Well, true to my word, I got tired of waiting. I went down to the ATT store on friday, went directly over to the HTC one and laid my eyes and hands on it for the first time in person. I opened and explored all kinds of apps, and I cannot believe how incredibly fast this phone is compared to my OG Dinc. I could not get it to lag, even texting, and I'm a fast typer, my current phone I have to wait for it to catch up, not the htc one.
A rep came over and I had my vz bill in hand, so we discussed my current coverage and billing structure. As I mentioned before, my employer gives me a 24% discount on att and vz a 19% discount. My current plan with vz is a bit old, for fear of not wanting to mess with it after I got divorced last year, and possibly lose my unlimited data, I just left it alone. 700 minutes talk, 5000 texts, unlimited data. I have gone over on the minutes when it was a busy month, like moving but I never came close to going over on texts and obviously data. My typical data now that I use wifi so much is maybe a half gig a month. However there has been times, travelling or when I moved that I used the the heck out of it for the month and maybe reached 2.5 gig.
So with ATT I went with the unlimited talk and text and 4 gig, and with my discount it's about 8 bucks cheaper a month. Not a big deal really, but I did lose the unlimited data, which as I mentioned above I've tested and looked at my overall useage for the last couple years, and is not really a factor. Besides, if I wanted to keep it, and stay with vz, I'd of had to pay full retail some 700 bucks for a phone, at some point in the future. Also as I've said, my biggest concern was coverage and using the phone. I've looked on the internet and att is pretty close to neck and neck on vz in coverage, and in the market I live in, dallas, they exceed vz coverage. Not to say vz doesn't have good coverage and better pockets of coverage in some markets, I am quite sure they do.
Downside, I lose removeable battery, and removeable sd card, that my current or outdated OG Dinc has. I can deal with the sd card, in fact I ordered the 64gb model from att, and I highly doubt I will come close to using that much up but I wanted to make sure I had enough memory to last me a few years with this phone, til my next upgrade. The biggest thing I'll miss is the removeable battery. There has been times my current dinc has locked up and that's how I reset it, but can't do that anymore. However, I notice the growing trend amongst a lot of new phones these days, they are doing away with the removable battery, so I guess get used to it. I got 14 days once I get the phone, to tell att forget it, and report my number back to vz if I shoud need to. I have a trip next weekend planned for houston, which is one of a couple places I visit regularly, so I will deffinitely be testing coverage. My new phone should be here tomorrow and I'm excited to get it. The screen is absolutely beautiful on this htc one. Give it a couple months, if all goes well with coverage, I'll probably root that thing too. I did also inquire about tethering, because currently I use my phone on occasion as a hotspot for my laptop. Att told me, they didn't care how I used my 4 gigs a month, my phone could act as a hotspot. So they seem to offer everything I needed out of a new phone.
I've been with vz for a long time, and change is difficult, because we get in a comfort zone, but when it comes down to it, there isn't really any loyalty for being a good longstanding customer any more, just like credit cards and low interest rates. I think sprint and tmobile have a long way to go to compare coverage wise but, I do think att is very close to vz in that reguards, but that's why you pay more for better coverage. We'll see how this pans out.
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Is this some huge business tactic for making money or is Verizon just trying to piss of their customers on purpose?
