Posted: 8/24/2009 4:49:34 PM EDT
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anyone have it? had?
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It's pay-as-you-go NexTel. I use NexTel Blackberry for work. It's okay. The direct connect is very handy. My bosses wife has a Boost phone. She uses it to pester him at work. She likes the service, it works where she goes. My experience is it works most places I go. It's signal is weak at my house, it's good at the office, it doesn't work indoors at some client locations. I never have signal issues with my personal Verizon phone. (But I hate Verizon and their nickel and dime practices.)
Find out if NexTel works in your area. If it does, you're good to go. If it doesn't, you should steer clear. If you plan on surfing the internet from your phone, get something else. NexTel's iDEN network is slow as hell. It works but it's painful. |
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I had Boost Mobile for 1 month. One.
Boost Mobile was one of the biggest financial debacles of my adult life. Sometimes you receive a text, sometimes you don't. Sometimes you receive a text 3 days late. Sometimes you can make a call. Sometimes you can't. Sometimes you receive a message stating "Server Busy, Try again later". If Boost offered me the service for free I would turn it down. It's useless. Boost Mobile sounds great on paper, but it's worthless. Save your money. You've been warned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY6z51p5zDk |
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I had one for a while (~1 year) but got frustrated with their phone selection. Not much to choose from in IDEN phones. The sevice was OK, not great. My whole city is on Nextel, and more than one has been thrown out a window or against a wall because of the spotty service. During the hurricanes of '04, those were what we used for emergency communication and we were fucked.
It was so bad that the city threatened to dump them (5-6 hundred phones), and Nextel spent 2-3 months putting little mini-repeaters in all the city buildings. There were little antennas sticking out of the ceiling tiles everywhere. It helped, but there was still dead spots. Personally, I probably would have kept the Boost service because of the $50 buck everything deal, but when MetroPCS came out with the no-contract, $50 buck/month unlimited Blackberry plan, I hopped on it. (I WILL NOT be held hostage by a fucking 3-year contract for a phone). I'm really happy with the MetroPCS deal. The web, e-mail server, etc. is as fast or faster than my DSL laptop, the free nav works great, and it's all unlimited for $60/month (I bought the BB Enterprise service for 10 extra bucks). I've yet to find a place in Florida where I have less than 4 bars, even though MetroPCS is supposed to be really limited in coverage. |
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I had Boost Mobile for 1 month. One. Boost Mobile was one of the biggest financial debacles of my adult life. Sometimes you receive a text, sometimes you don't. Sometimes you receive a text 3 days late. Sometimes you can make a call. Sometimes you can't. Sometimes you receive a message stating "Server Busy, Try again later". If Boost offered me the service for free I would turn it down. It's useless. Boost Mobile sounds great on paper, but it's worthless. Save your money. You've been warned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY6z51p5zDk |
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I had Boost Mobile for 1 month. One. Boost Mobile was one of the biggest financial debacles of my adult life. Sometimes you receive a text, sometimes you don't. Sometimes you receive a text 3 days late. Sometimes you can make a call. Sometimes you can't. Sometimes you receive a message stating "Server Busy, Try again later". If Boost offered me the service for free I would turn it down. It's useless. Boost Mobile sounds great on paper, but it's worthless. Save your money. You've been warned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY6z51p5zDk I used them for about a year no problems, then I started having the issues above on a regular basis so I dumped them. I am using Net10 no with now probs. The only difference is 60 days vs. 90 with Boost. Hasn't been an issue though. |
My daughter bought one it is a big giant turd. I have a free nextel/sprint phone here at work. pure crap . great for if you do not expect to do anything but drain a battery , the phone is so close to non functional it would be hard to call it a phone. It makes a pager and a roll of quarters look like the greatest idea ever in communications. I have been dropping calls in the same areas for 8 years I will point out that even though we get a big discount my personal phone is from T-mobile due to my requirements of a functional phone without a lot of dropped calls. No way no how not any day would I pay for a sprint/nextel phone.       
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