I've had Fi for about a few months now. The signup was pretty easy and I got my number transferred from T-Mobile pretty quickly. No discernable difference in sound and speed from T-mobile so far. I love the fact that with Fi, the transcribed voicemails show up right next to your contacts (the transcription while not 100% accurate is a lot better than Voice). As far as usage is concerned, Google is good about refunding money back if you less data than your plan. I used to have some gaps in service in some area pockets here in the bay area with T-mobile and as far as I can tell, I don't have that issue any more. Some disconnected calls but rare. I had those with T-mobile as well. On the upside, Google's customer service is top notch and you get get to someone in minutes.
One beef I had was that Google does not allow you to stream Google Music for free if you have a subscription; I had that luxury with T-mobile so for the first couple of months that I had Fi, I was running out of data very quickly and had to resort to rationing my data usage when I approached my limit. I reached out to Google and they said that they'll pass this along to their management for providing some sort of concession for utilizing GM with Fi.
In any case, I got that sorted out too. Since I like to listen to alternative/indie music, I ended up writing a script that scrapes radio station websites for the song playlists and then I use the unofficial Google Music api to add the songs to my playlist there which automatically downloads it to my phone . The script runs every evening and new songs get added to my playlist automatically each morning when I wake up on wifi. Love it since I stream the songs using bluetooth to my car's sound system without using any data. As of today, I've only consumed 0.6gb data so far which is pretty amazing.
I recommend signing up for Fi to give it a shot. They are always monitoring twitter and always take suggestions and respond back which is pretty cool.
One beef I had was that Google does not allow you to stream Google Music for free if you have a subscription; I had that luxury with T-mobile so for the first couple of months that I had Fi, I was running out of data very quickly and had to resort to rationing my data usage when I approached my limit. I reached out to Google and they said that they'll pass this along to their management for providing some sort of concession for utilizing GM with Fi.
In any case, I got that sorted out too. Since I like to listen to alternative/indie music, I ended up writing a script that scrapes radio station websites for the song playlists and then I use the unofficial Google Music api to add the songs to my playlist there which automatically downloads it to my phone . The script runs every evening and new songs get added to my playlist automatically each morning when I wake up on wifi. Love it since I stream the songs using bluetooth to my car's sound system without using any data. As of today, I've only consumed 0.6gb data so far which is pretty amazing.
I recommend signing up for Fi to give it a shot. They are always monitoring twitter and always take suggestions and respond back which is pretty cool.