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Need business features but low cost plan

Discussion in 'GENERAL Wireless Discussion' started by Lunchbag, Jul 26, 2010.

  1. Lunchbag

    Lunchbag New Member

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    Hello. I'm hoping to find a phone with nice features for managing personal info (contacts, to-do list, calendar w/ alerts, all my usernames and passwords for various websites, etc.). I plan on talking very little, probably only 100-200 min/month max and don't need data.

    Problem is, my local wireless store indicated that all the nice phones must be purchased with minimum $40 talk plan plus $30 data, plus tax I suppose. I would be happy to pay whatever a nice phone is worth, but not $30 for data every month for two years! Why in God's great country can't I pay to get a nice phone with features I want, without data?

    There must be a solution. Any suggestions? What about buying an unlocked phone off the internet? What do I do after that, buy a cheap GSM phone and swap cards? Just buy a plan w/ a SIM card and put it into the unlocked phone? This is all new to my cheapskate self...thanks for your time.

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    #1 Lunchbag, Jul 26, 2010
  2. QLR

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    The unlocked approach works for at&t and T-Mobile phones... just make sure that its a phone the company doesn't sell. I have heard at&t doing IMEI checks and automatically adding on a data plan... if you a Verizon or Sprint user, you have to find 2+ year old non Blackberry phones. Good luck with that.
     
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  3. chokaay

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    I think it all depends on what you define as a "nice phone". The Palm Centro (which I currently use) does all that you require and more (I know because that's what I use my phone for). It can be easily found on eBay for very cheap (since it's now discountinued), and you can activate it on some carriers (like Sprint) on plans that don't require data.

    If your definition of "nice" means a state-of-the-art Android smartphone (or something similar in stature), then you may be out of luck activating one of those without a data add-on with AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint, (and maybe T-Mobile... I forget if they implemented a mandatory data add-on policy for smartphones... they might have). You may want to look to a "prepaid" carrier that carries "higher-class" smartphones (like Virgin Mobile)... even though some prepaid carriers require data, their plans can be significantly cheaper than postpaid carriers'.
     
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    #3 chokaay, Jul 27, 2010
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    #4 businessmobiles, Jul 29, 2010
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