So T-Mobile has just announced a few new prepaid plans with unlimited talk, text and data and 4G which all sounds great until you read the fine print. The three plans are $40, $50 and $60 per month with 1GB, 3Gb and 5GB of 4G LTE on the respective plans and all have unlimited talk, text and data. The fine print comes in with the data as once you use your 4G allotment you’re throttled all the way down to 128k for the rest of the month. What could you possibly do with 128k speeds? I think even downloading emails would be ridiculously slow and trying to load some of these webpages out there wouldn’t even be worth the time as the site would probably be updated by the time it showed up in the browser?! I’ve been looking into a new plan, I’m on AT&T and I pay about $90 per month after taxes and that’s only 450 minutes, the lowest plan, and yes I still have “unlimited” data, but I have no texting plan so I pay 25 cent per text but I honestly hate texting so I try not to ever use it but other people text me so I have to pay for them. I don’t know, for me, for as much as I actually use it, it’s not worth the price and I need to get something cheaper but sadly it seems AT&T is the only company that let’s me get phones calls in my house and I’ve tried others. Anyway, the PR is below if you want to see what the new plans are all about..
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Animation Comes to Text Messaging with JABS for IOS
I don’t text message, I just don’t feel the need to, so you guys and gals are going to have to tell me if this app is worthwhile or not. JABS let’s you animate your text messages using six different characters. The characters jab, punch, kick and interact in 36 different scenarios and give users … Read more
Zlango Unveils Exclusive “The Walking Dead” Mobile Text Messaging
Here’s another freebie for you, but this one is really an add-on as you need to have the Zlango messaging app for Android to use it. It’s basically a skin for the messaging app that is The Walking Dead themed and you can text in zombie style! Zlango, the global leader in visually enhanced text … Read more
iMessage To Kill BBM? iDiots…WP7 Will Slaughter You All
Yes, Apple is releasing iMessage which is effectively BBM for iPhones. So you can send messages between iPhones without sending texts and get read receipts and that sort of stuff. If it sounds like BBM for iPhones it is and that’s the gift and the curse. As much as people love BBM, the huge limitation … Read more
Mighty SMS Schedule Reminder Announced For WP7
Another day, another developer confirmed for Windows Phone 7. The latest is Iconsys who already has Mighty SMS available for Windows Mobile and have now confirmed that they will be bringing their software to WP7. Mighty SMS™ has now evolved into a text message scheduling system that allows professionals to setup reminders for their clients … Read more
Simple Mobile Makes Data Unlimited
A new company has popped up, I just got this press release about Simple Mobile that is offering unlimited plans for relatively inexpensive prices. They’re offering 3 different plans, but the main plan is $60 for unlimited talk, text and data which is a great deal truly… and it supposedly works with all smartphones.. Today, … Read more
Salient Mobility Releases Its Ad-Based EcoTextSmart Text Messaging System Free to the Public
So this morning I got this press release in my inbox, now if you read the title you’d think this might be something good for us, but digging deeper we find that it actually could be a very bad thing for us, the consumers.
The gist of this press release is that this company is offering its service for free to publishers and not consumers, even though it says ‘to the public’. Looking a little closer we find that the service they’re offering is meant to be ecologically smart or responsible in that instead of mailing things you can just text people advertisements, huh? Wait what? So this company is offering a FREE service to businesses to let them spam us via SMS instead of via snail mail junk mail?! How is this a good thing? And what about people who don’t have unlimited texting plans? Do they really think we want to pay per text to see advertisements?
One one hand this could be a good thing, it could be something of use, but as with anything, there is going to be people who abuse it. I can see how it might be nice to receive coupons or find store locations near us as mentioned in the press release, some people might find this useful. On the flip side though the abuse of this service is inevitable as with anything, we already receive tons of junk email and paper mail, so now we’re going to be getting it on our phones as well?
This, in my opinion, is a bad thing.
Offering a free service to spam sms people? yeah, this isn’t going to turn out too well…
Continue on to read the entire press release and form your own opinion on it…