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I just got done talking to a best buy representative, and they told me that as the of 2 days ago, any kind of hardware change will cancel your unlimited Internet. So you cannot purchase phones from eBay and use that loophole anymore.
Edit: Apparently this is a false flag and Best Buy has zero clue of what's going on. But I'm not saying that they won't close this loophole in the future.
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I just got done talking to a best buy representative, and they told me that as the of 2 days ago, any kind of hardware change will cancel your unlimited Internet. So you cannot purchase phones from eBay and use that loophole anymore.
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Really? That really sucks.
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I talked to Verizon yesterday about going to the note 2 and they never mentioned anything like that. They confirmed pretty much what I already know (In order to keep your unlimited, you would have to upgrade another line, or add a line, then transfer the phone, or supply your own phone) You shouldn't always believe what you hear, especially from the salesmen at best buy.
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They said they have had a bunch of angry customers these past few days and that Verizon is trying to close every loophole possible on us unlimited planners.
If this is true I'm ditching Verizon and going pre-paid. Nexus 4 on Straight Talk is looking pretty promising.
Ok? So what would happen if I switch while under contract? I'm good up to October.
This isn't true, I'm not saying the OP is making it up, but I do think the guy at best buy is blowing smoke up his ass. If this were the case, it would be all over the internet by now. Try googling it.
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Bradh024 said:
This isn't true, I'm not saying the OP is making it up, but I do think the guy at best buy is blowing smoke up his ass. If this were the case, it would be all over the internet by now. Try googling it.
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Honestly I'm not inclined to believe it either. Even if OP's story is true, I've been told blatantly wrong information from Best Buy and Verizon sales people on multiple occasions.
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I talked to Verizon yesterday about going to the note 2 and they never mentioned anything like that. They confirmed pretty much what I already know (In order to keep your unlimited, you would have to upgrade another line, or add a line, then transfer the phone, or supply your own phone) You shouldn't always believe what you hear, especially from the salesmen at best buy.
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so how would one keep their unlimited data by upgrading another line? sorry i have an two upgrades but don't want to lose my unlimited data want to know how..been looking around but havent really found a straight answer
JoelZ9614 said:
so how would one keep their unlimited data by upgrading another line? sorry i have an two upgrades but don't want to lose my unlimited data want to know how..been looking around but havent really found a straight answer
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Well right now, how me and my wife are doing it... We have 4 total lines, 2 with unlimited data, and 2 with dummy phones. To keep our unlimited, we just upgrade the dummy lines, then transfer the new phones over to our unlimited lines. Our unlimited plans remain untouched.
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Bradh024 said:
Well right now, how me and my wife are doing it... We have 4 total lines, 2 with unlimited data, and 2 with dummy phones. To keep our unlimited, we just upgrade the dummy lines, then transfer the new phones over to our unlimited lines. Our unlimited plans remain untouched.
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what happens to your dummy lines? wouldn't you then have to put data on those lines?
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what happens to your dummy lines? wouldn't you then have to put data on those lines?
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Nope, as soon as u take the smart phones off the lines, it drops down to $9.99 (no features, nothing but a dumb phone and a phone number)
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Nope, as soon as u take the smart phones off the lines, it drops down to $9.99 (no features, nothing but a dumb phone and a phone number)
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Thank You!! upgrade time lol
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Thank You!! upgrade time lol
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Haha not a problem, make sure you have a dumb phone to put in place of the line you upgraded.
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Haha not a problem, make sure you have a dumb phone to put in place of the line you upgraded.
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I have 3 dumb lines also by dumb you mean basic right....
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I have 3 dumb lines also by dumb you mean basic right....
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Yeah
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I have 3 dumb lines also by dumb you mean basic right....
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What are you upgrading too?? Dna or note2??
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What are you upgrading too?? Dna or note2??
