Unlocked vs Carrier? Pros/Cons?

[jimmiekain]

I've just always moved my T-Mobile sim to new phones. It came from a locked T-Mobile phone, so maybe I just luckily avoided all the issues when I bought an unlocked S10 direct from Samsung. I have HD voice, wifi calling, and visual voice mail (if I wanted it). I actually prefer to route my voicemail over to my google voice number for voice mail. I'm sure there is something I'm not getting by having an unlocked phone, but I'm not sure what it is. I could have bought a T-Mobile version, but they were sold out during the pre-order phase, so I went unlocked. I don't regret it at this point. I get great connectivity. When I'm downtown Atlanta, I get 100+ mb/s down with about a 40mb/s up.

The only thing I'm not a fan of is why they delay the updates for the unlocked US phone til the end of the carrier updates. Seems like I should get it before the carriers.

Awesome! This is exactly what I've been searching for. Right now my wife and I have at&t but are prepared to leave and go to T-Mobile. Samsung.com and ebay have awesome deals on unlocked Galaxy s10+ so I wanna get us 2 of them.

How about VoLte? If you're on a call does it drop to 3g or stay on LTE?