Verizon is like the douchebag who keeps landing hot chicks

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Verizon loads their phones with bloatware, covers them in stickers, puts in restrictive policies and generally shafts their customers, but it keeps landing incredible exclusive phones. First the Xperia Z3V and now the Motorola Droid Turbo. Seriously, look at this shit:

Motorola Droid Turbo

2.7 Ghz Snapdragon 805

3 GB RAM

5.2 inch QHD display = 565 ppi (!!!)

21 MP camera (I know I know, megapixels aren't everything)

3,900 mAH battery (That's bigger than the Nexus 7 tablet)

Turbo charging (8 hours use in 15 mins)

Verizon exclusive so not only will no one outside of VZ ever see this again but this phone will be covered with Verizon stickers.

Seriously, how does Verizon keep doing this? And why is Motorola upstaging the Moto X this soon after release?

Phonearena article in question: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Veri...the-most-specd-out-phone-in-the-world_id61727

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McLovin

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Not only that but their plans are ridiculous. Its too bad pretty much everyone else's network is shit compared to them.
 
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Lubricus

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McLovin said:
Not only that but their plans are ridiculous. Its too bad pretty much everyone else's network is shit compared to them.
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My sister has Verizon, she gets reception in places my ATT doesn't. If you live in the country, Verizon is your only choice.
 
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You can't ignore Verizon's girth.

Supposedly they're getting the Nexus 6 too, which would mark Nexus's return to Verizon after the ill-fated Galaxy Nexus.

And yeah, they know their network is superior to everyone else's and that they have you by the balls if you ever stray outside a major city in the US. They charge so much because they know they can and you'll cough up your US dollars if you want signal. But I still have the grandfathered unlimited data so I'm winning
 
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jersoc

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root phone, remove all their shit. better yet, put on a custom rom.

If only Tmobile network was useful I would jump ship. But still have VZW unlimited I can't give that shit up. 10gigs a month of usage on average.
 
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Lubricus said:
My sister has Verizon, she gets reception in places my ATT doesn't. If you live in the country, Verizon is your only choice.
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I'm on ATT, and I often have better service in certain places in my locale (Washington DC) than my friends who are on Verizon
 
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Fatalah

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It's just weird the Droid Turbo has capacitive buttons. Verizon must really dictate to Motorola what they want out of their Droid line. This is going to be an expensive beast off-contract, the opposite of everything Motorola's been going for.
 
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Verizon is like the douchebag who keeps landing hot chicks
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Not really. For situations like this, it's not like the hot chicks are flocking to him. It's more like Verizon is like the rich douchebag who keeps buying up the hot hookers and ruining them. Cuts their face so no one else will want them.
 
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Sprint is kinda fine for reception in some rural areas on their own network, but if you're on Sprint postpaid you can roam fine on their network and at least call when you are in the middle of nowhere.
 
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Lubricus said:
My sister has Verizon, she gets reception in places my ATT doesn't. If you live in the country, Verizon is your only choice.
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That's completely untrue depending on where you live. For example, in rural kentucky you want ATT. Verizon's coverage is nonexistent.
 
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Verizon's coverage is great. My T-Mobile drops off 5 minutes out in either direction, while Verizon pretty much stays active anywhere I go and I live in the countryside. That said, I have T-Mobile because I get unlimited data at $70. You know what's sad? My T-Mobile 4G LTE (15Mbps/10Mbps/35ms) is faster than the home Internet I used to have at $90 for (3Mbps/1Mbps/110ms). I don't know why 4G LTE exists in my location, but it has been a godsend for me.
 
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thecharrr said:
Sprint is kinda fine for reception in some rural areas on their own network, but if you're on Sprint postpaid you can roam fine on their network and at least call when you are in the middle of nowhere.
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As far as making calls and good customer service go, sprint is great. but their data network is just garbage. They put this super aggressive software on their phones that makes the wifi turn on, even if you turn it off. Makes streaming music almost impossible on long trips. I almost got into an accident once because of it. Had pandora running and I had a long stretch of silence(like 25minutes). I didn't mind it so I just left it, then the sprint software gives up trying to find the wifi and goes back to mobile data. Music just start blasting out of nowhere! Scared the shit out of me.
 
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Dennis said:
I need to get an American iPhone. What is the best carrier?

Sprint, AT&T, T-mobile or Verizon?
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You pretty much have to get Verizon. You're travelling as I recall. They are pretty much the only carrier who have coverage out of cities and freeways. I wouldn't want to be stuck with no service.
 
