[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tsnstuff:
Ok, so I got my phone yesterday and I figured I'd make a message about my experience so far. I can't really talk about service because I haven't used it yet, I got on my wi-fi as soon as I could and stayed home the rest of the day so I today will be my first real world test of the service.

Phone:

It's a Galaxy Nexus, what else can I say? I am going from the Verizon Galaxy Nexus to this GSM one. So far I've had the phone freeze and restart on me once. This doesn't freak me out because it used to happen sometimes with the Verizon one as well. What does freak me out a bit is the fact that this morning, after snoozing my alarm twice, I get up on my own and the phone is off. That is new to me, I've never had this happen before. It bothers me to think it may continue to happen because I use my phone as my alarm. The Verizon one was always reliable.

Activation:

So I had ordered 2 SIM cards from T-Mobile. Why 2? I don't know, they were $0.99 so I figured I'd get two just in case. When I got my phone I was all excited and went over to T-Mobile to activate. I filled out the form and it told me the activation number I entered was wrong. I re-entered the number and it was still wrong, tried again and again. I decided maybe that activation code was no good but I had that other sim card so I'd try that one. Bad activation code again!

Finally I get the option to chat with someone. I explain my issue, the person asks me a bunch of questions only to then let me know he/she can't help me, I'd have to call customer service or chat with customer service. I hate talking on the phone so I decide I'd chat with them. Once again I give a bunch of info only to be told that they can't help me either. I'd have to talk to customer service because they could not give me an activation number via chat.

I was kind of mean to this guy because I was already getting pretty upset, all I needed was a good activation number that they should have mailed me. They advertise how easily you can activate online but I think that these numbers not working and me having to talk to Customer Service was not an accident. The Guy asked me if there was anything else he could help me with, my reply was "Anything else? You haven't helped me with anything!"

Finally I call customer service and some lady takes care of me. She did all the activation herself. She told me the service may take up to 24 hours to activate but it was up in minutes.

Misc

I really didn't want to have to do things over the phone because I wanted to avoid the parts where I'm having to spell out information and verifying they got the right info. Hell even when I'm doing things in store I always feel like telling them to get away from the terminal and just let me fill out my info, much faster.

Anyway, I got the T-Mobile $30 for 100Min talk, Unlimited Text and Unlimited Data with 5GB 4G. I was thinking I may have issues since I'm used to using around 200-300 minutes a month. But at $0.10/minute that's at most $50 I'd pay in a month so it's really still saving me money.

Now I just need to figure out how I go about Tethering with this plan if at all possible. I know there was an addition of $15 for mobile hotspot on their site but when I go to my account I don't see how to add it.

I did get some simple mobile SIMs which I'm thinking of trying out at some point, but I'll give this one a try first. My issue with Simple Mobile is that I always use more than 2GB. But that's because I used to never use my home wi-fi, so we'll see.