Sprint, Verizon coverage in EAV?

[mellamur]

any verizon people have phone recommendations? i'm having a tough time deciding on a phone. i rarely talk on my phone. i use it for internet and texting and maybe a few apps. would like something with a decent battery life.

Get a Droid, my friend. But not the new  (Droid 3? don't know, husband bought it for me and it was promptly returned) because guess what??? It can't make a freaking phone call.

Verizon is fabulous in and around the village. I had ATT for 3 years and switched to Verizon last year because I couldn't use my dang phone anywhere in the village. I can make calls (ok, I only call people rarely), text, and surf the internet from anywhere in the village. I never connect to wifi (probably explains the short battery life when in EAV) so it's all via their network.

[bestPBRever]

any verizon people have phone recommendations? i'm having a tough time deciding on a phone. i rarely talk on my phone. i use it for internet and texting and maybe a few apps. would like something with a decent battery life.

Get a Droid, my friend. But not the new  (Droid 3? don't know, husband bought it for me and it was promptly returned) because guess what??? It can't make a freaking phone call.

Verizon is fabulous in and around the village. I had ATT for 3 years and switched to Verizon last year because I couldn't use my dang phone anywhere in the village. I can make calls (ok, I only call people rarely), text, and surf the internet from anywhere in the village. I never connect to wifi (probably explains the short battery life when in EAV) so it's all via their network.

good to know. what about the droid x2? i was looking at that and the iphone 4. none of the HTC, LG, or samsung phones look that great.

[mellamur]

any verizon people have phone recommendations? i'm having a tough time deciding on a phone. i rarely talk on my phone. i use it for internet and texting and maybe a few apps. would like something with a decent battery life.

Get a Droid, my friend. But not the new  (Droid 3? don't know, husband bought it for me and it was promptly returned) because guess what??? It can't make a freaking phone call.

Verizon is fabulous in and around the village. I had ATT for 3 years and switched to Verizon last year because I couldn't use my dang phone anywhere in the village. I can make calls (ok, I only call people rarely), text, and surf the internet from anywhere in the village. I never connect to wifi (probably explains the short battery life when in EAV) so it's all via their network.

good to know. what about the droid x2? i was looking at that and the iphone 4. none of the HTC, LG, or samsung phones look that great.

errr. Not sure what that is. Mr. Mellamur has the droid X and has put a new operating system on it or something and it's awesome according to him. I have whatever the first one was...Droid?  and refuse to let him upgrade mine because he tends to have to reinstall stuff on his frequently.

[Cap'n Ken]

Coverage from ATT got so bad that my vendors would say, "you dropped the call.  Did that mean you turned your head to the left again?"  I've become notorious for dropping calls and flat out being unable to connect. 

Switched to Verizon last week.  Only time I've dropped a call was today somewhere around the Talledega forest on my way to Birmingham.  I've had conversations - on my phone - from my house!!  (which sort of qualifies as the village, no?)

So - screw ATT.  (and I have a micro cell tower from them that I may be able to give away)

It always was a comedy of errors when we'd try to call each other.

A couple of months ago I might think getting a micro cell would keep me contented with AT&T, but it's gotten so much worse the problem is hardly improved by being able to use it at my house.

[J. Grouchy]

any verizon people have phone recommendations? i'm having a tough time deciding on a phone. i rarely talk on my phone. i use it for internet and texting and maybe a few apps. would like something with a decent battery life.

Can't help you there. I use my phone as... a phone. I have a laptop for all that other shit.
That said, my Motorola Motorizr z6tv has kicked much ass for the few years I've had it. And it fits in my pocket. And doesn't drop calls.

i hate talking on the phone, so i'm content with having a media device that has a phone.  my wife is a chatterbox like you, apparently.  i had given her my old smartphone, but she started hating it and getting irritated by the touchscreen.  she recently went back to her old "dumbphone" that has a qwerty keyboard she can text with.  she used to be interested in getting an iphone, but after this recent experience, she's not even interested in one of those.

[Cap'n Ken]

any verizon people have phone recommendations? i'm having a tough time deciding on a phone. i rarely talk on my phone. i use it for internet and texting and maybe a few apps. would like something with a decent battery life.

Can't help you there. I use my phone as... a phone. I have a laptop for all that other shit.
That said, my Motorola Motorizr z6tv has kicked much ass for the few years I've had it. And it fits in my pocket. And doesn't drop calls.

i hate talking on the phone, so i'm content with having a media device that has a phone.  my wife is a chatterbox like you, apparently.  i had given her my old smartphone, but she started hating it and getting irritated by the touchscreen.  she recently went back to her old "dumbphone" that has a qwerty keyboard she can text with.  she used to be interested in getting an iphone, but after this recent experience, she's not even interested in one of those.

