Labor Day Weekend Open Thread > F Apple, F Samsung, F VZW, F AT&T, F the $80/mo leashes

F Apple, F Samsung, F VZW, F AT&T, F the $80/mo leashes

If your phone does more than make audio calls, chances are you have no right calling tablet owners stupid that's for sure.

Don't need text, don't need a camera, sure don't need games on it and certainly don't need it to play videos. Come on, it's a friggin phone.

If you need to play games and videos and go online, be honest to yourself and get a tablet at least.

You can fit a smart phone in your pock, and not look like a hipster tool when you use it. Can't say ether of those about tablets.

Note: I use a flip phone that has voice and texting because its all I need.

reply to skeechan
$80/mo? Nope. Try $45/mo.

»www.straighttalksim.com

You won't get unlimited data from Straight Talk. You get warning phone calls and messages if you use more than 2-3GB (various forum posts say about 100MB/day). Streaming video is also expressly prohibited by their acceptable use policy.

If you ignore them, they "delist" your phone and won't renew your service.

It's not incredibly fast (around 256kbps for some reason).. but I can still stream Pandora or Slacker and utilize data services like the rest.

..and no, I haven't received a call saying I'm using too much data in the past 5 months I've been with them.