I want the Nexus 4 but I have Verizon

[svenEDGE]

Well today I went to Verizon and pretty much got my questions answered. It looks like I'm gonna keep Verizon. I did some shopping and realized how good I have it. I'm paying like half the price of anything else I found and I have unlimited data with the best coverage and the fastest speeds. It sucks that I can't get a nexus but the guy at Verizon gave me a way to pay the upgrade price while maintaining my unlimited. He just told me to use one of the other lines upgrade that's on my plan and then just activate that phone on my line. So I guess I'll get the note II or the DNA.

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[svenEDGE]

Hi everyone! I currently have an iphone 4 on verizon and have an upgrade in january. I will be switching to android. Do you guys think there will be a LG nexus ever to come to verizon or even a different brand of nexus coming to verizon? I really wanted a nexus phone and i can not switch to another carrier. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

There were lots of problems with the galaxy nexus on Verizon so I highly doubt we'll see another phone with the word "nexus" in the name from Verizon. But I don't think that a phone with a pure Google experience is out of the question. What is it about nexus that really makes you want it? Just out of curiosity

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[Mellimel22]

Because nexus is pure android lol

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[ddpacino]

Verizon will let you suspend service, but for a max of 30 days I believe. I'm currently a subscribers and temp suspended my service because I lost a ph+ 42Mbps may be a lil slower than than the LTE speeds I get, but I'll serious appreciate the improved battery life as HSPA+ is a battery hog like LTE. That plus the REAL Nexus experience and the savings (where I can use an employee discount and/or have my job pay up to $45/mo for data) is a major Win for me.

 

[Ziptied]

It is NOT, I repeat NOT coming to sprint or vzw, per Rubin himself.

 

[philly]

I definitely need unlimited data. I can use anywhere from 20-40 GB a month. And I'm only paying like $40 a month because I'm grandfathered in. I can't leave that behind. I just did a quick look at T mobile and sprint and its like $90-$109. I'll stick with VZW. And what is "ST?"?

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I was about to reply to another post this: Straight talk offers a $495 for a year of service, and the phone costs 350, that totals to 850 for a new phone and a year of serivce, and if google comes out with a new phone next year you could probably do the same thing. thats a much better deal then verizon.

and then I read your post... you mean to tell me you need 40 gbs of data a month.. and that also means you rely on a good signal (which verizon has) and on top of all this you only pay 40 a month?

and you want to drop all that just to get the new google phone?

WTF ?

just saw this post.. pretty much replies to my post.

Well today I went to Verizon and pretty much got my questions answered. It looks like I'm gonna keep Verizon. I did some shopping and realized how good I have it. I'm paying like half the price of anything else I found and I have unlimited data with the best coverage and the fastest speeds. It sucks that I can't get a nexus but the guy at Verizon gave me a way to pay the upgrade price while maintaining my unlimited. He just told me to use one of the other lines upgrade that's on my plan and then just activate that phone on my line. So I guess I'll get the note II or the DNA.

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and may I also suggest checking out the razr m.

just switched from a gnex to it and the phone is very nice. it doesnt feel like im using a skinned OS.. infact it feels like what i was hoping the gnex to feel like.

 

[zedorda]

Verizon will let you do a temp. suspension for up to 30 days for certain approved reasons - hardship,faulty device, etc. The longer term option is a no-service plan for a maximum of 6-months with a highly reduced cost somewhere around $12.00 per month. No-service plans extend your contract for as long as your on the plan so if you suspend your service for 6-months it will have an additional 6-months to your required contract term. No-service plan is a PLAN so when you switch off of it you will have to choose a current plan and your unlimited plan will be lost.

Verizon will try their best not to inform you of this till after you have agreed to switch to the no-service plan. A friend of mine lost his plan this way.

 

[spooky981]

The Galaxy Nexus actually convinced me to eliminate my relationship with Verizon after 14 years.
1) Swift updates, the greatest advantage of a Nexus, were needlessly held back.
2) Google Wallet was blocked just to prevent it from getting a head start on Isis.
3) Verizon bloatware was still loaded on the phone and requires a root to be deleted.
4) If I want to keep Unlimited Data, I needed to pay full price for the phone AND a subsidized monthly rate.

Goodbye battery draining LTE and draconian controls over MY phone. I'm sacrificing some data coverage with T-Mobile but enjoying a savings of over $100/month.

 

[svenEDGE]

Well I pretty much overcame all those obstacles by rooting my phone and running custom ROMs which I would most likely be doing anyways. I am still considering T Mobile though. What area are you from? I'm trying to find someone in my area so I know how the coverage is.

