I believe both do have bluetooth but I never learned to use it. I will check it out. owbist; I always forget about youtube. However, I didn't see anything useful in your list. Remember, I had essentially succeeded in making a sim card transfe, but the data was not complete. The one on point post from your list also indicated incomplete data fields. I actually found that my transfer was worse than I originally thought. It only transferred the contact name and lost both the fact that the next contact was identical and thus a subset, but also lost any indication of the type of phone (work, home etc) and listed ALL entries as 'mobile'.

Yes I would do that too. Old prank from way back when! Your story reminded me of a funny although annoying thing that happened here a couple of weeks ago. One Saturday evening I had just gone to bed, it was about 11:30. I got a text message on my phone. Got up to check it in case it was an emergency with one of my tenants. All it said was "Hi, it's Jonas". I could see by the number it was my tenant, Jonas, but didn't think it was important so I went back to bed. He texted me 4 times through the night! 'Course everytime I get a text my phone beeps to alert me, and as I am a caretaker I am tuned to wake up if my phone beeps in the night. Anyway, the short of the long - I saw him a couple of days after and asked him why he was texting me all night. He was so embarrassed as he had mixed up my number with the number of a girl he is chasing....thankfully he didn't say anything graphic on his texts. We both had a pretty good laugh about it afterwards. Suzan J

I guess it all depends on how much you call from home versus away from home or on the road. We use pre-paid cellular. The new phones were free after rebate and my wife and I each spend about $5-$7/month for the STI Mobile/Sprint service. We only make quick 1-2 minute calls for necessary reasons and it works fine anywhere in the country that Sprint covers. Voice mail and text messaging are turned off on both cellular phones. Other cellular providers are now joining the pre-paid game with good deals. We are still stuck with the old telephone company for home and home office lines. I must have the reliability and quality of a landline for my business. I do pay too much for long distance, toll-free, and local service for my business compared to the low rates available today. Bills are typically $35-$50/month for relatively low volume usage. The last time I switched was from MCI to Ameritech(i.e. SBC/AT&T/who knows?) It was a pain to switch, but the new lower rates were good for a year before they went up again. Our home phone line just went up to $22/month for local phone service. It started at $18 several years ago. Pre-paid long distance service is $.025/minute using cards from companies like Cheap Phonecards. The latest cards don't require you to enter the pin every time from home and you can program the 800 access number into speed dial. The long distance cards are great from hotels too. We are seriously considering the switch to broadband phone service, but our local numbers are not yet portable for Vonage or the others. We are just outside of their large markets. Broadband cable internet is $30/month and speed is around 300K or 10 times faster than dial-up. It is fast enough for our needs. The total bill (excluding my business) is around $67/month for all phones and broadband for my wife and I. Here is a link that might be useful: Cheap Phone Cards

Hi want to retire ... did, When I saw your subject line, I wondered whether you were giving up a landline (which, when we sign up for, we get assigned one) ... ... or wanting one for yourself for a cell phone/smartphone (but I assume that we get one assigned when we sign up there, as well). So - I guess the decision of others that you want to find the number of someone else without having to pay a fee is the fact of the matter. "Canada411" seems to do it quite a lot of the time around here. ole joyful