http://www.cellularsouth.com/DiscoverCenter/phones-apps/android/
So, basically, HTC Hero for $99.00, plus unlimited service for $80.00/month. Good deal, or not?
Quote from: Scipio on October 21, 2009, 12:34:36 PM
http://www.cellularsouth.com/DiscoverCenter/phones-apps/android/
So, basically, HTC Hero for $99.00, plus unlimited service for $80.00/month. Good deal, or not?
Point of reference: Paid 170 EUR for the Hero, but have 50 EUR/month for 2000 free minutes, 2000 free SMS, plus 3 gigs of data transfer. T-Mobile Austria (only guys having HTC Hero here). Contained data transfer/free minutes is huge for me.
Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. HTC makes some slick phones from what I've seen, and you can't go wrong with unlimited everything.
I like that service plan. I wonder if they will have anything similar up here.
Do it. I bought my Hero from Sprint late last week & am loving it. I take it Cellular South uses Verizon for data roaming?
I don't pay for my phone.
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 02:34:18 PM
Do it. I bought my Hero from Sprint late last week & am loving it. I take it Cellular South uses Verizon for data roaming?
How does it compare to an iPhone?
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 02:34:18 PM
Do it. I bought my Hero from Sprint late last week & am loving it. I take it Cellular South uses Verizon for data roaming?
Yep.
Quote from: Berkut on October 21, 2009, 02:36:20 PM
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 02:34:18 PM
Do it. I bought my Hero from Sprint late last week & am loving it. I take it Cellular South uses Verizon for data roaming?
How does it compare to an iPhone?
More compact, and using the Android open source OS. I use mine mostly for surfing while on the subway/sending emails, and I got me a gadget for weather reports. Also, the Google maps integration is very useful for me, someone who often gets a bit lost when in unknown parts of town (though I guess iPhone has that, too). And I can play NES games on it. still have to try the old Lucasarts point&click adventures.
Quote from: Scipio on October 21, 2009, 02:37:50 PM
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 02:34:18 PM
Do it. I bought my Hero from Sprint late last week & am loving it. I take it Cellular South uses Verizon for data roaming?
Yep.
Cool, so you have their ginormous network to play with when traveling.
Anyway, re: the phone itself-- the Android OS is excellent and the stuff HTC adds over top of it makes it even better. It generally runs very fast (and can multi-task unlike certain fruit-branded phones), but can slow down just a little if you have a lot running.
The Android marketplace has a good selection of apps that should become even better as the user base grows. The barcode scanner app will make you tear apart your office or home looking for stuff to scan. The Facebook app is solid & naturally Google apps are well-integrated with the phone.
You can put some apps on your 'desktop' as widgets, and flick left or right to scroll between them, sort of like how the Palm Pre's WebOS interface works.
Only things I don't like about my phone are the $(*@ing Sprint Nascar app I can't get rid of, and the voice dialer requires a little patience.
I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of what the phone can do, but then again I've only had it 6 days :P
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 03:48:16 PM
It generally runs very fast (and can multi-task unlike certain fruit-branded phones), but can slow down just a little if you have a lot running.
I can search the web while talking to someone, or play games while listening to my ipod part of phone, what kind of multi tasking do you want?
:P
Quote from: katmai on October 21, 2009, 03:52:47 PM
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 03:48:16 PM
It generally runs very fast (and can multi-task unlike certain fruit-branded phones), but can slow down just a little if you have a lot running.
I can search the web while talking to someone, or play games while listening to my ipod part of phone, what kind of multi tasking do you want?
:P
About 7 widgets running simultaneously while I do the stuff you mentioned :P
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 03:48:16 PM
Quote from: Scipio on October 21, 2009, 02:37:50 PM
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 02:34:18 PM
Do it. I bought my Hero from Sprint late last week & am loving it. I take it Cellular South uses Verizon for data roaming?
Yep.
Cool, so you have their ginormous network to play with when traveling.