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[spooky981]

I'm not a good comparison because I'm in Washington DC. Every carrier has excellent coverage here.

 

[j_grouchy]

I'd like one, but I'm on Sprint...so I suppose I'm SOL. I'd thought for a while that they would eventually bring it to the CDMA folks after a few months...but they seem to be talking as if they've actually made up their minds to be stubborn about not doing so. I'm guessing that the whole "Optimus G is based on the Nexus 4 specs" was their way of telling us "if you are on Sprint and want a Nexus 4, go get an Optimus G instead". I'm not going to switch my carrier just to get a certain phone. That's just silly. I suppose I'll hold out for a few more months before I upgrade...just in the chance that they decide to spring a Nexus 4 on us after all. Who know...maybe this will be my opportunity to give rooting and flashing a go...

 

[Woosh]

I'd like one, but I'm on Sprint...so I suppose I'm SOL. I'd thought for a while that they would eventually bring it to the CDMA folks after a few months...but they seem to be talking as if they've actually made up their minds to be stubborn about not doing so. I'm guessing that the whole "Optimus G is based on the Nexus 4 specs" was their way of telling us "if you are on Sprint and want a Nexus 4, go get an Optimus G instead". I'm not going to switch my carrier just to get a certain phone. That's just silly. I suppose I'll hold out for a few more months before I upgrade...just in the chance that they decide to spring a Nexus 4 on us after all. Who know...maybe this will be my opportunity to give rooting and flashing a go...

There is nothing silly about leaving Sprint. If I was offered a Zack Morris phone as a replacement for Sprint service I'd do it.

 

[j_grouchy]

There is nothing silly about leaving Sprint. If I was offered a Zack Morris phone as a replacement for Sprint service I'd do it.

Silly to change to a higher priced plan, buy two new phones (my wife has an iPhone) and pay a steep ETF is what I meant. Sprint disappoints for sure...but it'll take more than a Nexus branding to get me to deal with the aggravation and expense.

 

[Mellimel22]

It is NOT, I repeat NOT coming to sprint or vzw, per Rubin himself.

So lol I'll rather take a note 2 or galaxy nexus over anything lg IDC if it is a nexus hell sprint is selling the sg3 for 50 bucks on black friday

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[the3388]

 

[the3388]

You can suspend your service without billing for 3 months. Then activate it for a day and repeat. As far as I know this would work, but you'd have to use a different # with your T-MO service, so you could still have your original # tied to your account. To suspend your VZW service without billing, login to your VZW.com account online.

Verizon only allows one suspension per year.

 

[natehoy]

He just told me to use one of the other lines upgrade that's on my plan and then just activate that phone on my line. So I guess I'll get the note II or the DNA.

There ya go. The phone (whichever one you choose) will be severely delayed in software upgrades really quickly, but with a plan like that you pretty much have to stick to it, and it's not like anything that can run Jellybean is going to be severely lacking features anytime really soon.

 

[biggeno313]

Why even worry...The Droid DNA looks like a monster!!!!

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[natehoy]

I'd thought for a while that they would eventually bring it to the CDMA folks after a few months...but they seem to be talking as if they've actually made up their minds to be stubborn about not doing so. I'm guessing that the whole "Optimus G is based on the Nexus 4 specs" was their way of telling us "if you are on Sprint and want a Nexus 4, go get an Optimus G instead".

And the Optimus G is probably the best phone for you, honestly, if you want a Nexus 7. CDMA carriers need to get involved in software updates to phones on their network. This means that, just like the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon, the name "Nexus" will become rapidly meaningless once the carrier loses interest in updating it, which will happen about 5 nanoseconds after the sales start dropping from their peak. Then you'll be looking at months, if not longer, before features from the latest Google firmware reach you.

Get a Nexus on GSM. For CDMA, buy something fairly hackable and root it from the get-go, or accept that the firmware is going to get old very fast.

So if you're going to go CDMA, you might as well take advantage of some of the other carrier-proprietary things like LTE, or non-Nexus-y things like an SD slot, and get one with a replaceable battery.

Which is more important to you? A specific hardware feature, getting the latest software, or coverage?

If your only local coverage or your preferred carrier is a CDMA carrier, don't bother with a Nexus even if they offer it. Honestly. You won't get software updates that much faster, and you'll lose the availability of other hardware features like replaceable batteries and SD slots. If you are dependent on the carrier for software updates, you are going to have taken the other hardware compromises for little return.