The Official Status Update Thread/The thread about nothing.

[Frosty]

The only thing I like about AT&T over Verizon is that I can answer a call, put it on speaker, and still use the browser on my phone to look things up/answer/help/investigate.

On Verizon I'd have to hang up, look into it, and call back. I think this is even the case with Verizon LTE.

My work phone is a verizon. I would not pay for those. I have apps that crash several times a day, reception is awful, and I hate how they use strange symbols for stuff, and the damn sub menus are hard to find and navigate. No thanks!

 

[MikeDVB]

My work phone is a verizon. I would not pay for those. I have apps that crash several times a day, reception is awful, and I hate how they use strange symbols for stuff, and the damn sub menus are hard to find and navigate. No thanks!

Yeah - what I hate about Verizon is the locked firmware and all of the bloatware/extra crap they put on phones that you can't remove [well, you can - but not by the average layperson].

My mom has an iPhone on Sprint and even on their LTE it has to be the slowest damn phone I've ever handled. Tried to download a < 10mb app and it took something like 20 minutes over LTE... Thought maybe the local tower or the network was having an issue - same issue in a totally different place with weeks of time difference.

 

[Frosty]

That's right, you better run away!

 

[Sylvain]

I could use some coffee.

 

[MrsGungho]

Y U NO SPEAK SPANGLISH?

I have no pity for you then .

what if I said the arthritis in my hips is really screaming tonight?
and no, I speak no spanglish

 

[MrsGungho]

Yeah - what I hate about Verizon is the locked firmware and all of the bloatware/extra crap they put on phones that you can't remove [well, you can - but not by the average layperson].

My mom has an iPhone on Sprint and even on their LTE it has to be the slowest damn phone I've ever handled. Tried to download a < 10mb app and it took something like 20 minutes over LTE... Thought maybe the local tower or the network was having an issue - same issue in a totally different place with weeks of time difference.

I have an android on sprint. my d/l speeds are fabulous

 

[GLOCKMAN23C]

 

[danielson]

Sprint is fine, until you get out of the city, or away from the interstate.

 

[MikeDVB]

I have an android on sprint. my d/l speeds are fabulous

I've tried Android on Sprint in this area and had the same results - even when it showed LTE. Baffling.

 

[SEIndSAM]

Evening Sylvain

 

[Sylvain]

Evening Sylvain

Hello!

 

[GLOCKMAN23C]

What are these new fangled phones droids iphones and such you all are talking abou?

 

[Scutter01]

 

[Sylvain]

Both my head and heart say stay on the internet and eat.

 

[MrsGungho]

I've tried Android on Sprint in this area and had the same results - even when it showed LTE. Baffling.

4G or 3G LTE. I know when I am on 3G it isn't a good, in no way bad though.

I travel out of the city a lot, 2 hour north, never on an interstate. I have 1 dead spot on my drive, the rest of the time I have no issues

 

[Scutter01]

3G is just shorthand for "you might as well just wait until you get home to browse the internet".

 

[MikeDVB]

You know what... I did not know that there was such a thing as '3G LTE'.

 

[Fenway]

Hello

 

[SEIndSAM]

For the past 4 years, I have carried both a Verizon and an AT&T phone. Never had problems with the Verizon phone, but the AT&T phone dropped calls all of the time.

 

[MikeDVB]

3G is just shorthand for "you might as well just wait until you get home to browse the internet".

You have no idea how excited I was to see 3G come to my area back when all I could get was Edge... Answering a support ticket via my phone over edge was a ~5 minute proces, on 3G it became a ~1 minute process. On 4G [real 4G] it became a ~15 second process.