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Joelz is getting an iPhone. /sarcasm
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i'm sure i would've heard of this.
if this is the case, then that first time you do an ESN switch, you'd lose unlimited. i esn switched to my DNA 2 weeks ago, and i'm still good. if i ESN switch to the gs3 to get teh update and i drop unlimited, i'll let you know, raise hell to verizon, and possibly leave them after 15 years if they won't give it back lol
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i'm sure i would've heard of this.
if this is the case, then that first time you do an ESN switch, you'd lose unlimited. i esn switched to my DNA 2 weeks ago, and i'm still good.
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They said it's as of 2 days ago. I really hope they have no clue what their talking about. IF it is true, I'm gonna have to treat my rezound like a baby.
So I went into Verizon today to cancel a line, so I had to do some device swapping. I got a new sim card for my S4 and when the phone booted up and showed Samsung with the unlock symbol and saying unlocked under it. The rep goes oh that's cool does that mean you have a pass code on it?? I'm like yes yes it does lol. You would think they would know what that screen means. Lol
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Oh man I love doing stuff like this. I remember when I had custom boot animations on HTC rezound and they were like showing to all the employees like check this out etc etc lol good times man good times. That is def a classic one though!!
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If something like that surprises you you should be working for Verizon. Still, funny story
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No it doesn't surprise me bc the guy didn't even know my phone was an S4 lol. I don't normally deal with this guy but all of my friends were off
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No it doesn't surprise me bc the guy didn't even know my phone was an S4 lol. I don't normally deal with this guy but all of my friends were off
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I mean that's sad he didn't know it was an s4! I would know an iPhone 5 & I hate Apple that's just sad no excuses for that
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So I went into Verizon today to cancel a line, so I had to do some device swapping. I got a new sim card for my S4 and when the phone booted up and showed Samsung with the unlock symbol and saying unlocked under it. The rep goes oh that's cool does that mean you have a pass code on it?? I'm like yes yes it does lol. You would think they would know what that screen means. Lol
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Some of them are inept. Others like the guy I go to knows about all the custom roms, and unlocking, and helps me skirt by some rules.
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Some of them are inept. Others like the guy I go to knows about all the custom roms, and unlocking, and helps me skirt by some rules.
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That's how my friends are there. I'll show them what I've done and they admire it for a bit then say wish I could do that on the corporate phone lol
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lmao xD
not everyone haz root
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So I went into Verizon today to cancel a line, so I had to do some device swapping. I got a new sim card for my S4 and when the phone booted up and showed Samsung with the unlock symbol and saying unlocked under it. The rep goes oh that's cool does that mean you have a pass code on it?? I'm like yes yes it does lol. You would think they would know what that screen means. Lol
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Back before I ditched my iPhone I went around to every at&t store bragging about my jailbreak and/or new beta firmware. It was all good fun haha
Yea my buddy works for Verizon, and he does all kinds of Flashing. He has to make it sound like he doesn't know what all of that means. If he let the Verizon store know that he knew about it, and let customers slide, then he would be in trouble. It may be the same in your case.
Wait....yours still shows the unlocked logo? Mine doesn't and my phone is rooted/custom recovery / cm10. It showed it to me once while I was rooting it...but not after that.
Every ROM I use shows the Samsung unlocked screen. I've used hyperdrive and beans
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Same happened when I was with sprint. I was getting my old nexus fixed and when he rebooted it he told me not to root but said he wouldn't tell the manager. He saw the boot up for cm haha
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They JUST got them. They just let you use their stupid third party Google wallet app. Plus they are supposedly more reliable for storing contracts on but I've never seen anyone actually put information on their sim card. Seems silly.
TL DR they are real but also real useless imo
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I was thinking of buying an S4 to replace my rezound. If I don't let the Verizon people touch it or turn it on, what are the chances that the phone will NOT have root breaking OTA?
Thanks
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If you use a discounted upgrade price they are not going to let you walk out with them activating it.
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If you use a discounted upgrade price they are not going to let you walk out with them activating it.
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Discounted upgrades were discontinued earlier this year. You purchase just like you were a new customer.
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warnette said:
Discounted upgrades were discontinued earlier this year. You purchase just like you were a new customer.
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I think he means if you purchase one with a 2 year contract.
Buy online...
