HOT!! $27.57/month, 1000min during week, unlimited on weekend, no roam, free long dist. on T-mobile IN CALI from Amazon

[curlykicker]

I know the T-mobile plans have been mentioned before but I don't think these plans with this specific phone has gotten much press. Credit to Dongky for suggesting this:

Go here for the Samsung R225 phone. Go here for the $239 worth of rebates. Sign up for the $39.99/month T-mobile plan. You net $150. Apply that to your bill after a year and average that out monthly and it results as being $27.50/month for 12 months of service!

$89.99 phone (includes shipping and tax)
-89.00 T-mobile rebate
-150.00 Amazon rebate
= -149.01

$39.99 x 12 months = 479.88 - 149.01 (made from rebates) = 330.87 / 12 months = $27.57 per month!

PS. Don't forget the activation fee of $25 not included in this calculation.
PSS. For something even cheaper, sign up for the $29.99 plan with 300 min during the week and pay $17.50/month.

 

[Mangos]

Rebate cannot be combined with any other coupon or rebate...(from the T-mobile rebate fine print)


This would be hot if it would work..

 

[curlykicker]

Good point though I hardly think that:

1. T-mobile will ever know if you used the Amazon rebate

and

2. Amazon would openly advertise this deal if it weren't legit, esp. when Amazon is an authorized T-mobile dealer.

 

[stso]

maybe I should cancel my V60 order from the previous hot deal

 

[curlykicker]

Oh I almost forgot! To make the deal even sweeter use the $5 off $35 coupon found over at F*tW*llet.com.

 

[stso]

I wouldn't forget that

 

[CaseTragedy]

Anyone know how T-mobile's reception is on the west coast? Particularly in Orange County, CA.
Some ppl said it might not be so hot.

 

[rasputinj]

T-mobile is sharing the Cingular's Cali/Nev network so your coverage will be the same, it just routes through a different gateway at the end.

 

[daye]

I thought it's 500 any time minutes instead of 1000.

 

[udonoogen]

cingular ... that's not hot at all then. after much consideration i think i'll hold off until i know a little bit more about tmobile in the bay area (cingular sucks here)

 

[JoelEA]

I purchased the T-Mobile with the V60g from Amazon and received it 7/25. I reside in Northridge, Ca, in the Los Angeles area.

I couldn't activate/register my phone it would not connect to their network.

I called T-Mobile CS and they tried with their tech support with no success. They think its because of no signal. The phone does not show any signal.

Today I will drive around the area and see if I can get a signal. CS states I have 2 weeks to cancel.

I found the customer service very friendly, patience and supportive.

 

[keystroker]

thanks for the heads up in Reseda, neighbor. Wont be getting t-mobile anytime soon.

 

[SLEEPER5555]

expect really bad coverage (as others have said) and lots of sytem busys more than any other system, it is real bad because yes they use cingular in the ca/nv area, adding more custos to an overloaded system!

 

[AnimEva]

PSS. For something even cheaper, sign up for the $29.99 plan with 300 min during the week and pay $17.50/month.

Where does it say it is 300 min during the week? At Amazon all I see is 200 Anytime minutes for the $29.99 plan. If it is 300 Min, I will take it. I live in NYC and 2 of my friends use VoiceStream here and the coverage on the East Coast is pretty good.

Please someone verify the 300 min for the $29.99 plan

 

[bambam]

I don't think it's 1000 min in markets other than CA, NV . It was 500 or 600 mins . Whatever the case, I tried Voicestream in Atlanta a couple of months ago and found intown in-building coverage and overall north metro coverage unacceptable for me . What I really dislike about VS/Tmobile is that they only give you a 72 no cancellation penalty trial period

 

[BakinSoda]

I juss ordered this deal today...the samsung and 40/month. 1st time i ordered off amazon...and a cell phone online. Hey how does ordering cell phone off amazon work? When i get the phone how is it activated and how does the contract work.

Hey JoelEA, I live in the Orange County area...my cousin has T-mobile (juss this month) and his service is OK. He gets pretty good signal but i dont think he does inside buildings. Since u ordered the phone off amazon too...how does the activation and contract work? Is the phone already activated and the contract is already there? Can u tell me what is the process AFTER u receive the phone from amazon...what ur suppose to do to get everything started. Thx

 

[TNTrulez]

HOT if you have signal

 

[santokki]

Also, T-Mobile in southern California is having a hard time receiving phone calls from many prefixes, notably from Verizon cell phones. I have Verizon here, and everytime I call a T-Mobile number, I get a "cannot be connected" error. T-Mobile acknowledged that this error is with T-Mobile, and they say that they're working on it.

