ProjectFi is live to everyone and the Nexus 5X is $199 / $249 through it.

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ProjectFi is live to everyone and Google priced the Nexus 5X at $199 for the 16GB and $249 for the 32GB. When you get to the phone selection, choose "All Devices" and you will see the Nexus 5X. Amazon has some unlocked Nexus 6P.

The service is going to start at $30 a month for unlimited talk / messages and 1GB of data.

Data
  • Credit for unused data
  • Full-speed in the US, even for tethering
  • Still $10/GB in 120+ countries
The Fi Basics
  • Unlimited US calls & texts
  • Unlimited international texting in the US and 120+ countries
  • 24/7 live support

 
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Great service from what i've experienced. I switched from Sprint when it was invite only. My bills are only about $25 a month.
 
CAxVIPER said:
Great service from what i've experienced. I switched from Sprint when it was invite only. My bills are only about $25 a month.
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It won't even let me sign up without completely breaking my Sprint integration with Google voice
 
Damn. Wish it was compatible with the iPhone. I would switch carrier in a heartbeat.
 
Love my project Fi -- been on it since it came out, Nexus 6 is awesome as well.

Pissed though they lowered the price so much of the phone since I bought it.
 
Looks awesome, but the lack of microSD slot is a killer for me. I carry way too much music on my card to be limited to the internal storage only.....
 
I know they have Google Drive, but if I'm wanting to listen to something when I hop in the car, last thing I want to do is go through a massive library and wait for a download. Plus, then you're eating data consumption constantly swapping music on & off your device unless you only do that while on wifi.
 
Everyone I know that has switched to fi ended up switching off of it because the quality of the calls sucked, which if you read online reviews, they don't have the same experience. I don't know what it is but all my friends that were on it I could never understand them when they called, and it was just bad quality in general. This is a good deal on the phone but I wouldn't keep the service more than the month to get the discount.
 
collegeboy69us said:
Love my project Fi -- been on it since it came out, Nexus 6 is awesome as well.

Pissed though they lowered the price so much of the phone since I bought it.
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I would be lying if I said I wasn't a bit bitter about that as well. In the end I bit the bullet, sold it, and upgraded to the Nexus 6P though. The Nexus 6P is everything the Nexus 6 should have been and more. Better performance, battery life, usability, and seems to get better reception for me as well (both wi-fi and cellular). It just seems like a phone I could tolerate for longer than the 6.
 
I fail to see how this is better than Cricket. I pay a flat $45/mo for unlimited text, calls and 5 GB of data, all of which have been rock solid. While I don't use all that data every month, even using half would cost more than Cricket. I haven't paid for a major carrier in a long time now, but are their rates honestly that bad in comparison anymore? I find it amusing Google teamed up with the two worst networks of the major 4 carriers to offer this program.
 
Anyone know what network Fi is on? I know it's GSM based. Just curious if Google is rolling their own network and if so, maybe the sound quality depends on the geography. Just a guess though, but I'm glad for more competition anyway.
 
ravx25 said:
I fail to see how this is better than Cricket. I pay a flat $45/mo for unlimited text, calls and 5 GB of data, all of which have been rock solid. While I don't use all that data every month, even using half would cost more than Cricket. I haven't paid for a major carrier in a long time now, but are their rates honestly that bad in comparison anymore? I find it amusing Google teamed up with the two worst networks of the major 4 carriers to offer this program.
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It is a better deal for people who tend to stay on wi-fi almost all the time. I was on AIO Wireless (and then Cricket) before switching to Project Fi. At the time, Cricket had 1GB for $40 which I believe has since been bumped up. My bill tends to hover around $27 now.

dvsman said:
Anyone know what network Fi is on? I know it's GSM based. Just curious if Google is rolling their own network and if so, maybe the sound quality depends on the geography. Just a guess though, but I'm glad for more competition anyway.
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It uses Sprint and T-Mobile. It will switch to whichever has better service in the area. This isn't bulletproof though and has its own problems.
 
dvsman said:
Anyone know what network Fi is on? I know it's GSM based. Just curious if Google is rolling their own network and if so, maybe the sound quality depends on the geography. Just a guess though, but I'm glad for more competition anyway.
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They use Tmo and Sprint towers.

MOST cellphone companies do not own or operate their own towers....90+% of cellphone towers are owned and operated by either American Tower or Crowne Castle.
 
ravx25 said:
I fail to see how this is better than Cricket. I pay a flat $45/mo for unlimited text, calls and 5 GB of data, all of which have been rock solid. While I don't use all that data every month, even using half would cost more than Cricket. I haven't paid for a major carrier in a long time now, but are their rates honestly that bad in comparison anymore? I find it amusing Google teamed up with the two worst networks of the major 4 carriers to offer this program.
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Project Fi doesn't appear to limit data speeds like Crickets does. I have Cricket too and I don't really notice any issues with being limited to a max of 8mb down but that is a difference others could see. My problem with cricket now is there are loads of times my wife will not get picture messages from other carriers. Not that I care, its usually just stupid pics from my mom or my wife's gram. Another problem which has me exploring alternative options should I not find a solution is even between cricket lines, i'm seeing messages not ever deliver. I'll text my wife omw home and every other day she misses a message because it never comes. Usually one that requires a response. We dont compare chat logs unless I ask why she didn't answer my question or get back to me so who knows what other messages aren't making it.
 