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Pretty surprising that they have attractive phones... Verizon routinely (IMO) has been second fiddle to every other carrier in getting phones you want. They originally didn't carry the iPhone, then never carried any Nexus devices, didn't get the Nexus 7 for like a year or more, and have this ridiculous like of Verizon crapware Droid shit like the Droid X, Droid Charge. They were late to the Samsung Galaxy line, late to the Note line, I'm surrpised they're carrying the Xperia.

I hate Verizon and I'm desperate to switch... But honestly a lot of it comes down to the network for me. With VoLTE becoming a reality on Tmobile, I'm prepared to drop them finally.
 
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I don't get the hate for Verizon, they are the only phone company (and I have tried most of them) that have me covered with great speeds wherever I am. Sure they aren't the cheapest but you really do get what you pay for.
 
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I'm likely switching to Verizon soon enough. My Sprint coverage is terrible, and I get dropped calls in my new house on the outskirts of town (Charlotte, NC), and I've never received 4G service in either of my two apartments in Charlotte, my new house, or at work with Sprint (I've been with Sprint for 3 years). It's only when I'm in other parts of town that I can actually get 4G. It's terrible.

The dropped calls are the real deal-breaker, though. I work from home 3 days per week and need to be on conference calls. Last week, for example, I had 4 drops during one 30 minute call, and then another 4 drops over 15 or 20 minutes during a late night code testing session.

I have unlimited data with Sprint, but I don't really use it (I just use wireless at home), though the lack of reliable 4G "helps" that statistic. Verizon's plan with 2GB will actually be more than sufficient for me, and it will cost me less. The only thing I haven't quite gotten over is the ETF of about $220 I'll need to pay plus the cost of a new phone. Oh well, that's life.
 
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King Cobra said:
I don't get the hate for Verizon, they are the only phone company (and I have tried most of them) that have me covered with great speeds wherever I am. Sure they aren't the cheapest but you really do get what you pay for.
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I think most of the people who hate them do so because of the cost. Sure, Verizon is more expensive than the competitors. But if you live west of the Rockies, they're the only company with reliable reception more than a few miles outside of any major city. I often travel to places in pretty much the middle of nowhere as part of my girlfriend's rockhounding hobby - a cell phone with no reception is worse than useless, and that's mostly what I got back in my T-Mobile days.

For comparison, we went out to a mine that was in the high desert of southeast Oregon, more than 25 miles from the nearest house - far enough away that the owners of the mine lived on site most of the year rather than try to drive in regularly. Even way out there, with literally nothing but mountains and desert scrub as far as the eye could see in every direction, they could get cell phone reception if they stood in a particular place in the camp. What provider did they have? Verizon. By comparison, my T-Mobile phone (at the time) lost reception 2 miles outside of the closest large town (which was nearly 100 miles away at that point).

As long as AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint continue to only offer coverage in town, I'll continue to pay Verizon for the privilege of using my phone wherever I am
 
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Yup. I have the superior version of the original Moto X - the Droid Maxx. So much bloat. But I can ignore it for the most part.
 
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Randolph Freelander said:
I'm likely switching to Verizon soon enough. My Sprint coverage is terrible, and I get dropped calls in my new house on the outskirts of town (Charlotte, NC), and I've never received 4G service in either of my two apartments in Charlotte, my new house, or at work with Sprint (I've been with Sprint for 3 years). It's only when I'm in other parts of town that I can actually get 4G. It's terrible.

The dropped calls are the real deal-breaker, though. I work from home 3 days per week and need to be on conference calls. Last week, for example, I had 4 drops during one 30 minute call, and then another 4 drops over 15 or 20 minutes during a late night code testing session.

I have unlimited data with Sprint, but I don't really use it (I just use wireless at home), though the lack of reliable 4G "helps" that statistic. Verizon's plan with 2GB will actually be more than sufficient for me, and it will cost me less. The only thing I haven't quite gotten over is the ETF of about $220 I'll need to pay plus the cost of a new phone. Oh well, that's life.
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What phone are you currently using?

Since Sprint uses a mixture of LTE bands (aka Spark), many older phones can't use LTE since they only use one band. The newer tri-band phones may show additional data coverage than you previously had.
 
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claviertekky said:
What phone are you currently using?

Since Sprint uses a mixture of LTE bands (aka Spark), many older phones can't use LTE since they only use one band. The newer tri-band phones may show additional data coverage than you previously had.
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I had a Galaxy S2 for ~2 years, and a HTC One for the past 15 months.
 
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tarius1210 said:
Wait...what? I didn't know this existed. Why don't more phones have this feature?

*looks at iPhone 6*
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dont know about 6, but 6+ can be charged pretty damn fast if you use a ipad brick.

but yeah everything needs some kind of turbo chargig.
 
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