Comments on: N900 On Sale Over At Dell Small Business

By: IsThataJoke

IsThataJoke — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:07:03 +0000

Check out This Cool Videos I hope U Reading David
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRil6iP4GXw&feature=player_embedded

If you are reading this david which i hope u are check out this link to a real in depth n900 video we need 2 get our fellow t-mobile people exicted about the n900

By: IsThataJoke

IsThataJoke — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:52:31 +0000

I Started 2 Think That a Super Android Phone For T-mobile Is not coming Anytime Soon so we Should All who can Support The N900 Which is a more Powerful and Better Phone then Droid anyway because if we don’t nokia might not make us another high end phone like this on our 3G band i think we should support nokia and t mobile and the Mamemo Platform which has potential to be better then Android it won’t be though if we don’t support the one phone that we have whether its unlocked or not it was made for us to use so lets use it and make sure it does not fail google is already talking about making turn by turn navigation as a app and putting it on app stores like the iphone and if the nokia phone does well they will put it on that also i say we all stop complaining and get the N900!

By: Grr

Grr — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:08:00 +0000

Whoever wrote that is not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. If WiMax is so great, why is no other wireless carrier picking it up? How well has Sprint handled mergers in the past? At least T-Mobile has a net gain in customers for the year and Sprint does not. You want to say T-Moble, USA execs have failed? I’ll buy that. Just don’t tell me Sprint has done any better with more to work with. They are the only carrier that had a megamerger that failed. They have bled customers ever since. If anything, T-Mobile should buy Sprint instead of Sprint buying T-Mobile. T-Moblie, as a whole, is still very strong. T-Mobile USA can be strong with the correct leadership.

By: hi!

hi! — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:56:19 +0000

wow, check out this article guys. I just clicked on it from the twitter feed on the main page. When you get off tmobile cheerleading webpages things look bleak…..very bleak. I hope this is discussed as a story on the main page

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/top-stocks/blog.aspx?post=1355788&_blg=1

By: Grr

Grr — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:41:00 +0000

Did you see the outrage due to paperless billing? You would see the same thing if you tried to make myFaves an internet only deal. If you did it via customer service, you would have issues with call congestion to the CS reps. You can’t make it T-Zones because not everyone wants a data plan.

By: TomCruise

TomCruise — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:24:54 +0000

@Grr, there’s no need for myfaves software on the phone for the feature to work.

thats a lame excuse.

as long as the feature is set up on the backend, who cares if its available on the phones.

there are so many users without myfaves app on the phone but the feature on their account and its working fine for them.

By: rossi

rossi — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:23:11 +0000

@ Grr

That’s all very interesting. Thanks. You know what else I would like to see is some sort of Family data plan. Like $50 for a hard cap of like 10 gb or something. I would gladly pay that. Shoot make it $50 for 5 gb. It’s darn expensive to add “unlimited” data for smartphones that will only be used casually to browse the net. Again, if you need unlimited I think you should have that option, but if you don’t, why pay as much as the data hog?

I have thought about the myfaves software thing. My solution, although not perfect, would be to make updating and changing your myfaves contacts only possible through the internet or costumer service. Therefore, the software would not have to be developed. Actually, we already do that for two of our phones…

By the way, I really can not wait for this thing (see link) to show its face on american soil! Look at the web page loading speeds as compared to the n900. I just hope it doesn’t go to AT&T!

http://www.slashgear.com/htc-hd2-review-0663062/

By: Grr

Grr — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:58:37 +0000

You probably won’t see MyFaves return at least in its current form. The MyFaves software is one of the things that keeps manufacturers from making phones for T-Mobile. UMA is another. It is difficult fo get phone manufacturers to put the money into developing software and/or hardware for these two items. That is why you see less and less of it. Now you have T-Mobile to T-Mobile free. That could very well eventually turn into Mobile to Mobile. There is actually a lot of working happing in cooperation between all the carriers that will likely make free Mobile to Mobile calling a more common thing. Basicly what is happening is instead of calls from one mobile to another being routed through a phone landline phone company, the carriers are connecting circuits directly between them. Like T-Mobile will have direct connection to Cricket, AT&T, Verizon, etc and vice versa. This results in much cheaper calls. This is probably boring info for most, but the result could be free mobile to mobile as a standard in the near future.

