Hi,
In the midst of the HTC One going on sale on BestBuy, i am thinking about purchasing this phone which is receiving much praise and acclamation on this website.
But before i do so, i would just like to ask if this phone can be purchased without a data plan. By this i mean if it can be purchased without the coupled fee of 'x' per month for the length of the contract, in this case 2 years. To clarify, i was wondering if it can be purchased for $99.99 buy itself so i can use an AT&T prepaid sim.
The main reason for this is because i am living in Australia where the One is vastly overpriced and i want to get a HTC One overseas so it can be unlocked and then used in Australia.
In summary, can i purchase this from from BestBuy without the monthly fees and have it unlocked so i can use it in Australia.
No. To get the $99 price you have to sign a two year contract with a data plan.
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This question is for anyone on the Even More Plus plan (non-contract plan) with T-Mobile. I gave T-Mobile a call today and a representative told me that I can upgrade my phone with a 2 year contract even though I'm on the Even more Plus plan. I think they're doing this because T-Mobile took away the non-contract plans. If you look on the T-Mobile website, you can no longer sign up for the Even More Plus plan if you're a new customer, you have to pay the contract plan prices which are higher.
My question is, has anyone tried upgrading their phone with the Even More Plus plan (non-contract plan)?
jimmynguyen91 said:
This question is for anyone on the Even More Plus plan (non-contract plan) with T-Mobile. I gave T-Mobile a call today and a representative told me that I can upgrade my phone with a 2 year contract even though I'm on the Even more Plus plan. I think they're doing this because T-Mobile took away the non-contract plans. If you look on the T-Mobile website, you can no longer sign up for the Even More Plus plan if you're a new customer, you have to pay the contract plan prices which are higher.
My question is, has anyone tried upgrading their phone with the Even More Plus plan (non-contract plan)?
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AFAIK, T-Mobile removed the EM+ plan option from the website months ago to prevent customer confusion (or some crap reason like that). New customers can still get onto EM+ over the phone and by going into the T-Mobile shops.
Also, I do not think you can get upgrades while on EM+ since it requires you to actually buy a phone unsubsidized (full price). The only way I could explain why the rep would've told you that would be if they though you were swapping from EM+ to EM. If you were on the normal EM plan, then you should be able to get upgrades and discounts on newer phones after a certain amount of time.
If you use an upgrade/discount to purchase a new phone you will *always* be put back under a 2 year contract rate plan. With EM+ you *always* pay full price for the device (and EM+ plans have not been taken away... yet.)
The T-Mobile representative was ready to give me an upgrade, she was on my account reading my upgrade prices. She said I can't upgrade online because of my plan, but she said I can upgrade through the phone or at a store. It didn't require me to switch to a contract plan. When I migrated to non-contract plan, they said I can't switch back if I wanted to. Not sure about this yet so I will go to a store today to confirm.
You can still upgrade but you have to pay the full price for the device, and all theyre doing is swapping your sim, they took away upgrades on EM+ in november when they took my $300.00 in upgrade credit back
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DEFINITIONOFREAL said:
You can still upgrade but you have to pay the full price for the device, and all theyre doing is swapping your sim, they took away upgrades on EM+ in november when they took my $300.00 in upgrade credit back
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I'm on the EM+ plan, and she said my price for the g2x and mytouch is only $217. She was on my account looking at the prices. I know the full price of the g2x is $499, not $217.
Pretty sure non contract plans are still available might have to go to the store and talk to a rep
and if not you cant call customer server and ask for android preferred internet for $20 doesn't matter how long you have had plan
Sound like she was giving you the subsidized price you would pay out of pocket. The rest will be on your bill split between 19 months.
That comes out to roughly $15 per month extra on your bill. Sounds about right.
just wondering but if i get the sprint view without contract do i have to pay for a data plan to use the tab? i have tmobile and i was just planning to tether it to my phone but i like to have the option to be able to pay for service as you go
It will work fine without a data plan; you won't be able to text message. However, it will be significantly more expensive to purchase it without a contract. You are much better off either buying the US version of the Flyer at Best Buy if you are looking for a Wi-Fi only, or waiting for the the rumored T-Mobile version (which you ought to not only be able to tether to your phone but swap SIM's when you want to).
