Choosing a Carrier for New Nexus 4

[TheLegoman]

By the way, drop the iPhone into a bucket of rice. Rice draws moisture out. It might be worth a shot.

 

[adt2]

I did that as soon as I could (about 2 hours after dropping it into the water and then retrieving it). Within about 4 hours, it was partially alive (I noticed the "Bluetooth Connected" message scroll across the dash in my car and was able to make a call), and by the next day it was mostly back. It's still acting a little wonky, but I'm not going to toss it. We hand them down to the kids to use as iPods whenever we trade up.

 

[Unicorn Rancher]

I hear you there. 100 minutes doesn't cover my brother calling me... I think that 100 minute plan is a clever way T-Mobile gets people to try their service - then some, probably large, percentage decide they need to upgrade to more minutes.

Maybe. I notice that T-Mobile has two different Monthly 4G plans for $30/month. One for people who talk a lot and one for people who use a lot of data. If 100 minutes of talk plus unlimited data doesn't fit your usage patters, there's a $30 plan with 1500 minutes (or texts) and 30MB of web. I would find the second plan A LOT more restrictive than the first, but your mileage may vary.

 

[PWC Realtor]

What's happening is that when the sender is sending an SMS your number is being recognized as still being attached to an iMessage account and the senders phone defaults to sending the text as an iMessage. The reason it's working after signing out of Messages and putting your iPhone into airplanes mode is that of a device can't send via iMessage it goes to SMS as a backup method.

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[daniel2744]

I have my Nexus 4 on the T-Mobile $70/month unlimited prepaid plan. T-Mobile's service footprint is definitely smaller, but so far I have yet to get inadequate service. It's been great in fact, especially for the value.

I'd say try out a couple months of the prepaid plan and if it doesn't work out, jump to another carrier. As for continuing the last bit of the AT&T contract on it, that's up to you.

How is this plan going for you so far? i have the same plan but postpaid. i got it in December before the made it available for pre-paid users. I really wanted to unlimitied data so i made the choice to get on contract but so far this has been great for me and i get my discount through work so its not all bad. however, if i knew this in December i would of waited

 

[minnemike]

Keep the AT&T micro SIM and your current contract, pick up a free micro SIM from T-Mobiles website and sign up for one of their day-to day plans (or even the $30 monthly plan) to test out T-Mobile coverage in your area.

If it is no good, you can stick with your AT&T contract until you find an AT&T MVNO with a suitable plan for your usage needs.

This ^

Use both and determine which has the best speed and signal for where you are. All tings being equal, Tmo will have the best speed for this phone.

 

[adt2]

How does one "use both" without changing the phone number from one carrier to the other?

 

[PWC Realtor]

How does one "use both" without changing the phone number from one carrier to the other?

You keep your number on one phone and have a new number assigned to the SIM of the service you're testing. You can always port your number over later if you choose to take the plunge and switch.

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[gone down south]

How does one "use both" without changing the phone number from one carrier to the other?

If you use Google Voice, you have the same number on every phone number ;-)

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