Carrying a spare battery around seems pretty lame to me.
Steve Wozniak carries around a spare Verizon phone because his I4 sucks!
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/07...ne-4-carry-a-second-verizon-phone-for-backup/
Carrying a spare battery around seems pretty lame to me.
Have had my Evo 4g for 2 days, and all I can say is OMG the battery is god awful on these things..... I think it may be a deal breaker for me and a switch to the iPhone 4.
The Samsung Epic which is a Galaxy S Pro phone is coming out on the 20th I believe. Get that. It has the Super AMOLED screen which is great on battery. It also has the front facing camera and a full 5 row keyboard while still being thin. This is making it real difficult for me to stay with my current carrier because I'm very tempted to go to Sprint for this phone.
BTW, it has about 3x the graphics power as the EVO and has a faster processor Hz for Hz.
Sprint like Tmobile is looking to go bankrupt.
I jumped from Tmobile to Sprint after about 13 years. Care to expand on this?
It's on the list of 10 big companies veering toward bankruptcy. It's going to need some kind of financial help. But someone is going to scoop up and provide service to their customers.
White92 said:I jumped from Tmobile to Sprint after about 13 years.
The phone will dial an AZ area code number and forward to the number you dial. Therefore, just add the AZ area code number to your favorite list (A-List on AT&T) and all your outgoing calls are free.
can you make phone calls via wifi on google voice?
Disregard the free incoming calls using Google voice - for some reason, sometimes my Google voice number shows up on the bill and sometimes it shows the true caller's number (therefore, charging me daytime minutes). Trying to figure out how and why now.
Will update when I figure out!
However, outgoing calls does work with Google Voice and Google Voice app (the number it dials out to is: 602-633-4000 for me, not positive if it is universal to all user)
I currently have T-mobile and I'm off a contract now. I'm afraid to hop on to another carrier because I don't want to commit to them for 2 years with T-mobile on the up-rise (network wise). In the last 2 years in being with T-mobile, their service has vastly improved. Plus, their customer service is great along with the cheapest plans! ($89.99 for Unlimited talk/text/3G)
I would even go to say, at least in my area, they have better coverage than AT&T and faster 3G speeds (Although the 3G speeds may actually be the HSPA network rolling out - I jumped from averaging 700kbps a few weeks ago to ranging in between 1400 - 2800kbps now ... tested this over the last week everyday). Only time a call ever drops when I'm anywhere in my city has been when speaking to either Metro PCS or AT&T customers (namely iPhone users with AT&T - go figure!).
CNET informal testing of data network speed in NYC:
http://cnettv.cnet.com/testing-cell...42-1_53-50090183.html?tag=smallCarouselArea.0
I guess the point of my rambling is that I can't fathom T-mobile falling off in the next couple year because of the momentum they're carrying with the network upgrades. They were the last to implement 3G and quickly becoming the first to fully roll out their next gen (call it 3.5G, 3.95G, or whatever).
This leaves me to my dilemma. AT&T is out of the picture for me because of the experience my sister and friends all have with it. Verizon is great, but Verizon, like AT&T, is pretty pricey (I use 3000 minutes a month). So Sprint against T-mobile is what I'm faced with. From what I've heard, Sprint's service recently is pretty comparable to Verizon's while being pretty cheap.
Basically: Vibrant on T-mobile vs Epic on Sprint. I'm loving the Epic over the Vibrant, but not liking the extra 20 bucks per month (have to pay 10 bucks extra for 4G even though it's not available in my area yet) plus contract.
Please share your experience with the carrier change, thanks :smile:
I've setup my incoming calls to display my google voice number for now. It will defeat caller ID unfortunately. But I can verify that it does work for free calls as it shows on my bill that it's an A-List number with AT&T.
Making calls using the Google voice app for me dials a 916 Sacramento number.
You can download a call-back app:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.xinlu.gvdial [free]
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.xinlu.gvdial_donate# [donate]
"an app that will use Google Voice to call you back and connect you, making the call free"
I'm using those, too. It's definitely possible to eliminate minutes usage with an A-List/Fav 5 plan but there are drawbacks.
One drawback I recently discovered was with bluetooth dialing from my stereo. The phone is prompting me to select call back and Google voice. Haven't had a lot of time to look into it but I imagine setting it to do it by default would fix it.
I bought the Seido 3500mAh extended battery and I LOVE it. No worries at all about turning off features or how much battery I have left. I can go two full days of heavy usage before I am down to 30% now. Yes, it makes it thicker, but it fits in my hand perfectly and I carry it in my pocket. The extra width is well worth the amount of battery you get out of this thing.
I've been looking for swype but it doesn't seem to be available for the evo.
My iPhone 4 typically lasts a day and a half on a full charge. And that is with the screen at near full brightness and a lot of use.
Carrying a spare battery around seems pretty lame to me. And I do appreciate the solid design and compact size that would be compromised by a removable battery.