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It will work fine without a data plan; you won't be able to text message. However, it will be significantly more expensive to purchase it without a contract. You are much better off either buying the US version of the Flyer at Best Buy if you are looking for a Wi-Fi only, or waiting for the the rumored T-Mobile version (which you ought to not only be able to tether to your phone but swap SIM's when you want to).
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well im shopping around for now so if i can get the view 4g for the right price ill pull the trigger. how much is sprints pay as you go plan anyway?
Really it's cheaper to sign up for the 2 year contract. Keep it for more than a month & break the contract. So you pay $400, Get a free Pen. Then pay an additional $200 for early termination fee. It is only $20 more than buying the WiFi only Flyer and pen seperate from Best Buy. It is also Cheaper than purchasing outright from Sprint as they won't include the pen if just buing outright. Which will put it at over $700.
Renegade360 said:
Really it's cheaper to sign up for the 2 year contract. Keep it for more than a month & break the contract. So you pay $400, Get a free Pen. Then pay an additional $200 for early termination fee. It is only $20 more than buying the WiFi only Flyer and pen seperate from Best Buy. It is also Cheaper than purchasing outright from Sprint as they won't include the pen if just buing outright. Which will put it at over $700.
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I would think your money would be better spent paying $20 a month for 1GB of 3G, tbh.
I def. agree. I was running a flyer tethered off my droid X. Got the view, now I'm getting rid of the droid x and just getting a texting phone off ebay. I take the view everywhere with me so don't need two Data plans. So far the 2gig for $29 is working great as I'm on wifi around the homestead. My earlier post was comparing the flyer price to the View price. There is little sense in buying the flyer when the view is only a couple dollars more and is 32gig vs 16gig.
Hi everyone,
I bought the Note before 5 days from AT&T but I have question need their answers.
Q1/ If I get the phone without contract, will the internet work or not? (3G or 4G or both?)
Q2/ If yes, can I break my contract and take back some of my money? (the price with contract is $800 and without contract is $600 or $700, so I may get back $100-$200)
Q/ How much the warranty for 1 year?
Thank you
What?
Q1: if you mean you buy it, and you're not on AT&T at all, of coarse mobile data won't work...you won't have a service contract.... If you man just buying it out right, as am early upgrade while you're on AT&T, then yes it'll work. You'd most likely need to get an lte Sim card.
The price on contract, which means upgrading your phone and signing for a new contact, or a brand new customer is 300... Off contract, meaning no discount at all from AT&T is 700.
No you can't cancel your contract and return the phone for more than you paid for it. And in fact you will be charged an early termination fee for canceling the contact. So you'd lose money.
AT&T has been around the block more than a couple times.... You really think you could pull one over on them so easily?
Warranty is from Samsung, not AT&T and is included with the purchase of the device.
The reason people buy off contract is to not be locked into a provider. You can still have mobile data plan set up and pay on it each month, you're just not forced to pay them for 2 years and can cancel any time you wish.
If you don't have a mobile data plan through them your mobile data will not work.
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a.2mjed.a said:
Hi everyone,
I bought the Note before 5 days from AT&T but I have question need their answers.
Q1/ If I get the phone without contract, will the internet work or not? (3G or 4G or both?)
Q2/ If yes, can I break my contract and take back some of my money? (the price with contract is $800 and without contract is $600 or $700, so I may get back $100-$200)
Q/ How much the warranty for 1 year?
Thank you
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If you've had the phone longer than 3 days cannot break the contact without paying the $250-350 fee it costs to do so.
If you've had it less than 3 days, you can break the contract without charge but you will still have to pay the balance of the phone (if you paid the reduced price of $300)
If you're not on contract, you can still use AT&T 4G service.
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Thanks guys for answering my questions
my phone is in contract with them, and one of my friends told me go break your contract and get like $100 from them cuz the phone without contract is about $700 and with contract is $800, so if I break the contract they will give me back $100!!
Is that right?
and for the warranty, the seller told me to buy a warranty but I told him I don't need it, and there were no warranty in the bx by Samsung! How can I get a warranty?
I guess thats all what i have
Jasmynsway said:
If you've had the phone longer than 3 days cannot break the contact without paying the $250-350 fee it costs to do so.
