Since you use your phone for business, the 'hideous coverage' is an issue. I use Virgin Mobile, but they are a secondary buyer of Sprint bandwidth, so their coverage is not great. For my purposes it is adequate. Just purchased a Galaxy S2 from them - the latest version compatible with their pay-as-you-go plans. It's working very well for me. I think the later models are too big for comfortable talking, unless you have really big hands, so the S2 will be fine for me.
Virgin is following the 'pay for the phone, no contract model' which I think Verizon and ATT&T are also attempting. This hopefully will, over time, bring down the cost of phones. If consumers have to buy for $650 a piece, the phone manufacturers are going to find it really hard to convince most users to replace their phone every year or two. So I'm hoping to see better phones at lower prices going forward, much as we did with PCs.
Anyway, good luck with finding a plan/phone that work well for you!
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Date: 2013-05-29 02:44 am (UTC)Virgin is following the 'pay for the phone, no contract model' which I think Verizon and ATT&T are also attempting. This hopefully will, over time, bring down the cost of phones. If consumers have to buy for $650 a piece, the phone manufacturers are going to find it really hard to convince most users to replace their phone every year or two. So I'm hoping to see better phones at lower prices going forward, much as we did with PCs.
Anyway, good luck with finding a plan/phone that work well for you!