I've had the Connect for a year now to the day, and I've gotta say, I've really enjoyed it. Its obviously not the perfect phone, I don't think anyone can argue that. besides the bugs that are probably not even worth mentioning in this post.. I can't complain..much.
But I think my time with the Connect has ran its course. Mainly because I've come to realize that the Connect will never get updated to 4.+ and its something that I feel like I need in a phone. Also this phone has not been the same since the darn Aug.11 and its driving me a little crazy. I've had this phone rooted pretty much since I got it and its been fun checking out the forums and learning a thing or two about my phone from the pros here; but it almost feels that recently there hasn't been much action here and its likely due to the fact that most has already been done.
Anyways after all that comes my dilemma. I got Asurion on my phone thru Metroguard. Been paying for it since I got it. I knew when I got it that the deductible for trading it in was $100 but I thought that by now that deductible wouldve gone down since the phone has devaluated. I'm stuck because idk if I can get any money at all out of it. I hear they can give me $35 on some websites for it. But mainly I just thought about holding onto it till the phone discontinued and maybe getting something better thru the insurance for that costly deductible.
Is it probably better to get another phone for $150( i.e. Optimus F3 or L9) or a used S3 at a higher budget in a couple months? or is it worth waiting for the phone to get discontinued (how will I even know) and come a claim or try to get $30 out of it? do you guys think the deductible on it will ever go down? what would you guys do?
But I think my time with the Connect has ran its course. Mainly because I've come to realize that the Connect will never get updated to 4.+ and its something that I feel like I need in a phone. Also this phone has not been the same since the darn Aug.11 and its driving me a little crazy. I've had this phone rooted pretty much since I got it and its been fun checking out the forums and learning a thing or two about my phone from the pros here; but it almost feels that recently there hasn't been much action here and its likely due to the fact that most has already been done.
Anyways after all that comes my dilemma. I got Asurion on my phone thru Metroguard. Been paying for it since I got it. I knew when I got it that the deductible for trading it in was $100 but I thought that by now that deductible wouldve gone down since the phone has devaluated. I'm stuck because idk if I can get any money at all out of it. I hear they can give me $35 on some websites for it. But mainly I just thought about holding onto it till the phone discontinued and maybe getting something better thru the insurance for that costly deductible.
Is it probably better to get another phone for $150( i.e. Optimus F3 or L9) or a used S3 at a higher budget in a couple months? or is it worth waiting for the phone to get discontinued (how will I even know) and come a claim or try to get $30 out of it? do you guys think the deductible on it will ever go down? what would you guys do?
SOooo if I wasnt doing all this I would do an insurance job and see what happens, when I had the Galaxy Indulge and it got discontinued I called about my signal being shot and they said I could have a refurbished one and I told them HELL NO I paid to much and pay $5 a month for a NEW phone so they gave me this phone (Connect) for the $99 deductible and this phone was like $379 at that time lol! so I say screw it!! If they did it before maybe they will do it again? and if they say otherwise argue with them about it and fight for your new replacement you just might get it 
