A great way to stay entertained while traveling is with your iPhone. This new phone is capable of playing music and also allows users to watch videos. Instead of having to carry a portable music device along with your cell phone, the iPhone has combined both elements into one product. The new Apple iPhone is designed with the latest technology to enable all its users to have access to virtually everything. Through the companies Apps, customers can activate specific programs that enable them to check their bank balance, update their social status and search the World Wide Web. In addition to those features, the phone allows the user to store media, such as movies and songs that can be played while on the go. Here is a link that might be useful: iPhone

There are two generations answering this question. I am retired and would rather use my tower PC and old flip phone. Since I'm home most of the time it is easy to send a quick email to any of the kids to read on their smart phones. Can just answer or hang up with the flip. My upgrade is due and need a new phone. The darn flip phones are the same price and now with additional options which are of no use to me. The larger phone screens are nice, but still need my darn glasses to read anything of importance and it is too easy to go somewhere into cyberspace not wanted. Admission though, I would definitely use the app to compare pricing/stores. Can't tell you how many times someone has to show me a pic they have on their phone....I either nod or say something nice unless my glasses are nearby. The kids have accommodated me by sending pics through email. And I'll hang on to my Nikon D70 with all the functions in my head. The gathering of old people not wanting smart phones will fade away and this is not too far away. "New" old people will be the generation already skilled. But I have a vision of needing the old magnifying screens being put over them, those used in front of the first TVs in the 40s. Even an Ipad drives me nuts due to size in getting around for all I want to do. Am an ex IT person, 40 years of computer evolution experience. Still love new software and learning more. I like my fast access, multiple software programs and a "fat" built computer with a 42" screen for photography. We can be set in our ways, but there are physical limitations which also direct us to what works for our needs. Regarding the 700 a month. Enough people, aps, games, online use can easily jump to this. Family plan or not.. My son downloads books, usually once a month while he is sleeping. The data used is about 600 for this one shot. Phones used for business can easily run the monthly charge posted. This reminds me of one of my favorite commercials from Office Depot. Grandma is taking pictures of her kids with a hand stapler she picked up instead of the camera they gave her. My humor may be off the map.

"How can you tell if a virtual mobile carrier is as good as their parent?" mtvhike, virtual mobile carriers are neither good nor bad. They sell phones and usage plans and have others provide the signal and the connection. Good or bad: price only. They do nothing else. Two phones on the same system at the same location with different signal strengths? The only difference is the phone hardware. The same could happen with two Verizon sourced (in this example) phones. Take two copies of the same model from the same source, their performances can easily be different when side by side. Keep in mind, the low priced virtual companies like Tracfone tend to offer mostly lower quality phone models and that alone can account for lower quality connections on a major network. crafty, forget the coverage maps other than, again, looking at them from 5000 feet, not with a microscope. I have Verizon, the coverage is awesome and reliable (and has been for a long time, I'm a customer of it and its local predecessors for >30 years) but it can vary from block to block and structure to structure. Why can plans from Tracfone et al be cheaper than the name brand? It's a form of what's called marginal pricing. The big guys need to charge enough with their main business to pay to build and maintain their infrastructure and the anticipated capacity plus a factor for wiggle room. That leaves extra capacity that would go otherwise unused. Their cost for carrying the added traffic sold the the virtual carriers is zero so any revenue is better than none. Ever buy a same day ticket for a Broadway play from the booth on Times Square in NY? Or sign up to be notified for a last minute cruise opening? There are lots of examples of heavily discounted prices when what's being sold would be otherwise unused. In the Broadway case, getting $25 for an unsold $125 seat is better than getting $0.

If you’re getting a blank white screen on IPad and/or IPhone, delete the existing app (touch the icon and hold until a box comes up allowing you to choose delete), then go to the App Store icon, type in Houzz in the search and reinstall. This is the second time I’ve had to do this in the last year or two. This is what Houzz recommended when I called them the first time it happened. All your idea books will come back just fine.