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Buy online...
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Yeah I meant to year contract but this will work for sure.
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I was thinking of buying an S4 to replace my rezound. If I don't let the Verizon people touch it or turn it on, what are the chances that the phone will NOT have root breaking OTA?
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I used my two year upgrade at flywire. Com
Came with mdk
When I first got my phone at the store I told them not to open it and they didn't. I told them I was in a hurry and that I'll activate it later.
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I bought my S4 from Best Buy last Saturday. They made me activate it and set it up, but it only began to download the update. When the update notification asked me to install the update, I said "wait 23 hours". When the 23 hours were over, I instructed it to wait 23 more hours. In that time, I was able to root my phone, install a custom recovery, freeze the update APK, install Darkside's ME7 rom, and sigh with relief. Also came from the Rezound. It was a good choice.
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One more day than necessary with this busted Rezound may kill me.
Thanks for all the info, I'm going to try the hurried customer approach.
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Just bought my S4 from best buy 2 days ago it came with the mdk firmware first thing I did was turn off mobile data to make sure the update could not download. Rooted unlocked and had CM 10.2 on my S4 within the first hour. Just make sure when you buy the phone you turn off WiFi and data that way the update can't download
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Also just came from the Rezound. They sure fooled us on that one. Gd paperclip hack. Those Norweigens sure are innovative
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Also just came from the Rezound. They sure fooled us on that one. Gd paperclip hack. Those Norweigens sure are innovative
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Don't get me started on the Rezound, by far the worst phone I have ever owned.
Anyway, just got back from Verizon. They said they wouldn't let the phone take the update before I got it, and it was pre update. So all is wel.
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Is anyone thinking about upgrading to the note 3, or anything else coming out soon that's eye catching?
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I'm pretty sure I'm going for the G2 soon.
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Is anyone thinking about upgrading to the note 3, or anything else coming out soon that's eye catching?
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Should be getting the htc one pretty soon here Soon as in hopefully in the next couple months
I am thinking of getting the note 3 . Just hate to give up unlimited data for it .
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mjh68 said:
I am thinking of getting the note 3 . Just hate to give up unlimited data for it .
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From what I heard at best buy today from some lady that was some Verizon district something, you can move your upgrade to another line and upgrade that line. Then at home go to my Verizon and swap the numbers around. I'm pretty torn. I want to jump all over the note 3, but idk. I played with it for like 20 minutes and its pretty awesome.
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Considering a Nexus 5 and a jump to T-Mobile. Still have until May on my contract though, so I'll be waiting to see what's up by then.
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From what I heard at best buy today from some lady that was some Verizon district something, you can move your upgrade to another line and upgrade that line. Then at home go to my Verizon and swap the numbers around. I'm pretty torn. I want to jump all over the note 3, but idk. I played with it for like 20 minutes and its pretty awesome.
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Been thinking of doing that with a spare line with a dumb phone on it
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I've gone to note 3 and I love how Samsung jangle so many good features from roms. This stock thing may work after all (foxfi for tether)
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The note 3 specs look good..
I am thinking about the note 3 as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2458640
I have a stock rooted S4 I got as a replacement from asurion, for a S3, it's on ME7, I have not activated it. Just thoughts from the community, I am a long time aosp user, anti touch jizz since fascinate days. Should I keep the s4 and bear with it on rooted stock or send it back and get another S3?
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Put nova launcher lol.
It's much better device however I will patiently wait for few months then hopefully bootloader will be unlocked.
you can try to exchange it (or sell it and buy) for a mdk s4
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I wish I had got a replacement for my s3 with a s4, lucky you
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you can try to exchange it (or sell it and buy) for a mdk s4
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Any specific service you recommend?
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I wish I had got a replacement for my s3 with a s4, lucky you
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I know I'm somewhat lucky, but unlucky at the same time lol
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Put nova launcher lol.
It's much better device however I will patiently wait for few months then hopefully bootloader will be unlocked.
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Haha its the very first thing I did @ nova launcher.
