Again, a little further off topic. What carriers do you guys use? My contract isn't up for a while, but I'm with Telus and I have a flip phone without a simcard and obviously no data plan. I'm thinking of buying out my contract and switching. I'd probably be using the internet a lot on the phone, so which data plan is the best? I'd like unlimited because I worry about getting dinged for going over my limit, but I heard that MTS has hidden fees and that Rogers sucks with their billing etc. I'm also looking to get a samsung when I switch. There are so many varieties. Don't know which one to chose. Any help or advise would be appreciated. I'm familiar with the iPhone set up because I have the iPod touch 4th gen, but the samsungs look so much nicer and I've heard nothing but great things when compared to the iPhone.
Hi all,
Anyone able to get streams on an ipad? I'm not an ipad user but my tech-disabled father has had no luck and trying to talk him through it by phone has been a treat.
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Again, a little further off topic. What carriers do you guys use? My contract isn't up for a while, but I'm with Telus and I have a flip phone without a simcard and obviously no data plan. I'm thinking of buying out my contract and switching. I'd probably be using the internet a lot on the phone, so which data plan is the best? I'd like unlimited because I worry about getting dinged for going over my limit, but I heard that MTS has hidden fees and that Rogers sucks with their billing etc. I'm also looking to get a samsung when I switch. There are so many varieties. Don't know which one to chose. Any help or advise would be appreciated. I'm familiar with the iPhone set up because I have the iPod touch 4th gen, but the samsungs look so much nicer and I've heard nothing but great things when compared to the iPhone.
The only "hidden fee" i can think of is the $3.50 network fee which is on every plan.
Since this thread has digressed into a smartphone faq thread ill just add my two cents on it.
Android is the superioir of all the smartphones.
So many great features. To list them all would take a while.
My favorite app of all though is the autoproxy which allows me to run all my apps through a specific port and proxy. So for example i could pay ten dollars a month for the unlimited "browsing" feature offered by speakout and then have all my apps work with their plan.
Free texting app that works through my "browsing" plan is slick as well. There is something very satisfying about 10 dollars a month for unlimited data and texting.
I can regularly go through 30gb of data on my android in a month using netflix on my coffee breaks.
No blackberry or iphone users can do that for ten bucks a month
Again, a little further off topic. What carriers do you guys use? My contract isn't up for a while, but I'm with Telus and I have a flip phone without a simcard and obviously no data plan. I'm thinking of buying out my contract and switching. I'd probably be using the internet a lot on the phone, so which data plan is the best? I'd like unlimited because I worry about getting dinged for going over my limit, but I heard that MTS has hidden fees and that Rogers sucks with their billing etc. I'm also looking to get a samsung when I switch. There are so many varieties. Don't know which one to chose. Any help or advise would be appreciated. I'm familiar with the iPhone set up because I have the iPod touch 4th gen, but the samsungs look so much nicer and I've heard nothing but great things when compared to the iPhone.
If you are a heavy Itunes purchaser/user/listener than I'd simply go with Iphone to make life simple and avoid carrying two devices around and/or having to muck around with syncing.
If you are planning on getting an Ipad someday, I'd also probably think you'd want an Iphone to access the universal apps/music/software you already have, and for icloud, etc.
If you are a gamer at all, IOS is easily the best platform out there for games.
If none of that really matters and you are more of a 'tweaker' and want something more open, then you might want to look at some Androids. The fragmentation is bothersome but there are some great phones out there. Honestly though, some friends talk about how great it is to have an 'open' phone, like they are going to hack around and install FreeBSD on it or something, when in reality for the most part they just shuffle the appearance around a bit and use it like an Iphone or a BB.
Oh I'd also say, forget about the Windows phones. I like the look of the OS but it's not really taking off or garnering much support, and the choice of phones is pretty limited. Fringe product.
BB is a dying platform. Hardware just can't stack up to the modern smartphones, a relative lack of apps, and third-party support. If you can't live without buttons though, I guess you could go with it. But I think you'd probably rather have something that ends up being your portable entertainment system, providing movies, music, still camera, video camera, games, gps + mapping + compass, e-reader, internet browser, intelligent voice-controlled assistant, calculator, radio, stock watcher, sports ticker, dictionary, language translator, weather forecaster, flashlight, TV remote, Facebook/Twitterer, and plus whatever else 600,000 or so apps on the Appstore can provide, and with a super-responsive touchscreen and accelerometer inside. (to be fair newer Androids can do all of this too and the number of apps is similar). Oh yeah and it also makes phone calls..normal or video.
The world is amazing nowdays, to think you can hold all of this in the palm of your hand for like $150 bucks (on contract). I imagine that if a device that could do everything I listed existed 10 years ago, it would cost thousands of dollars. Smartphones rock.
Android is the future it will be the dominant force os in another 10 years. Likely surpassing windows.
