Anyone use Sprint?

I live about 45 minnutes south of Iowa City and sprint does not work here at all, even though there maps say they do. I got no reeption and it was a pain so for me it was worth the early termination fee and swithed to US Cellular. The data speeds are decent and in the last two years I have had less dropped calls than I would have in one week with sprint. Shaun

 

sprint is terrible around here. dropped calls ... no signal...

 

I have a Sprint phone - I get it through work. I only have problems when I'm far out of the city. As long as I'm in or near a city, I have great coverage. But, when I've gone camping, fishing, or hunting, it's pretty unpredictable. I travel to Missouri quite oftne and there are dead zones along hwy 27 and 61. My wife and kids have US Cellular...can't say it's superior. They have their own issues. My opinion is that it depends on where / how you need to use your phone and select your plan on that. For 98% of my time and use, Sprint works great. Granted, the 2% is annoying...but, I don't think there's a plan that will yield 100%...so, I'm pretty happy with 98%. If cost wasn't an issue, I'd probably get Verizon...but, it's hard for me to argue with free.

 

I had Sprint a few years back and like others was roaming most of the time but it was included in my plan. The only problem I had was no Data while roaming, so don't know if that's still the case know.

I think Sprint seems to have the best pricing for plans out there but coverage isn't the best.

I personally use Verizon now and have been very happy with the coverage and having 3G almost everywhere I go is great.

 

If your going to get a smartphone. Stay away from Blackberry, might be Verizon thing, but for the last 3 days I have been without browser on my phone, and all they can tell me is that it is a Blackberry service issue, and have not idea when it will be fixed.

 

My girlfriend went with Sprint for a month to try them out. Here in Ames, reception was terrible as well. ATT and Verizon seem to be the ones to go with for smart phones... they also seem the most expensive. As far as the blackberry comment, what brower are you talking about? I often use a blackberry pearl as a "throw away" phone where I am afraid my iphone will get damaged or lost. Just popped the sim in and everything seems to be working fine.

 

Between work and personal phones I have been with AT&T, Cingular (now one and the same), Verizon and US Cellular. By far, US Cell has the best reception overall. I live in the country so that plays a big role in the decision...

 

We have AT&T (I also get a discount) using iPhones and love them!

 

I am currently with sprint for a little over a year. I do not have a smart phone and hate my download speed. The hero is alright but the touch pro 2 is much better. Ive used verizon they are alright better connection. I am almost in roaming most of the time with sprint but am finding out that also has alot to do with the phone. The only roaming chargers I get are through data though. If you go to the sprint store next to target on the east side all the phones are activated and you can play around with them.

 

The iphone is pretty outdated anymore. They arent doing upgrades to the new phones and most people are going with windows or google anymore they offer more upgrades and are comming out with the most upgrades

 

I dont have one yet. Waiting for my contact to get a second one. The 6.1 was alright from what I hear the main update that made it 6.5 was the fact the phone would go into airplane mode by itself. From playing around with it at the sprint store and watching transformers 2 on it I have been hooked. Love the large touch screen while having the qwerty keyboard with the screen being able to angle up. From the phone nerds I have talked to the best anymore is google then windows and finally iphone.

 

I have played with several smart phones. IPhone is, in my opinion, to restricted in options. Windows mobile isn't bad at all but last I saw no current phone can be upgraded to windows mobile 7 do to the requirements of the new OS. I currently use the Droid and love it. I am all about being able to do what I want with my phone and you just can't beat Android OS for that. I have it rooted with a custom rom and love all the options I have with it. I did jailbreak an iPhone for a friend and even then there still wasn't a great benefit. Plus right now I think the Droids have a pretty good price on them now.

 

My husband had Sprint for a couple years in Iowa City and we could almost count on our call (when we were dating) to be dropped at some point /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/smile.gif When we moved south to Riverside, he frequently got spotty reception and dropped calls /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/sad.gif We switched to Tracfones now and have no problems.....