Re: 30% Apple

2011-02-23 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.com wrote: Since I hear a number of people here using android on t-mobile or att, I'll just mention...  I recently switched from t-mobile to metropcs, and I love it.  Unlimited everything for $50/mo (including taxes and

Re: 30% Apple

2011-02-23 Thread Kent Borg
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Since I hear a number of people here using android on t-mobile or att, I'll just mention... I recently switched from t-mobile to metropcs, and I love it. Unlimited everything for $50/mo (including taxes and everything) and no contracts. I was intrigued by that,

Re: 30% Apple

2011-02-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 02/22/2011 09:17 PM, David Kramer wrote: Since that was both shocking and a big problem for me, I did do a lot of fact checking when I made the initial decision two years ago, including berating several ATT salesdroids. I verified it was still the case before replacing my non-waterproof

RE: 30% Apple

2011-02-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich How would you compare price and coverage of MetroPCS to T-Mobile's prepaid $100 for 1000 minutes per year, whichever (minutes or money) is used first? The only think I know about t-mobile's plan is

Re: 30% Apple

2011-02-23 Thread Mark J Dulcey
On 2/23/2011 6:06 AM, Scott Ehrlich wrote: How would you compare price and coverage of MetroPCS to T-Mobile's prepaid $100 for 1000 minutes per year, whichever (minutes or money) is used first? Comparing apples and oranges. The prepaid T-Mobile plan is great for people who don't use the

RE: 30% Apple

2011-02-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman basis. I was initially told by a sales droid that there would be a cold day in Hell before ATT would sell and Android. Most of the employees in the cell phone stores really do not know the phones very

RE: 30% Apple

2011-02-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of Mark J Dulcey better. The REAL dealbreaker for me was their dysfunctional voicemail system; the command keys were dead while a message was playing so you had to listen to the entirety of each message before you

Re: 30% Apple

2011-02-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 02/23/2011 09:22 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: I had a Best Buy sales dufus tell me the 16G flash card would take better photos than the 8G flash card. ;-) Yeah :-). The sales people are generally not that technically knowledgeable. I found people at the ATT store in Needham (this is a

Re: crowdsourced cellular coverage maps

2011-02-23 Thread Tom Metro
Jerry Feldman wrote: One reason I stayed with ATT (formerly Cingular) is because at my house, while I don't get a good signal...I think that some doctors blocked a cell tower in Newton a few years ago so there is not very good service. I recently ran across a service that uses a phone app to

RE: 30% Apple

2011-02-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jarod Wilson Just for the sake of clarity, most of this GV functionality is not unique to Android. You can do the bulk of the same things on multiple mobile platforms. http://www.google.com/mobile/voice/ If you