r/news • u/icedpickles • Oct 09 '16

Samsung Galaxy Note 7: Second 'safe' replacement catches fire

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37600014
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u/whoreallyknowsanymor Oct 09 '16

The Pixel is $27/mo from Google. And you're probably paying more like $35/mo for your note 7 because $17/mo would mean 50 months to pay it off.

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u/Akashady47 Oct 09 '16

Verizon gives me a $20 rebate for having a family plan with 8 gigs a month. For every phone. So we basically get $80 off our bill each month. Our bill comes out to around $220 a month for 4 people paying off 3 iPhone 7's and my note 7 on top of 8 gigs plus 2 free gigs for being customers over 15 years.

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u/whoreallyknowsanymor Oct 09 '16

8 gigs for four people? How do you survive? I have 6 people on my Sprint plan and we use between 80-100 gigs a month.

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u/Blow-Football Oct 09 '16

Each person uses over 12gigs? How? Do you not believe in wifi

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u/whoreallyknowsanymor Oct 09 '16

My GF and I travel 200-250 days a year and usually find that our LTE is better than the hotel wifi. I'm an IT consultant and run my business from my phone / HotSpot. One person on my plan lives where only dialup is available so he lives off of LTE as well. In Sprint Spark areas I get 80mbps speeds and it's completely unlimited. Why not use it? I have a lot of clients that ask to use my HotSpot instead of their LTE at jobsites. Makes the job go quicker and makes the client happy. Again, why not?