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[jbearamus]

Originally Posted by phistyle

well I kind of meant that sprint ONLY sold the EVO in the 4g regions and restricted you from buying it if you were not in a 4g region....and if you bought the phone in a 4g region and tried to activate in in the non-4g region, sprint would not let you do it....would it be better that way? of course not because there will be people happy to pay that extra 10 bucks to get the phone even though they are not in 4g zones. I live in Louisiana and we probably will be the last state to even get 4g...crap I don't even have 3g where I live but I still would love to get the phone even though I have to pay the extra 10 bucks...

except all they really could do is restrict the shipments because with that reasoning, what's to stop me from traveling to vegas (bout 7 hrs from where i live) buying one and just taking it home

[testacon]

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

I have asked Sprint about 100 times what the "richer media experience" actually means. All they do is start reading quotes from the website. Nobody knows what the heck it means. Even the dan@sprint.com people had no idea what it actually means.

Why don't you attempt to embarrass Sprint by posting your question directly into one of their own hosted forums.

http://community.sprint.com

We can argue with you to we're all blue in the face, it doesn't change the fact that we really don't know for sure what the fee is. I can live with it, if I get the other perks I want for free, you however seem not able to. Why not take up this just fight with them directly? I fully understand your points and they are quite valid so why not start a thread over there and let us know the outcome? If someone just quotes jibberish then call them out in that thread itself.

I mean if it bothers you this much, what do you have to lose??

[tool2269]

Originally Posted by testacon

If anyone is to complain about something, maybe someone should actually find out what the "richer media experience" is before condemning it.

you'd laugh at their responses when you do actually speak to someone that actually works there.

but who needs to hear it from an employee when we have so many people that can decipher what it means in these forums.

[phistyle]

Originally Posted by jbearamus

except all they really could do is restrict the shipments because with that reasoning, what's to stop me from traveling to vegas (bout 7 hrs from where i live) buying one and just taking it home

that's why I also said what if they restrict you from activating the phone in your region that does not have 4g?

[Q_Q]

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

And to all the real people out there, don;t let the above fanboy be an example of how you should act: never say anything whatsoever that could possibly be interpreted as a negative comment, otherwise you are spineless for not up and leaving them.

I just call it like I see it. Sprint isn't perfect, but that doesn't make me spineless for still having them. And only a narrow visioned fanboy would ever assume otherwise.

^^^....But I will still buy the EVO for $439 despite all the stuff I don't use or need or deem worthy of my standards. blah blah blah blah.

The $10 shouldn't even matter cause half the stuff isn't up to snuff right?
I call it the way I see it - if the platform is soo bad, what's the phone for then?
You make abused spouse syndrome look tame by comparison.

[tool2269]

Originally Posted by testacon

Why don't you attempt to embarrass Sprint by posting your question directly into one of their own hosted forums.

http://community.sprint.com

We can argue with you to we're all blue in the face, it doesn't change the fact that we really don't know for sure what the fee is. I can live with it, if I get the other perks I want for free, you however seem not able to. Why not take up this just fight with them directly? I fully understand your points and they are quite valid so why not start a thread over there and let us know the outcome? If someone just quotes jibberish then call them out in that thread itself.

I mean if it bothers you this much, what do you have to lose??

they'd probably delete the thread...as they have the facebook posts that were negative

[BlackDynamite]

Originally Posted by testacon

Why don't you attempt to embarrass Sprint by posting your question directly into one of their own hosted forums.

http://community.sprint.com

We can argue with you to we're all blue in the face, it doesn't change the fact that we really don't know for sure what the fee is. I can live with it, if I get the other perks I want for free, you however seem not able to. Why not take up this just fight with them directly? I fully understand your points and they are quite valid so why not start a thread over there and let us know the outcome? If someone just quotes jibberish then call them out in that thread itself.

I mean if it bothers you this much, what do you have to lose??

There are already many, many posts about this fee on their forums. I have been over there plenty. Everything we are discussing over here is being discussed over there too- and plenty more. Sprint's facebook page is also flooded with people complaining about this fee.

Like I said a few times already (not sure if it was in this thread or others) but I read over on Sprint's message boards that they have a meeting scheduled for sometime this week to discuss this fee because of all the outrage. One of the options they are supposedly considering is giving the hotspot feature for free.

[testacon]

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

And to all the real people out there, don;t let the above fanboy be an example of how you should act: never say anything whatsoever that could possibly be interpreted as a negative comment, otherwise you are spineless for not up and leaving them.

I just call it like I see it. Sprint isn't perfect, but that doesn't make me spineless for still having them. And only a narrow visioned fanboy would ever assume otherwise.

I agree, while I hate everything that Applesoft did to WP7, I will at least look at the phone when it comes out to see if my arguments hold merit or not. All the carriers suck, in my opinion, you need to find the carrier that least sucks for you.

[jbearamus]

Originally Posted by testacon

We can argue with you to we're all blue in the face, it doesn't change the fact that we really don't know for sure what the fee is.

its a rate hike, may as well just start calling it what it is. since we can probably assume the $10 fee is going to be on all smartphones going forward its a rate hike. verizon, att, and tmobile have all charged more for smartphone data for no reason for quite some time now. sprint probably figured, if they can do it why can't we and get an extra $10/month, hell we're still cheaper than most of them.
so its going to be a rate hike and theyre introducing now with the Evo because they figure they can get away with it, and then in the next few months when new smartphones come out, they'll have an extra $10 charge for "premium" smartphone data

[mlin]

Originally Posted by jbearamus

its a rate hike, may as well just start calling it what it is. since we can probably assume the $10 fee is going to be on all smartphones going forward its a rate hike. verizon, att, and tmobile have all charged more for smartphone data for no reason for quite some time now. sprint probably figured, if they can do it why can't we and get an extra $10/month, hell we're still cheaper than most of them.
so its going to be a rate hike and theyre introducing now with the Evo because they figure they can get away with it, and then in the next few months when new smartphones come out, they'll have an extra $10 charge for "premium" smartphone data

Gotta love when speculation is presented as factual information.