Re: [FairfieldLife] BlackBerry?
BlackBerry was popular among the business class who are usually pretty tech illiterate. It did go over so well with the consumer class especially millennials who want to replace their PCs and Macs with smart phones. Tips for smart phone purchasers. Get a service that has GSM not CDMA. The latter is hardwired into your phone. This makes it about impossible to sell no contract phones. GSM uses SIM cards. In other countries people might even have prepay plans from two or more services and switch out the SiM cards as needed. In the US ATT and T-Mobile use GSM as well as some other regional and local carriers. Verizon and Sprint use CDMA. The advantage of a GSM phone is you can buy it anywhere. I paid $350 for my Google Nexus phone last year (which BTW the current comparable version is only $200) direct from Google. I signed on for the T-Mobile $30 a month prepay and simply put their SIM card in the phone. Under contract where you might pay $100 for the phone they would list it as a $600 phone which of course is marketing BS. My neighbor just bought a new Android phone from Sprint and was pissed she had to pay the full retail sales tax (another catch 22). With contract phones you more than pay the price if you had bought it off contract. BTW, carriers in most other countries don't do contract phones. On 10/05/2013 07:38 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: BlackBerry reportedly in talks with Google, Samsung, and others about potential sale. http://www.theverge.com/blackberry http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/4/4804362/blackberry-reportedly-in-talks-with-google-samsung-and-others-about
RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] BlackBerry?
Re: [FairfieldLife] BlackBerry?
But then you are stuck getting phones sfrom US Cellular, correct? Pretty much: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407896,00.asp 4G has been here for awhile but then I'm in a metropolitan area. I've mentioned before T-Mobile almost put a tower right behind my house. On 10/05/2013 04:10 PM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote: One major caveat: before buying a GSM phone, make sure there is good enough service from GSM carriers in the area where the phone will be used. In Fairfield, GSM networks suck, like phones not being able to make or receive calls in certain buildings, dropped calls, and huge swaths of rural Iowa with no coverage at all. I'm with US Cellular, which is CDMA, and they have blanket coverage over the entire region; they've also had 4G out here for about a year already. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: BlackBerry was popular among the business class who are usually pretty tech illiterate. It did go over so well with the consumer class especially millennials who want to replace their PCs and Macs with smart phones. Tips for smart phone purchasers. Get a service that has GSM not CDMA. The latter is hardwired into your phone. This makes it about impossible to sell no contract phones. GSM uses SIM cards. In other countries people might even have prepay plans from two or more services and switch out the SiM cards as needed. In the US ATT and T-Mobile use GSM as well as some other regional and local carriers. Verizon and Sprint use CDMA. The advantage of a GSM phone is you can buy it anywhere. I paid $350 for my Google Nexus phone last year (which BTW the current comparable version is only $200) direct from Google. I signed on for the T-Mobile $30 a month prepay and simply put their SIM card in the phone. Under contract where you might pay $100 for the phone they would list it as a $600 phone which of course is marketing BS. My neighbor just bought a new Android phone from Sprint and was pissed she had to pay the full retail sales tax (another catch 22). With contract phones you more than pay the price if you had bought it off contract. BTW, carriers in most other countries don't do contract phones. On 10/05/2013 07:38 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: BlackBerry reportedly in talks with Google, Samsung, and others about potential sale. http://www.theverge.com/blackberry http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/4/4804362/blackberry-reportedly-in-talks-with-google-samsung-and-others-about
Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] BlackBerry?
Are you sure about that? Maybe the phones drop their calls when they realize the phone's owner is walking around in a building with a south facing entrance. From: j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 5, 2013 7:10 PM Subject: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] BlackBerry? One major caveat: before buying a GSM phone, make sure there is good enough service from GSM carriers in the area where the phone will be used. In Fairfield, GSM networks suck, like phones not being able to make or receive calls in certain buildings, dropped calls, and huge swaths of rural Iowa with no coverage at all. I'm with US Cellular, which is CDMA, and they have blanket coverage over the entire region; they've also had 4G out here for about a year already. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: BlackBerry was popular among the business class who are usually pretty tech illiterate. It did go over so well with the consumer class especially millennials who want to replace their PCs and Macs with smart phones. Tips for smart phone purchasers. Get a service that has GSM not CDMA. The latter is hardwired into your phone. This makes it about impossible to sell no contract phones. GSM uses SIM cards. In other countries people might even have prepay plans from two or more services and switch out the SiM cards as needed. In the US ATT and T-Mobile use GSM as well as some other regional and local carriers. Verizon and Sprint use CDMA. The advantage of a GSM phone is you can buy it anywhere. I paid $350 for my Google Nexus phone last year (which BTW the current comparable version is only $200) direct from Google. I signed on for the T-Mobile $30 a month prepay and simply put their SIM card in the phone. Under contract where you might pay $100 for the phone they would list it as a $600 phone which of course is marketing BS. My neighbor just bought a new Android phone from Sprint and was pissed she had to pay the full retail sales tax (another catch 22). With contract phones you more than pay the price if you had bought it off contract. BTW, carriers in most other countries don't do contract phones. On 10/05/2013 07:38 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote: BlackBerry reportedly in talks with Google, Samsung, and others about potential sale. http://www.theverge.com/blackberry
