How is this gonna work????

[UPEngineer]

Got a quick question if anyone knows. If it has been answered, I apologize.

I have a Droid X and I am contemplating buying the Thunderbolt outright.

I also have the original Droid and going into your account manager and updating ESN numbers and switching between the Droid and Droid X is pretty simple.

How is that gonna work between the 3G Droid X and the 4G Thunderbolt with a SIM card or whatever it is?

Will we still be able to do this or are we gonna have to contact CS to do it?

And if the 4G pricing is different, will we still pay the 4G plan even if we are primarily a 3G phone such as the Droid X?

Sorry if this is too confusing,

 

[anon(75289)]

The curren't answer is: we don't know.

But my educated guess would be that when you buy your TB at retail, they will set you up with a shiny new sim card at which point you will stick that in your new phone and it will automatically be activated. No more ESN/website switching.

Now if you want to switch back to your old ESN CDMA phone... I have no idea what they will do???

Also it is possible that the TB will not only have a sim card slot, but ALSO have an ESN that must be activated on the website because of the internal CDMA radio.. which would really suck!!!

 

[Droid800]

The curren't answer is: we don't know.

But my educated guess would be that when you buy your TB at retail, they will set you up with a shiny new sim card at which point you will stick that in your new phone and it will automatically be activated. No more ESN/website switching.

Now if you want to switch back to your old ESN CDMA phone... I have no idea what they will do???

Also it is possible that the TB will not only have a sim card slot, but ALSO have an ESN that must be activated on the website because of the internal CDMA radio.. which would really suck!!!

Its probably going to require registering the ESN as well as the SIM. Since its verizon, this would probably be the case regardless of if it was LTE for voice/data, or a combo of LTE and CDMA. AT&T requires a similar thing for their phones. (If its a locked AT&T device you have to give them the ESN)

 

[anon(75289)]

Its probably going to require registering the ESN as well as the SIM. Since its verizon, this would probably be the case regardless of if it was LTE for voice/data, or a combo of LTE and CDMA. AT&T requires a similar thing for their phones. (If its a locked AT&T device you have to give them the ESN)

So with AT&T if you own two phones, and you want to pop the SIM out of one and into another while on your way out the door it won't work? If so that's LAME. I've only ever had verizon so I've never experienced sim cards.

For me, I want to have two phones, one waterproof/rugged and one android smartphone. Some days I go snowmobiling, or wakeboarding so on my way out the door I want to put my SIM in that, and the rest of the days I want to use my android and I want to be able to hotswap them without a 15 minute website ordeal. Which I'm betting with these first LTE handsets will still need to do, but I had hoped that once the network is fully LTE and the phones were only LTE this wouldn't need to be done.

 

[Droid800]

So with AT&T if you own two phones, and you want to pop the SIM out of one and into another while on your way out the door it won't work? If so that's LAME. I've only ever had verizon so I've never experienced sim cards.

For me, I want to have two phones, one waterproof/rugged and one android smartphone. Some days I go snowmobiling, or wakeboarding so on my way out the door I want to put my SIM in that, and the rest of the days I want to use my android and I want to be able to hotswap them without a 15 minute website ordeal. Which I'm betting with these first LTE handsets will still need to do, but I had hoped that once the network is fully LTE and the phones were only LTE this wouldn't need to be done.

In my experience, no. It might depend on the phone/plan, but the last time I tried to do it I got voice signal but no data.

 

[tropper]

Got a quick question if anyone knows. If it has been answered, I apologize.

I have a Droid X and I am contemplating buying the Thunderbolt outright.

I also have the original Droid and going into your account manager and updating ESN numbers and switching between the Droid and Droid X is pretty simple.

How is that gonna work between the 3G Droid X and the 4G Thunderbolt with a SIM card or whatever it is?

Will we still be able to do this or are we gonna have to contact CS to do it?

And if the 4G pricing is different, will we still pay the 4G plan even if we are primarily a 3G phone such as the Droid X?

Sorry if this is too confusing,

Are you planning on switching back and forth between the Dolt and the DX ?
As for pricing I have read some scuttle butt bout payin 4G even if you only get 3G service an believe its true, but also have heard alot that they will cost the same. So only time will tell.
IMO I would just keep the DX, Im an HTC man personally, but I wouldn't say you'll be missing out on enough to switch and pay more for not truely all that much more. Dont get me wrong it will be a better phone by quite a bit, but not full price worthy. Unless rooting and or you are sure you will be able to use 4G if you travel. Just my two pennies, hope I helped