lw3221 Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 A cautionary tale. Your mileage may vary. First I am very, very new. I received my Nexus 4 yesterday (2/5). Ordered on 1/30, they said they would ship on 2/13 but it showed up on 2/5. Point Nexus Play. Prior to ordering, T-M lady said if you want to get up and running quickly, to go to local retail store and get sim card. I went to local retail store and told them I wanted the 100/unl/unl plan for 30 bucks a month. They said "huh? don't have it here." How about sim card? "nope, none of those either" They called their support lady. She said, "Have to go to walmart." Duh. I call t-mobile from parking lot; new lady, she says, in effect," they are idiots. I'll help". Point two for t-mobile.com, sort of--previous lady not so much. She comes back after short delay and says, whoops no sim cards but don' t worry, we can send you out a kit and wave the cost, just pay for shipping if you want it fast. I said yes, otherwise i have a 300 dollar paper weight. They were nice, they were helpful, they knew what they were doing. T-Mobile retail? Well, not so much. They tried to be helpful, just were clueless. This probably is old news to the old timers/experts here. It was a little daunting for a retired newbie just joining the 21st century. If I can figure out an easy way to use google voice or some other app to let me use my wifi for no-minute charge, then I will fade away and text my grandchildren to my hearts content (or until they block me) without spending all of my soc-sec check. I apologize if this is posted in the wrong section. As I said I am a newbie . P.S. What little I have seen of the phone working--setting it up, etc--it appears to be quite a nice piece of equipment. Things have definitely improved since my days working on PDP-11's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Not only is this the wrong section, it's the wrong website. This is a gaming site, it's nothing to do with Googles Nexus. Anyway congrats on actually getting one, I gave up waiting and bought an S3 instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 As another old timer trying to figure out what all the fuss over 'smart phones' is ( They do make phone calls don't they) I can commiserate. :whistling: But - as already said - wrong Nexus site. 'Nexusmods' is a game site for game modders. What you need is the 'Google Nexus' site for their Nexus Phone. :thumbsup: Closing this as not relevant to this Nexus. :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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