I talk to my mom on the phone and that's about it - when it's up to me. There are very few cases in which a voice conversation is a better idea than an exchange of text or data.

I can't imagine only using a full-fledged computer such as a "laptop" for non-voice functions.

[insan0]

AT&T announced weeks ago they are in the process of upgrading all of their towers around town, the process would take 3-4 months and service would be bad in areas where the towers are actively being worked on.  I haven't noticed any problem at my house but did have a problem by Morellis last week, that's the only out of the ordinary experience I've had recently.

I've had issues with Sprint in the past, they screwed me with their billing and that left me with a permanent dim view of them.  I did a job for them and saw them as a very sleazy business, with terrible management that really screwed a lot of employees and really half-assed the project.  The worst cell phone experience I've ever had was with Nextel, and while I was doing the job for Sprint they merged, further sealing my dim view of them and swearing them off forever.  I was never overly impressed with their coverage and frequently worked in cities (even state capitols) that had spotty coverage if anything.

Verizon was ok when I had them, but pricey.  Their network still doesn't handle phone and internet at the same time and that's a big shortfall for me.  Pushing smartphones but no capability for voice and data simultaneously??  Come on.  I use both too frequently to be interested in giving that up, and the reviews are in they didn't handle the flood of data traffic from picking up the iphone as well as promised or hoped for.

T-Mobile was good, but I had issues with them while traveling.  They don't own many towers compared to the others, and lease usage from other companies.  Many places I'd go to where T-Mobile was leasing coverage the signal would drop to flat nothing.  I'd have to turn the phone off and back on again to get it to join the new network and then I'd have full strength signal again.

So IMHO, they all have their problems.  Pay yer $$$ and take yer choice.

[enduser]

any verizon people have phone recommendations? i'm having a tough time deciding on a phone. i rarely talk on my phone. i use it for internet and texting and maybe a few apps. would like something with a decent battery life.

Get a Droid, my friend. But not the new  (Droid 3? don't know, husband bought it for me and it was promptly returned) because guess what??? It can't make a freaking phone call.

Verizon is fabulous in and around the village. I had ATT for 3 years and switched to Verizon last year because I couldn't use my dang phone anywhere in the village. I can make calls (ok, I only call people rarely), text, and surf the internet from anywhere in the village. I never connect to wifi (probably explains the short battery life when in EAV) so it's all via their network.

good to know. what about the droid x2? i was looking at that and the iphone 4. none of the HTC, LG, or samsung phones look that great.

HTC makes the best Android OS handsets and has the best middleware UI (Sense). And if you don't like it, you can simply turn it off to get raw Android. That is assuming you meant "Android" and not "Droid," which is a particular handset and not a type of phone or OS.

[Cap'n Ken]

AT&T announced weeks ago they are in the process of upgrading all of their towers around town, the process would take 3-4 months and service would be bad in areas where the towers are actively being worked on.  I haven't noticed any problem at my house but did have a problem by Morellis last week, that's the only out of the ordinary experience I've had recently.

I view any move by AT&T to upgrade their network after I've suffered through four years of shittyness the same way I viewed Coffee Mate coming out with actual cream half & half after pushing corn solids on the American public for decades. And the way I view that is simple - "fuck you".

[Gibbga]

any verizon people have phone recommendations? i'm having a tough time deciding on a phone. i rarely talk on my phone. i use it for internet and texting and maybe a few apps. would like something with a decent battery life.

Get a Droid, my friend. But not the new  (Droid 3? don't know, husband bought it for me and it was promptly returned) because guess what??? It can't make a freaking phone call.

Verizon is fabulous in and around the village. I had ATT for 3 years and switched to Verizon last year because I couldn't use my dang phone anywhere in the village. I can make calls (ok, I only call people rarely), text, and surf the internet from anywhere in the village. I never connect to wifi (probably explains the short battery life when in EAV) so it's all via their network.

good to know. what about the droid x2? i was looking at that and the iphone 4. none of the HTC, LG, or samsung phones look that great.

I have a Droid X (not the X2), and by and large, I love it. The X2 is nearly identical on the outside (except it does not have a physical camera button), and I believe pretty similar on the inside except that it has a dual core processor. Neither phone has 4G abilities.

