The Unofficial Speak Out Wireless Canada Consumer Page - Topic: Galaxy Nexus on Speakout

Laridae on Galaxy Nexus on Speakout

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:49:56 -0800

OK, makes sense!

jakeroberts on Galaxy Nexus on Speakout

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:26:34 -0800

For $38 a month, I get 200 minutes (easily enough for me), unlimited texting and unlimited 3g/4g browsing/data. Try and get that from Rogers, especially the data part. Plus, I despise contracts.

chimpanzee on Galaxy Nexus on Speakout

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:51:36 -0800

not sure about him but isn't SO just a provider using rogers' network and charge much less for data ? how much you would pay to rogers for data ?

most people use SO because they don't need that many voice/sms(may be data as well).

so what phone doesn't matter. i know many use iPhone4.

Laridae on Galaxy Nexus on Speakout

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:43:33 -0800

Just curious, Jake: why would you take a nice, expensive new phone like the nexus and then run it payg on SO?
I love a deal as much as the next guy (that's why I'm here) but then I don't like to spend too much on my hardware either. (I'm actually just running on 2G since I have an AWS phone from Wind)

jakeroberts on Galaxy Nexus on Speakout

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:41:13 -0800

Getting about the same as chimp, late nights, early mornings are better speeds for me. less traffic on the network would be the reason.

chimpanzee on Galaxy Nexus on Speakout

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:21:24 -0800

at the time of my test, it was about 3M/0.5M using a Gio/Shine Plus.

curt on Galaxy Nexus on Speakout

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:20:24 -0800

Hi Jake: I was wondering if you downloaded Speedtest on your new Nexus, and what the real world results were?

jakeroberts on Galaxy Nexus on Speakout

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:25:17 -0800

I picked up a i9250 Galaxy Nexus and threw in my Speakout card, added my APN settings and I was up and running. The come unlocked, so that's pretty cool. Very cool phone, I just pray the data stays active without having to use a proxy. I think Chimpanzee's right when he said:

"it is actually Rogers gaining much more capacity. As a result, we are going to see more and more unused capacity in the old EDGE/GSM and 3G spectrum as well.

This would result them lower the price they bulk sell to SO(unused spectrum means 0 revenue). So probably this may last a while, so long the 'customer' buy the argument that EDGE/3G are inferior to LTE(and I see this smart people say on RFD thinking LTE is the best thing since sliced bread)."

Here's hoping. Happy new year guys! Time for bed.