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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 9:11 am
Not really...I never really use my home charger- just the car one. My phone came with an earbud but it's still in a drawer in the little baggie it came in. Mine also came with a case. I kind of think the leater cases are ugly and bulky, but they're a good idea to keep the phone from getting scratched up. I have a bad habit of dropping phones as I carry too many things piled up in my arms at one time and it's a good protection. My Nokia I dropped nonstop (even in a toilet- a clean toilet, just so you know0. That was a tough little phone. i worry about myself with flip phones because they just seem so easy to break. Anyway, I keep the case on mine, but take it off now and then to wipe it down. And mine won't go on the home charger unless I take the bottom half of the case off.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 1:34 pm
Has your phone come yet? How's the service? Do you love it?
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 2:58 pm
Got 'em yesterday! So far the service seems terrific!!! Though there were a few minor snafus. They first tried to give us 312 areas codes. Then they were supposed to give us relatively cool numbers, but made a mistake and the numbers are not quite so cool. Most people would not care a bit, but I am weird that way. Like for instance our home number is like: ABB-AABB. I guess I could have called and made them change them, but after waiting over 45 minutes (I kid you not) I got tired of waiting and decided to live with what they gave us... The numbers we should have gotten were actually already taken... I went to a t-mobile store to have them demonstrate some stuff, but the girl was not very enthusiastic (I could tell she thought i was a dumba$$). So I will read the manual and see what I can figure out. I wish I were a bigger geek!!!
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 2:59 pm
Thanks Kaili!!! (forgot to add that!!)
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 3:41 pm
We're in the market for new cell phones, since mine's been on the charger for two days and hasn't charged at all. Darren's is in almost as bad shape. Five years ago we went through Verizon with all the bells and whistles. 500 minutes a month, weekend and evening yada yada yada. Had the phone 2 years and only once went anywhere near the 500 minutes and that was the month my step father died. We blew the 500 minutes that month by about triple and paid out our noses though at the time it couldn't be avoided. After that we decided on prepaid and went with Boost Mobile. It's been great, every three months I pick up a couple of $20 phone cards (80 minutes worth) and that seems to work well for us, except that the phones themselves haven't held up very well. I really don't want to go with them again, I mean with the rate we use them they should hold up for dang near ever! I'd really like to stick with prepaid though. At the same time I've seen some decent (or at least seem) decent family plans through other companies. 90% of our cell phone usage is to each other, the rest is for emergencies or if someone just has to get ahold of me (very few people have my cell #, pretty much just family and the kids school.) We also love the 2 way radio feature on Boost, I'm not sure if other plans have that?, and being able to text message once in a while. Here's the kicker. I really don't want a cell phone, but this past year has shown me how important it is that my family is able to get ahold of me wherever I am in the case of an emergency and that the kids school can get ahold of me. I don't need a bazillion minutes a month, lol, or long distance. But I'm not sure exactly what kind of plans are out there for people like me, unless it's prepaid. I can see paying $49.99 a month or whatever for a family plan when the kids are older and have their own phones but between me and Darren it seems a bit ridiculous. Any suggestions? I know what I want in a cell phone, but I'm not sure I really can find it in a traditional type plan and I really don't want some salesman to try to sell me a phone/plan that will cook a turkey in six minutes or something. Having some idea of what is out there will help stop that I hope!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 3:49 pm
I have Nextel. I like the plans but not their phone choices but they're merging with Sprint so I'm hoping we'll get their phone choices.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 3:51 pm
Why don't you like the phone choices? Just not enough or durable enough?
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 3:57 pm
Hi War, did you see the link Kaili provided? Really just asking around your area is a big help!! You could probably just go to the mall and ask people with cell phones!! The mall by us has all the different companies - I like my Cingular too, no roaming, nationwide, free weekends, and the family plan - so even tho my parents live in FL we are connected cingular to cingular phones no charge!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 3:58 pm
I don't like the styles. My mom has Tmobile.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 3:58 pm
I really like TMobile. We have 3 lines, a gazillion any time minutes, free long distance, no roaming, no phone to phone charges. I go through a local rep here rather than TMobile direct. He usually gives me a little bit better deal. Plus, I always get the free phones and you can upgrade each year.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 4:01 pm
Ok, thats what I'm talking about Reader, lol. Phone to phone, no charges! I've been asking around but I don't know anyone who's phone habits match mine, lol. Most people think I'm insane that I use mine so little. They keep telling me about these great plans with X amount of minutes and unlimited nights and weekends, but it's way too many minutes for me. I did check out Motorolla after reading here, and checked out Nextel after reading Mocha's post, so I'll go look at Kaili's link. I totally forgot about cingular!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 4:26 pm
we have cingular here in N. calif. no roaming, free mobile-to-mobile, and each additional line is only $9.99 a month. we have shared minutes, and plenty of them. you don't have to pay huge to add another line. i used to talk to tater all the time in arkansas and it was costing me alot, so i just added a line for her and sent her a phone. now we talk free with mobile-to-mobile! now, i paid for really good phones and i have to say they have been FABULOUS. chuck has a nokia basic, holly and i have motorola razors, and tater has an LG. all of us are happy with our phones.
