Quote (RedTea @ Sep 15 2011 09:07pm)

I'm sure I could find uses for it, but currently I just haven't found the time to mess with it.

Quote (Nupper @ Sep 15 2011 10:08pm)

Yeah, I use it before bed a lot of the time.  I read news on it and check jsp.  It is handy for travel as well.  I dont mind it whatsoever.  It was a graduation present.

Quote (RedTea @ Sep 15 2011 09:10pm)

Can't argue with that.  This is my last year and I can't wait to be done.

Quote (memnoch_thedevil2003 @ Sep 15 2011 07:00pm)

Unfortunately though, those 2 options aren't that much better...I pay $35 a month for high speed net at home and can connect as many devices/pc's/consoles as I want, and have unlimited download bandwidth...but AT&T is trying everything in their power to get me out of my grandfathered unlimited $30 plan, that's only good for 1 phone, and if I tether my laptop or anything else, they want to charge me for it, and cap me to a 2GB plan

There's so much shady shit going on with these cell companies, my wife's friend is a manager with AT&T, and she told us that text messaging travels the same as data or cell traffic (I forget which), so it is essentially free to them, 100% profit, think how many people pay for texting plans lol...My brother in law has one of those small cell companies, he pays like $65 a month for unlimited minutes, text, data, and can tether his laptop all he wants...they just don't have a great selection of smart phones yet lol

Quote (Ice98 @ Sep 15 2011 10:14pm)

well $20 gets you the unlimited texting and mobile to any mobile, and $30 for family plans, so its not like your not getting a decent package there considering 90% of the calls ANYONE makes is to another mobile phone

and ATT found that 95% of their customers use less than 2gb of data, they stopped unlimited plans to get people to start using their home wifi more rather than just being lazy, leaving wifi off, and using data


data uses alot of network bandwidth, and until they start to roll out LTE on a large scale, thats how its gonna be

Quote (DeadShell @ Sep 15 2011 10:54pm)

FUCKING CRAIGSLIST USERS

looks like i wont be getting a touchpad after all

Quote (Nupper @ Sep 16 2011 12:13am)

You can get it from amazon for 252 right now

Quote (memnoch_thedevil2003 @ Sep 16 2011 12:04am)

Eh you must not have AT&T

$30 per phone for data (x2)
$30 for unlimited family text + mobile to mobile

That's $90 before we even get into the actual plan

$69.99 for base plan + $9.99 per extra phone
+ taxes and fees my bill is close to $200 a month...

As for data, I work nights, and no wifi, so I use a lot, probably about 5GB a month imo...I stream movies, music, etc...HBO Go is great

My brother in law pays a third of that for his phone and has unlimited everything, and can tether with out being charged...AT&T will jack my unlimited plan and charge me an extra $25 a month for tethering and reduce me to 2GB a month...bad, just bad.

These guys make billions in profits, AT&T recorded some of the highest profit margins in the companies history, how about they put some of that profit into their infrastructure and updating their data, and giving some back to their customers? So glad they didn't get T Mobile omg that would have been a nightmare.

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