jeff on 6 Jul 2012 08:10:39 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Linux friendly tablet?


On 07/06/2012 11:02 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
The Galaxy Nexus sounds great.  I see I can get it from Verizon for $149 with a 2-year contract (AKA: enslavement agreement.)  I can get it direct from Google for $349 - but it's GSM only.  Decisions, decisions.

I was just doing comparision shopping, and if you're willing to forgo
the phone subsidy you can get 4 lines of unlimited voice+text and 2
lines with 2GB of data (with no overage charges - just throttling
above that) from T-Mobile for $100/month.  By my math that is a

avoid T-Mobile if at all possible.

8 years of Verizon with nary a dropped call.
2 years of T-Mobile with dropped calls, bad service, no thought to the needs of the customers, and horrible coverage.

And these are very large business plans.



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