DancinJack wrote:Yeah, I live in a pretty good T-Mo 42 area. I have VZW currently, so I have LTE, but I'm already eligible for an upgrade and I won't be resigning another contract.
I have to say though, in dense metro areas (I work in the middle of downtown Boston) VZW LTE inches along. I'm talking ~1-2 Mbps up and down. Frustrating.
Have you talked to people who are on T-Mobile? I know where you live is different than where I live, but where I live is kind of spotty. I found it to fluctuate wildly between 13-14mbit in my apartment (where I don't really need it because of wifi) to EDGE-only in downtown Pekin (which isn't huge but it's a city of 30k+) to GPRS in Morton, IL (around 16k people) and basically GPRS all over the rural areas where I frequent. Voice coverage is solid, so I stuck wiht it. And I guess in metro areas it's great. I dealt with it because for the price it's great, but once I moved and couldn't get service except by the window, I went to Verizon. In the 11 days (going back to the 17th) that I've had it, I've never lost a signal and only rarely drop down to EV-DO. (basically, what Beelzebubba9 said - away from the huge cities, it gets weird).
I'm sure someone else can say the same thing about VZW or ATT or Sprint, too. So if you can get good service from a GSM carrier and a Nexus 4 for $250 (at this point I wouldnt' really consider 8GB of storage without a micro SD card) you should dive in. I used to say 8GB was plenty but now that I've got my music collection on my phone and no longer have an iPod, more storage is definitely better. That's why I went with a GS4, because it's the only top-tier phone with a micro SD slot. If I'm going to be stuck with this thing for 2 years, I figured I better go top-tier.
Oh, and I guess you can still unlock AWS LTE on the Nexus 4 so if you're in a major metro area with LTE, you'll have that going for you.