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Old Nov 3, 2009 | 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Civic2Scooby
cause the way they work the iphone data plan it is rape. I am paying 120 a month for my iphone and I can get the same useage out of verizon at 70 a month. That extra 50 bucks a month is well worth it to me to switch to a new service that covers more area and has better service etc.

every review I have read on the rogue has been very positive...do you have links?

HTC runs windows mobile right....I had an HTC waaaay back on sprint and it sucked my big fat cock.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews...gue/10521.html

HTC makes Windows Mobile and Android phones. They've made a lot of progress in cleaning up the interfaces on both. Not quite iPhone slick but pretty decent.

What iPhone plan do you have?
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Old Nov 3, 2009 | 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews...gue/10521.html

HTC makes Windows Mobile and Android phones. They've made a lot of progress in cleaning up the interfaces on both. Not quite iPhone slick but pretty decent.

What iPhone plan do you have?
900 minutes/text unlimited/iphone specific data plan.

11*.00 a month plus tax etc.
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Old Nov 3, 2009 | 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Civic2Scooby
900 minutes/text unlimited/iphone specific data plan.

11*.00 a month plus tax etc.
On VZW with a smartphone you'd be on PDA/Smartphone Nationwide Email & Messaging 900 which is $119. Dumbphone you could do Nationwide Connect 900 for $89 or if you want vCast crap in addition to data then Nationwide Premium 900 for $99. But you'd be on a dumbphone, and I dunno about you but I've been using WinMo and iPhone too long to go back to some dumbphone.
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Old Nov 3, 2009 | 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
On VZW with a smartphone you'd be on PDA/Smartphone Nationwide Email & Messaging 900 which is $119. Dumbphone you could do Nationwide Connect 900 for $89 or if you want vCast crap in addition to data then Nationwide Premium 900 for $99. But you'd be on a dumbphone, and I dunno about you but I've been using WinMo and iPhone too long to go back to some dumbphone.
well I am bumping my minutes down to 450, if I could go lower I would. I used to use voice a shit ton, but really just text anymore. I have like 6000 roll over minutes on ATT and prob. use about 300 a month if that. I don't want Vcrap. In reality for what I need right now I want full HTML browsing and good text capabilities.
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Old Nov 3, 2009 | 07:50 PM
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Maybe I will just unlock my phone and get a 60 dollar a month t-mobile plan with unlimited text/data h:
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Old Nov 3, 2009 | 07:54 PM
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T-Mobile 3G is spotty and not quite on the right frequencies to get full coverage with an iPhone.

You're jailbroken already right? If you can wait, sign up for a Google Voice invite. You can then send texts for free using GV Mobile from Cydia.
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Old Nov 3, 2009 | 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
T-Mobile 3G is spotty and not quite on the right frequencies to get full coverage with an iPhone.

You're jailbroken already right? If you can wait, sign up for a Google Voice invite. You can then send texts for free using GV Mobile from Cydia.
I already have Google Voice. I didn't know there was a GV mobile app from Cydia.
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Old Nov 3, 2009 | 08:02 PM
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http://www.seankovacs.com/index.php/gv-mobile/
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Old Nov 3, 2009 | 08:05 PM
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so people just send texts to my GV number and what i pops up in the app? Do I have to open the app to check SMS or will it notify me? If so I will drop my entire text package.
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Old Nov 3, 2009 | 08:18 PM
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I haven't used it myself so not sure really how it works. From some searching around it looks like there are a couple of roundabout ways to accomplish it but not quite as seamlessly as the Messages app.

There's a couple ways to use Prowl to set up push notifications and then you would just open the GV Mobile app once you see the popup.

http://prowl.weks.net/
http://www.gvmax.com/
http://github.com/mikeyk/googlevoicenotify

To clarify: the popup won't take you directly to the GV Mobile app, you'll have to do that yourself once you see the notification. As opposed to a regular text message sent to your AT&T phone number the popup you can click Reply to go to the Messages app.

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