$70 T-Mobile Unlimited Plan

[blairharrington]

I was just suggesting it as a trial. Pay $30 and you can basically try TMo all you want. If it doesn't work out, you're only out the $30+tax, keeping your AT&T plan in place.

I was addressing the plan in general terms. Not with regards to anything you wrote. It's an enticing plan but not realistic in the long term.

 

[s44]

If you're bringing your own Google device, you can sign up for anything. If you want to do pre-paid, I'd order a micro-SIM from their web site and activate it yourself online.

The main question is whether the $30 plan works for you.

 

[ericlp]

hmmm, so I am looking at buying the S4...

where would the best place to buy a google edition S4?

As far as I can tell if I bought the one off of t-mobile that wouldn't be the google edition? Or can you just root it to google edition?

Anyway... I was thinking of the 50 dollar plan since every place I go has wifi. I doubt I'll be downloading 15Gig movies with a cell phone so I'll have to keep the home wired.

That's the cheapest option I can see with an S4... Any better ways to go if I don't want a 2 year contract?

50.00 plan is text talk unlimited and half a gig with throttle back so no overage.

 

[s44]

hmmm, so I am looking at buying the S4...

where would the best place to buy a google edition S4?

There's only one: Google. Of course, Google is horrible at selling actual items.

Also, it will be the same hardware as the T-Mo (maybe with a different design on the -- removable -- battery cover). So yes, you should be able to just flash the Google firmware onto the T-Mo version.

Anyway... I was thinking of the 50 dollar plan since every place I go has wifi. I doubt I'll be downloading 15Gig movies with a cell phone so I'll have to keep the home wired.

That's the cheapest option I can see with an S4... Any better ways to go if I don't want a 2 year contract?

That's the cheapest postpaid option. Notice that T-Mo doesn't do contracts even on postpaid any more -- you just have to pay the phone off (if you did installment plan) before you drop them.

I would also consider two cheaper prepaid options, if you don't need to roam on AT&T (postpaid gets roaming, prepaid doesn't):
(a) $30 plan -- 100m, unlimited texts, 5gb data
10c/m overage but you need to leave some extra money in the account ahead of time
(b) Straight Talk $45 plan -- unlimited everything (in theory)
The AT&T version of ST has been notorious for throttling, cutting you off after a certain amount of use, etc. But from what I can tell, ST on T-Mo has been pretty much wide open from day one. I dunno if things have gotten harsher since they switched over to only selling T-Mo SIMs, but it's at least worth a try for a month.

 

[ericlp]

There's only one: Google. Of course, Google is horrible at selling actual items.

Also, it will be the same hardware as the T-Mo (maybe with a different design on the -- removable -- battery cover). So yes, you should be able to just flash the Google firmware onto the T-Mo version.

That's the cheapest postpaid option. Notice that T-Mo doesn't do contracts even on postpaid any more -- you just have to pay the phone off (if you did installment plan) before you drop them.

I would also consider two cheaper prepaid options, if you don't need to roam on AT&T (postpaid gets roaming, prepaid doesn't):
(a) $30 plan -- 100m, unlimited texts, 5gb data
10c/m overage but you need to leave some extra money in the account ahead of time
(b) Straight Talk $45 plan -- unlimited everything (in theory)
The AT&T version of ST has been notorious for throttling, cutting you off after a certain amount of use, etc. But from what I can tell, ST on T-Mo has been pretty much wide open from day one. I dunno if things have gotten harsher since they switched over to only selling T-Mo SIMs, but it's at least worth a try for a month.

Like I said, I need more talk time than anything. Don't really text. and Data use is on wifi mostly. So, don't really need a lot of gigs. As I would prefer "UNLIMITED" if I was to get anything data plan. But I guess if I'm mostly in wifi hotspots It's not really worth it to me to buy a large data plan.

Yeah, I once had ST for about a year. I dunno. Tho, I never really did much data on it and what I had was super SLOW anyway. I thought about buying an iphone with ST then I heard if you went over a couple of gigs you'd be screwed so...... Ah well...

Thank you for your reply tho. I figure there weren't very many options other than wait for the price to come down. I suppose if you could wait till S5 came out, maybe you could get a good deal or some sort of sale. I was looking at googles nexus 4 but ... While the price is half the cost, the phone looks watered down compared to the S4.

 

[Germanic]

So do mobile carriers like T-Mobile actually offer the Galaxy S4 Google edition on contract?

Or does it have to be purchased through Google first?

 

[Red Storm]

Keep in mind the $30 plan is prepaid, your coverage will be less than their post-paid, "uncarrier" plans.

My plan is $60/month (haven't needed unlimited just yet to pay the extra $10) and it gets pretty darn good coverage, but my buddy has the $30 pre-paid plan and outside of urban areas his coverage is not so good.

 

[grohl]

My current situation: Fulfilled contract on AT&T with iPhone 4, currently unlocked. Paying ~$150 for me and the wife every month, will be adding another line this fall. Neither of us uses 2Gb - most data on wifi, low minutes. Do not travel outside of DFW metroplex too often, 4-5 times a year.

Wanting to move to prepaid plan to lower costs, obviously.

Considering ST since AT&T network is used and I have never had a problem with it...do not understand concept of roaming. Since their network is so big what would the difference be?

 

[Plugers]

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans


$30 100 minutes talk | Unlimited text | First 5GB at up to 4G speeds

Used it for over a year and a half, with Google Voice, PBXES.com, native android internet dialing.

I also use a old hacked linksys vonage box as an ATA for my house as the 2nd extension with incoming calls ringing all extensions.