Motorola V3 RAZR FREE with T-MOBILE 1 yr contract

[nero2]

Originally posted by: skarydrunkguy
My experience with t-mobile...
A. I have to go outside to make or receive a call.
B. Phone doesn't work in my car.
C. I have never had to push the hang up button, every single call I have ever made or received has been dropped at some point between from the time I pick up and about 2 minutes in.
D. Sometimes it won't even connect to a call, you pick it up and hear machiney noises. Or you say, "Hello," and the person on the other end can't hear you and hangs up on you.
E. They won't let me change my plan. At all. Not up, not down, can't add features, can't drop them.
F. After I signed up for a 1 year contract through amazon, I got a letter saying that if I cancelled after 1 year, I would receive a bill for the full price of my phone from t-mobil (though no early cancellation fee).
G. Customer service is extremely rude (at least the 20 or so times I've called them for various reasons) and insist that every problem that I've ever had with them is related to my SIM card somehow.
H. You can't get or send pictures to any phone that's not on the T-mobil network. My friends that are on Verizon can't send or receive pictures from me. Text works though.


I could go on and on, but that about sums it up. I'm in the Auburn Hills, MI area in case anyone cares. I don't care if they give me a free Ferrari with a 3 day contract, I will certainly never never never never never sign up for anything with them again. Exclimation point. Period!

I call bull on E and H:

Log on to your account on the Tmobile website, from there you can change just about everything about your plan, extras, and billing all without having to talk to a CSR. Also it's *always* been the case that you can't send multi-media messages cross-network, with *any* provider.

If you have poor signal strength in you area, *list your area*. It doesn't do anyone any good to state how bad a service is without giving the area(s) in which you're trying to use it.

As for the deal, I'd probably go the Amazon route as their rebate conditions are far less draconian.

 

[secretanchitman]

lol...well, if the site doesnt have verification on the credit card/checkout page, then i wouldnt trust it.

 

[kinev]

Originally posted by: onelove
jeez, long thread with almost no comments on this razor phone. does anybody that has one think its any good? I heard not-such-good-things about this phone when I was looking at phones a few months ago. Don't remember where I was looking. Razor phone - anybody like?

seems pretty good to me. i've only had mine for a couple weeks, though. good battery life, haven't had a dropped call yet, and playing with the voice activated dialing and the speaker phone is spiffy.

couple of complaints, though. i don't know if it's my fingers, or the buttons, but i have had many "mis-dials" already. maybe i just need to get used to it. also, the button layout is good, but i had to change some settings to what seemed to be a more convienient button assignment.

all in all, it's way better than my old phone, and if the rebates come through (in 6 months), FAR is a bargain.

 

[straubs]

Originally posted by: serialkiller

sorry.... tmobile sux period.....

You mispelled Sprint.

 

[straubs]

Originally posted by: johncatral
You guys are funny! There will always be "verizon sucks!", "Nextel Sucks", "Sprint Sucks!", Cingular Sucks" and of course "T-Mobile Sucks" people out there.

There's so many factors involved... Phone, Location, Number of Cell towers, etc... My point is... It depends Where you are!!! T-mobile has by far the best rates and customer service. Go ahead and search. You should judge the carrier for their support and prices and not necessarily location because it's relative.

EXACTLY! This reply should be an auto-post to every cell phone thread that pops up. The 2 biggest factors being YOUR AREA and the EXACT MODEL PHONE you are using. Even with the same carrier, the phone makes a difference to your reception.

People just cannot seem to understand this. If their combination sucks, then the whole company sucks! The carrier does not manufacture phones, and the carrier does not determine where you bought your house or drive your car.

 

[mb]

Check http://coverage.t-mobile.com/Compass2/ first to see if T-Mobile had coverage in your area.

 

[Xyl3ne]

I hear people say how bad T-Mobile is but I guess I got lucky. The T-Mobile store at the mall is usually very helpful and the problem usually get fixed without problems. My mother had T-Mobile before she switched to AT&T and whenever she had problems they'd give her free minutes and fix the problem. If it was a problem with the phone they'd give her a differnet one. We wanted to get a family plan but T-Mobile would only approve her for two phones, so she ended up with AT&T for her and my brother (a family plan) becuase it was a good deal and I got T-Mobile. She and my brother have had nothing but problems with AT&T. They gave her the bs talk until the 30 days was up so we couldn't back out of her contract so she was stuck with them for a year. I have no problems with my T-Mobile service. I get service pretty much wherever I go, except in my house, but no one, no matter what plan can get service in our house.

 

[spyboy64]

OK

After review of 17 major markets:
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
Houston
LA
Minneapolis
New York
Philadelphia
Phoenix
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
St. Louis
Washington, D.C.

These conclusions:

Verizon is the top provider in all markets.

TMobile placed 2nd in most markets in which it is available.

The results for Atlanta and Boston are quite representative of all markets:

Verizon
TMobile
Cingular
Sprint
AT&T

Verizon
TMobile
Sprint
Cingular
Nextel
AT&T

Results based on surveys submitted by 39,000 subscribers.

 

[GonzoCircus]

Im happy with tmobile. never had a problem with service or billing. Everyone I know here in the Twin Cities on any another carrier other than tmobile or verizon has problems.

 

[MWoody]

Never had a problem with TMobile myself. I travel around the US alot, and the great thing about 'em is that they never charge roaming fees. If you have signal - and I usually do - you can make the call.

