Yes, I suggest the skinomi covers. Self healing, good price, and it doesn't have that gel/rubber feeling some covers have. Installation can be a bit of a pain though.
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Windows Phone |OT3 Update 3| Please be excited
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Yes, I suggest the skinomi covers. Self healing, good price, and it doesn't have that gel/rubber feeling some covers have. Installation can be a bit of a pain though.
killer rin
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Depends on the person. If your careful and can deal with small scratches, you don't need them. They also tend to mess with the way that colors come through the screen. Though they are good at protecting it from scratches and small dents which come from small drops.
If you do go for one though, make sure you get someone who has put them on before to do it. You will fuck it up and you will end up leaving bubbles and skid marks/fingerprints on the protector which get extremely annoying and end up causing you to ruin the protector.
frontieruk
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When was the last time ms did an os update without announcing it was coming out on such a such date?
Steelyuhas
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I gotta assume it'll be 9 or 10 AM PST.
Well this is pretty subject to new hardware coming out and carriers testing and approving updates. I assume it'll be a soft launch over the last spring-summer.
Done. Thanks man. I've never understood what makes something like that "self-healing".
Read that it's supposed to roll out 10am PST at WPCentral. Not sure how accurate that is though.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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Can't wait to play with cortana tomorrow
Steelyuhas
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Heh, it'll happen.
I'll be at work when the update goes live, so I'll probably just wait until tomorrow night to make the move.
|OT| Wake me, when you need me
juliushandle
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|OT|no really, we have caught up
nillapuddin
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Okay, so I wanted to move my 6 line family plan to ATT
But with Sprint we would get buried with ETF charges if we switched before like, Q4 2015
My original Galaxy Nexus has a cracked screen and they say it will take 150 to fix it, I feel like I might aswell just buy a new phone, but I dont want to extend my contract with them any longer than it already is, and Im desperate for a switch.
do yall think it would be worth it for me to buy one of these off ebay?
edit: I realize Im on the tail end of the thread, but Id appreciate some guidance
But with Sprint we would get buried with ETF charges if we switched before like, Q4 2015
My original Galaxy Nexus has a cracked screen and they say it will take 150 to fix it, I feel like I might aswell just buy a new phone, but I dont want to extend my contract with them any longer than it already is, and Im desperate for a switch.
do yall think it would be worth it for me to buy one of these off ebay?
edit: I realize Im on the tail end of the thread, but Id appreciate some guidance
juliushandle
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ATT is paying $100 per line for every new line to ATT til the end of the month.
nillapuddin
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I know that, but Sprint charges (a shit ton of money)
Like I said, some of the people in our family have contracts running til 12/15
edit: 05/25/14, 10/01/14, 02/02/15, 07/20/15, 07/20/15, 12/26/15
Slowly migrate? That's what I did with my wife and I. She stayed on Verizon until her contact was up.and I went ahead and bailed to ATT.
nillapuddin
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Yeah thats kinda our only option, its gunna be a lonnng process lol
Back to my original question though, is buying that phone off ebay a good idea? It seems legit, the ones with bad ESN's are clearly listed as such.
I just need something to get me through to my inevitable switch over
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Alternate scenario A: we all fake our deaths to get out of our contracts
Alternate scenario B: we switch to a T mobile, they pay for our ETF from Sprint, then somehow we leave T Mobile (without charges, possibly faking our deaths) then sign up for ATT, obtain eternal lumia hapiness
NeOak
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If you want AT&T, do it gradually. EDIT: HOLY SHIT 2015? GG.
If you are fine with the T-Mobile phones, well... go to T-Mobile.
Edit: For the 2015 ones T-Mobile is your only choice.
Edit 2: IMO, Move all to T-Mobile, get Lumia 925s. Can't be worse than staying with Sprint.
Edit 3: If you want the 1520, the US version RM-938 and AT&T version RM-940 seem to have the bands for T-Mobile 3G/HSPA & LTE.
Kinky John
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Windows Phone 8.1 |OT| #CortanaCashHaveAwesome
nillapuddin
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Well I want to move us from Sprint because the service is poor and the data is bad, from what I understand T Mobile is slightly better, but ATT is the ALOT better
On ATT I can pay almost the exact same per month, but get much better service and a wider selection of phones.
Right now Im running the numbers on TMobile to see how it stacks up
edit: welp nvm, saw the 925. Realized it was ugly as sin (my opinion)
I guess I could try and buy some unlocked lumia 920/1020
edit2: holy shit, unlocked 1020 for 400, nvm, plan r, gunna ride it out w/sprint and move people over as I go
Nope. You'll update to Cyan normally, and get the Cyan features. No problem.
Cool awesome. I'll register a dev account straight away in that case.
I think protective cases are more important than screen protectors. A shattered screen is worse than a scratched one, and flip covers also protect the screen against most scratches (as long as you don't get sand between the screen and the cover or something).
However, you can't really be too careful.
brotkasten
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Get ready, everyone!
that's in like less than 4 hours?
brotkasten
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9 or 10 am PST. That's in few hours.
If I had Cortana I would have got her to do it.
I'm checking each time I hit a good break in my documentation writing, so about once an hour at this rate.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I had a dream last night where I pick up my phone and the start screen looks weird. I swipe down from the top......and I had a notification center! Apparently the 8.1 update had downloaded and installed in the background.
I just woke up and what's the first thing I do?
I just woke up and what's the first thing I do?
grab my phone and swipe down from the top, but no dice
Kinky John
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Downloading updates...
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Me too!
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