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    True "Drop Protection" case for the Note 5 ?

    I have this case on my phone. The rubber doesn't stick and get caught on materials, like when you slide the phone in and out of your pocket. The case does have some texture to it though to make it not so slick, but it's not "sticky" whatsoever. And just like Knightstalker said, it's a great case...
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    Note 5 Tempered Glass Screen Protector, Same problem as Note 4?

    I'm actually a Best Buy Mobile employee, I just purchased my Note 5 a couple days ago and installed (and yes I install many of these a day) the Zagg HD tempered glass on my phone. No halo effect EXCEPT on the very bottom right corner that I couldn't get to stick down. Other than that, the screen...
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    [Closed] Win a Galaxy Note 5!!!

    I really love the design of the Note 5,especially because it's overall smaller than my Note 4!
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    Why isn't my Google maps saying street names anymore?

    Re: Google maps does not say street names anymore. When I was using my navigation today, I noticed it would say it for some street names, but not all. I noticed it not saying the street names more often when there were consecutive turns/directions.
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    [Closed] Santa Phil Day 6: Win one of two Nexus 9 tablets and a keyboard folio

    Cookies for Santa Children sleeping peacefully Christmas brings much cheer
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    [Instruction] How to get a new phone and keep (legacy) Unlimited Data on Verizon

    Re: [Instruction] How to Keep Unlimited Data on Verizon Pre-orders for phones are almost always in store only Prometheus
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    [Instruction] How to get a new phone and keep (legacy) Unlimited Data on Verizon

    Re: Verizon: How to keep Unlimited Data and get phone on subsidized price There only work around that I would think would possible work would be the one that I previously posted - doing an alternate upgrade (sometimes called cross upgrade) from the line that has the UDP to a line that does NOT...
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    [Instruction] How to get a new phone and keep (legacy) Unlimited Data on Verizon

    Re: Verizon: How to keep Unlimited Data and get phone on subsidized price - - - Updated - - - SOP requires that we activate the SIM card that is included with the phone. The program that we use to activate the phone (BEAST) will activate the phone in order to complete the pick-up process -...
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    [Instruction] How to get a new phone and keep (legacy) Unlimited Data on Verizon

    Re: Verizon: How to keep Unlimited Data and get phone on subsidized price An alternate upgrade is when you use a line that has an upgrade available but put the phone onto another line that is not eligible to upgrade. - - - Updated - - - Yes, it would work going from an iPhone 4S to a GS5 as...
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    [Instruction] How to get a new phone and keep (legacy) Unlimited Data on Verizon

    Re: Verizon: How to keep Unlimited Data and get phone on subsidized price Yes, calling Verizon or BestBuy will probably end up with you losing your UDP.
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    [Instruction] How to get a new phone and keep (legacy) Unlimited Data on Verizon

    Re: Verizon: How to keep Unlimited Data and get phone on subsidized price 1) You can only keep UDP if you do the BestBuy.com method and keeping your old SIM or the method that I previously posted (where you do an alternate upgrade, placing the phone on a non-UDP line and doing a hardware swap...
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    [Instruction] How to get a new phone and keep (legacy) Unlimited Data on Verizon

    Re: Verizon: How to keep Unlimited Data and get phone on subsidized price Got an update for you guys, and I actually did this the other day. What you have to do is actually do the upgrade in Best Buy (I can't confirm for any other store). You have to be on a family plan and have another line...
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    [Instruction] How to get a new phone and keep (legacy) Unlimited Data on Verizon

    Re: Verizon: How to keep Unlimited Data and get phone on subsidized price Also, at Best Buy we have two ways of activating phones one through Beast and the other through eROES. eROES is basically our Verizon activation site whenever we can't get Beast to cooperate. I've tried to do some...
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    [Instruction] How to get a new phone and keep (legacy) Unlimited Data on Verizon

    Re: Verizon: How to keep Unlimited Data and get phone on subsidized price pdx, I wish! Ahahaha, we (as in sales consultants) really don't get an inside information until it's readily available to the general public - most likely you and I will find out about release dates at the same time. As...
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    [Instruction] How to get a new phone and keep (legacy) Unlimited Data on Verizon

    Re: Verizon: How to keep Unlimited Data and get phone on subsidized price For those wondering if you can do a store pick up, no you cannot. I work in Best Buy Mobile and for contract pickups it's SOP to activate the phone (with the included SIM card) in Beast, our activations program. Beast...