Straight Talk Bring Your Own GSM Phone Program (Not a Loophole)

[Jein]

Good to know, thanks stonedcold

Does anyone know what ST tmo speed is?? Perhaps testing on a dual core 4g phone?? Help please?

ST speed is good for 3G. I get somewhere between 5-6-7 MB down and around 1-2 MB up constantly unthrottled in an area know for good reception.


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[Jein]

I often stream You Tube on friend's ST LG Optimus Q. Notably slow during peak You Tube traffic...otherwise no prob on 3g ST connection.

I love one of the posts on their Facebook page. "You can only stream YouTube through WiFi" LMAO. What kind of service is that? I'll stick with GoPhone, data might cost more, but I can do whatever the hell I want with it. No arbitrary limits or worries about being canned for crossing some imaginary lines or thresholds. These folks should be barred from using the word "Unlimited" in their advertising (and that goes for many others as well.)

[jimates]

If you want seamless phone and SMS integration with a google voice number in an iPhone, you don't need to use apps. You jailbreak the device and install these two cydia extensions and support this guy.

http://gvexts.appspot.com/index.html

Works fine with straight talk.


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Purchased the sms extension. Sends great but won't show the received messages.

[greatestNothing]

Good to know, thanks stonedcold

Does anyone know what ST tmo speed is?? Perhaps testing on a dual core 4g phone?? Help please?

I'm waiting on this answer myself. I actually got one of the reps to say that it is tmobile 3G so I'm waiting to see if that was a lie.

[greatestNothing]

What's the problem? Jailbreak them and put apn in to get mms. 3G and 3GS should be jailbroken on principle alone.

So, an At&t iphone using an At&t sim won't send MMS without a jail break and some 3rd party apps.

When I first bought our iPhone 3g & 3gs I unlocked and used T-Mobile prepaid. By changing the APN they did MMS without a hitch.

I now have them both on At&t prepaid. But since the text plan doesn't include MMS, and the cost of data, I have the APN set so that it won't use data at all.

This is looking worst from my point of view as time goes by.

[jimates]

What's the problem? Jailbreak them and put apn in to get mms. 3G and 3GS should be jailbroken on principle alone.

My phones are jail broke. But I know others that do not want anything done to their phone.

And I think the phone should work fully if it is on the native network. If all the features of my At&t phone will work on t-mobile, in principal I want it to also work on At&t.

[andyhrn]

I'm waiting on this answer myself. I actually got one of the reps to say that it is tmobile 3G so I'm waiting to see if that was a lie.

Galaxy s2 doesn't has 3G.
Here's speed test on T-Mobile prepaid only with one bar signal (-102 dB)

Test Date: Feb 9, 2012 5:24:59 am Connection Type: Hspa Server: Dallas, TX Download: 9184 kbps Upload: 1182 kbps Ping: 68 ms


A detailed image for this result can be found here:

http://www.speedtest.net/android/137753510.png

Ookla operates Speedtest.net

[greatestNothing]

Yeah but it's the iphone, all of it's features didn't work natively for how long without jailbreaking? I understand how some people don't want to jailbreak and possibly mess up their phones but that's their loss.

[greatestNothing]

Is that with the new tmobile compatible sim card? I'd consider that 3G =)

Galaxy s2 doesn't has 3G.
Here's speed test on T-Mobile prepaid only with one bar signal (-102 dB)

Test Date: Feb 9, 2012 5:24:59 am Connection Type: Hspa Server: Dallas, TX Download: 9184 kbps Upload: 1182 kbps Ping: 68 ms


A detailed image for this result can be found here:

http://www.speedtest.net/android/137753510.png

Ookla operates Speedtest.net

[m.thomas]

Yeah but it's the iphone, all of it's features didn't work natively for how long without jailbreaking? I understand how some people don't want to jailbreak and possibly mess up their phones but that's their loss.

I'm trying to think, what bad has ever come from jailbreaking an iPhone? It's just like installing an app really...

[jimates]

I agree. I don't think we would even have the iPhones if they weren't JB. We would probably have switched to Android.

We all have separate GV numbers and use GV exclusively, even at home.

[andyhrn]

Is that with the new tmobile compatible sim card? I'd consider that 3G =)

This is T-mobile prepaid HSPA ( I don't think T-Mobile has 3G and not sure how ST can claim 3G)

3 bars test

Test Date: Feb 9, 2012 6:43:02 am Connection Type: Hspa Server: Dallas, TX Download: 16996 kbps Upload: 1518 kbps Ping: 53 ms

A detailed image for this result can be found here:

http://www.speedtest.net/android/137774727.png

Ookla operates Speedtest.net

I hope ST has this. Otherwise it will be EDGE only (2G)).

[IsLand_BoY]

Galaxy s2 doesn't has 3G.

It supports 2G/3G/"4G" - just because a phone is advertised as "4G" doesn't mean it won't work on 3G. Let's not forget that AT&T and T-Mobile have faux 4G anyway.

[nadroj]

This is T-mobile prepaid HSPA ( I don't think T-Mobile has 3G and not sure how ST can claim 3G) [...]

While we are comparing the speeds of other carriers, below is a link to what I used to get on my Galaxy Nexus on Verizon 4G LTE. I know I'm taking a huge hit in speeds, but I'm also cutting my bill in half

http://www.speedtest.net/android/122889039.png

[codekill]

Stop showing the wrong speed tests your going to confuse people we want st only