If I were looking at getting a new smartphone from Verizon, then for me, I'd be more interested in something that has 4G. With Verizon, you are paying the same price for data whether you are on 3G or 4G, so you might as well have a 4G phone. Take a look at the HTC Thunderbolt, Droid Charge, and Droid Bionic. I believe all of those have 4G. There may also be an LG phone with 4G on Verizon's network.  (I've heard some bad things about the T'bolt...nothing about the Charge...and the Bionic just came out this or last week)

You may want to check out some android websites too. The forums are really helpful for identifying the pro's & con's of each. Maybe check out www.androidforums.com. From what folks have been saying, if you hold off until around October/November there is a new phone planned for Verizon that will have the newest android software (ice cream sandwich) installed on it.

[Opti1]

Coverage from ATT got so bad that my vendors would say, "you dropped the call.  Did that mean you turned your head to the left again?"  I've become notorious for dropping calls and flat out being unable to connect. 

Switched to Verizon last week.  Only time I've dropped a call was today somewhere around the Talledega forest on my way to Birmingham.  I've had conversations - on my phone - from my house!!  (which sort of qualifies as the village, no?)

So - screw ATT.  (and I have a micro cell tower from them that I may be able to give away)

It always was a comedy of errors when we'd try to call each other.

A couple of months ago I might think getting a micro cell would keep me contented with AT&T, but it's gotten so much worse the problem is hardly improved by being able to use it at my house.

It got worse with the micro-cell. I used to have decent coverage in the house (at least I knew which rooms worked and which didn't). Sha(ma)⁴ got worse when she left BB and went to android, but it generally sucked all-around.

Price-wise: Verizon is only a little higher than ATT was for all of our plans. Small price to pay for making/receiving a call. Caveat: it's not unlimited (which will take getting used to, but not insurmountable).

Bottom line: trusting a communications company that has the word Telegraph in its name is like a race car made by the American Coach & Buggy Company.

[J. Grouchy]

Verizon was ok when I had them, but pricey.  Their network still doesn't handle phone and internet at the same time and that's a big shortfall for me.  Pushing smartphones but no capability for voice and data simultaneously??  Come on.  I use both too frequently to be interested in giving that up, and the reviews are in they didn't handle the flood of data traffic from picking up the iphone as well as promised or hoped for.

To this day, I can't think of a single instance where I would have needed to use both at the same time on my phone.  Not that it isn't ever necessary...I'm sure there are those with a need.  I've just never found that to be a point for or against a particular provider.

Besides...it's not really true on Sprint.  I have a Nexus S 4G and technically I can talk and surf via wifi or 4G at the same time.  Never needed to, though.

[angryuser]

any verizon people have phone recommendations? i'm having a tough time deciding on a phone. i rarely talk on my phone. i use it for internet and texting and maybe a few apps. would like something with a decent battery life.

Can't help you there. I use my phone as... a phone. I have a laptop for all that other shit.
That said, my Motorola Motorizr z6tv has kicked much ass for the few years I've had it. And it fits in my pocket. And doesn't drop calls.

i hate talking on the phone, so i'm content with having a media device that has a phone.  my wife is a chatterbox like you, apparently.  i had given her my old smartphone, but she started hating it and getting irritated by the touchscreen.  she recently went back to her old "dumbphone" that has a qwerty keyboard she can text with.  she used to be interested in getting an iphone, but after this recent experience, she's not even interested in one of those.

I talk to my mom on the phone and that's about it - when it's up to me. There are very few cases in which a voice conversation is a better idea than an exchange of text or data.

I can't imagine only using a full-fledged computer such as a "laptop" for non-voice functions.

I don't really like talking on the phone, but fuck texting for anything more than a broadcast. If I'm actually trying to get answers to something or convey something that needs a back and forth, call a goddamn number. It takes 30 seconds of talking vs 10 minutes of typing back and forth.

[SnuggleBunny]

I don't really like talking on the phone, but fuck texting for anything more than a broadcast. If I'm actually trying to get answers to something or convey something that needs a back and forth, call a goddamn number. It takes 30 seconds of talking vs 10 minutes of typing back and forth.

[Gmoney]

I don't really like talking on the phone, but fuck texting for anything more than a broadcast. If I'm actually trying to get answers to something or convey something that needs a back and forth, call a goddamn number. It takes 30 seconds of talking vs 10 minutes of typing back and forth.

You type slow.  Besides, the best part of texting is that it keeps a 30 second phone call from becoming a 10 minute phone call.  Also, a lot less intrusive.