If you've had it less than 3 days, you can break the contract without charge but you will still have to pay the balance of the phone (if you paid the reduced price of $300)
If you're not on contract, you can still use AT&T 4G service.
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Incorrect. It is 30 days to break the contract without the $325 termination fee. The 3 days you may be thinking about is to not get charged the activation/upgrade fee
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Att.com shows pricing as 299.99 on contract, 649.99 off contract.
I decided to by one off contract for 475 shipped on eBay. I'm not up for early renewal until July and couldn't wait. I didn't want to "waste" my upgrade on a near 6 month old phone by that time.
You will not make any money off ATT, so don't try.
Without contract means no service unless you have existing service.
Btw, can I walk into the att store and just request an LTE sim? My current sim is only H+ enabled
erick161 said:
Btw, can I walk into the att store and just request an LTE sim? My current sim is only H+ enabled
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Yes, and you can keep the unlimited plan if you have it.
yesterday I canceled my contract and my phone (everything)
they gave me the phone and the screen protector price immediately to my depit card and they told me I'll recieve the deposit cost in my mail withen 4-6 weeks ! :/
Now I'm thinking between buying the same phone ($660 with 2 years warranty from SquareTradeus) or waiting for new phone!!
What do you think?!
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Yes, and you can keep the unlimited plan if you have it.
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As usual, its always a nightmare dealing with their customer service. It took nearly 45 minutes of the ATT store manager being on the phone with them...and they still couldn't change my account to LTE unlimited. They ended up hanging up and stating they would work on it and call me back...which was true.
But i truly wish i could blow up ATT customer service.
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erick161, as much as I agree with you, you might want to redact that last statement. threats online are taken even more seriously than in person from my experience.
OP, I think what you friend was trying to tell you is that you buy the phone on contract, you cancel the service and pay the termination fee and the cost of the phone and ETF was less than buying the phone at full price. Which was true in the beginning, but now the phone is cheaper and not really going to save/make you money.
If you already have AT&T then I'd say get the phone on contract or not. for the first time in almost 10 years I'm locked into a contract again, not too worried about it because i haven't left AT&T yet and don't plan to. if you aren't an AT&T customer, there's a company that resells AT&T network service for $45 a month unlimited everything, just no 4G or LTE. You could buy the phone and jump on that service.
Lastly if you didn't buy the phone for the size, the HTC One is coming out in the next few months, you might want to check that out, though if I recall for AT&T they're getting rid of the quad core because it isn't compatible with LTE, but that's what i recall and 100% ingrained in truth.
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You say the price with contract is $800. It's not, it's $300. So if you break contract, you will pay more for a phone, not less, but you can still get data if you are already with AT&T. Just go in, and add the phone to your line, and have them upgrade the sim. They charge like $36 for that now.
a.2mjed.a said:
Hi everyone,
I bought the Note before 5 days from AT&T but I have question need their answers.
Q1/ If I get the phone without contract, will the internet work or not? (3G or 4G or both?)
Q2/ If yes, can I break my contract and take back some of my money? (the price with contract is $800 and without contract is $600 or $700, so I may get back $100-$200)
Q/ How much the warranty for 1 year?
Thank you
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What model of Note is this? Sounds like one of the international ones to me. the AT&T one would not come with a HSPA+ only SIM I believe. If it is not an i717, then it probably has the Xenos(sp?) chipset, and not the Qualcomm one, and is NOT an LTE phone. Also, if it is an LTE phone, you may, or may not be in an area with LTE service.
erick161 said:
Att.com shows pricing as 299.99 on contract, 649.99 off contract.
I decided to by one off contract for 475 shipped on eBay. I'm not up for early renewal until July and couldn't wait. I didn't want to "waste" my upgrade on a near 6 month old phone by that time.
You will not make any money off ATT, so don't try.
Without contract means no service unless you have existing service.
Btw, can I walk into the att store and just request an LTE sim? My current sim is only H+ enabled
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Has anyone seen any sales or deals for the US AT&T version of the HTC One X+?
I know it just came out on November 16th for $199 (2yr contract), but I am hoping to get a better deal soon if possible.
