Ffryguy29

I know people are celebrating in Madison, but is this is as good as we are going to get? The coverage on the isthmus is still terrible, which is a shame since that's where most people are...

This was walking to my car outside UW hospital. Look at those speeds!

These were from today. The first was on my way to parking lot outside UW Hospital. The second was at West Towne Mall. The third was in Middleton Hills. Looks like Madison is online.

This was on my walk to the parking lot after work outside UW hospital.

This is the speed test from Camp Randall during the game. The LTE was spotty and in and out. I would have expected higher speeds, but I imagine it was slow due to the number of people at the stadium.

I'm at Camp Randall at the game and have LTE. Actually functional. It goes in and out, but it's a lot more than I thought I would get.

Can some explain to a novice, what all these screenshots mean and why everyone is so excited? I see a bunch with no LTE listed. What am I missing?

After thinking about it, I don't want to leave iOS. I don't want to give up iMessage. I've got a 32GB black version being delivered on Monday and a SIM coming on Tuesday. I'd be willing to part with them at my cost to a forum member if anyone is interested. If this is not an appropriate post, please delete, mods.

I'm sorry if this sounds stupid, but I'm going to buy a new ipad, and I'm trying to figure out which carrier to buy it on. I live in Middleton. If I check out Sensorly, it shows LTE coverage where I live, but I don't have a 4G phone to verify it. Is there actually 4G service active in some places. I know Madison is not an official market, but I can't tell from these posts if there is functioning LTE anywhere in the area. On another note. Which ipad should I get. Sprint has the best data price at 2GB for 15 bucks, but....

I ordered one from the chat session. They said it will arrive Tuesday. I'm tempted to try and get a SIM for t mobile as well and compare services...

How do you know if a store is a corporate store vs another type?

1:19 pm CDT, but I got the 32 GB black, which I think was the least popular. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Mine was listed as a Nov 5th ship... Sorry...

I don't carry a lot of music, but one of the big benefits of a smartphone is the camera. I like keeping my pictures on there and I reference them frequently. Photos share taking up more space and apps are getting bigger. And the cloud requires an always reliable data connection, which since you are on sprint, I know you don't have. I realize my preferences don't match everyone's, but I'm not a power user at all and I always bump up memory, I'd rather have it now and not wish I did when I'm constantly deleting stuff in a year.

And it appears person doesn't even have a guaranteed order. I've been having second thoughts about leaving the iOS world. I've got one of these that's already listed as shipped. Maybe I should throw that on ebay when it arrives. I was going to try it out and sell it if I don't want it, but at these prices, maybe I should sell it sealed...

I just know it will be bigger than it is now. I don't necessarily need it to be 5 inches. But I've never had a phone that big, so I'm excited to try it out.

It is easily worth 200 dollars to me to not be on contract with Sprint. I have no desire to be locked with them for two more years, but need an LTE phone to actually see what the service is like. Since this cost almost the same as the iphone I would have bought on contract. This is a no brainer. I can try out the service and phone for an extended period and if I am unhappy, I can 1) sell the phone and move to another carrier 2) keep the phone and move to another carrier 3) sell the phone in 10 months when the iphone 6 comes out which will almost certainly be big screen and triband 4)keep the phone and get an iphone 5s with upgrade and sell it at a significant profit. 5) keep the phone and stay on Sprint It's worth it to me to have that flexibility. I understand it isn't to everyone, but it is to me.

Under this scenario, you should never pay it off until you have to, which if you upgrade every year will be never. . Especially since once you do, you go to a higher rate. This plan would make a marginal amount if sense, but the discount that goes away makes no sense at all from any perspective other than Sprint's. Which is why I am so reluctant to sign up for it.

I thought the question was if Sprint would allow it on their network if bought unlocked through the google play store.

I'm not sure why it's hilarious. I know we tiptoe around it here, but Sprints service up until now has been subpar. You make it seem like his opinion is unfounded. I wouldn't be here if I didn't expect (hope) it will improve, but come on now, for most I the recent past, this guy has been right.

This is yet another reason to not do one up. For the next week, Best Buy will take your old smartphone and give you 100 bucks to use for the new iphone. According to the fine print, they will take any working smartphone. If I had an iphone, no way, but all I have to do is dust off the Palm Pre and HTC Evo (Wimax Version) and get two 5s's for 200 bucks. Then I can sell the 4s's we have. Maybe I'm crazy, but i feel like it's a better deal. http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/10/best-buy-preparing-100-trade-in-promotion-for-iphone-5s-iphone-5c

When I spoke to the rep. He told me I couldn't keep my discount for the one up. He also told me I had to change both lines to one up. So I'm comparing one up without discount to my current plan with one. We would get iPhones, but I didn't say we would get $350 for hers, just mine. My total bill for two lines is 145 including taxes. Under one up, my bill is 80 x 2, plus 12x 2 = 174 before taxes. If the rep is wrong, then all bets are off, but even getting 150-200 for my wife's, I think I'm better off standing pat. Am I wrong?

So I went to the sprint store to have them explain the plan to me compared to what I have now. I have 2 lines and a discount through work. The one up plan would cost me 25-30 more bucks a month than what I'm paying now. One of the disadvantages is that my wife has to upgrade her line as well, even though she doesn't care about the early upgrade. So my math is this: I pay 400 bucks for 2 phones. This means after a year I've roughly broken even (30 dollars savings on my current plan x 12 months). If I choose to upgrade myself, I can sell my phone for 350 and buy a new phone for 650. So then over the next year I've broken even again. After the end of both two years I can sell my phone and my wife's and then get another 2 phones at the subsidized price, so at that point I am ahead. Is my math wrong. The only advantages I see are not having to sell on ebay/Craigslist. Which I don't really care about. Not having a contract is advantageous, but if I leave under one up, I have to pay off the phone, which is the equivalent to an ETF. Is my math wrong, or am I right?

Unlimited international plans. If I traveled outside of the US more than 3-4 times per year, this would be very compelling. I think this will make more businesses opt for T-mobile. I hope this will force other carriers to have more reasonable international rates.

I would agree with you except for one thing. Photos. I like having pictures on my phone and I take a lot of pictures. I don't want my pictures only in the cloud, I want them on the phone. With bigger file sizes on pictures more storage space is necessary, at least for me.