A good android phone will replace a a home pc. Just use hdmi output to your monitor and connect a mouse and keyboard now you have a full fledged pc for home use and extreme portability on the fly. Seriouy anyone who is considering purchasing a new smartphone and does not want an android is probably ignorant to the capabilitys and processing power of the newest android smartphones.
Again, a little further off topic. What carriers do you guys use? My contract isn't up for a while, but I'm with Telus and I have a flip phone without a simcard and obviously no data plan. I'm thinking of buying out my contract and switching. I'd probably be using the internet a lot on the phone, so which data plan is the best? I'd like unlimited because I worry about getting dinged for going over my limit, but I heard that MTS has hidden fees and that Rogers sucks with their billing etc. I'm also looking to get a samsung when I switch. There are so many varieties. Don't know which one to chose. Any help or advise would be appreciated. I'm familiar with the iPhone set up because I have the iPod touch 4th gen, but the samsungs look so much nicer and I've heard nothing but great things when compared to the iPhone.
Until yesterday, I had been with Telus for almost 10 years.
I lost my phone on vacation in BC last week, and when I went to get a replacement, they told me NONE of their new phones work outside Winnipeg. Having field work and a cabin in the summer, this wouldn't do.
I ate the contract... it was pricey, but I moved to Rogers and picked up the S2 Galaxy... Android phone. 24 hours in, and I love the thing.
Android is the future it will be the dominant force os in another 10 years. Likely surpassing windows.
A good android phone will replace a a home pc. Just use hdmi output to your monitor and connect a mouse and keyboard now you have a full fledged pc for home use and extreme portability on the fly. Seriouy anyone who is considering purchasing a new smartphone and does not want an android is probably ignorant to the capabilitys and processing power of the newest android smartphones.
Full-fledged...I'd say that's overstating a bit. I mean you're not going to be running 3ds Max, or playing PC versions of Call of Duty, or playing Blu-Rays from disk or anything. And if your office uses Windows-based productivity software, when you bring/send your work projects home, you probably just want to own a PC for that, for less of a hassle. I suppose a lot of things you could get going with some work and fiddling, but PC's are dirt cheap so IMHO...not worth it.
As for what's going to happen in 10 years? Don't worry about it. Don't buy a phone based on how the platform will be doing in 10 years because frankly we probably won't have the same phone even 2 years from now. Just look at a device and see if it will meet your needs for the next couple years.
Full-fledged...I'd say that's overstating a bit. I mean you're not going to be running 3ds Max, or playing PC versions of Call of Duty, or playing Blu-Rays from disk or anything. And if your office uses Windows-based productivity software, when you bring/send your work projects home, you probably just want to own a PC for that, for less of a hassle. I suppose a lot of things you could get going with some work and fiddling, but PC's are dirt cheap so IMHO...not worth it.
As for what's going to happen in 10 years? Don't worry about it. Don't buy a phone based on how the platform will be doing in 10 years because frankly we probably won't have the same phone even 2 years from now. Just look at a device and see if it will meet your needs for the next couple years.
I can play hd videos on my android just fine. I can also run games like batman arkham ciy just cause 2 through cloud gaming apps like onlive. As far as a blu ray player if i attach an external blu ray drive via usb to my android i could play blu rays just fine. Obviously you will have new phones but android as a os will be around. Windows based system will still remain but your average user wont need anything other than their smartphone
I'm not too techy about my phones, but I have to chime in to say that since I'm out at my cottage quite a lot, MTS unlimited data with unlimited tethering together with the iphone 4s hotspot, is pretty convenient. I go through a ton of data considering I have two kids that run wireless laptops off of the hotspot all weekend
I happen to love the Apple interfaces, but understand the appeal of the Android phones as well.
I can play hd videos on my android just fine. I can also run games like batman arkham ciy just cause 2 through cloud gaming apps like onlive. As far as a blu ray player if i attach an external blu ray drive via usb to my android i could play blu rays just fine. Obviously you will have new phones but android as a os will be around. Windows based system will still remain but your average user wont need anything other than their smartphone
Yep, but my point is that it can be a PITA. I mean you need to subscribe to Onlive and commit to cloud gaming, buy an external blu-ray drive, possibly other external storage drives, monitor, USB hubs, keyboards, mice, whatever, and then do a bunch of fiddling to try to get your office apps running on it, etc...and in the meantime your phone is tied up while you're using it in this manner.
That's great, but I'd be more inclined to just drop a few hundred and buy a PC or notebook for the time being already. As I said PC's are dirty cheap nowadays.
I wasn't meaning to get into a system argument vs Android (I was actually going to pick up a Transformer Prime), I just think implying that users should immediately replace their PC's with their smartphones is a tad premature. Assuming if you use your PC for more than just emails and web browsing. I use mine for work.
Though probably inevitable. Can't wait for the out-of-your-wrist holographic Omni-Tools ala Mass Effect.
My biggest gripe with BB is that the NHL abandoned making the gamecenter app for it. Wished I would of known that was their plan when I got one a year ago.