T-Mobile is too new to have a reliability record. Even though they've been around most of the country as VoiceStream, they're new to California. Service is very important to me (one reason I didn't sign up for web hosting with Cyberwings), so I'm staying away from T-Mobile for at least one year.

 

[rasputinj]

The bay area is cingular also, I have used in the bay area, not the best but not the worst, when I used it there were dead spots in the oakland hills and down towards Morgan Hill, and up towards Richmond, hopefully it is better now.

 

[rasputinj]

In building coverage tends to be much better with a Cellular system (ATT, Verizon), then a PCS (Sprint, T Mobile), the technology of CDMA helps in bringing multiple cell sites to increase reception with your phone in Weak(indoor areas). CDMA is a much more efficient system it can handle on average 2-3 times as many calls as TDMA(ATT) or a GSM(Cingular,T mobile), last I knew GSM was still not every where, like in smaller markets, I could not use my GSM Cingular phone in New Orleans, and a lot of parts of michigan, and I had big dead spots from SLO to Half Moon bay on the Central Coast in Cali. GSM carriers are going with W-CDMA if they ever get it up and running for the high speed internet and the massive increase of capacity over GSM, once you inlay GPRS into a system that cuts into voice capacity. Cingular has like 1.5 million users on the Cali system, with a lot of new people talking taking up capacity with these high minute plans. Buyer beware.

 

[rasputinj]

Remember Deutche Telecom has ousted the CEO, and T-Mobile is on the block, so within next year, you will probably either be a Cingular customer or an ATT customer anyway. Deutche in floating in high debt and it is only going to get higher they need to offload T-Mobile so they are probably going to low ball to try to look better on paper.

 

[TheeeChosenOne]

Originally posted by: rasputinj
CDMA is a much more efficient system it can handle on average 2-3 times as many calls as TDMA(ATT) or a GSM(Cingular,T mobile), last I knew GSM was still not every where, like in smaller markets.

yeah, CDMA is the way to go. But GSM is used everywhere in the world. For travellers, a GSM phone is very handy.

T has very good customer service in Germany. Expect them to set a high standard in cellular like the rest of Germany's products/services.

 

[rasputinj]

There is a big difference between T-Mobile Euro and T-Mobile (Voicestream), the T-Mobile GSM is a very mature system, T-Mobile (Voicestream) is still a young sytem that is a few years from getting the holes out of the system, within a year it will no longer be owned by Deutche Telcom. The vast majority of people do not travel enough to use their phones internationally enough that it matters. Yes, you can take you GSM card with you and rent a phone, or I think you can purchase a Siemens phone that is a lot more expensive that works on the Euro networks. I take quality of a phone in my country over the convenience for travelling.

 

[JoelEA]

Update: I drove just 2 blocks from my house and the phone was able to connect to the T-Mobile network. It appears the few blocks around my house is a dead zone. I used the phone in the Topanga Mall stores etc. The coverage in the Valley is good.

Today, I traveled via the local Metro Link commuter train line to downtown Los Angeles with very good coverage, but when I used the phone in a gov't downtown building I lost signal.

The voice quality is sharp & clear, the person listening to me couldn't tell I was using a cell phone.

Bakin Soda: When you receive the phone just install the SIM chip and battery. After charging battery just turn it on and it will connect with the T-Mobile network. Very simple, if you have coverage. Your account was activated at same day you purchased the phone at Amazon.

Beware that the phone has been assigned a phone number which might not be for your area. Amazon will send you a email with the phone number. If you what to change this number call T-Mobile but do it before you use phone. It takes 24 hours for the new number and account to be re-activated.

 

[SLEEPER5555]

Originally posted by: santokki


T-Mobile is too new to have a reliability record. Even though they've been around most of the country as VoiceStream, they're new to California. Service is very important to me (one reason I didn't sign up for web hosting with Cyberwings), so I'm staying away from T-Mobile for at least one year.

I guess you did not read my above post, they are in ca and nv just a reseller of Cingular which is terrible as far as systems busy's and poor as far as coverage.

Also Euro GSM is different than our GSM but this does not really matter as all GSM systems are being upgraded to GPRS, CDMA is a much better technology though and only sprint and verizon use it. from a tech standpoint sprint is better as it uses a higher freq. than verizon but it all depends on where you use the phone who you should go with. in some places sprint will be better and in others verizon will be. it all depends!