Searching for a discount on a Motorola Droid Razr Maxx
What’s improved than removing a good understanding on one of a hottest smartphones on a market? How about removing a good understanding on dual of these devices.
In this book of Ask Maggie we assistance one reader get a best understanding we could find on a Motorola Razr Maxx, one of my favorite Google
Android inclination on a market. And we assistance another reader, who wants a many amicable smartphone around, confirm if Windows Phone is right for him.
Dear Maggie,
My partner and we both have HTC Incredibles. We are both due for an ascent on Mar 21. We wish to get a Razr Maxx. we was deliberation watchful for a cost drop. But if a cost is not expected to dump for a integrate of months, afterwards we will substantially usually go forward and get it during full price.
Any discernment as to when a cost would dump on a Razr Maxx or when a “buy one, get one free” understanding will come around again?
Thanks,
Zach
Dear Zach,
I’ve got some bad news for you. Unfortunately, we usually missed one of Verizon‘s famous “buy one, get one free” promotions for a Droid Razr Maxx. Verizon charity this special graduation final month around Valentine’s Day. But a graduation is now over.
The current “buy one, get one free” offer is for a Samsung Stratosphere or a LG Spectrum. These are also good phones. And if you’re looking for a deal, this is a good one. That said, we privately like a Droid Razr Maxx a lot, mostly given it operates on Verizon‘s 4G wireless network, though doesn’t humour from a same battery life issues other 4G LTE smartphones experience. In fact, a “Maxx” partial of a Droid Razr is for a bigger battery, that has a longest battery life of any 4G LTE device on a market.
I asked a Verizon Wireless patron deputy if she suspicion that Verizon competence offer a Droid Razr Maxx again for a “buy one, get one free” promotion. And she told me that it was unlikely. The Droid Razr Maxx is labelled during a high-end: $300 with a two-year contract. And it’s tough to contend when it will get a cost cut. Unfortunately for you, we don’t design it to dump in cost in a subsequent integrate of months. In fact, when we asked my CNET Reviews colleagues, a ubiquitous accord was that it could take 6 months for Verizon to dump a cost on this phone.
But we do have dual pieces of good news for you. It looks like we can get a Droid Razr Maxx on Amazon for $200 with a two-year contract.
Also, Verizon is now charity a double information graduation for a 4G LTE business right now too. You can get 4GB of information for $30 a month instead of 2GB of information for $30. The patron deputy we talked to online pronounced a graduation runs until Mar 31. Since we sound prepared to lift a trigger on some new inclination now, I’d go forward and buy a phone now and pointer adult for Verizon‘s double information promotion. That approach we will be sealed into a agreement with 4GB of information for a same cost you’d compensate for 2GB of data. While this is not a loyal discount, we will be removing some-more crash for your buck, if we cruise you’ll be regulating a lot of data.
Motorola Droid Razr Maxx for Verizon (photos)
I’d call Verizon‘s patron use to double-check that we can buy a phone from Amazon and still get a double information graduation from Verizon.
Sorry we don’t have improved news for you. But during slightest we might be means to save some income grouping a device by Amazon.
Good luck!
In hunt of a many ‘social’ smartphone
Dear Maggie,
we have a simple “dumb” phone on Verizon Wireless. Until now, we didn’t cruise we indispensable a smartphone given we used my fourth-generation
iPod Touch to entrance all those cold “smartphone” facilities that we didn’t have on my “dumb” phone. But my iPod Touch was stolen recently, and now facilities we used daily have been ripped divided from me.
Since we turn authorised for a phone ascent in a initial week of April, we was meditative about usually going forward with removing a smartphone. I’m looking during 4 graphic phones: a Droid 4, the
iPhone 4S, a Droid Bionic, and a HTC Trophy.
I unequivocally wish a unequivocally amicable phone (like for Facebook and Twitter and such), and a phone with a good camera. we like a Droid 4 given of a overwhelming keyboard, and a Bionic has a unequivocally good hold screen. The iPhone of march has an extraordinary camera on it, though it’s not unequivocally amicable unless we download several apps. we know a HTC Trophy is comparison though it has Facebook discuss built into a messaging. Which would we contend is a best for a socially connected person?
Thanks,
Chris
Dear Chris,
First, we am contemptible that someone stole your iPod Touch. That unequivocally sucks. But we am happy for we that we are finally removing a smartphone. we cruise you’re going to adore your new smartphone! Not usually will we not have to receptacle around dual devices, though you’ll be means to roller a Web and check all your social-networking updates even when you’re not in a Wi-Fi prohibited spot.
HTC Trophy – Verizon (photos)
Which device is right for you? Any of a choices we mentioned would be great. As we mentioned in your question, with Google Android smartphones or a iPhone, we will have to download particular social-networking apps onto your device. This isn’t unequivocally that large of a deal. Most people are happy to do it, given amicable networking is usually one reason they use their smartphones. But it does need we to open any app to check what’s going on. You can get updates from Facebook and Twitter pushed to possibly of these devices, though it won’t indispensably be integrated with your hit list.
But if it’s critical to we to have these amicable connectors built into your device, afterwards I’d cruise a Microsoft Windows Phone. Microsoft has built what it calls a “People Hub” into a software, that integrates your residence book with all your social-networking sites. Here is how Microsoft describes it on a site:
“The People Hub is some-more than usually an residence book on your phone. It’s a one-stop emporium that keeps we adult to date with your amicable networks and helps we stay in hold with a people we caring about most.”
The People Hub aggregates all your contacts’ Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn updates so that we can entrance them but checking particular apps for any amicable network. It also allows we to filter posts and organisation people together into categories. For example, we could put work contacts on one category, while we shred your family members into another category.
If amicable is what we are looking for, afterwards a Windows Phone smartphone is for you. The usually problem for we is that your choices on Verizon Wireless are limited. It’s fundamentally a HTC Trophy or nothing. While this is a excellent smartphone, as we mentioned it’s comparison than a others you’re considering. It also lacks 4G LTE support, that might or might not be critical to you. Also, keep in mind that a iPhone 4S also is not a 4G LTE device. The categorical advantage of 4G LTE is that it offers faster network speeds.
One other thing to cruise if we wish any Windows Phone is that it’s a height that is still throwing adult to Apple and Google in terms of a series of altogether apps. Microsoft has done some poignant swell here. But it’s expected that if we go with this platform, we might skip out on some apps that are already accessible on Android and iOS.
If we are endangered about not carrying as many apps to select from, afterwards I’d cruise a iPhone 4S. You’re already informed with Apple iOS from regulating your iPod Touch. And it will usually be easier for we to use if we have already purchased apps or have song in iTunes for your iPod Touch. Of course, it’s not unfit to download a same apps on an Android phone or to a Windows Phone, if those apps are available. And we can figure out how to pierce your song to a new device. But it takes a bit some-more work than if we simply plugged in your new iPhone 4S and were means to entrance all a same apps we had on your iPod Touch.
Anyway, that is usually something to consider. If a amicable heart facilities are unequivocally critical to you, afterwards Windows Phone is expected a right OS for you. And if that’s a case, we might wish to cruise switching carriers, given we pronounced your agreement is adult in early April. we don’t design Verizon to make a large pull with Windows Phone anytime soon. That said, ATT is prohibited for Windows Phone. And early subsequent month it will be offered a Nokia Lumia 900 and HTC Titan II. These phones will support 4G LTE and are a latest and biggest when it comes to Windows Phones.
Good fitness creation your large decision. And we wish this recommendation was helpful.
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