Need a new phone

[Bouncer]

I thought you were new to sprint so won't you have an early termination fee?

That's if you are under some sort of contract. I brought my Nexus 5 to them. That's the benefit of a Nexus phone.

But even if they were to try and charge some sort of early termination fee. I simply wouldn't pay it. Fuck them. They never did me any favors.

[chuckz28]

I thought you were new to sprint so won't you have an early termination fee?

[Bouncer]

I got it scrum. I just went with the 1GB data package to keep it low as possible. Why sign up for anything higher if there is no overage charges? lol. If you go over your just charged for what you use so I don't see why I would sign up for anything more.

Me and my girl are currently on sprint and the total per month comes out to just over $100 per month for service and that is using a friends employee discount. If we were to both use Fi instead our total monthly bill would be $60 bucks. That's $40 per month cheaper than what we pay with sprint. That comes out to a savings of $480 per year using Fi over sprint. That's nut. She's an iphone user but her phone is getting old and she's agreed to switch over to android for this deal.

I can see absolutely no benefit of keeping sprint over Fi. Fi even allows unlimited tethering, something that sprint charges an additional $15 fee for.

Fuck the cell phone companies scrum.. we are team Fi! :D

P.S. Unlike your free Oregon Tax, I got charged $16 for California Tax on the order. Bah.. The price you pay for sunshine I guess.. blah.

P.P.S. I had to pry open my Nexus 5 this morning and unplug and replug the battery to stop the phone from it's restart loop that it was stuck in. Lets hope the new Nexus is better quality. I only got the Nexus 5 2 years ago and it's already dieing. The HTC One X was made of better materials for sure, that thing never put a foot wrong.

[Scrumhalf]

Just a FYI. Amazon has the Nexus 6P for special 6 month financing and it's $549, if you have an amazon credit line. Tempted to pull the trigger and buy it tonight lol

That's way too much for a damn phone for me.

[Scrumhalf]

That's the thing. There's WiFi all over the place these days. At home, at work, in the gym, in malls and shopping centers and restaurants.

[Bouncer]

You just pay the extra. For example, if you sign up for 2GB and you use 2.15GB, then you are charged an extra $1.50. Pretty simple.

Details here:

https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6201695?hl=en

Perfect, just looked at how much data I used last month and 75% of the data used is YouTube shit I watch on the treadmill at the gym. I can easily cut that out. I should be able to easily fit within the 2gb plan.



Now that I think about it, my gym has wifi that I never used. I'll just sign into that for YouTube on treadmill. Lol

[dna9488]

Just a FYI. Amazon has the Nexus 6P for special 6 month financing and it's $549, if you have an amazon credit line. Tempted to pull the trigger and buy it tonight lol

[Scrumhalf]

You just pay the extra. For example, if you sign up for 2GB and you use 2.15GB, then you are charged an extra $1.50. Pretty simple.

Details here:

https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6201695?hl=en

[Bouncer]

Scrum what happens if you go over on data. Do they charge you fees or what? Which data package are you going with?

My original nexus 5 is now turning itself on and off about 15 times per day. When it's not doing that it is turning the camera on and off. I really don't have much of a choice at this point, gonna need to jump on this deal.

[Scrumhalf]

Absolutely, I think you're golden.

[Bouncer]

It is LTE, but the LTE coverage of Sprint/TMo is less than AT&T and Verizon, so there is a greater chance that as you go to the outskirts of town of on some smaller highways, the phone may fall back to 3G.

If you currently get LTE everywhere with Sprint, then you'll be fine.

Ok, cool, yea it's LTE everywhere around NorCal that I've been. If anything I should have even better coverage cause it uses both sprint and tmobile right?

[Scrumhalf]

Wait, is Fi not 4g lte? That's what I currently have with sprint. Why would it be different with Fi?

It is LTE, but the LTE coverage of Sprint/TMo is less than AT&T and Verizon, so there is a greater chance that as you go to the outskirts of town of on some smaller highways, the phone may fall back to 3G.

If you currently get LTE everywhere with Sprint, then you'll be fine.

[Bouncer]

Wait, is Fi not 4g lte? That's what I currently have with sprint. Why would it be different with Fi?

[dna9488]

Too expensive for me. They want over $400 for it. And it is also really big. The 5X is about the same size as my Moto X 2nd Gen, which is just perfect as a phone IMO. The bigger size may be great for watching video, etc. but it is just too unwieldy for me in terms of using as a phone or sticking it in my pant pocket.

Taxes and fees were similar to other companies if I remember. Just google Fi service and search. Lots of people have posted their monthly invoices. I think most of the fees are mandated by the govt for covering 911 costs, etc., so they are going to be pretty similar from one company to the other.

It really is expensive, however I'm not worried about how big it is. I have the Galaxy Note Edge and it's a good size phone.

Thanks Scrum, I'm sure it's an extra $8-$10 extra for that. I'll Google it and view my current AT&T bill to compare.

I think Google Fi for my father is perfect. He's 67, retired, stays at home all day, and walks 3 miles a day. He has WiFi and just needs a phone for basic needs.

[Scrumhalf]

I've been reading this thread and looking at some options and didn't really considerate until now. The Nexus 6P is the option I would go with and the coverage in my 20 miles radius is all 4G LTE. The only drawback is $10 per 1GB of data used. I average 3-4GB's a month.

My question is what are the extra taxes and fees that you're hit with at the end of the month?

Too expensive for me. They want over $400 for it. And it is also really big. The 5X is about the same size as my Moto X 2nd Gen, which is just perfect as a phone IMO. The bigger size may be great for watching video, etc. but it is just too unwieldy for me in terms of using as a phone or sticking it in my pant pocket.

Taxes and fees were similar to other companies if I remember. Just google Fi service and search. Lots of people have posted their monthly invoices. I think most of the fees are mandated by the govt for covering 911 costs, etc., so they are going to be pretty similar from one company to the other.