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Metro PCS - Major Changes

viperdink said:
Hey ghetro pcs is a little earley this year with their hooptie releases. Maybe they'll get a moto flagship model soon (doubt it) but you never know. Lol
cheers.
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Yea but i have seen that they're going down on the hardware quality of their devices... K7 its just the tribute 5. Instead of going up. K7 its a full GSM-LTE no more wcdma egpdr phones. I understand they want to go full GSM-LTE but don't do it by/with cheap devices.
 
Boost Mobile is doing the same with market flood of devices that are all pretty much the same, (except Alcatel all extra trash) its time to get more 16 gb devices out its time to push the envelope. But I digress people want cheap and big..everything else is secondary, until they have no more storage and it lags outrageously out the box (damn Alcatel) and camera is some booboo.
 
DirtyDee said:
Boost Mobile is doing the same with market flood of devices that are all pretty much the same, (except Alcatel all extra trash) its time to get more 16 gb devices out its time to push the envelope. But I digress people want cheap and big..everything else is secondary, until they have no more storage and it lags outrageously out the box (damn Alcatel) and camera is some booboo.
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Yeaperrrr... They see a big screen n $49-150 and shin.shin thats all... Not really interested in ram/storage/battery/camera/radio.capabilities/even rom vers. I rather pay 300 for A PHONE than a Mickeymouse device.
By the way good seeing you around.
 
Krlypumaa said:
Yeaperrrr... They see a big screen n $49-150 and shin.shin thats all... Not really interested in ram/storage/battery/camera/radio.capabilities/even rom vers. I rather pay 300 for A PHONE than a Mickeymouse device.
By the way good seeing you around.
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Yea had one of them windows phone dear goodness Windows 10 and 8 was terrible on my lumia icon
 
viperdink said:
Hey ghetro pcs is a little earley this year with their hooptie releases. Maybe they'll get a moto flagship model soon (doubt it) but you never know. Lol
cheers.
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I forgot where í read....maybe Tmo News, that they're trying to bring Ghetro more in line wid T-Yup re new models...
Toot-a-loot.
 
DirtyDee said:
I had the lumia 929 had nfc snapdragon 800 1080p samples display 20mp ois camera Carl Zeiss lens 32gb of storage premium feel
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Nice!!! And out of my $$ range, í was only referring to heavily discounted.

I assumed at a glance by your 'terrible' that you had bargain handset.
 
horsecharles said:
Nice!!! And out of my $$ range, í was only referring to heavily discounted.

I assumed at a glance by your 'terrible' that you had bargain handset.
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The OS was absolutely terrible and I really tried to like it for the 4 months I used it the 929 and 928 suffered from "resuming" loading screens on wp 8, 8.1 and 10 it was frequent imo for a phone with 2gb of ram. Edge browser was cool minus incognito mode, tubecast was OK, but I may never understand why someone thinks it's the best when it is so inconsistent.. Camera was all the way dope on 928 and 929 I will always try to get ois and Manual controls for my phones in the future
 
viperdink said:
Bait n switch is definitely part of their mo for a sales sample. If you don't buy it when its first run it is like kurlypumaa says they put cheaper components in a device relying on a halfway decient phones rep.
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As much as want to say hearts in the right place. It is big money that is the end result. People feel feel ripped off when they spend 200 bucks for a boost max and find out one gb of internal storage is usable for app space...but!!!! If you block over here we have this warp elite for 200 bucks with 16gb what a bargain. Metro must a harder time...here is this f60 5mp cam 4.5inch display 8gb of storage... 2months later check out the Leon buttons on the back and lolipop, yea lolipop didn't add much from our KitKat but new is new right?
 
I think if Metro was to step up their phone inventory, it would be cannibalizing their parent company. They'll obviously allow it with BYOD but when it comes to the bottom line, business is business. They will maintain a profitable company by offering low & lower end phones for a cheap price wherein they hope the customer will upgrade more often. If they were to offer solid phones that people are more comfortable holding on to for a long period of time, they are hurting their revenue. Their revenue is the biggest asset they offer to T-Mobile since the spectrum is shared across both companies. This allows them to add the expense on to the T-Mobile side and report better IOI for Metro. They could do it the reverse as well but as long as both companies continue to stay profitable, there is no reason to do so.

Sooner, rather than later, they will start to introduce better phones but I expect the inventory to stay relatively scarce and work off a high turnover model for the phones they do sell. It supports higher revenue on a continued basis.

I have 3 phones and all of them are unlimited on the family plan bringing me in at $165. I have not purchased a phone from them since I purchased 2 S3s. The first S3 was purchased within 2 days of release and the next came a few months later. In the summer of 2014, I purchased 2 OPOs and a Moto E so Metro got nothing from me. They would be much happier with me as a customer if I purchased their $100 phones as it would have caused me to upgrade at least 2 of the phones by now.
 
confed said:
I think if Metro was to step up their phone inventory, it would be cannibalizing their parent company. They'll obviously allow it with BYOD but when it comes to the bottom line, business is business. They will maintain a profitable company by offering low & lower end phones for a cheap price wherein they hope the customer will upgrade more often. If they were to offer solid phones that people are more comfortable holding on to for a long period of time, they are hurting their revenue. Their revenue is the biggest asset they offer to T-Mobile since the spectrum is shared across both companies. This allows them to add the expense on to the T-Mobile side and report better IOI for Metro. They could do it the reverse as well but as long as both companies continue to stay profitable, there is no reason to do so.

