P.S. saw the new g2x from lg for t-mobile. Don't know for sure if the frequencies on it are gonna be supported by at&t overtime. Also the concern is to get a phone which would support international frequencies in addition to t-mobile.
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Looking to buy a new smart phone - preferably on a prepaid card. Which phone would be a good buy for t-mobile considering the upcoming buyout from at&t.
(I'm assuming the prepaid cards work with any T-Mobile compatible handset. I'm not sure since I've always been post-paid.)
I'd recommend a used Nexus One. I finally upgraded from my G1 last week and the N1 is both fairly cheap on eBay as well as one being one of only two handsets on the market with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Another reason to get the N1 (instead of say, the newer Nexus S or the forthcoming LG G2X you mentioned) is that unlike the these phones it has a multi-color notification LED. Why all manufacturers don't include this simple feature is a mystery to me, but if you need to have truly silent mail/text/IM/etc. notifications it's a must have.
I'd recommend a used Nexus One. I finally upgraded from my G1 last week and the N1 is both fairly cheap on eBay as well as one being one of only two handsets on the market with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Another reason to get the N1 (instead of say, the newer Nexus S or the forthcoming LG G2X you mentioned) is that unlike the these phones it has a multi-color notification LED. Why all manufacturers don't include this simple feature is a mystery to me, but if you need to have truly silent mail/text/IM/etc. notifications it's a must have.
I haven't used the Atrix, and I've only spent about twenty minutes with the Nexus S. But the Nexus One running 2.3 doesn't seem too different than the Nexus S in terms of normal day to day activities. You might look into various benchmark software results to get some hard numbers to see the actual difference between them when pushed to the limit.
On the Nexus One there are actually two separate LED indicators. A small battery status/charging indicator above the screen and a notification indicator integrated into a translucent trackball under the screen. The trackball light is capable of creating a rainbow of colors that some programs (like K-9 Mail) will let you assign yourself. For me, this means that when I get a notification I can know not only that I have an email, but which of several accounts has received it.
On the Nexus One there are actually two separate LED indicators. A small battery status/charging indicator above the screen and a notification indicator integrated into a translucent trackball under the screen. The trackball light is capable of creating a rainbow of colors that some programs (like K-9 Mail) will let you assign yourself. For me, this means that when I get a notification I can know not only that I have an email, but which of several accounts has received it.
Actually, there was a version of the Nexus One sold with AT&T's 3G, but this does lack support for T-Mobile's 3G. I'm not aware of any phones on the market that support both AT&T and T-Mobile 3G frequencies.
If you're concerned about having a future-proof handset that can roam internationally, you're probably better off going with an AT&T device to begin with. However, in a year or two AT&T plans to have it's LTE network up and running. So it might be better to go with a used handset on T-Mobile (which has cheaper voice/data service) from the start if you plan on upgrading to the newest technology down the road.
If you're concerned about having a future-proof handset that can roam internationally, you're probably better off going with an AT&T device to begin with. However, in a year or two AT&T plans to have it's LTE network up and running. So it might be better to go with a used handset on T-Mobile (which has cheaper voice/data service) from the start if you plan on upgrading to the newest technology down the road.
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