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Will you give up unlimited data to buy iPhone 5 with a subsidy?
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Missing an option; buy S3 before 6/28.
I don't want to watch my back every month when we become more dependent on data. What good is facetime over LTE if both phones in a family plan is consuming data at a fast rate? What good are cloud services if every MB is being counted against you? Do I have to monitor my data when using Apple's new mapping App? What about streaming movies or music from the cloud?
Sorry but I'm not waiting for Apple anymore. I told myself that I was going to get an iPhone if they increase the screen size. Shame that Verizon has already made that decision for me. I find paying full cost for a phone while paying the full monthly rate to be stupid. At current iPhone cost your going to pay $450 more for the privilege of keeping unlimited data. I don't think a 4 inch iPhone with a minor OS update is worth it. Android has been doing 4 inch phones for over 2 year now and I'm already use to 4.65 inches.
I don't want to watch my back every month when we become more dependent on data. What good is facetime over LTE if both phones in a family plan is consuming data at a fast rate? What good are cloud services if every MB is being counted against you? Do I have to monitor my data when using Apple's new mapping App? What about streaming movies or music from the cloud?
Sorry but I'm not waiting for Apple anymore. I told myself that I was going to get an iPhone if they increase the screen size. Shame that Verizon has already made that decision for me. I find paying full cost for a phone while paying the full monthly rate to be stupid. At current iPhone cost your going to pay $450 more for the privilege of keeping unlimited data. I don't think a 4 inch iPhone with a minor OS update is worth it. Android has been doing 4 inch phones for over 2 year now and I'm already use to 4.65 inches.
I've currently got a $30 monthly plan for my iPhone 4S on T-Mobile. There is absolutely nothing that any new iPhone could have or nothing that any carrier could offer that would get me to go back to a $100 monthly plan.
I do that everytime I upgrade before my contract expires anyway. I also sells old phones for about $300 so it evens out. When the time comes that i actually have to use my upgrade next year I'll probably just give up unlimited. The next data tier can't be that much more can it? Even if it's $10 that's only $240 for 2 years. Still cheaper than to pay full price.
Glad im on unlimited with Sprint. Once LTE launches it will be amazing! LTE, initially, will run on the 1900mhz spectrum. So, unlike wimax, WHEREVER you get a 3G signal on Sprint, you will get an LTE one
Well, I'm in Los Angeles, wonder when we will get lte here...
I find it extremely ridiculous for a iPhone owner to chalk up more data on their phone using their cellular service than what they chalk up on their WiFi at home.
I don't know how he did it, but I have a friend who managed to chalk up almost 18GB of data on his iPhone 4S. He should thank his lucky stars that he is on an unlimited data plan on Verizon . Had he been on the 3GB data he originally wanted to go with he would have been paying astronomical amounts of money.
Also, using cellular service , 3G or 4G is just draining your battery. I don't know how people could sometimes stand permanently using 3G/4G as their only data gateway. 3G is epicly slow at times, while 4G is lightning fast but kills your battery.
I don't know how he did it, but I have a friend who managed to chalk up almost 18GB of data on his iPhone 4S. He should thank his lucky stars that he is on an unlimited data plan on Verizon . Had he been on the 3GB data he originally wanted to go with he would have been paying astronomical amounts of money.
Also, using cellular service , 3G or 4G is just draining your battery. I don't know how people could sometimes stand permanently using 3G/4G as their only data gateway. 3G is epicly slow at times, while 4G is lightning fast but kills your battery.
Im in Los Angeles as well. Its believed we will have it here by years end (Just in time for the next iPhone.
18GB on a 3G connection? Yea, he either tethers or just has his phone streaming music all day. No way, from even heavy usage and actually USING the phone, will someone use 18GB of data.
Streaming videos can easily get someone that high.
If they have to constantly download large files or are upping their videos online it's even easier.
Heck, I had no problem topping 50GB/ month last year on a non-smartphone via those methods.
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I will be buying a 32 or 64 gb iPhone 5 outright and use my simplicity sim of which I get unlimited data an texts for £20 a month, iPhone 4 will be going to the other half lol.
I'll give up my unlimited for the subsidy. I'm usually around 300-400mb/month and my wife the same. This month I'm going to be a little higher, maybe 800mb-1gb, but I've also been tethering on the weekends at our beach house. I don't watch video on my phone because, well, the screen is freaking tiny and the experience sucks. Not an iphone shot, cellphones in general. The screens are simply too small for me to enjoy video of any kind when I have much better viewing options. I don't stream music and don't have any use for cloud services (10gb's free space on my 16gb IP4). I have ~25mbps internet at home, even faster at work and nearly every place I go offers some sort of wifi. Heck, my children's schools and my doctor's office even have wifi. The grocery store, lowe's, even the oil change place I go to. I just don't see the point in paying $650 for a non-subsidized iphone when I will likely get no value from maintaining unlimited data anyway. And on top of that, the shared plan will actually SAVE me money every month if I go with up to the 6gb package. LTE or not, I simply don't see my wife and I using more than that.
I won't be paying full price on an iPhone anytime soon. It's too expensive that way.
After all, I only use about ~120 mb a month.
After all, I only use about ~120 mb a month.
I will give up my unlimited to pay the discount price upfront. As a part time employee and current full time student paying full retail is just not the right move. Plus I'm always connected to wifi 95% of the time and rarely ever go over 1gb on just cellular data a month.
iphone5 vzn unlimited data
I use less than 2gb a month & use wifi most of the time. there is no way i'm going to pay full retail price every time I want to upgrade my phone!
the cell phone providers are getting rid of unlimited data & moving to tiered data plans. you might think your getting unlimited data, but they will throttle you after you go over 2 or 3gb. att is already doing this, vzn will probably do this soon too esp after they add millions of LTE iphone 5 customers.
I use less than 2gb a month & use wifi most of the time. there is no way i'm going to pay full retail price every time I want to upgrade my phone!
the cell phone providers are getting rid of unlimited data & moving to tiered data plans. you might think your getting unlimited data, but they will throttle you after you go over 2 or 3gb. att is already doing this, vzn will probably do this soon too esp after they add millions of LTE iphone 5 customers.