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I have a stock rooted S4 I got as a replacement from asurion, for a S3, it's on ME7, I have not activated it. Just thoughts from the community, I am a long time aosp user, anti touch jizz since fascinate days. Should I keep the s4 and bear with it on rooted stock or send it back and get another S3?
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You have to ask??
SCORE!
Root it and move on. A device that is almost a year newer, better screen, better battery, two more cores and a better GPU.....
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You have to ask??
SCORE!
Root it and move on. A device that is almost a year newer, better screen, better battery, two more cores and a better GPU.....
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Butttttt TOUCHWIZ! lol
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I would sell you my mdk but the htc one max isn't out yet :banghead: can't wait to get rid of this thing
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Bu he had the S3 already...
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Evocm7 said:
I would sell you my mdk but the htc one max isn't out yet :banghead: can't wait to get rid of this thing
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I didn't know anyone was actually buying that lol.
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I didn't know anyone was actually buying that lol.
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Why wouldn't they? People buy the one. It's just an htc one with a note 3ish size screen and larger battery + sd card slot finally. I just want reliable and fast 4g again, something I can't have with my s4.
Edit: just read some reviews on the one max. Disappointing. Now I really don't know what I'm going to do for a phone. Maybe back to my rez.
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Why wouldn't they? People buy the one. It's just an htc one with a note 3ish size screen and larger battery + sd card slot finally. I just want reliable and fast 4g again, something I can't have with my s4.
Edit: just read some reviews on the one max. Disappointing. Now I really don't know what I'm going to do for a phone. Maybe back to my rez.
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What condition is your S4 in?
Does anyone honestly believe a unlock method is being worked on?
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What condition is your S4 in?
Does anyone honestly believe a unlock method is being worked on?
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mint condition. Never dropped. No scratches. Kind of undecided what to do with it now. The only thing keeping me on the s4 is 5in screen and battery life. Was definitely getting rid of it before I read the one max review, now I'm not sure what to do
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mint condition. Never dropped. No scratches. Kind of undecided what to do with it now. The only thing keeping me on the s4 is 5in screen and battery life
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Yeah, first you gotta figure out if you selling or keeping.
I honestly don't see any reason for any other phone at the moment. If I can get it unlocked I'm straight for a year or more.
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Yeah, first you gotta figure out if you selling or keeping.
I honestly don't see any reason for any other phone at the moment. If I can get it unlocked I'm straight for a year or more.
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Yeah I know. Your best bet may be a dev edition. I really don't think an unlocked bootloader is coming unless samsung leaves a door open for someone to get into in a future update.
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Yeah I know. Your best bet may be a dev edition. I really don't think an unlocked bootloader is coming unless samsung leaves a door open for someone to get into in a future update.
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This whole ordeal reminds me of the RIL bs with the fascinate.
This blows extremely. Let me know if you decide to sell yours. Or if you wake up and decide touchwiz is your friend I'll trade with ya
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Will do
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Why wouldn't they? People buy the one. It's just an htc one with a note 3ish size screen and larger battery + sd card slot finally. I just want reliable and fast 4g again, something I can't have with my s4.
Edit: just read some reviews on the one max. Disappointing. Now I really don't know what I'm going to do for a phone. Maybe back to my rez.
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Yeah I don't know that One design just doesn't scale well. I mean look at a One compared to a Moto X, it's a joke. They have the same screen size but the Moto X is almost the same size as an iPhone while the One is bigger than our phone. So the BoomSound speakers plus the 5.9" screen means it massive. It only has a Snapdragon 600 after all these devices are coming out with the 800. It loses OIS, which ruins the whole point of their "UltraPixels" with the larger light aperture, in favor of a fingerprint reader which so far hasn't been reviewed very well. Apple integrated the reader into the experience of the iPhone by putting it right on the home button, the One Max makes the same mistake as the Motorola Atrix. Furthermore, it doesn't even retain the best part of the One design, the unibody aluminum shell. It features a plastic ring around the phone like our S4 as well as an apparently spotty removable back that doesn't even feature a removable battery. Very disappointed in the One Max.