Just wanted to say thanks and farewell. My phone and TMO SIM card are arriving tomorrow by the end of the day, meaning assuming the postman and the apartment manager aren't slow and lazy in getting my packages to me, I should have my new number and service up and running in no time. After a few days of testing and deciding things are satisfactory, I'm eBaying my plan along with a few other trinkets I've been meaning to sell.
I just wanted to say thanks for the memories. It was interesting getting to know some pretty knowledge personalities here on the VM forums as well as some of the more interesting ones. I must've learned quite a bit about the mobile market in the short time I was here. You guys really helped me make some critical plan-related decisions up until now. If not for you guys, I wouldn't have known what's out there. When I was first lurking here some time ago, I made the decision based on info presented here and elsewhere to go with the Samsung Intercept. This old girl was good to me for the year and a half I kept it, but all things must come to an end. Where I am right now, T-Mobile and its lineup of phones is much better-suited for my needs.
I guess it sucks for me things didn't turn out as well as I would've liked. There's no denying even at current speeds the grandfathered plan is probably one of the best bang for buck plans you can have. But even though VM recently started rerouting my internet data through SF servers instead of through servers in Kansas, I wasn't convinced enough to stay. I watched for the past year and a half as my internet speeds steadily declined from a stable 0.7mbps to 0.15mbps before recently watching it spike back up to as high as 0.5mbps after the server upgrades. But alas, that speed is only obtainable on a good day. I felt that I couldn't trust Sprint to do much better, especially with their being slow to accommodate even their higher margin postpaid customers in SF. Plus the contrast I'm seeing between T-Mobile's eagerness to soon offer the Galaxy S 4G to its prepaid customers for an affordable and VM's lineup which is now aging wasn't anymore encouraging.
Now this isn't shouldn't be taken as a permanent good-bye, though I will migrate over to the TMO forums and spending more time there. But I may also still occasionally drop by here to give a howdy and even to post my own random musings on a matter. My stage exit notwithstanding, I still believe it's important even in 2012 to stay updated as much as possible on Sprint's moves. We won't find out until at least 2015 whether the iPhone gamble was a winning one. But we can still track Sprint's current moves in the phoneosphere. I genuinely hope deep down inside they'll make a comeback sometime in the near future and make the market more, and not less, competitive with their decisions. But that is to be seen.
As a fellow vm defector, I welcome you to t mobile and its awesome speeds! You're going to love it. I too struggled with data speeds on vm and made the best move for me. Picked up a g2x on craigslist for $200 and haven't looked back except for the occasional looksie to see what is new with vm.
As a fellow vm defector, I welcome you to t mobile and its awesome speeds! You're going to love it. I too struggled with data speeds on vm and made the best move for me. Picked up a g2x on craigslist for $200 and haven't looked back except for the occasional looksie to see what is new with vm.
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I made the jump, but am hesitating because my speeds aren't always constant and I'm not 100% confident I'll be able to get stable calls all the time. My best download speed so far is an impressive 6.7 mbps. But it fluctuates between 2-5 mbps now. I need really good speeds all the time to get free out-call minutes. Because Juice Defender turns off my data while my screen is turned off, I've been forced to have all calls rerouted to my phone.
Some major tradeoffs there. I don't have a girlfriend and I text a jackload. I never allow calls made to me to last too long, so I think I may spend at least a couple of weeks testing out my call quality on GrooveIP.
I made the jump, but am hesitating because my speeds aren't always constant and I'm not 100% confident I'll be able to get stable calls all the time. My best download speed so far is an impressive 6.7 mbps. But it fluctuates between 2-5 mbps now. I need really good speeds all the time to get free out-call minutes. Because Juice Defender turns off my data while my screen is turned off, I've been forced to have all calls rerouted to my phone.
Some major tradeoffs there. I don't have a girlfriend and I text a jackload. I never allow calls made to me to last too long, so I think I may spend at least a couple of weeks testing out my call quality on GrooveIP.
I know I've PM'd you in the past about GrooveIP but I figure its worth mentioning to other VM users as well as those who have moved to T-Mobile.
I'm now using Skype instead of GrooveIP and I've been extremely happy. For less than $3 a month (cheaper the more months you prepay for) I get unlimited voice minutes out via my data connection. The major difference is that Skype uses a much better codec for their audio that uses less bandwidth and is less susceptible to network jitter. I've made calls with 1 bar and calls with full bars both indoors and out ranging from a few seconds to 30 minutes or more and only once have I had the call act any different than a normal call. Even in that one case I hung up and called back and all was well again. From what I can tell the VoIP usage has little effect on your monthly 5GB of 4G speeds as well if you are on T-Mobile. I'd recommend anyone with a couple extra bucks give it a try for a month and see if they like it, I'm very happy I did.
I know I've PM'd you in the past about GrooveIP but I figure its worth mentioning to other VM users as well as those who have moved to T-Mobile.
I'm now using Skype instead of GrooveIP and I've been extremely happy. For less than $3 a month (cheaper the more months you prepay for) I get unlimited voice minutes out via my data connection. The major difference is that Skype uses a much better codec for their audio that uses less bandwidth and is less susceptible to network jitter. I've made calls with 1 bar and calls with full bars both indoors and out ranging from a few seconds to 30 minutes or more and only once have I had the call act any different than a normal call. Even in that one case I hung up and called back and all was well again. From what I can tell the VoIP usage has little effect on your monthly 5GB of 4G speeds as well if you are on T-Mobile. I'd recommend anyone with a couple extra bucks give it a try for a month and see if they like it, I'm very happy I did.
$3, huh? I'm going to do more extensive tests, but that brings my monthly bill from $28.41 (38.41 for $40 topup; they don't have $30 topup) to $31.41 in the event I decide I need to start using Skype.
I've got plenty of topup on my VM account left. I'm going to test this phone out for another week before I decide whether to resell it. Battery life issues and the occasional random shutdown issue aside, it's a good phone.
$3, huh? I'm going to do more extensive tests, but that brings my monthly bill from $28.41 (38.41 for $40 topup; they don't have $30 topup) to $31.41 in the event I decide I need to start using Skype.
I've got plenty of topup on my VM account left. I'm going to test this phone out for another week before I decide whether to resell it. Battery life issues and the occasional random shutdown issue aside, it's a good phone.
Another perk I forgot to mention is that with Skype you have the ability to use your cell phone number to show as the caller ID number, meaning no need for your contacts to have more than one number associated with you. Not a big deal for some but frankly I was tired of giving people my Google Voice number and my real number. (I know it can be forwarded but I don't like having my phone ring twice for the same call)
Another perk I forgot to mention is that with Skype you have the ability to use your cell phone number to show as the caller ID number, meaning no need for your contacts to have more than one number associated with you. Not a big deal for some but frankly I was tired of giving people my Google Voice number and my real number. (I know it can be forwarded but I don't like having my phone ring twice for the same call)
Sounds great, sounds like Skype actually raises the value of T-Mobile's $30/plan by a lot! I imagine as their data speeds get better and better and as more people get comfortable using Skype, when adjusted for inflation even 2 years down the road, this plan will be one of the best out there.
So what do you do about incoming calls that eat into your $100/month allotment?
Why are there so many threads about people leaving? Shouldn't this be "hello" in the TMobile section?
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Pretty much, yep. Especially when the thread is created just to say "goodbye". No need for it really.
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