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jayo All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 14 2013 : 3:02PM
I have to replace my cell and I'm looking at getting a Smartphone. Unfortunately, the signal to noise ratio on the internet about various plans and usage is very low. Plus, I'm in the minority in what I want to do.
So advice or direction would help tremendously from people who aren't trying to sell me services...
I use my cell to make occasional phone calls.
If I get a smartphone, I'd want to use it either for things I can do to entertain myself when I'm sitting in a waiting room or in traffic, like a Sudoku game, or taking notes. Occasionally surfing the net for maps or info.
I do *not* see myself significantly texting, sending photos, using Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and all that crap.
1. Can anyone suggest a good smartphone/plan for that kind of thing?
2. How much data does a phone chew through in a month? Is there a way to estimate whether a given data plan would be adequate, overkill, or ridiculously tiny, for my needs?
Flash All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 14 2013 : 3:35PM
I don't use my smartphone often to search the web, but I do occasionally when researching articles. I do play with Facebook on the phone and use GPS and play with some apps. I am roughly in the middle of the month and I have burned through 289mb of data. I don't know if that helps or not.
jayo All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 14 2013 : 7:38PM
I'm looking at Consumer Cellular and they offer the following data plans:
Plan Msgs Data (Web) Monthly Fee
Lite 100 10MB (check web 1-2/day) $2.50
Ready 500 50MB (5-6/day) $5.00
Active 1,000 100MB (10-12/day) $10.00
Cmplte 4,000 400MB (40-47/day) $20.00
Max 10,000 1 GB (104-120.day) $30.00
I suppose I could upgrade plans if I find myself going over. I believe with the way I work, the Lite or Ready plan would be fine.
Mostly I'm fretting that I'll be using "data" time or minutes while I'm doing things like playing a single-person game or reading an eBook, which would be what I'd do most of the time.
Harri Patel
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Posted - Apr 15 2013 : 2:51AM
Have you looked into Ting?
jayo All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 15 2013 : 7:55AM
Thanks! I'll check it out.
 
jayo All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Apr 17 2013 : 7:41PM
Thanks for the heads-up on TING. I just signed up. Things may go sour, but right now they're saying all the right things to me.
Harri Patel
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Posted - Apr 17 2013 : 8:06PM
I didn't study them at length, but the idea that you get credit for unused minutes etc. seemed attractive. I'll probably check them out again if/when my current grandfathered cheap Virgin Mobile plan goes away.



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