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Iphone gets my vote, best $100 I ever spent ($200 for the 3gs) thats with a 2 year plan though. Thing to consider about a 2 year deal is that if you leave early its only $150 fee and you keep your iphone, which is currently going for $200+ on craigslist. Also if your in and out of the country a lot for long times then most carriers have stand by plans that will cost you next to nothing.
 
donkiez said:
Iphone gets my vote, best $100 I ever spent ($200 for the 3gs) thats with a 2 year plan though. Thing to consider about a 2 year deal is that if you leave early its only $150 fee and you keep your iphone, which is currently going for $200+ on craigslist. Also if your in and out of the country a lot for long times then most carriers have stand by plans that will cost you next to nothing.
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Never been a fan of the iPhone, not sure why. I know everyone else likes it. I thought I'd check out the Android OS. I'm pretty sure I'll like the CLIQ.
 
44Thrilla said:
iPhone is hot garbage.
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Although far from hot garbage, after having one for just about a year, I find it to be quite over-rated. It does some things great: The keyboard is fantastic, and better than any touchscreen I've ever used. The iPod integration is stellar. However, the best part about the iPhone IMO is the abundance and variety of apps. There are some truly great ones out there.

However, those don't overcome it's shortcomings.

The lack of multitasking drives me bonkers but I could cope with it if were to increase stability/battery life. Perhaps it does, but either way, the battery life blows. There are some days I have to charge it twice, and that's just with normal use (a fair amount of texting and emailing-- and only maybe one or two quick calls). The complete disregard of user customization is what kills it for me. No wallpaper when in use? No custom text or email tones? Seriously? I know I can (and have before) jailbreak it to fix a lot of these, but I shouldn't have to do that, especially at the expense of performance, stability and even worse battery life.

It does what I believe it intended to do very well, and that's put smartphones in the hands of people who have never used them before. However, for someone like me who has used smartphones in the past, it lacks a lot of simple features (multiple profiles for various situations-- silent, vibrate, normal, loud, etc.) that shouldn't have been ignored.

donkiez said:
Iphone gets my vote, best $100 I ever spent ($200 for the 3gs) thats with a 2 year plan though. Thing to consider about a 2 year deal is that if you leave early its only $150 fee and you keep your iphone, which is currently going for $200+ on craigslist. Also if your in and out of the country a lot for long times then most carriers have stand by plans that will cost you next to nothing.
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$175 actually, but it drops $5 every month of your contract. So when I ETF next month, I'll only have to pay $120 instead of the entire amount.
 
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OSUBlazerfan said:
Why do you need a "tmobile phone" just get any phone.... and unlock it if you have to
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Yep we can unlock a locked phone to get the network freedom. We can unlock the phones using unlock codes. The Unlock codes are unique code generated based on the IMEI of the phone. We can get the unlock code from our service providers or from unlocking sites such as TheUnlockArena.com . After receiving the code we have to follow the provided instructions to get the phone unlocked.
 
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
An online petition demanding that cell phone customers be able to freely unlock their phones from carrier's shackles, gained an unexpected ally this week: The Obama administration.
The petition, which was posted on the White House's website, gained 114,000 signatures in support. On Monday, it received a response from R. David Edelman, the Obama administration's senior adviser for Internet, innovation and privacy.

Edelman partially agreed with the petition's argument. He said that any mobile device that is locked to a particularly wireless provider, such as Verizon (VZ, Fortune 500), AT&T (T, Fortune 500), Sprint (S, Fortune 500) or T-Mobile, should be unlockable once a user's contract is up.

"The Obama administration would support a range of approaches to addressing this issue, including narrow legislative fixes in the telecommunications space that make it clear: neither criminal law nor technological locks should prevent consumers from switching carriers when they are no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation," Edelman wrote.
In January, the Library of Congress removed an exemption from the 14-year-old Digital Millenium Copyrights Act, which protected consumers who sought to unlock their cellphones. Doing so now falls under the risk of punishment of up to five years in prison and a fine of $500,000 -- even if a subsidized smartphone or tablet is no longer under contract with any particular carrier.
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yep with the service providers permission after the contract you can unlock the phone also phones bought after jan 26 , 2013 cannot be unlocked.
 
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