 

[codeyf]

Ditto here on T-Mobile. And we end up way ahead since we use the family plan. My parents have it, and my wife's parents have it. M2M pwnz. We're on the cheapest $60 family plan, but use roughly 2k minutes of the M2M. All during peak times

 

[akubi]

Originally posted by: intogamer
referral:thumbsdown:

 

[Eric1285]

Originally posted by: spyboy64
OK

After review of 17 major markets:
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
Houston
LA
Minneapolis
New York
Philadelphia
Phoenix
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
St. Louis
Washington, D.C.

These conclusions:

Verizon is the top provider in all markets.

TMobile placed 2nd in most markets in which it is available.

The results for Atlanta and Boston are quite representative of all markets:

Verizon
TMobile
Cingular
Sprint
AT&T

Verizon
TMobile
Sprint
Cingular
Nextel
AT&T

Results based on surveys submitted by 39,000 subscribers.

Since Cingular and AT&T have now combined their network, I think they've probably got better coverage than T-Mobile. That's the case here in Central Jersey. Unfortunately, Cingular has some serious customer service issues and some of their phones don't work AT ALL. I'm on my 4th replacement phone.

 

[palis]

T-mobile has better customer service and price. Cingular has better coverage and roll-over. So you gotta choose between these factors. I have better luck with Cingular regarding their signals in buildings. I get no T-mobile signals in my place.

For those of you who laugh about coverage inside building, you're lucky that you don't have problem so you don't have to care. But people who are about to get into this deal may care because this problem may apply to their locations. So I see no point of laughing at this issue that some people have.

 

[HBMaGneT]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
M0rons, it depends on the area obviously. I got this deal with Amazon yesterday but they only give you 200 in credit, no biggie as I shop at Amazon anyway. I was with Verizon for 3 years and they're by far the more popular provider where I live (metro Philly area) but I get sh)tty service at home, school and work fluctuates greatly. According to T-Mo owners I know around this area, they all love the coverage and get great service in and around the city. I also like the fact I can buy a 29.99 deal with T-Mo but providers like Nextel, Verizon, and Cingular only offer 39.99 at the least. For just a 1yr contract I'll take a shot, why not? It's a sleek, powerful phone with what should be a good provider.

I have to agree. I have had multiple people come to my place of residence and they get no signal, Sprint, Verizon, or T-Mobile. And that is cuz we are in teh middle of three towers and have lots of trees in the area. Everywhere else T-Mobile rocks. It is all digital like Cingular. If you want coverage everywhere you go Verizon, otherwise you need to know what you are getting into, and not have expectations for it to work in areas that it shouldn't. Btw I have had only 1 drop call a month on T-mobile vs 10-15 a month on Sprint or Verizon. Thanks T-Mobile. Oh btw 1 yrs contracts with a good free phone vs 2 yrs for a cruddy phone.... you do the math guys.....

 

[thespeakerbox]

Anyone know any san antonio asian cheap tmobile dealers.

 

[ScottAnthony25]

thanks for the coverage map.

my area has no color at all.

glad i found out now.

 

[XNice]

people are just stupid... i have had tmobile for 3 years and loved it. i've had bad experiences with both att and verizon. verizon's customer support is pretty horrible and tmobile's is much better. coverage is arguably the same for both in my Philly Metro area. I noticed most of the people who hate tmobile arent the ones using tmobile.

as far as the phone i think they are gettion rid of these 1st gen razrs to make room for the newer ones about to debut really soon. I remember seeing pics of the new razr phones on howardmobile.com's forums.

 

[tvbi]

I never got my rebates from intelenet

 

[andyliu88]

my girlfriend just signed a one year contract w/ t-mobile with a FREE MOTOROLA V3 RAZR (Completely Free without the hassle of rebates)

$45 per month
1000 anytime minutes
free nighte and weekend
free mobile to mobile
free long distance and no roaming

The signal strength is satisfactory, it's on par with my Cingular in Southern California.

You just have to go to places where competetion is abundant. We got it from AG Communications in Rowland Heights, CA.

 

[MonkeyK]

I have T-Mobile in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. In my last house, reception was spotty (usually around 2 bars). I made some complaints and a couple of months later reception became excellent (4 bars).

I my new house reception is so good that I can make calls in my basement!

 

[Thump553]

Thanks for the link to the T-Mobile map, Supafly. It amazes me how localized and spotty T-Mobile's coverage is-in the large suburb of Hartford I checked coverage seems to be limited to a couple of circles maybe a quarter mile in diameter. In my town coverage is almost totally nonexistent.

 

[timxpx]

t-mobile is the suck in central jersey.

i'm still in college, and my mom is nice to me and offered to keep me on a family plan for our cell phone. but she switched our service from cingular to t-mobile, right after the at&t merger [she got a deal out of it price-wise] and it's been downhill ever since. 90 billiondy [where billiondy is a number so large you can't comprehend] dropped calls and 3 phones later, i hardly get service in my own house [middlesex county], i lose service on most of the parkway that isn't near newark, i have to wander through the woods to get service anywhere in ocean county [more specifically, jackson] and it's 1-2 bars out of 6 most of the time.

i don't have service so often that my voicemails just pop up when i get back into a coverage area, having never missed the call. text messages get eaten by the network.

so now i'm in the process of switching to back to cingular [getting the black razr from amazon.com]. if you live in central jersey, either verizon or cingular is the way to go. i would have went verizon because of their customer service; i like the idea of going into a verizon store and having someone fix your phone on the spot when something is wrong. however, the people i call most all have cingular.

on the up side, t-mobile is still better than nextel in this area.