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I don't wish to get in a pissing contest, and appreciate your opinion, but when they stop repairing screens for $35.00 in lieu of forcing you to turn a new phone in that needs from "my" research $25.00 in replacement cost parts for a "refurbished" phone and $150.00 deductible seems a bit suspect to me. I truly believe that with any partnership rendered there is always reciprocity by both parties. The fact that they don't tell you that they will not be repairing phones when they have it writing that the phone will be repaired or replaced is deceptive especially when they never intend on repairing phones from the start. The point about fraud and such definitely is a valid point. However; I have not been a fan of insurance because of past deceptions from "Sprint". This is not to bash them but to air disappointment in a fair reasonable expectation as a 15 year customer. I have paid $700.00 for phones in the past and when they failed with in months of use have them replaced with old inferior replacements! The need to make money should not cause them stoop to making money by deception. Sprint does not force you to use insurance but, they promise that the phone will be repaired, or replaced if it can not be repaired. They go on to say that if said phone can not be repaired, nor replaced with a new one an equal stand in would be offered to offset the loss for $11.00 a month. Now to say Sprint has nothing to do with these plans would be ridiculous because they are selling those plans to customers, and it is their partnership. As some one who sold insurance and securities licensed they are "probably" making money form Asurion whether you believe it or not as agent type relationship. As long as I get what's promised I do not care about this as well. Insurance law states for "consideration" "money offered" the insurer promises to make whole the insured in case of loss as per the words clearly expressed in declaration clause. Any ambiguity in said declaration clause in a court of law goes to the insured if subrogation is chosen by a neutral arbiter. As far as techs getting me out of their face, I have a decent amount of technical awareness and I don't cry wolf or look for free hand outs. The Network vision project was causing red circles for days with LOS, and 1- 2 day delayed text, and 3 hours no service that no one could call my phone including a call from a Sprint CS supervisor and the Supervisor tech on a phone told me that I had to go to a tech center to get the phone checked. To me that was a waste of time because the phone worked in most every area besides where I lived. Your sarcasm is unwarranted but you are entitled to your thoughts. Sprint did not come clean about the issue until I got a tech on the phone through complaints that should not have to happen when they new they were having service issues! I am sure you can appreciate where I am coming from with this as well. As a reasonable prudent person I would expect the phone to be able to be repaired or replaced in a fair amount of time like expressed in the declaration contract. However when Sprint decides not to repair a phone in lieu of an Asurion insurance replacement that is their prerogative. But please understand that they can't do this in the middle of the contract that states that they agree to make repairs when they never intended on making repairs. I hope you can appreciate where I am coming from here with this....it is deceptive when a technician at a Corporate store validates this.

Got a good case, but came in after I crack the screen rofl! The phone is sooo slippery with out a case too!

Things change....there must be an over whelming break rate....rofl Don't be so naive to believe that because your transaction went smoothly that all will have the same experience. Personally Id rather have my phone repaired there are no nicks or scrapes in the case what so ever. I am not debating the fact that it happened for you or that it can't happen. I just feel that there should be a viable repair option for those that want it. There was a promise of a 24 hour turn around, and if they had to you would be shipped a new phone or given something comparable to what a customer has....So why noit repair phones to avoid the headache for those that want a repair. Go to a repair shop, and you will find that Sprint has taken the repair option out of the equation for cracked screens now in lieu of Asurion and a 150.00 deductible and exchange which may or may not get you a refurbished phone! My thinking is why take a possible refurb over a repair if my phone looks and works new.

I think it has to be approved for repair for if things back fire you may have a voided warranty. I just wish they gave better options for cases where the phone can be repaired with minor issues rather than try to rake you over the coals for a outer cracked glass! As I have stated before if I could get it repaired I would be happy, but it must be an approved repair shop you the warranty is void!

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Asurion has no phones and I have been on the back order list for a week. Patiently waiting for a phone. I have a cracked outer glass. These can be repaired for 25.00 based on my research. However Sprint is no longer doing phone repairs. They are now also into screwing the customer business. They take a phone like my 1 month old new phone with a cracked screen, and have you send it to them for 150.00 in exchange for a refurbished phone. They then refurbish your cracked screen for pennies, and resell it for 150.00 to the next guy. I prefer my phone to be repaired rather than to get a refurbished phone, because in the past every refurbished phone that I got were "****". They are telling people that you can get a repair for phones, but they are not telling you that cracked screens will not be repaired, because they can make money off of you by repairing you phone for pennies and telling you that you will be provided with a new phone or a comparable phone if yours is not in stock. Well I am still waiting, and when I asked why not repair my cracked screen since I have found parts on Amazon for 25.00 the technician told me they were told that Sprint makes money through Asurion exchanges. Don't for a minute think that digitizers cost lots of money to repair. If it cost less than 100 to build an iPhone new SG III will cost about the same to build okay. Insurance is now the way for business, and carriers to scam us for money after building hype about how much a phone cost to sell, or repair based on profit margins. I don't know about you but when I cracked my EVO I paid 35.00 for screen repair and after I found how cheap it was to repair it I dropped my insurance. I believe that many people were doing just as I have in regards to repairs. Soooo, now they have taken a 25.00 repair and turned it into a 125.00 profit. The last time that I complained about signal reception for my "Photon" they tried to tell me I needed a new phone, when in fact signal was poor due to network vision. It seemed like the techs just wanted to trick me into going to Asurion for a new phone. Go ahead make money but the need to stop being greedy is upon the carriers. I pay 600.00 a year for car insurance that covers thousands of dollars in damages and repair, yet insurance for a 500.00 phone is $120.00 a year. Anybody see where I am going here? $600.00 yearly for $300,000 in coverage vs $120.00 for $549.00 in coverage's and with a loss is $270.00 out of pocket vs $1100.00 out of pocket in a case of accident coverage. I am still waiting for my new phone Sprint/Asurion. What a scam! Yes it may be a better scam than BB, or whom ever but you are still being scammed okay! It was told to me by a technician they were given orders to stop repairing phones for some reason. You can see that they are profiting on the Asurion insurance on cracked screen repairs!