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Project Fi doesn't appear to limit data speeds like Crickets does. I have Cricket too and I don't really notice any issues with being limited to a max of 8mb down but that is a difference others could see. My problem with cricket now is there are loads of times my wife will not get picture messages from other carriers. Not that I care, its usually just stupid pics from my mom or my wife's gram. Another problem which has me exploring alternative options should I not find a solution is even between cricket lines, i'm seeing messages not ever deliver. I'll text my wife omw home and every other day she misses a message because it never comes. Usually one that requires a response. We dont compare chat logs unless I ask why she didn't answer my question or get back to me so who knows what other messages aren't making it.
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Like you said, they have the 8mb down limit where cricket passes all of your data through a proxy layer. On occasion, this can REALLY slow down those requests because of the proxies performance. General web browsing could be tedious at times depending on the load on the proxy in your area. I also had trouble receiving SMS short codes (things like Walgreens, CVS, and 2-step authentication from companies like Google - Blizzard - etc). Sometimes they would come in just fine, sometimes I would never get them.

For what it is worth, I have none of the above issues with Project-Fi.
 
Fleat said:
It is a better deal for people who tend to stay on wi-fi almost all the time. I was on AIO Wireless (and then Cricket) before switching to Project Fi. At the time, Cricket had 1GB for $40 which I believe has since been bumped up. My bill tends to hover around $27 now.



It uses Sprint and T-Mobile. It will switch to whichever has better service in the area. This isn't bulletproof though and has its own problems.
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I'm on WIFI all the time and pay about $5/phone to share 750 minutes with family plan + rollover. My wife added 400MB of data for $10 so her phone is $15 instead of 5. All in we pay like $40/month for 5 phones...(10+15+5*3).

I'd really like to get that 750 minutes + maybe 400M/data PER PHONE for the same price, but I haven't found anything yet...
 
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I'm on WIFI all the time and pay about $5/phone to share 750 minutes with family plan + rollover. My wife added 400MB of data for $10 so her phone is $15 instead of 5. All in we pay like $40/month for 5 phones...(10+15+5*3).

I'd really like to get that 750 minutes + maybe 400M/data PER PHONE for the same price, but I haven't found anything yet...
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Sounds like it is working out well for you (y)

Is that on Republic Wireless, some other MVNO, or a grandfathered plan somewhere?
 
Fleat said:
Sounds like it is working out well for you (y)

Is that on Republic Wireless, some other MVNO, or a grandfathered plan somewhere?
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Puretalkusa. We have > 2000 minutes rolled over as we are all light users except for my wife.... May not work for everyone. My wife almost never uses 400MB of data since she's mostly at home. When out she only uses Whatsapp to talk with her family in Brazil.
 
Fleat said:
I would be lying if I said I wasn't a bit bitter about that as well. In the end I bit the bullet, sold it, and upgraded to the Nexus 6P though. The Nexus 6P is everything the Nexus 6 should have been and more. Better performance, battery life, usability, and seems to get better reception for me as well (both wi-fi and cellular). It just seems like a phone I could tolerate for longer than the 6.
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Yeah... add me to the list. Picked up a 5X and 6P with two lines of Project Fi last October. Not long after, the price of the 5X started dropping like a rock. I can't believe it's down to $200, that's a steal of a price for a wonderful device. As to Fi itself, the service is going great for me thus far. Almost everywhere my wife and I go, we're on Wifi. This month is the first time i've broken a gig, and it was because I've been traveling a lot. Typically we are both under 500MB. My bills have been around $25 each. That is half what I was paying AT&T before we switched. Coming up on 6 months of service has thus far left me pretty damn pleased, I don't see myself going anywhere.
 
I chatted with a FI rep. Sprint customers that use GV are basically screwed until/unless they buy a new device.

Google cannot just drop ship a Fi SIM, as it is associated with your Google account and your GV phone number. Further for Sprint customers with GV integration turned on, it is a safe bet that signing up for Fi will permanently break your previously smoothly intertwined services-and you cannot undo it. Fi jacks your GV number on sign-up.
 
Skripka said:
I chatted with a FI rep. Sprint customers that use GV are basically screwed until/unless they buy a new device.

Google cannot just drop ship a Fi SIM, as it is associated with your Google account and your GV phone number. Further for Sprint customers with GV integration turned on, it is a safe bet that signing up for Fi will permanently break your previously smoothly intertwined services-and you cannot undo it. Fi jacks your GV number on sign-up.
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I know you can revert to not having a Google Fi account and move the number back to Fi. Can you not just reattach Voice to Sprint?

You can also just make another Google Account specifically for Google Fi.
 
BigJayDogg3 said:
I know you can revert to not having a Google Fi account and move the number back to Fi. Can you not just reattach Voice to Sprint?

