Comments on: Costco Opens Up Pre-orders for the DROID RAZR HD, $189 on 2-year Contract Plus Free Bonus Accessories

By: joey

joey — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:32:00 +0000

Why would you buy a droid maxx hd, when clearly, galaxy beats the s**t out of it. It’s a really nice phone kind off like an iPhone, but 1 GB of ram, pen tile screen? Horrible, just checked it out today. Battery not removable… don’t get me wrong, the phone is really nice. Like I said an iPhone with inferior specs. Lol

By: foxyoung

foxyoung — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:43:00 +0000

Stores in Florida are saying phones won’t be in till a week after the 18th.

By: NWolvie

NWolvie — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:28:00 +0000

If you can in any way afford the price difference, why would anyone settle for the smaller battery instead of the Maxx?
For that matter, why are any flagship phones coming out without batteries under 2500 mAh?

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:22:00 +0000

Need to add the Full Price too, to these articles for those of us with unlimited and planning to keep it, probably around $700 at vzw.

By: hkklife

hkklife — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:07:00 +0000

I may just have a dud but my battery life is atrocious on my S3 since day 1. Well, it’s better than the people I know with TBs and Charges. Its about on par with the regular (non-Maxx) RAZR. Definitely worse than my old Bionic with the extended battery.

I am stock, unrooted, everything disabled, in a strong LTE area. I have done every battery maximization trick possible.
My S3 usually drops 1% every few minutes when unplugged, no excessive wakelocks. I do get periodic “media” and “mediaserver” alerts of power usage. At first I thought it might have been a bad photo or video file on my SD card but a reformat (then removal) of my microSD card and a hard reset of my S3 did not help matters.

My last hope is that the upcoming jelly bean update fixes the problem

By: Roy Gudiño

Roy Gudiño — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure they do sell off contract phones, or at least they did last time i bough my phone, when they droid razr came out

By: hkklife

hkklife — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:59:00 +0000

Yes, this x100. I wish Costco would try and turn the ridiculous CDMA/LTE phone market on its ear. At least partner with Moto and VZ and sell a few hot handsets at a reasonable retail price with no strings, contracts or subaidies just like they sell PCs, TVs, cameras, tablets, etc.

Costco , along with Apple, are some of the handful of companies with the buying power and the clout to pull this off.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:27:00 +0000

Costco is awesome like that. Yes, I could see someone abusing it and getting a new phone every 90 days. I had a rep the other day suggest i trade my Maxx in for the M and get $100 back.
From costco.com: We guarantee your satisfaction on every product we sell with a full refund. The following must be returned within 90 days of purchase for a refund: televisions, projectors, computers, cameras, camcorders, touch screen tablets, MP3 players and cellular phones.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:09:00 +0000

Too bad Costco doesn’t sell off contract phones. They could be a good deal… I want to keep my unlimited data.

By: rals

rals — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:46:00 +0000

That seems like awfully big loop home for them, since you can always upgrade every 90 days. I was told you couldn’t do this at all. All the Costco stores give me the same speel that they are not allowed to exchange for a different phone unless it’s the same one.

By: Caleb Jones

Caleb Jones — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:41:00 +0000

I do not do anything else at Best Buy, but their mobile store allows 30 day returns.

By: droidsung

droidsung — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:40:00 +0000

Actually Greg is right. Their two weeks is for returning the phone, cancelling the contract altogether. After that they still take return/exchange until 90 days but under the same contract. I have done this with Costco before.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:05:00 +0000

Oh boy. Should’ve known. Thanks for your answer though.

By: IanCaz

IanCaz — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:54:00 +0000

Yeah, you can, but you have to pay “full retail” for the new phone.

By: rals

rals — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:37:00 +0000

Hate to burst your bubble, that’s not true at all. They go through a company called Wireless Advocates, they are just same as any 3rd party retailer. You only have 2 weeks like everyone else. You just get the benefits of pricing and bonus items.