Sooner, rather than later, they will start to introduce better phones but I expect the inventory to stay relatively scarce and work off a high turnover model for the phones they do sell. It supports higher revenue on a continued basis.

I have 3 phones and all of them are unlimited on the family plan bringing me in at $165. I have not purchased a phone from them since I purchased 2 S3s. The first S3 was purchased within 2 days of release and the next came a few months later. In the summer of 2014, I purchased 2 OPOs and a Moto E so Metro got nothing from me. They would be much happier with me as a customer if I purchased their $100 phones as it would have caused me to upgrade at least 2 of the phones by now.
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Since I'm on the grandfathered unlimited- obligated to buy only from Metro, í basically buy only when í lose phone... even though í want to upgrade...because of such a dearth of choices.
I realize I'm likely in the minority.

And the usual plethora of cheap models has got to kill handset insurance sales revenue.

You bring up an interesting point re handset sales revenue...í figured it ranged from zero to fairly insignificant for Metro...
 
I understand the desire to not canabalize T-mobile's business but, there's a good number of budget phones with decent specs that would make for excellent options on metro. Huawei's Honor 5X, Alcatel's One Touch Idol 3, Archos Diamond 50, budget offerings from Asus, Meizu, Xiaomi and others would make for a truly robust lineup of phones for Metro. The technology for quality budget offerings is out here(octo-core MediaTek chipsets). Metro needs to get on it and bring 'em in.
 
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Just curious. Excuse the interest. It is funny to me somone carrying a lg moniker would care about dumping junk on end users unless they were carrier affiliated. Sorry for the unbiased informational retort . Good day Sirs.
 
viperdink said:
Just curious. Excuse the interest. It is funny to me somone carrying a lg moniker would care about dumping junk on end users unless they were carrier affiliated. Sorry for the unbiased informational retort . Good day Sirs.
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No problem at all! Your question was a fair one.:D I am indeed still very much a fan of LG's devices(love their UI and design). In fact, I'm using a Nexus 5(got it second hand from my brother) and I'm absolutely loving it(well...except for the battery life:p). I'm just eager to finally see more devices on Metro with HD screens, 2gigs of ram, 16 gigs of storage or more and better cameras than the 5 mega pixel shooters we've been getting for years now. So, it was kind of disappointing to see that the first two new phones of 2016(for Metro) had none of those features but, it's still very early in the year. So, it's likely that better phones are coming our way at some point in the year.
 
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LG Fanatic said:
No problem at all! Your question was a fair one.:D I am indeed still very much a fan of LG's devices(love their UI and design). In fact, I'm using a Nexus 5(got it second hand from brother) and I'm absolutely loving it(well...except for the battery life:p). I'm just eager to finally see more devices on Metro with HD screens, 2gigs of ram, 16 gigs of storage or more and better cameras than the 5 mega pixel shooters we've been getting for years now. So, it was kind of disappointing to see that the first two new phones of 2016(for Metro) had none of those features but, it's still very early in the year. So, it's likely that better phones are coming our way at some point in the year.
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I go even beyond your specs.
I've totally overloaded 16&2gb. I'm absolutely sure i'd very soon máx out 32/3...would make no sense to upgrade to that...plus i'd like to try out a ramdisk.
I can almost view business documents w/o scrolling, so need 6+".
USB C & SD slot musts too.

Wireless charging, removable battery n dual sim would be nice.

I'm with You on cheap cameras...that even have trouble with some codes n depositing checks.

And I'd like LG to standardize various other features, at least for medium+ models:
Usb Otg, IR blaster, Fm Radio, 64bit, android6.

But heck, í don't even think there's a flagship that has all the above.

The new base specs should be 32/3gb, less only for giveaways. Medium+ @ 64+.
 
Krlypumaa said:
What about a LG V10, G4:64g //Sammi 128gb for those that like'um
1+1 or even HTCs all 64+ with all the goodstuff
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None of them make my Pollyanish spec list, esp. on screen size.
V10 w/o dual screen would be close to perfect...notwithstanding battery life, which has workarounds.
I doubt it comes to Metro.
I want Samsung Pay but....ehh, why troll.
 
Krlypumaa said:
What about a LG V10, G4:64g //Sammi 128gb for those that like'um
1+1 or even HTCs all 64+ with all the goodstuff
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I have a 1+1 and I love it. My next phone might be an S6 edge+ or maybe a S7 seeing as thought they are bringing the SD card back. HTC nor LG interest me because I don't like software buttons (silly I know).
 
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