New phone plane

[cassiesmom]

Would a phone plane ring PTers to gather for a meet-up, and then fly me there?

I've got a Nokia 6015i, which is OLD! I have the least expensive monthly plan they offer and I am losing most of the minutes every month. I should look into going back to a pre-paid plan. My next phone needs a QWERTY keyboard and a camera. I'm doing a lot more texting than I was when I first got this phone. I'm hesitant to replace it, though, cos it works fine and it's got a whole lot of contact numbers stashed in it. My niece is on either Sprint or U.S. Cellular and when she got her current phone, they were able to transfer all the numbers and data right from the old one.

One thing I really like is that if I know the person's cell phone number, and they're a Verizon user, I can type a message in my e-mail and send it right to their phone number, and they get it as a text. Example: my niece couldn't reach her mom for something, so she called me. I shot her an e-mail text to let her know what was going on, then quickly called my niece back to answer her question. I think I'm the only nerd in my family who texts in complete sentences with punctuation and grammar. -- i shld prolly lrn 2 textspeak but im old

I have a couple of co-workers with iPhones and they've got some pretty nifty health care apps like MedCalc and MicroMedex on them. How handy is that for patient care. There's even a speech recognition app for "medicalspeak". That's tempting but the iPhone plus the contract plus the data package is pretty pricey. My oldest niece has an iPhone and doesn't keep a land line.

[wombat2u2004]

I pay $20 every 6 months for my phone. I don't make calls.....it's just there if someone wants to call me.

[K9karen]

I have a family plan with Verizon and John and I have Droids. Yeah, I know, I'm a fool. I pay way too much but I cut our monthly minutes recently. Sorry, this old broad does a lot of texting, especially if I can't reach someone by phone and I think it's important. I have oodles of free apps. I love my Sudoku app. I use it everyday or when I'm waiting for an appointment. I've been sucked up. I know. I need to set my priorities. BTW the sweet guy at the Verizon store gave me coupons so our phones where a total of $50. Can't beat that. I lucked out. I need unlimited long distance. I have lots of PT friends and others in almost every city.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I didn't have a cell phone either but I decided that for emergencies that I should have some kind of a cell phone. I ended up ordering a prepaid tracphone from HSN. I've had it for several weeks now and I only made a brief call to my mom to test it out. It came with 1200 minutes after I activated it and they're good until sometime in Aug. of 2012. I bet I won't even use up all of my minutes by then. Each time I need to buy minutes I'll also get triple the minutes for life. Too bad prepaid minutes have an expiration date. When I make any long distance calls on my land line, I use a prepaid card and these minutes never expire and I can always recharge the card again.

[pomtzu]

I didn't have a cell phone either but I decided that for emergencies that I should have some kind of a cell phone. I ended up ordering a prepaid tracphone from HSN. I've had it for several weeks now and I only made a brief call to my mom to test it out. It came with 1200 minutes after I activated it and they're good until sometime in Aug. of 2012. I bet I won't even use up all of my minutes by then. Each time I need to buy minutes I'll also get triple the minutes for life. Too bad prepaid minutes have an expiration date. When I make any long distance calls on my land line, I use a prepaid card and these minutes never expire and I can always recharge the card again.

Your minutes shouldn't expire. I had Tracfone for years before I went on my son's Verizon plan (for only $10 per month ). With TF I had a double minutes for the life of the phone, and if you go on line, you'll see that they have automatic plans, where you don't have to remember to buy more minutes. They bill you per month and automatically add one month to the expire date and add the minutes - then the same the following month - and on and on. What minutes you don't use are carried over. I was on the basic plan - 50 minutes for 30 days for $10. So with the double minutes I got 100. They actually screwed up tho - one month they extended the date but didn't add the minutes. I called them and they over-corrected the problem. After that I was getting double double minutes - 200 of them every month. When I got rid of TF and went on my son's plan, I had over 2300 minutes that I had accumulated. Nope - I don't use my cell much either......

[Hellow]

I use something similar to a Tracfone - Straight Talk, which is actually a more advanced service of Tracfone. It works like a real cell phone plan, but it's prepaid. No contract or anything like that. I love it, $45 a month for unlimited talk, text, and data. The biggest drawback is that you're restricted to the phones that they will allow you to use, but they have smartphones like my Nokia E71.