Cell Phone Upgrade

I guess I'm the odd ball. I've always had good luck with Motorola phones. I just got a new one a couple months ago, they had to order the damn thing because they said they hardly ever sell any so they don't keep them in stock. I was gonna go with Samsung this time but I just think the Motorola feels a little more beefy. I'm with AT&T.

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Cheap $900 phones is an oxymoron. I'm adamantly against apple. I have the note 8 and have been very happy with it but it's not cheap. Verizon does bogo deals sometimes. Bestbuy also has good deals sometimes. That's where I got mine from at half price. I think its $25 a month. You'd have to pay me to carry an apple.
 
NickMaul said:
How are your iPhones almost ruined? Battery life? Slow?

I recommend “cleaning” it by removing all the useless apps and games, moving photos to a host app, and staying up to date on updates. Eventually you will want to stop updating your phone but you should be good for another two years from my experience.

I had an iPhone 4 for a long time. Just got an iPhone S which came out when the 6 did. Paid $500 for it from Verizon. I ponied up for one with 128GB of memory. Works just as good as any latest iPhone I have used.

Treat it as a phone and it will last, treat it as the center of your life constantly on social media, streaming movies, etc. and it performance will decay. My two cents.

Also if someone says apple is over priced, a competing Samsung costs just as much.




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Constant crashing, battery life sucks, does some weird thing when texting where everything will just disappear and exit out of the text message all together.

Wife's phone is constantly getting dropped calls, where mine rarely has that problem.
 
Running a Google Pixel 2 here. Previously had a Samsung S6 and have an iPhone 7 for work. I personally prefer the Android format, but they are not world's apart in function, performance, or quality. I got the Pixel 2 about 2 months after it came out for $350 from Verizon ($14/month). Why anyone would pay more than that for a phone is beyond me. I like to get the best overall value though, regardless of any particular factors. My work phone is ATT and only has decent signal in urban areas. Personal phone is Verizon and gets signal everywhere I go, and typically has faster data speeds than the ATT phone. I assume the other carriers are even worse with coverage. My point is, you've had the phones for 4 years, be patient, figure out exactly what you want and on which network you want it, then wait for the right deal. 2-3 years from now the iPhone X will be free, so if that's your price, then that's your timeframe.
 
Mine is that old Droid Turbo thingy. But going 3 years now, same battery. Battery life got Better once I was informed how to delete all the adds & clutter, daily! I'm that guy that keeps something as long as it works, or a Super deal comes along!
 
92_SquareEye said:
Wife and I just switched to Sprint last week from ATT. S9s are on sale 50% off. 2 lines...unlimited everything...135/mo...150 after taxes...
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Jesus. For how long?
We pay $80 total for our 3 phone lines on VWZ. Maybe its 100 out he door.
Of course I do have an 15% discount but I think that only applies to the base plan.
Personally I'd still rather just buy phones outright
 
Still rocking my 6+ it’s not in the best shape but I’ll be using it until it dies. My plan with us cellular is unlimited talk and text 6gs a month for the low price of 42 dollars
 
Cherokeekid88 said:
Constant crashing, battery life sucks, does some weird thing when texting where everything will just disappear and exit out of the text message all together.

Wife's phone is constantly getting dropped calls, where mine rarely has that problem.
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That’s strange. I’ve been using an iPhone as my primary phone, web search, forum browsing, and porn streaming for at least the last 10 years without any bugs or issues. I occasionally get a dropped call or an app closes randomly, but it’s rare.
 
As far as new cell phones go....I certainly wouldn't worry about getting the latest/greatest of any kind.

Why? All you're going to do on it is make calls, text, and use the internet. And maybe play a few time wasting games. Get some directions.

Any phone made for the last 5 years will do that as good as the next one. I'd go for last year's model at best. The newest one won't do anything last year's can't, and is a lot more expensive.

Unless you're some professional phone power user, it's a waste of money.
 
No real help...don't keep up with phones, pretty sure I have an iPhone 6 though. But last time the wife and I did get phones was 3 years ago around the 4th of July. Verizon was doing some kinda mega holiday sale. We received $300 credits for each of our phones (covered our monthly bill for about 4 months), got our current phones for free and got a free ipad mini. It did require a longer contract, but Verizon has always been the best provider in the areas I've been in. So I say all that to say, if you can hold out a month, might be able to get a pretty good deal.
 
Wife and I have just decided to hold off on doing anything and maybe take her phone and get the battery replaced and see if that helps (her phone also won't keep a charge for very long)
 
Cherokeekid88 said:
Wife and I have just decided to hold off on doing anything and maybe take her phone and get the battery replaced and see if that helps (her phone also won't keep a charge for very long)
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Make sure you back up all your pictures. My wife's phone was doing that and she lost 2 years of pictures of the kids. Mine never turned back on. Both were iPhone 6
 
jyaks said:
Make sure you back up all your pictures. My wife's phone was doing that and she lost 2 years of pictures of the kids. Mine never turned back on. Both were iPhone 6
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Doesn't Apple have some kind of cloud backup for that stuff?

I can go flush my Android down the toilet, and as quickly as I can get to a Verizon store, I'm back in business.
 
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