My searches usually return results for the One X, not the One X+.
I doubt we will see any Black Friday sales for it, but if anyone sees a sale now or in the future, please post it!
I will let you know when I see any sales as well.
Thanks!
kevindiehl said:
Has anyone seen any sales or deals for the US AT&T version of the HTC One X+?
I know it just came out on November 16th for $199 (2yr contract), but I am hoping to get a better deal soon if possible.
My searches usually return results for the One X, not the One X+.
I doubt we will see any Black Friday sales for it, but if anyone sees a sale now or in the future, please post it!
I will let you know when I see any sales as well.
Thanks!
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Extremely unlikely you'll see a deal on this phone in the first week it is launched.
Amazon Wireless has the AT&T One X+ for $139.99 with 2 year contract, $549.99 no contract:
http://wireless.amazon.com/HTC-One-...=INDIVIDUAL_NEW&sr=1-1-entd&qid=1353446555306
Amazon Wireless has changed their pricing on the AT&T One X+ as follows:
$129.99 with a new 2 year contract,
$169.99 with upgraded 2 year contract,
$549.99 no contract:
http://wireless.amazon.com/HTC-One-...=INDIVIDUAL_NEW&sr=1-1-entd&qid=1353446555306
Amazon Wireless has changed their pricing on the AT&T One X+ as follows:
$139.99 with a new 2 year contract or with upgraded 2 year contract
$549.99 no contract
AT&T & Best Buy still offer the One X+ for $199.99.
Anyone see better prices?
The only problem with getting it from Amazon is that if you have grandfathered unlimited data you'll have to give it up. Even if you're doing an upgrade they make you choose a data package, and keeping your existing package is not a choice. That's how it was when I was shopping for it in December.
pazzo02 said:
The only problem with getting it from Amazon is that if you have grandfathered unlimited data you'll have to give it up. Even if you're doing an upgrade they make you choose a data package, and keeping your existing package is not a choice. That's how it was when I was shopping for it in December.
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That is a valid concern if you have unlimited data. Also, I believe Amazon will charge you a fee if you change the data feature within 6 months after purchasing the phone.
Pricing update:
Amazon Wireless has changed their pricing on the AT&T One X+ as follows:
$79.99 on new accounts with a 2 year contract.
$129.99 with upgraded 2 year contract and new lines with 2 year contract
$599.99 no contract
Best Buy still offer the One X+ for $199.99 with 2 year contract.
AT&T now offers the One X+ online for $99.99 with 2 year contract. (I am not sure when this online discount ends)
http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/devices/htc/one-xplus-carbon-black.html#fbid=4y6FFvFb7ag
Post if you see any cheap prices!
Hi, I have a question about canceling service with T-Mobile because they will not allow me to buy the HTC One without a plan online or over the phone and I want the specific T-mobile version. I know with AT&T you have to have service for over a month before you cancel without having to return the phone (well thats what the rule was 5 years ago as far as I'm aware when I got the iPhone 3G) Now that T-Mobile has phased out contracts altogether can I just go ahead and cancel the next day after the service is activated? I'll just pay the prorated plan price and the full price of the phone and then switch over to a prepaid plan.
I'm not sure but t-mobile customer service should be able to break it down for you. Their customer service is pretty amazing.
gooooooooooooood question
If you signed up for their new Value plans, you can cancel the next day. Because you are not tied to any more service contracts, the only obligation you have is the full balance of the phone. So once you pay off the phone, you are officially off-contract and the phone is yours (service optional). You're thinking of old Classic plans in which you need one month service before you get to keep the phone by paying the ETF. That doesn't exist anymore.
I'm sure T-Mobile has caught onto this and will change the way it works soon. I could see them doing something like charging $650 for the phone if you're a new customer then you get a credit after 30 days. Because technically the $579 is a discounted price for customers.
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Towle said:
I'm sure T-Mobile has caught onto this and will change the way it works soon. I could see them doing something like charging $650 for the phone if you're a new customer then you get a credit after 30 days. Because technically the $579 is a discounted price for customers.
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How do you figure that price? The unlocked 32 Gb on the HTC site was 579. Only the developer edition was 649. So it seems to me that TMO is selling them at retail.
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