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mongstradamus said:
Is it verizon more than anything else that causes for the high prices ? Seems like all the 4g phones are 300?
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you could go to sprint and get their 4g phones for the "norm" of $199, but then pay $10/month for 24 months to use use it. as for me, i will gladly pay a little extra up front and save the $140 over the life of the contract
 
SiXiam said:
Wait for the price drop. Most people don't care about anything like root or a "true google experience" & are likely only to see the big screen as the best selling point. I expect a $50 price drop fairly quickly to better compete with the iPhone 4S.
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I hear you, and I usually do, but having a tired OG Droid, waiting through the Bionic and the SGII bypassing has weakened me, somewhat anyway. Come the day I'll see what I do then.
 
Just saw this and thought most of us would get a kick out of it

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binary visions said:
This kind of attitude makes me want to kick puppies.

Actually... I was going to write a response but I can't, because it's going to get deleted as aggressive and personal.

Suffice to say: this is a horrible idea and is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what rational human beings actually want, regardless of their professed impatience.
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Visions, CHILL OUT! It is, after all, just a phone. I didn't mean to get your blood boiling by positing that I would be content to get (arguably) the most awesome phone EVER in my hands and use the functional 99% of it until the 1% gets fixed.

Hide your puppies, folks.
 
zx10droid said:
you could go to sprint and get their 4g phones for the "norm" of $199, but then pay $10/month for 24 months to use use it. as for me, i will gladly pay a little extra up front and save the $140 over the life of the contract
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interesting it just seemed to me as an non verizon customer that their phones are an lot more money upfront, and it still is 20-25 more an month.
 
redraider1 said:
For me I get a discount through my employer so it brings the price to about the same price sprint would be yet with lte and much better coverage.
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ahh cool i am not saying either carrier is better than any other was just wondering why most of verizons phones when they first come out are 300 , when everybody else is around 200 ?
 
mongstradamus said:
ahh cool i am not saying either carrier is better than any other was just wondering why most of verizons phones when they first come out are 300 , when everybody else is around 200 ?
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Well verizon is the first with lte so the lte chips cost a little more supposedly. I am sure once more carriers switch to lte the phone prices will drop just like with when 3g phones first launched they were all much more expensive on contract.
 
mongstradamus said:
interesting it just seemed to me as an non verizon customer that their phones are an lot more money upfront, and it still is 20-25 more an month.
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how do you figure that? verizons unlimited plan is 69.99 for unlimited talk and text plus 30 for data on 4g. sprints "unlimited" 4g plan is 69.99 plus $10 add-on for 4g, making it 79.99. while that sounds $20 cheaper, dig a little deeper under the marketing and find out that sprints "unlimited" talk portion of their plan actually only includes 450 minutes, and the unlimited portion pertains to calling mobile phones only. so yes, i guess it is $20 cheaper a month, at the trade off of only getting 450 minutes in your unlimited plan, unlike verizons unlimited.

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zx10droid said:
how do you figure that? verizons unlimited plan is 69.99 for unlimited talk and text plus 30 for data on 4g. sprints "unlimited" 4g plan is 79.99 plus $10 add-on for 4g, making it 89.99. while that sounds $10 cheaper, dig a little deeper under the marketing and find out that sprints "unlimited" talk portion of their plan actually only includes 450 minutes, and the unlimited portion pertains to mobile phones only. so yes, i guess in this instance it is $10 cheaper a month, at the trade off of only getting 450 minutes in your unlimited plan, unlike verizons unlimited.
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well i am not with sprint i am with att and i have an really old plan , thats how it comes out cheaper for me. I go with the cheapeast voice plan since i never talk on my phone like less than 20 minutes an month haha.
 
zx10droid said:
how do you figure that? verizons unlimited plan is 69.99 for unlimited talk and text plus 30 for data on 4g. sprints "unlimited" 4g plan is 69.99 plus $10 add-on for 4g, making it 79.99. while that sounds $20 cheaper, dig a little deeper under the marketing and find out that sprints "unlimited" talk portion of their plan actually only includes 450 minutes, and the unlimited portion pertains to calling mobile phones only. so yes, i guess it is $20 cheaper a month, at the trade off of only getting 450 minutes in your unlimited plan, unlike verizons unlimited.

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You left out the $20 for unlimited text.

Verizon is $69.99 for unlimited calling only
Then $20 for unlimited text
And then $29.99 for unlimited/2GB data, depending on your grandfathering status
That's a total of $119.98
Plans - Verizon Wireless

However, you can get a plan in limited regions for $59.99 that includes unlimited text and 450 minutes + unlimited M2M (any mobile). Add $29.99 for data, and you're paying 89.98, about $10 more than the Sprint equivalent. However, that requires living in certain locations to get that deal.
 
iowabowtech said:
Thank God I still have my old 700 minute shared family plan. Sounds like I'd need a 2nd job to pay the current prices.
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People on grandfathered plans are lucky. I currently have a plan through Verizon that is $59.99 for 450 minutes + unlimited texts + $10 for unlimited data. After discounts and taxes, it comes to $66 and change a month.

However, just moved my wife over to Verizon, 700 min plan w/unlimited text for addtl $30, my $10/mo data plan, and $30/mo for 2GB for her. After discounts, it's $127 and change, so I expect about $140. I can further save cash by dropping texts to 5k for $20, or 500 for $10. I can definitely do the 5k texts, not sure on the 500.

I'd love to get in on my regional promotion of unlimited mobile to any mobile, but I'd have to drop my $10 data plan to get it.
 
nj02vette said:
... The patent office needs a swift kick for granting some of these overly obvious patents. Software and electronics patents really need to die. I'm not talking about inventing the new superchip, I'm talking about "Method and apparatus for measuring voltage" type patents that are just companies trying to develope a warchest for litigation.
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Amen. So so very true ...
 
Medion said:
People on grandfathered plans are lucky. I currently have a plan through Verizon that is $59.99 for 450 minutes + unlimited texts + $10 for unlimited data. After discounts and taxes, it comes to $66 and change a month.

However, just moved my wife over to Verizon, 700 min plan w/unlimited text for addtl $30, my $10/mo data plan, and $30/mo for 2GB for her. After discounts, it's $127 and change, so I expect about $140. I can further save cash by dropping texts to 5k for $20, or 500 for $10. I can definitely do the 5k texts, not sure on the 500.

I'd love to get in on my regional promotion of unlimited mobile to any mobile, but I'd have to drop my $10 data plan to get it.
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We (wife and I) consider ourselves very lucky we are grandfathered with our data plans. I guess mine doesn't change even if I get a 4G phone?
 
amazon says theyre getting the gnex on the 7th!!!!

edit- just realized it was a 3rd party vendor and not amazon themselves
 
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