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Karel Jansens is offline Karel Jansens
2008-02-28 , 21:26
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#51
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
ToS violations aren't legal issues. Grounds for the carrier to drop you, sure, but it's certainly not criminal.
Well, if we're going to nitpick: Agreements between contractants count as law between them, unless they're overruled by higher laws.
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2008-02-28 , 22:03
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#52
Originally Posted by brontide View Post
Page Plus allows qnc for free, it's 14.4, but it's free.
Is it really free? (aside from $10 every 4 months or whatever to keep the account active)

I seem to remember reading someplace that it went against minutes.
 
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2008-02-28 , 22:31
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#53
Originally Posted by dblank View Post
Is it really free? (aside from $10 every 4 months or whatever to keep the account active)

I seem to remember reading someplace that it went against minutes.
Nope, free and no minutes used. This will probably change at some point in the not so distant future once they finalize and announce their own data plan ( which has been hinted at for a year or more ).
 
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2008-02-28 , 22:41
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#54
Originally Posted by brontide View Post
If the mogul is $200 ( w 2yr contract after $100 mail in rebate - regular price $549 ) and you are paying... how much a month to use all the advanced features? $20, $30, $40? Even at $20/month you are talking almost $500 over the $200 during the course of your 2-year lock-in.
nope. I have their SERO plan. $30 a month flat fee for 500 minutes, UNLIMITED text and data. So I'm actually saving money, because I was paying $40 a month for my old cell phone with AT&T, and I didn't even have a data plan with that. so that's an extra $120 a year in my pocket. in less than 2 years, the mogul has paid for itself!

You still have to shell out for a phone plan and any other add-ons.
not really. the mogul has wifi, so in the event I'm somewhere in the world where I can't get cell reception, I can flip the wifi switch and browse the net at starbucks or some other hotspot. just like you'd do with an internet tablet. but what if you aren't near a hotspot with your internet tablet? This happened to me when I took the device to mexico. unless you have a seperate cell phone and data plan to tether to, you are SOL.

If may work for you, but don't pretend like you are not paying for convenience just like an iPhone user.
lol what? last I checked, convenience is a good thing. and I'm actually paying less for it, so its a win-win situation for me.

Sprint does have some good deals on occasion, but read howardforums.com sometime to hear the horror stories of people who have never once gotten a correct bill or have been told 6 answers by 6 reps over the course of 24 hours. When it works great, but when something goes wrong Sprint can be a nightmare.
I called the customer service line for my old cell phone maybe 2 or 3 times over the 8 years I had it, so its not like thats a big factor for me. And for $30 a month, I'd be willing to put up with their customer service reps. In fact, they transferred my old cell phone number over to the new phone TOO quickly - before I got the new phone. so they credited my first bill $25.
 
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#55
Originally Posted by sherifnix View Post
Gah I hate when people factor service into the price of a device.

If you're tethering your Nokia Tablet, you're paying the same if not way more to have mobile internet. Legally speaking, with the Tablet you're supposed to be paying tethering service which is astronomically higher ($75+/mo). Whereas iPhone service is $20/mo.

Now I realize there is people that don't use mobile services, but I would imagine the majority DO tether.
T-Mobile tethering is $0/mo. (you pay the same data fees whether you're on a smartphone or a laptop tethered to a dumb-phone)

T-Mobile unlimited web is $6/mo. (whether you're on a smartphone or not)

T-Mobile unlimited total internet is $20/mo. (whether you're on a smartphone or not)

My point being: your criticism depends on the carrier, and the one you specifically give seems to match AT&T's numbers ... where AT&T is just about the worst case in this arena.

For Sprint (the case in question), it's $40/mo to do unlimited phone-as-modem/tethering, not $75/mo.
 
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#56
Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
Is it completely integrated into the same control panel process you use for setting up BT DUN?
Yes, almost. But you don't need to go through the cellphone wizard, because PAN doesn't require dialup connection data (your phone handles this for you).

Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
Is it supported by Nokia, out of the main Nokia application repository?
No, it's not supported by Nokia. It's in the maemo-extras repository, where many 3rd party apps are.
 
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