OT : Nextel VS T-Mobile

[Mojo Jojo]

My plan is almost up currently have T-mobile. Thought maybe some of you can share some experiences. Looking into Nextel for the chirp. My plan will remain the same for all 4 lines. Nextel will bump me up an extra $60. No activation fees or any of that nonsense, and I get hooked up with some sweet phones.

 

[TOURKID]

I just left nextel after 5 years. service is fantastic just about anywhere. My biggest issue was this -

If you want to change your plan or upgrade your phone, or if u lose your phone.. you have to sign a new 2 yr aggreement (or 3 if you want the phone cheaper) It really made me angry

 

[ghostman]

T-mobile makes you sign an extension to your contract for a discounted new phone as well. I have T-mobile, and I have problems with coverage and dropped calls in this area. My coverage in other areas of the country are better than Chicago so I stick with them. I used to have Nextel, but no one else did, barely used the walkie-talkie feature.I am slightly impressed with the new iPhone though.

 

[TOURKID]

yep i signed up with cingular just to test theyre service b4 getting the iphone, it worked at my moms. my nextel never did.

 

[Kmiec123]

If you don't need the two-way for work...I would stay away from Nextel.

 

[Wrassemeister]

t-mobile has a great plan out now till june 30.. Its 1000 min free nights and weekends for 40 bux,,, you cant beat that.

 

[Helter Skilter]

Go Verizon. You get that mob of people that follow you around everywhere. It's all about the network.

 

[craftytony]

I agree GO VERIZON!

 

[adamjr]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10215019#post10215019 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Greedo
Go Verizon. You get that mob of people that follow you around everywhere. It's all about the network.

Yeah, behind you like if you dropped the soap in the prison shower.

My employer switched us over from nextel over to a blackberry on Verizon. Seriously messed up. Great when it works. Yeah, WHEN it works.

Adam

 

[chitowner]

I LIKE NEXTEL BEEN THERE 3YRS
i never sign an extention when i changed my plan
service sucks in my shop but other then that no issues now my phone is a different subject

 

[yankeereefer]

I had Tmobile when I moved t IL from down South (TN) - Tmobile sux! small coverage area, dropped calls and poor cust. service.

I have Nextel via work and cingular for personal use - Both are very good (except cingular cust svc kinda bites if/when you have to call them)

my $.02

 

[mhurley]

My gripe with Verizon (and I've been a customer for 4 years now), is they have a bad habit of paralyzing their devices.

For example, my previous VX8100 phone had a built in MP3 player...even controls on the front of the phone for it.
Verizon disabled it via software.

My current Blackberry, 8703e is no better. This thing has a GPS chip in it. This exact same phone with Sprint or AT&T would allow me to get turn by turn directions in the phone.
Verizon disables the GPS chip except for 911 calls.

I can't use my BB as a modem..unless I buy a tether cord and pay and extra service fee per month. Here's some irony....I purchase an unlimited data usage plan. Oh but if I want to use it as a modem (pronounced "data"), that doesn't count and I have to pay them more. And the stupid tether cord?? My previous phone (that LG) I was able to hack into it and use it as a modem via Bluetooth. But this state of the art Blackberry...nope.

So again....They do have great coverage...I still drop calls. But for me...I plan on pulling up stakes when I can and going to either AT&T or Sprint. With Sprint, you get a truly enabled device.

Heck...if the darn iPhone supported Blackberry corporate email, I'd pay the early termination fee and be one of the idiots standing in line right now for it.

 

[Dberg79]

I would stay away from the iPhone you cannot change the batteries in it for one thing. Hence in less then a year when the battery takes a crap you get to buy a new phone not just a battery.

 

[mhurley]

Dberg,

The same can be said for the iPod.

True, it's a PITA...But within a week of the iPhone's release, they'll be instructions for replacement and battery resellers on the web....just like for iPods.

If one is not comfortable doing that...you take it into the Apple store or mail it in and they change the battery for you. You don't have to buy a whole new phone. That would be highway robbery.

 

[mhurley]

Oh and since this is OT....I'll go farther OT.

The U.S. is soooo pathetically far behind is cell phone technology it is embarrassing. The phones and services that exist overseas are just mind blowing. In Japan, you can walk up to a Coke machine and type in a code on your phone and get a soda out of it and it bills to your phone. In most of Europe, you can move country to country with your phone and surprise....it works!
Us? We have to call and find out if there's coverage, what are the rates, do I have to rent a special phone (because so few of ours are GSM...etc)?

I have many co-workers and friends overseas and they just laugh at us.

 

[Dberg79]

I would be happy if my phone worked house to house.

 

[mhurley]

:lol:

 

[craftytony]

don't go sprint...ahhhH!!!!! i tried them a couple times...they have the WORST customer service...IMO

 

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

Not to mention that 99% of the people around you in public settings will want to choke you out because of that damn noise nextel two-way makes. How obnoxiously rude!

 

[craftytony]

yeah, i had a nextel work phone for a couple years and it was SOOO annoying. Not to mention the service sucked....
I have heard good things about these guys...
Verizon
T-mobil
Cingular/At&T (although i hear their edge network really sux)

Nothing but complaints from my friends/family with other service providers....

Early reviews on the iphone are saying the keyboard is flakey, you have to push kind of hard on the screen, and using two thumbs to type is very difficult...and as usual.....fingerprint magnet!
still an awesome phone IMO though....