G+_John Maloney Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Is the Nexus 4 still worth buying? I want to upgrade my college bound son's phone, but don't want to pay AT&T for a data plan that he doesn't need or want. He will use the WiFi at the college. AT&T won't even talk to me without adding a data plan to his line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Alex Kruger Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Honestly, wait a couple weeks and let him Moto Make his own X. I know there's a bunch of fan boy hate going around, but all of the (professional) reviews are saying it's definitely worth getting, especially if its for a first timer, or for someone who's a spec nerd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Abernathy Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Yes it is. It's also only $300 for the smaller version and NOT tied AT&T. VERY worth it still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_R.C. Curtright Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 It is your choice, but if you do as Alex Kruger suggests it will cost 550 as 199 was the contract price for the Moto X. I would go for a Nexus 4 as you suggested.Even if the 5 launched in a few months, it is still a great phone with several years left on it. If anything the Moto X has proved that anything beyond dual core is overkill. It sounds like he is transfering his sim card from an older phone then? He may need a sim cutter from eBay to make a micro sim out of his current sim. Unless his current phone is already micro sim and not standard. Also At&t may see the new phone and try to bully you can into a data plan. Just stand your ground, two year contracts are for benefit as well not just thiers. You are doing nothing wrong no matter how cleverly they may try to imply otherwise on the phone. You have a legal right to put that sim in any phone you wish. Lastly. Make sure than no information is filled out or checked in the phones APN settings and that "mobile data" is turned off. Not "sync" but "mobile data".? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Alex Kruger Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 I work for Verizon, I know I'm not ATT, but we still have the same policy. If you put your sons SIM in any smart phone the system will detect that's it's a smart phone and automatically add Data. There isn't any way to get around it, it's all automated and customer service can't do anything about it. You can lower the data to cheapest possible amount, but that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_TJ Evans Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Nexus4 makes a great Wi-Fi only thing ... or, buy an older model used even cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Maloney Posted August 10, 2013 Author Share Posted August 10, 2013 Thanks for all the replies. I gave him my old HTC Inspire 4G a awhile ago and AT&T did try to put a data plan on it. I called them immediately and told them to take it off. The rep tried to tell me it had to have one, but it wasn't under contract so I made him take it off and disable data on my son's number. I also disabled mobile data on the phone so there wouldn't be any accidents. We should be able to get a new sim card from AT&T that will fit. He will probably get my HTC One X and I will take the Nexus 4. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dave Bach Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 I'd prefer it be LG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Lucas Nichols Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Just get him a nexus 4 and get a Sim from straight talk or some other cheaper prepaid company. Then he'll have unlimited talk text and Web for like $45 a month. They still use at&t towers just no lte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_tobby Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 College student, no data, not in 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_R.C. Curtright Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Cool. And well done on keeping the carriers in their place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Maloney Posted August 11, 2013 Author Share Posted August 11, 2013 The campus has free wifi all over, so the data plan isn't really needed. I'm sure that will change soon after he starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Alex Kruger Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 William GUNNING remember when those Motorola phone were running 2.x? Yea, maybe that's why they sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dave Bach Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Yep, I remember. Like the Motorola Triumph that came out on Virgin Mobile running 2.2. Buyers were sold on the device by a promise that a future upgrade was coming down the pipe. However, that upgrade never came. Just a later declaration that there would be no upgrade and an offer of $100 off another Motorola phone of which there wasn't another one available on the Virgin Mobile network. Yep, I remember. I foolishly bought two of those Motorola Triumphs. To feel like I've been made whole on the deal Motorola would basically have to replace my two Motorola Triumphs with Motorola X's for T-Mobile or AT&T that I could get setup on another prepaid carrier like Straight Talk. My wife and I are still reminded of Motorola's broken promise every time we pickup our phones to use...or every time they randomly decide to reboot themselves. We had a glimmer of hope they'd be replaced when Google bought Motorola but that never happened.? Yep, I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Alex Kruger Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 If your on virgin' just get a couple of new phones. You don't have to stick with the same phone for 2 years like the rest of us do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Lucas Nichols Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Dave Bach I feel your pain. They got me with the photon on sprint the same way. Never again Motorola, never again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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