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Re: Cell Phones...what ya got?
Reply #15 - 05/11/11 at 11:04:34

Just get a cheap, used, Motorola Razr phone and take it to a T-mobile shop for a sim card and no monthly plan. The card will run you 50 bucks or so, and should come with 250 minutes to get you started. Then buy T-mobile refill cards off Ebay or Pinzoo. The 1000-minute refill is about $95 and that will last you a year if you're not too gabby.. works out to 7~8 bucks a month.

I was pleasantly surprised after I lost my phone one time (flew off on the road somewhere) and bought a new one from newegg, took it to the same T-mobile shop and they gave me a new sim card, same phone number and everything, no charge, and I reclaimed the 600 minutes that were left on the old card. Cheesy

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Reply #16 - 05/11/11 at 11:17:10

...as Boule’tard said:

I too have an old but, very capable (and kinda bricky) Nokia N95
with a tmobile pay-as-you-go sim card, works fine for me
and $20 credit last forever, specially if you call no one
and just let others call you. Cheesy

BTW, it's VERY important to "reprogram" your web-browsing
settings, this way your phone cannot "decide" to suddenly
connect to your service provider's signal and drain your credit;
now you can only connect to wifi hotspots or your home network.

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Reply #18 - 05/11/11 at 12:03:22

Im not in a contract and havent been for over two years, pay month to month. Cheapest family plan verizon has.
Id looked at the trac phones but my understanding was your minutes didnt roll over and coverage wasnt real great.
Id like to pitch the thing, lived many many moons without one, but being on the bike and needing to be contactable in case of emergency makes me keep the stupid thing. I dont use but maybe 30-40 minutes a month if that. Dont give out my number either.

Im a tech head myself, built my first computer, self taught. But dont need all the extras you get on a smart phone, got a puter at home for that. Just wanting to shave the monthly bills and still be contactable.

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Yonuh Adisi FSO Serious Thumper Offline Savage Jedi (Knight) Posts: 3622 Pilot Valley NV, aka Tatooine Gender:	Re: Cell Phones...what ya got? Reply #19 - 05/11/11 at 12:03:28 I have a LG Scoop, I bought it from Alltell before Verizon took it over in my area. I pay by day with free unlimited text (which is what I do most often, I rarely use the call function.
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runwyrlph Serious Thumper Offline Semper ubi sub ubi Posts: 846 pa Gender:	Re: Cell Phones...what ya got? Reply #20 - 05/11/11 at 19:31:36 i got consumer cellular- it's at&t, marketed thru AAA ( if you have that) i'm paying $20 per month - more minutes than i ever get around to using. I've got friends with fancy internet phones- nice, but it's still too much $$ for it to be worth it to me
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Reply #21 - 05/11/11 at 19:47:41

I've got a military spec Samsung with Verizon. I only use it to call people on the west coast. Have a land line for DSL access. Never plugged the phone in. No idea what the cell plan costs, don't care, my wife pays it.

If my father in law wasn't 85 years old and if my wife wasn't on permanent disability my cell phone would be used to sight in my ancient bull barrel Stevens .22 target rifle. Can't stand the thing, always breaking corded earpieces and despise blue tooth units. I tend to throw them out the window when they hit 2 weeks old and will no longer connect to my phone. Drives my wife bonkers, and nobody can figure out why they quit working.

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Reply #22 - 05/12/11 at 06:08:04

I use a Tracfone. Since you have to buy a card every 3 months I get 60 minutes for around $20. Like some on here I hardly ever use it and then only a minute at a time. I usually carry a balance of 150+ minutes. Bought my daughter a Straight Talk phone. Same as Tracfone, no contract, $30/month get 1000 minutes talk text, internet. Or you can get unlimited for $45/month. Wal Mart. My moblie charger for the cigarette light cost $2 more than the phone. Wife has same phone model so chargers are compatable.

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Re: Cell Phones...what ya got?
Reply #23 - 05/12/11 at 08:49:01

Canada unfortunately is one of the highest cell rates in the world... ugh.

SO, I managed to cut a deal with Rogers by "threatening to cancel" (which I had no intention of doing) and go to another provider (Bell, Fido, w/e). They said what do you want, and I listed exactly what I wanted and how much I wanted to pay, otherwise I would "walk". After 30 minutes on hold while she talked to her supervisor, she came back and said sure. So, now my bill was originally 110 dollars a month, I now pay an easy 55+tax (no service fee either!).

With unlimited data, and my jailbroken iPhone, I get tonnes of use out of it!

Yep, be glad you got some good plans/rates in the USA because you have to beg/cheat/steal to get one here in Canada!

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