T-Mobile Verizon or ?

[5Toes]

Wait a minute.

GSM is better for ruralness? I have a GSM... i was texting on my flight to Alaska. I got service 30,000 feet up... Yeah is GSM what most smartphones are (Droid, G2, Blackberry?)

CDMA is better call quality and what else?

[s0urce]

Hmm, I hear sprint 4g is slower. Some guy on t mobile pulled 4mb/s in Chicago on T Mobile on a G2

Yea, it depends upon your area. Until the other carriers can offer an unlimited data plan like Sprint I feel it's really a moot point.

[Stoner Sam23]

Most cellphone companies use eachothers towers now since roaming is basically free. That means do you prefer GSM or CDMA? both have advantages and disadvantages. Sprint is cheap CDMA and has a great selection of smartphones. Girlfriend has an AT&T Iphone and gets shit service in rual VA. so I'm with sprint!

[b*saint]

tmobile is cool because I can connect to my home network and call out via my home network.

[5Toes]

Hmm, I hear sprint 4g is slower. Some guy on t mobile pulled 4mb/s in Chicago on T Mobile on a G2

[s0urce]

I'm all about Sprint and the Evo 4g right now. With 4g enabled I'm pulling down 1mbps up/down throughout all of Los Angeles. It's good shit. Great phone, cheap plan. Unlimited data, mobile-mobile, texting etc.

Also, when you sign up for sprint tell them you're a Time Warner Cable or UPS employee and they'll knock 25% off your monthly bill -- no questions asked.

No other carrier can beat the monthly savings of sprint, or their 4g speeds.

[5Toes]

Lets actually talk plans though. I think GSM is fine for me, my shitty samsung slider is a GSM, and the calls are bad quality, now I know why. But I hardly ever call anyone.

[5Toes]

I use Sprint. I get unlimited data, text, all that BS, 3 lines with 1500 shared free mobile to mobile (we have never in 4 years even come close to hitting the ceiling) and our bill with all the fees, taxes and other BS is about $120

Damn thats cheap. Is it an old plan or what?

[danny4nasty]

Yea but what about the iPhones battery life on cdma?

Anyone with an iphone can attest that the battery life sucks already.

Anyone with Verizon (any cdma carrier for that matter) can attest that their battery life sucks too.

I fixed the battery life on my iphone with this Mophie case. I get a lil over 2 days with my iphone with it after the battery reaches about 30% I flip the switch on the bottom of the case and it charges the phone. Also it makes the tiny iphone fit better in my big hands and with this case I'm able to charge the iphone with the mini usb port on it. Which every other smart phone has these days.

[rwh11385]

Those are not exactly selling points Heeter. All of your points you're making with this are mostly opinion :)

How so?

It's a fact that Europe has GSM as its standard.
It's historic that Asia, then Europe had the newer phones, with Verizon being last as companies had to convert to CDMA from GSM that the entire rest of the world uses.
It was a fact that CDMA phones could not quickly swap subscriber information, although maybe not some are able to.
It is a fact that it is very simple to unlock and use a prepaid SIM in a GSM phone abroad.
It is a fact that before LTE can supposedly can do it, one could not text and talk at the same time on a CDMA phone.

Buddy's opinion is that none of those things apply to him, but they are still selling points to some, especially those like Ken and I which value said items. It's not an opinion that these facts are unique to GSM, or at least were in some cases.

[scabzzzz]

Does your former phone need to be functional?



I guess if you never leave the US, never text back a friend while on the phone with your girl, never bought an unlocked phone people don't get here, and never had the comfort of using a SIM card, then I guess you wouldn't see the benefit, no.

Those are not exactly selling points Heeter. All of your points you're making with this are mostly opinion :)

[etxxz]

verizon launch the iphone 4 today..

[rwh11385]

No, and I dont think you even have to call anymore. I can login to my account on the website and activate/deactivate phones at will just by punching in their serial number.

As for SIM/VS CDMA. Well there are actually CDMA Sims, my blackberry had one. Useless to me though as phones are typically locked and i wouldnt dream of keeping any contacts or anything on the sim (gmail sync is far superior for that). And for traveling abroad; yes, I could activate my SIM to travel abroad. Of course that is is you want to get anally violated by your carrier. The cheaper option is to just pick up a prepaid when in your destination market and put your US phone in wifi-only mode. Use the prepaid for locals calls and Skype/Gvoice for calling home.

That's good. Most people I know are completely screwed until they get to verizon store, but I guess that's why they still make a lot of money off of 99.9% of the population who also needs them to transfer data/contacts over too.

Yea there's some makers who put in ID registry units which does have the benefit there but not mainsteam yet. Also companies just say F it and have CDMA/GSM phones - which effectively creates the end of the argument as you have access to both. (As long as they can be unlocked and a prepaid SIM slipped in.)

There was something about locking off the other radio within the US to make the FCC happy, but if phone manufacturers install both and they can be unlocked, then it might open things up and potential to put more options for consumers and less re-making of phones for different carriers... Be loyal to a phone manufacturer (incentive to innovate) and more flexible on carrier (incentive to deliver quality), rather than back a few years ago and some carrier choices were dominated by phone selection.

[Ryan Stewart]

Does your former phone need to be functional?

No, and I dont think you even have to call anymore. I can login to my account on the website and activate/deactivate phones at will just by punching in their serial number.

As for SIM/VS CDMA. Well there are actually CDMA Sims, my blackberry had one. Useless to me though as phones are typically locked and i wouldnt dream of keeping any contacts or anything on the sim (gmail sync is far superior for that). And for traveling abroad; yes, I could activate my SIM to travel abroad. Of course that is is you want to get anally violated by your carrier. The cheaper option is to just pick up a prepaid when in your destination market and put your US phone in wifi-only mode. Use the prepaid for locals calls and Skype/Gvoice for calling home.

[z31maniac]

Like I said, 99.9% of the population.