Asurion has no phones and I have been on the back order list for a week. Patiently waiting for a phone. I have a cracked outer glass. These can be repaired for 25.00 based on my research. However Sprint is no longer doing phone repairs. They are now also into screwing the customer business. They take a phone like my 1 month old new phone with a cracked screen, and have you send it to them for 150.00 in exchange for a refurbished phone. They then refurbish your cracked screen for pennies, and resell it for 150.00 to the next guy. I prefer my phone to be repaired rather than to get a refurbished phone, because in the past every refurbished phone that I got were "****". They are telling people that you can get a repair for phones, but they are not telling you that cracked screens will not be repaired, because they can make money off of you by repairing you phone for pennies and telling you that you will be provided with a new phone or a comparable phone if yours is not in stock. Well I am still waiting, and when I asked why not repair my cracked screen since I have found parts on Amazon for 25.00 the technician told me they were told that Sprint makes money through Asurion exchanges. Don't for a minute think that digitizers cost lots of money to repair. If it cost less than 100 to build an iPhone new SG III will cost about the same to build okay. Insurance is now the way for business, and carriers to scam us for money after building hype about how much a phone cost to sell, or repair based on profit margins. I don't know about you but when I cracked my EVO I paid 35.00 for screen repair and after I found how cheap it was to repair it I dropped my insurance. I believe that many people were doing just as I have in regards to repairs. Soooo, now they have taken a 25.00 repair and turned it into a 125.00 profit. The last time that I complained about signal reception for my "Photon" they tried to tell me I needed a new phone, when in fact signal was poor due to network vision. It seemed like the techs just wanted to trick me into going to Asurion for a new phone. Go ahead make money but the need to stop being greedy is upon the carriers. I pay 600.00 a year for car insurance that covers thousands of dollars in damages and repair, yet insurance for a 500.00 phone is $120.00 a year. Anybody see where I am going here? $600.00 yearly for $300,000 in coverage vs $120.00 for $549.00 in coverage's and with a loss is $270.00 out of pocket vs $1100.00 out of pocket in a case of accident coverage. I am still waiting for my new phone Sprint/Asurion. What a scam! Yes it may be a better scam than BB, or whom ever but you are still being scammed okay!

In the Bronx I got proof of 16mbs on Wimax with my Photon! Here in the Bronx and Jamaica I have recieved 1.9mb both both my Photon, and SG III.

In Bronx, and Jamaica I have received 1.9mbs down

They are out of stock of this product......imagine that. If I could just get a replacement screen I'd be happy. The digitizer works the outer screen is cracked. The phone works flawlessly, and I can see clearly in spite of the crack.

Could it be......out of stock back ordered at Asurion?

I broke down and did mine online but it did cost me 150.00. I hope that I get a new phone because I was hoping to just get it repaired since only the outer screen cracked, and it works perfectly.

100 to do it online is a nice price

Parkchester in front of Macy's, and the Throggsneck Bridge near the plaza mall fare pay!

NYC is a large market dude.....buildings blocking signal needs to be set up correctly or signal will be blotchy and spotty if not set up correctly. The map that I have seen shows the coverage going up as far as Poughkeepsie near IBM's HQ. That's awesome.....patients is a virtue. I have received 1.9 mbs on 3g in some areas like Jamaica Queens, and the Bronx.

That was palm swipe not palm wave rofl....worked for me every time!

True dat it does seem gurly man doesn't it. ROFL. I agree I have yet to find the clock or calendar equal to sense!

Damn you nailed that one....I hated Blur on the Photon....rofl...I am not sure which is wores Touch wiz or blur....."blur" it is by a land slide I think!

ROFL.....you may call it bloat but bloat functionality was, and is way better. The EVO LTE is a marvelous phone, and seems more fluid in function to "me". Touch wiz takes getting use to and is not as easy to navigate as Sense is....this seems to be the consensus of most all tech reviews that I have read. Having an EVO, EVO 3D, and playing with the EVO LTE I can really say sense has better functionality IMHO. Antenna signal, a1.9 camera, and 2 gigs of ram is what swayed me....

Sense for the win no question for me! Touch wiz is like having something caught in your teeth...you know it's there but you just can't get at it.

I have them both in use in a really low reception area for my test on a daily basis....my home. Dropped calls are about the same as is reception. My EVO 3D couldn't come close to this so I returned it for the Photon. My og EVO did a good job if it were put next to a window, but the Photon, and SG III get better reception with out being placed on a window sill albeit a weak signal they hold on to signal in a weak area pretty well! I always check them both to check if there is any change in performance......none so far! Where as your suggested way of testing would probably be far superior to my way of testing; my way of functionally testing side by side of both units is good enough for "me"

I did a side by side comparison, and I can say -dbm wise the SGIII wins. The SG III performed on par with my Photon -dbm wise. The SG III gets very good reception so I bought it and have never been more happy. It performs just as my Photon does in weak reception areas. I have my Photon and I would test both phones antenna -dbm signal and they are within 1-2 -dbm's. Nobody can say the SG III has weak antenna or GPS problems. I tested them both and if you are worried about antenna signal don't! pluses: 1.9 mega pixel camera 2 gigs of ram 3 software enhancements like face unlock, phone to face while texting to call person being texted, larger screen