You can also just make another Google Account specifically for Google Fi.
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The problem is that for Sprint and Google Voice...your GV number IS your Sprint number. Which means that either:

A) You keep your phone number, because Fi will port whatever your GV number is to itself....but this means killing your Sprint service in god knows how many ways... While the FI SIM is in the mail. But IIRC people have found out that in "porting" a phone number to FI the action is permanent, and it cannot be undone. So your Sprint service will at a minimum never fully carrier integrate like it is now, ever again.

2) You use one of 2 or 3 arcane means such as you describe...but then lose your phone number, and get to explain it to all your contacts.
 
I like the look of it, though I'm still waiting for at-home fiber. Maybe I'll check it out.
 
I bought this as a test phone, I basically use it as my "work phone." It's nifty and I actually wanted to try a smaller phone so I went with the 5X, whose screen leaves a lot to be desired image-wise coming from a GalaxyNote5, but it gets the job done. The finger print scanner being on the back of the phone is also a welcome addition, and you get straight android. It was a lot more expensive when I joined up during the invite only phase, I think it was like $300 or something. For $200 that phone is a total steal.

The service is so far better than T-Mobile, my other carrier, and is cheaper, although there is weirdly a dead zone in my office for the 5X. My Tmo Note 5 works perfectly in the exact same spot, which must be a phone issue since technically the 5X should be using either Sprint or Tmobile, whatever is better, in the same spot. But the Note 5 randomly drops calls (thanks T-Mobile!) which is unacceptable for a work phone, hence the google phone.

I'd give it a try.
 
Skripka said:
They use Tmo and Sprint towers.

MOST cellphone companies do not own or operate their own towers....90+% of cellphone towers are owned and operated by either American Tower or Crowne Castle.
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he asked what network, not what towers... I assure you sprint and t-mobile operate their own networks... just becuase they don't own the tower does not mean they don't own the equipment on it
 
I'm a fan of Project Fi on the Nexus 6P. Didn't use all my data last month and got an $8 credit.

Was on Harbor mobile's T-Mobile service prior to this, and though the price was good) $33/month for 2.5GB, they couldnt pull their heads out when I needed to travel internationally - it just never worked and I got stranded without a phone multiple countries.

With Project Fi on the other hand it had its own app and it's literally just one toggle to enable international roaming, was bulletproof in Canada.
 
Been rocking Project Fi and a 6P since it rolled out, very happy with it and it's nice getting a few dollars back each month if I'm mosly on Wifi. What's even nicer, is even when I do use more than my 1GB of mobile data, I can stop freaking out because its usually only a little bit seeing a charge for "extra data -- $1.25" and only being billed for what I use is great. Makes me think how shitty Verizon was charging me $15 even if I used 50MB over my plan.

Sprint/Tmobile networks here in dallas/Fort worth are solid to me, I get LTE pretty much everywhere. And I'm happy to support google on top of it.
 
Had the 5X been $199 a month ago when I bought the 6P, I would've probably gone 5X even though the 6P is a godphone. $500 vs $200, I have 24 months of $20 payments to pay for the 6P. Can't complain since there's no finance charge, but $300 bucks back in my pocket would be nothing to sneeze at.

Regardless, I can't see buying anything but Nexus phones in the future. I'm hooked.
 
Fleat said:
It uses Sprint and T-Mobile. It will switch to whichever has better service in the area. This isn't bulletproof though and has its own problems.
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And for those of us not in on e of the top 20 major cities, that seals the deal against. Sprint and T-Mobile has less than stellar service outside of the major metropolitans and or their interstate corridors.
 
It's pretty annoying how I can't switch from Verizon to Fi or cricket with my Galaxy S3. You'd think such a popular phone would have more support.
 
FishHead said:
It's pretty annoying how I can't switch from Verizon to Fi or cricket with my Galaxy S3. You'd think such a popular phone would have more support.
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That phone supports 1 or 2 LTE bands and is 4 years old. It doesn't actually support most of the 3G/4G bands on those carriers.
 
FishHead said:
It's pretty annoying how I can't switch from Verizon to Fi or cricket with my Galaxy S3. You'd think such a popular phone would have more support.
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Pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt. Yea right. A 4 year old phone with region and carrier specific SKUs and firmware that Samsung themselves ceased supporting 2-3 years ago? Fi is Nexus only as of now, in any case.

Um. No.
 
Skripka said:
Pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt. Yea right. A 4 year old phone with region and carrier specific SKUs and firmware that Samsung themselves ceased supporting 2-3 years ago? Fi is Nexus only as of now, in any case.

Um. No.
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It says I'm getting 4G LTE right on the task bar. You think my phone is lying to me?
 
FishHead said:
I get 4G LTE pretty much everywhere besides my house, which is why I want to switch.
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If you're not trolling.....just because you get LTE on Verizon doesn't mean you do on other carriers because they use different frequencies for their LTE. If your phone supports frequency A but not B, then it won't work on a carrier that uses frequency B.
 
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