Anyway, re: the phone itself-- the Android OS is excellent and the stuff HTC adds over top of it makes it even better. It generally runs very fast (and can multi-task unlike certain fruit-branded phones), but can slow down just a little if you have a lot running.
The Android marketplace has a good selection of apps that should become even better as the user base grows. The barcode scanner app will make you tear apart your office or home looking for stuff to scan. The Facebook app is solid & naturally Google apps are well-integrated with the phone.
You can put some apps on your 'desktop' as widgets, and flick left or right to scroll between them, sort of like how the Palm Pre's WebOS interface works.
Only things I don't like about my phone are the $(*@ing Sprint Nascar app I can't get rid of, and the voice dialer requires a little patience.
I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of what the phone can do, but then again I've only had it 6 days :P
Sounds fucking great.
Not sure if you've done anything on this, Scippy, but FWIW I installed the Android version of PdaNet on my (XP) work laptop & got it working with my phone. I have about a week & a half worth of business travel coming up so I want to be prepared for having to wait hours for flights and spotty wifi in hotels.
Anyway, I ran a speed test & am getting about 1.8Mbps downloads & 440kbps upload. Pretty close to what I got thru my older WinMo phone, but webpages definitely seemed to load faster. Not too shabby for using a phone as a modem.
This was on Sprint's Rev A EVDO here in Cincinnati. Verizon may be faster.
My cell phone plan costs zero dollars per month. I only have to pay for calls I make, at 0.03 per minute. Receiving calls and keeping my cell phone active is free. Cell phone plans in the US are seriously overpriced. I haven't put any money in to my cell phone since July.
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on October 28, 2009, 12:58:21 PM
My cell phone plan costs zero dollars per month. I only have to pay for calls I make, at 0.03 per minute. Receiving calls and keeping my cell phone active is free. Cell phone plans in the US are seriously overpriced. I haven't put any money in to my cell phone since July.
Nice. How much does data cost?
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on October 28, 2009, 01:39:09 PM
Nice. How much does data cost?
I think you have to use a bike messenger for that :P
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on October 28, 2009, 01:39:09 PM
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on October 28, 2009, 12:58:21 PM
My cell phone plan costs zero dollars per month. I only have to pay for calls I make, at 0.03 per minute. Receiving calls and keeping my cell phone active is free. Cell phone plans in the US are seriously overpriced. I haven't put any money in to my cell phone since July.
Nice. How much does data cost?
I can get unlimited data for 800 baht per month, which is about $20. It's edge though, they don't have 3G here yet. I used to use my cell phone as my internet connection, and used around 5 gigs per months
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on October 28, 2009, 01:48:21 PM
I can get unlimited data for 800 baht per month, which is about $20. It's edge though, they don't have 3G here yet. I used to use my cell phone as my internet connection, and used around 5 gigs per months
Edge kinda sucks, but $20 for unlimited data is pretty awesome no matter how fast or slow.
Edit: No wait...mines only $30 a month for unlimited 3G. Nevermind. Not so good. I was forgetting we had two phones on this account. :blush:
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on October 28, 2009, 02:13:57 PM
$20 for unlimited data is pretty awesome no matter how fast or slow.
Earthlink would like to sell you dialup, then: http://www.earthlink.net/access/dialup.faces?CampaignID=DialUpGoogleSEM&KeyID=DialupGeneral:dial_up_service&gclid=CJ27zba34J0CFeFM5Qodk1QHNA
Quote from: ulmont on October 28, 2009, 02:16:43 PM
Earthlink would like to sell you dialup, then: http://www.earthlink.net/access/dialup.faces?CampaignID=DialUpGoogleSEM&KeyID=DialupGeneral:dial_up_service&gclid=CJ27zba34J0CFeFM5Qodk1QHNA
:huh: That doesn't work with my cell phone. The cord would be way too long whenever I went anywhere outside, and I'd have to have the window down and some sort of spool for driving. What if it were to rain?
Edit: I didn't know Earthlink was still around though, so there's that. The dude in the DSL section is excited about his internet service.