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 4:29 pm
War, I have mine through Alltel and I'm lucky if I use 30 minutes a month. Most of those minutes are Unit calling me on my way home from work asking me to stop at the store for him, lol.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 5:50 pm
War--check out the T-mobile deal I posted (via Kaili's info.) $49.99 a month, free mobile to mobile, 500 anytime minutes unlimited weekend and nights and 2 free phones.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 8:42 pm
I did check that out. We went out looking this evening, that was about the best we saw around town too and most of them were two year contracts. Much as I wanted to get away from it, I'm really thinking we're going to another pre paid type of thing. There is no way we're using 500 minutes a month. I did see one plan that was for a single phone line for 300 minutes, but I don't think we could even do that much. LOL, and I saw another that had zero M-F, 9-5 minutes with unlimited nights/weekends...that just won't do either because I need the phone for the kids school! I was really hoping to find some kind of plan that had free phone to phone and few regular minutes but I'm guessing theres not much call for that. We've got to do more shopping around, we really didn't have much time to look around tonight. Maybe I will find some kind of plan that is more suited towards my phone uses. We even discussed getting rid of our home phone, that would make a 500 minute a month plan worth it, but since it's tied to our dsl I'm not going to do that right now, lol.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 2:13 am
You don't have to use the minutes! ;) If it's a good plan financially, does it matter if you have left over minutes each month? We rarely use all our minutes up, but the plan we picked was the best buy for us.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 4:56 am
Oh I like the walkie talkie feature of Nextel.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 5:35 am
Then get a prepaid type one that you can get at Target or Walmart...
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 5:43 am
#2 has a prepaid phone from Virgin Mobile that I have set up to add $20 worth of minutes every month. And I tell him I'm not adding more if he runs out cause he's downloading ringtones lol. #1 shares minutes on my Nextel plan.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 6:58 am
I'm still liking my Verizon. I had it when it was Primeco years ago and Verizon took it over....since I got it again (I had AT&T when it became Cingular), the coverage has been increasing noticably. But it depends on your area. That's for here. Companies have different amounts of time you can use them before you can cancel. I had US Cellular for a week and got rid of it partially because I didn't like the phone and partially because of the coverage. And I love my LG phone. I rarely use the camera, but it's so easy to use and it's pretty durable. I always had Nokias before this one, but I drop it all the time and it still works great.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 9:43 am
Aren't prepaid phones usually more expensive per minute?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 9:48 am
10cents a minute
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 9:58 am
war, cingular makes a "go" phone that is a prepaid that works with other cingulars so that you can use free mobile-to-mobile with other cingular wireless people. here is the link: cingular "go" phone
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 11:57 am
Are you serious Landi???? We went into a Cingular store yesterday and they tried to get us to buy a 500 minute a month, 2 year contract. When I asked if they had anything less, or prepaid the guy told me no! He kept telling us we wouldn't find a better deal anywhere, and even online this is what we'd find, lol. I think prepaid could get pretty pricey if you're using a lot of minutes. I know around mid-June through the begining of July (when bils mother was dying and the phone calls were flying) I went through two $30 cards, but I figured in that situation I'd have blown minutes on a regular plan as well. Totally out of the ordinary situation though. The one thing that has turned me off of Boost (and I'm not sure if the other prepaid ones are the same or not) is that here's my phone falling apart, it's a fight to get it to charge up and I can't find anywhere in town that sells replacement parts or can even look at it and tell me whats wrong. I can call and talk to them or go to their website but sometimes I wanna see a real person face to face!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 12:06 pm
war, click the link, I AM TOTALLY SERIOUS! not only that, you can talk to me on the phone for free! i have cingular. and anyone else who has cingular.
Cingular "go" phone 
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