Side by Side Comparison Pics

[doublea500]

Not to get too technical, but you aren't paying $349. That's the carrier subsidized price.

You eventually end up paying for the full retail price of the phone (around $600-$700) because Verizon rolls this cost in with their service. This is why you get charged an ETF if you drop them before you contract is up (because they can't recoup their costs if you leave your contract early).

The $349 is really more of a "down payment".

the 349 is only a down payment if your are new to the service. if you are already with verizon, then you either keep paying the $30 a month for the first smartphone or buy the $349 (idt its gonna be that much) for the new phone. its more like a speed bump.

 

[Trusstopher]

Not to get too technical, but you aren't paying $349. That's the carrier subsidized price.

You eventually end up paying for the full retail price of the phone (around $600-$700) because Verizon rolls this cost in with their service. This is why you get charged an ETF if you drop them before you contract is up (because they can't recoup their costs if you leave your contract early).

The $349 is really more of a "down payment".

I sort of agree with that except that if this were 100% the case, I should be paying less per month for buying a phone at full price and only going month by month. Equally, I should be paying less a month for service on my D1 now that my 2 year contract has been up for a few months. Unfortunately, I am still helping them recoup costs on a device that has been paid off.

 

[UrbanBounca]

FTR, the Nexus was priced at nearly $800 retail USD in the Netherlands recently. I expect more than a $299 price tag.

Sent from my DROID2 using Tapatalk

 

[Liderc]

It's hard to compare prices in other countries because of how different their plans are. I know plans in the UK are a lot cheaper than in the US, so their phones cost more up front.

 

[mightybrick]

It's hard to compare prices in other countries because of how different their plans are. I know plans in the UK are a lot cheaper than in the US, so their phones cost more up front.

Yes. And in some European countries it is illegal for carriers to subsidize phones for consumers.

 

[xeene]

Yeah, capitalism at it's best, but if we didn't have capitalism, we'd all be using phones like they have in Russia (crap) and living in housing like they have in Russia (way crap). I'll take the higher prices and have the choice to have the best technology if I want it over forced to get what "they" want me to have. Yea USA!!

When was the last time you were in Russia?

 

[EL Lacost]

Last weekend for my aunt jutnas birthday

Odin Rooted Samsung Fascinate

 

[matt2783]

I've been waiting to see size comparisons... Looks nearly the same as the Bionic. I guess those disappearing soft keys really do make a difference. Glad to see it.

 

[ilikemoneygreen]

Not to be random, but since your limited to 32 gigs, is that a mini hard drive or just a sd card that is sealed in the phone? If its just sealed in the phone, why not give people the slot? I guess that part kinda confuses me.

 

[Arkbird]

Not to be random, but since your limited to 32 gigs, is that a mini hard drive or just a sd card that is sealed in the phone? If its just sealed in the phone, why not give people the slot? I guess that part kinda confuses me.

??? I would say neither. It's probably flash memory, just like any other internal memory in phones now a days.

 

[ilikemoneygreen]

??? I would say neither. It's probably flash memory, just like any other internal memory in phones now a days.

Like nand? Why though? to me i would think Devs would like the ability to switch sd cards out.

 

[Liderc]

It's just not needed, plug it into your PC and swap any files instantly.

 

[ilikemoneygreen]

It's just not needed, plug it into your PC and swap any files instantly.

Alternative methods of getting files on phones arnt really what i was asking. Not needed for YOU maybe. Assuming i need no sd card slot is a major no no.Their is a sd card i have thats got my music, which i use during several different parts of the day..then their is the sd card thats got all my normal stuff like all my app backups and clockwordmod stuff. Hurting my system. If I were naming alternative ways i think primarily i would be dropboxing things or using box.net to put stuff on my phone. I never can keep track of that usb chord once i take it off the charger. Doing that wouldnt be an instant task becuase it would take me 10 minutes to track down the chord. We should all get sarcastic and make "Why isn't Google putting an sd card slot inside its premier phone, not like its 2011 or anything " the number one search for a couple days. See if they get the hint. :icon_ devil: to be really turn on google nerds make it "01010111011010000111100100100000011010010111001101101110001001110111010000100000010001110110111101101111011001110110110001100101001000000111000001110101011101000111010001101001011011100110011100100000011000010110111000100000011100110110010000100000011000110110000101110010011001000010000001110011011011000110111101110100001000000110100101101110011100110110100101100100011001010010000001101001011101000111001100100000011100000111001001100101011011010110100101100101011100100010000001110000011010000110111101101110011001010010110000100000011011100110111101110100001000000110110001101001011010110110010100100000011010010111010001110011001000000011001000110000001100010011000100100000011011110111001000100000011000010110111001111001011101000110100001101001011011100110011100100000001000000011101000101000" Who knows.... :icon_eek::blink:

 

[Creed]

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[ilikemoneygreen]

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Haha nice. While cloud is a good tool, its not practical to delete the entire memory to just put your music on for a couple of hours then delete it and "Cloud" back all my other info. I dont plan on using 4g much since it isnt in my area that strongly yet so transferring data like that over 3g isnt going to work. the beauty with dropbox is that it does it over wifi where i really dont use the 3g for the file transfer but when i go running and stuff it wold take considerable time. mountains arnt really good for 3g signals so my music cant be in the cloud for workouts. 4g is at my school in mesa though.. but that's 20miles away. I guess i could stop using my phone as my primary mp3 player but it would be a pain to go running with a phone and an mp3 player. All this over a 2 dollar sd card slot? ANd i know your going to say listen to less music but comeon, thats my music. I cant pick only a couple faorites.. Its the designated mp3 player.