booo.. ah well. it really only works excellently with the galaxy nexus. pretty buggy on devices it got ported too. remember you have different keyboards you can try on android, such as swiftkey.
Quick bfun.. get your money back and get this promo. http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-phone/Samsung-Exhibit-4G-Prepaid
Ah, so you just bought the prepaid version of the phone to use on your postpaid plan? I thought you just went with their monthly4G prepaid. If you did go with their prepaid, you can use that. it'll just add $50 to your account to apply for the next month.
Well I'm not sure what they call it. I pay a monthly bill but there is no fixed contract. Is that Prepay? I know it's not the Tmobile Prepay. That was another plan altogether.
T-mobile does postpay with BYOP. It comes out cheaper than a subsidized phone w/ 2 year contract. Did you do it in store, because I don't think that is offered online.
I use the Walmart Family Mobile plan which is through Tmobile. It's a mystery to me how it works but it was the best plan. You have to do it through Walmart.
Oh ya, that's right. i totally forgot about that. Do they still have that funky data plan system where you pay for x amount of data and you have it until you use it all up? I figured that walmart family mobile was ok if you didn't use data. otherwise, the way the data costs is too expensive on it. does walmart family mobile also use hspa+ on t-mobile?
Wally and Tmobile have another plan that uses hspa+ and they call it "4G". My plan is labeled as 3G so I would assume it's not hspa+. My speed test always come in at about 0.97Mbs. After I reach the monthly data limit I expect it will get throttled down to 0.3Mbs. I don't expect to hit the limit very often as I don't use data very much.
I just looked back at walmart family mobile and it looks that it includes 250MB shared data with all lines on account per month now. It used to be none when it came out. They still use the webpack refill system (works like top up cards for other prepaid services) if you need more data and doesn't expire. It is fairly expensive though.
Didn't t-mobile get rid of that altogether like summer last year? Initially, they took it off from the webstore.. and then they got rid of it altogether and in favor of the new classic and value plans. Then they revamped their prepaid services and created monthly4G.
So I don't get it. Whats the difference between a good Andoid phone and a bad Android phone? Why is Jelly Bean so important? What does it have that I need?
Don't think of it as a good or bad phone or why jelly bean is important, and what it has that you need, but rather what the longevity of your phone is. It's the same thing like buying a computer.. and you're new to computers. You have no reference on what you may or may not need so not even we can help you. Your phone has hardware from 2010. That's basically considered outdated. The gpu is super lackluster. I have no idea if that's bad or fine for you, but you'll eventually find out when you start to use your phone more and have it for a longer time. In the end, something in this range could be perfectly fine for you. Especially if you just use it similarly to a feature phone (calls, im/text, email). But the main point for you specifically is that if you want to get phones unsubsidized at $200 or less, you'll always have a low-end phone. Rather than jump into Jelly Bean, the jump to ICS was the most important so far out of all earlier android revisions. Jelly Bean was more incremental although still fairly big. When google introduced honeycomb (android 3.0) which was exclusive to tablets, they basically redid the whole android interface along with redoing the core google apps. When ICS came around, honeycomb features merged into android for both phones and tablets. So now you benefit from the whole updated interface. Selections are more elegant now. When you long press an item to select it or even text, rather than the old fashioned context menu pop up and cover the screen, it uses a context action bar across the top instead. The menu button is pretty much obsolete now as the new action bar is used in favor of it. The notification pulldown got reworked as well. Apps can be developed to use their ongoing notification space as a widget. You can pull down the notification bar from the lockscreen (if you don't have security set). You can swipe away individual notifications now. Face unlock (not that useful). Chrome browser only works in ICS. Multitasking menu shows you small thumbnails of where you last were in the app. You can swipe away the thumbnails to close the app. There's also a data usage control assistant too. You have a chart and counter to see how much data you have used and how much each app is using. There's a few other things that are fairly cool too, but you won't really experience them unless you have a Nexus device (stock android). The stock camera app has a bunch of new camera shooting functions and effects. The stock launcher finally has folder support and resizable widgets. The stock phone app is now integrated with google voice's visual voicemail. Jelly Bean adds some refinements over all of that. They were boasting that everything was smoother now. Scrolling, screen transitions, etc. The biggest thing that caught me was another touch to notifications. It shows more info per notification now, and you can expand it by using 2 finger touch gesture. Also, you can go directly to the action from the notication (reply email/text etc). They also updated the stock launcher again so icons auto-arrange when you place another icon or widget down. So you don't get that stupid icon/widget won't fit on this screen error. Google Now was the big addition to Jelly Bean, app-wise. It's basically Google search and voice search brought all into one personal hub. It also acts like siri. But on top of this, it learns from your daily routines and schedules. It'll remember your work place and send you an alert if traffic becomes heavy and tell you how early you have to leave to get there in time. It'll remember what sports teams you like and leave a scoreboard card up for you in the hub. If you check a particular flight number, it'll remember and leave a card up for you in the hub and alert you if delays occur.
Jelly Bean is the 5.0 version of Android, but the overwhelming majority of users are still on 2.0 software... That's June 2012 stats apparently.
Jelly Bean is version 4.1, not version 5.0. And 3.0 isn't compatible with phones. So most people are one or two versions behind on Ice Cream Sandwich or Gingerbread. Not that big of a deal really. I'm sure a lot of iPhone users are also one or two versions out of date.
actually jelly bean is 4.1 that stat should shift a decent amount for next month. The only big time phones out with Android 4.0 during the time were the galaxy nexus and htc one series. and both don't exactly hit the sales mark of the galaxy s series. The galaxy s III is gonna be out in full launch in North America by the end of July and samsung also just completed the ics ota for their galaxy s II variants for all US carriers today.
I see plenty of tech articles that refer to Jelly Bean as 5.0... http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-Nexus-Android-5.0-Jelly-Bean,news-15238.html