 20 Mbps LTE. It was a substantial leap forward as you could imagine :v:.[/QUOTE] Guess that kinda explains why all these CDMA MVNOs are so fucking cheap compared to GSM...
[QUOTE=leontodd;43811560]That's absolutely atrocious, do they actually justify the costs or is it just mindless greed?[/QUOTE] "Taxes and Fees"
Why's it so hard to find an OTG adapter on ebay with good shipping :v: The damn thing's 80 cents, can't I pay like an extra few dollars to get shipping that isn't "some time next month"
Because Australia: [img]http://s7.postimg.org/xurifykcb/straya.png[/IMG]
I can either pay 80c with free shipping and get it on the 23rd Or pay $2 with $3 shipping and get it on... the 24th
[QUOTE=ikermitkiller;43786613]I've just finished up Holofication Nation's website. See if you can figure out what style I went for... [URL="http://www.holonation.co.uk"]http://holonation.co.uk[/URL][/QUOTE] you should put the instagram logo back into the action bar sorry
[QUOTE=kaze4159;43820099]Why's it so hard to find an OTG adapter on ebay with good shipping :v: The damn thing's 80 cents, can't I pay like an extra few dollars to get shipping that isn't "some time next month"[/QUOTE] Buying stuff off eBay, depending on the item shipping is free to Canada and to the US it costs a few dollars. Even if it's shipping to the west coast of USA, it's still free to the east coast of Canada.
[QUOTE=Demache;43819133]Yeah, GSM phones were way ahead when it came to their 3G tech. We literally jumped from barely ~1 Mbps EVDO, to 20 Mbps LTE. It was a substantial leap forward as you could imagine :v:.[/QUOTE] That was half the reason I upgraded from my iPhone 4. I liked the phone, but I was sick and tired of having to deal with shitty speeds. Going to being able to blow through a quarter of your data cap in one hour of high quality music streaming from having to wait 30 seconds to load a webpage is just amazing.
People talk about being able to stream their entire music library to their phone and I quietly wonder to myself what it's like to have that much money.
A lot of my streaming is done over Wi-Fi. But I could easily blow through my piddly little 2GB data cap in an hour if I tried.
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