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Comments (20)I'm on a Tracphone and mostly satisfied. Best feature is the cost. I pay about $100 per year and the minutes roll over. I did the extra cash up front for "lifetime" double minutes... that is life of the phone. First phone I had was not very good... second was more expensive and more powerful. At the moment I have over 2000 minutes because I don't use them all... may have wasted my money on the double thingy. Downsides! They will kick you off the air if it is busy. Not dropped... they just won't let you call or it will say "emergency only". Most of the time it works just fine but not at all during lunchtime when everyone is calling someone. Texting is poor because of the cheap phone but it does allow it. Texting is popular around here because we have weak signal and text will go when voice won't. I think they ding me 1/2 minute per text. I don't use it much but it is a nice option... helps to have a friend that will let you send a couple practice texts while learning how. I really like the voice mail! My home voice mail was often a pita... machine broke or ran out of room. Almost worth the phone just to have the mail. Tracphone has some really cheap phones. About $15 should get you the lowest which comes with a few starter minutes. If it works for you they have better phones available on the website. If you buy minutes for the cheap phone then get a better one they will transfer but that deactivates the old phone. I will probably watch this thread as I'd like something a bit better. Just waited 90 minutes to make an important call because the airwaves were "congested". Suppose the call got made... and emergency service was available if that had been the situation. : ) lyra...See MoreCell phone as Home phone
Comments (34)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...See MoreCell phone covers
Comments (15)EBay is a great resource but be absolutely sure you search for the exact make and model of your phone. I have bought a few sparkling bling cases for dressy occasions but daily I have an otterbox, excellent protective case, and I also use a Speck which is also very good. You can spend from $2 to over $50. There's a website that has the otterbox cases in beautiful colors and design, you can get your name on them or engraved etc, for about the same price as a regular otterbox. I can look for it if you are interested. Many of the otterbox cases have a cover over the screen so you don't need a separate screen protector. I personally don't use a screen protector, never had any problems with scratches since the gorilla glass and the super strong glass has come out....See MoreI need a new cell phone
Comments (9)Lots of choices! To answer your questions more directly, you want an unlocked phone if at all possible. An unlocked phone can be moved to a different carrier if you have issues with your current carrier's service where you need to use the phone. Unlocking also can let you move to a carrier offering a lower-cost plan. Some phones can be unlocked by the carrier after you pay for a number of months of service with them. These might be an option if you know you'll be happy enough with that carrier for as long as you need to use them. In your price range, it will be hard to find even a recent iPhone. If you're looking at smartphones, you'll be considering Android phones. Or you'll be looking at "feature" phones (the old non-smart kind). There may still be a few Windows Phone models that look like screamin' deals. Don't do it -- Windows Phone is a great OS but it is a technical dead end. You could buy a refurbished phone; that will save some money and some potential grief. Several manufacturers sell refurbs at their Web sites; carriers do, too. Usually this is a recent-model phone which has been cleaned up and batteries replaced so it is, effectively, a new phone for you; they carry the manufacturer's usual warranty. You also could buy a used phone, but, in your situation, I don't recommend it. For one, smartphones often are tied to cloud storage provider accounts and/or bought on purchase contracts which must be satisfied before the phone can be moved to another account. Many sellers don't clear things up appropriately. Second, phones live hard lives. Buying a phone someone else has used for a couple of years exposes you to however they stored or dropped the phone and/or abused the screen and battery. Paying to fix that negates much of what you save in buying a new phone. And you likely will have no warranty recourse on a phone that old. I'm not really familiar with the Android smartphone landscape (we're an Apple house). Features you could look for: removable battery; slot for additional memory; the quality of the camera (if you plan to take pictures with it); a bright screen that renders colors accurately. Consider screen size -- bigger screens are nice to look at but it makes the phone harder to stow in a pocket or even for those with smaller hands or limited mobility to use. If you can, find out if the phone you're considering will get future Android operating-system and security updates (no phone will be supported forever, but the older the phone and the smaller the manufacturer's phone business, the less likely they'll bother accommodating updates). Good luck!...See More
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