By: rossi

rossi — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:13:01 +0000

@ Bill48105

I knew I wasn’t alone!

I also forgot to add that I qualify for a 15% discount from verizon so 4079.76 x .85 = 3467.80. Granted that discount would work on the Even More plans, it does not work on plus plans…. This also means that any additional data add ons would cost the same from verizon as it would to add them to the even more plus plans. (well $.50 more a month) Therefore, I can rack up over $1000 of overages over the life of my contract just to (or nearly pay all of my etf fees should I decide to leave) reach the price of the plan tmobile forces me in to. Or, you know, I could just put that money elsewhere since I wouldn’t be accumulating the overages anyway! Tmobile must have either overlooked these aspects of the new plans, or they knew it and thought we wouldn’t catch them. Given the size of verizon’s 3g network and voice coverage, what exactly does tmobile’s plan offer for me? They used to be cheaper on the plans, and we all knew we sacrificed coverage and phone selection for that. I guess we’ll cling to that costumer service!

By: Bill48105

Bill48105 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:26:41 +0000

@rossi
Sounds like we are long lost twins as my situation is pretty much the same. As I’ve said on here a bunch of times and sounds like you agree TMobile needs to close that gaping hole for those of us who don’t need unlimited (and the available unlimited line options don’t work out) and the 1500 minutes just isn’t enough. Anyone who goes to tmobile’s site & prices out a 4 or 5 line family plan where the family uses say 1700 minutes a month (broken down something like 500+600+300+300 for example where you’d pay $80 in overages on 1500 plan, $80 in overages if you did 2 unlimited line plan with 2 200 min lines or $70 more per month making all lines unlimited even though they are hardly used..) & you’ll see you get totally screwed with nasty overages or being forced to go unlimited. [And if someone tells me to change to a better plan rather than go over minutes or stick with what I got one more time I'll strangle them!]

TMobile should done one or more of the following:
1. Bring back Unlimited MyFaves & WiFi UMA calling for something reasonable like $10/m

2. Have a 3000 minute family plan for $10 more per month (can’t be much more than that or people will get confused as to why 3000 is same as unlimited when they don’t realize the add a lines are what kill you)

3. More minutes for some lines in unlimited plans.. Either tiered like 300, 750, 1500 per line *or* how about pooling the non-unlimited lines like on non-unlimited family plans where there are like 750, 1500 minutes to share..

4. LOWER overage minutes to something more reasonable so people stuck on 1500 plan can afford to go over every now & then. Better yet, have a way for users to bank up minutes similar to ATT Rollover from unused minutes or minutes purchased for a reasonable fee or maybe earned through rewards. (IE. 100 bonus minutes for every month you are a customer up to a maximum of 1000, or whatever.) Granted that wouldn’t help you at first if you started out at 0 but they go do it as a credit system that starts out at 1000 and if you cancel before you earn your credits you pay $10/month or whatever. Just brainstorming the way TMobile should be.

On a side note:
5. BRING BACK NON UNLIMITED DATA/TEXT ADD-ONS. Someone like my family who does a total of no more than 40 texts per month gets screwed. We either pay per use & pay $10 or pay $0.50 each on unlimited plan. On the months where we do like 10 texts it ends up being $2 PER TEXT. And no I’m not saying $5 for 300 text messages per line is best solution either but hell $5 for 300 to share would be great & I’d gladly pay it. While they are at it have a $10 one that is 1000 shared.

5. The way the cell companies rip off on data plans requiring data plans on certain phones and that they have to be unlimited even if you rarely use it is enough to put me over the edge so I’ll leave that for another day. But that is something else that should be addressed by TMobile if they are serious about not only attracting more customers but retaining the ones they currently have.

I do not think it is asking too much for TMobile to be reasonable with their pricing so that there are not people with certain circumstances who get totally screwed over because those are the people who’ll like head on over to another carrier & take their 4-5 lines with them.