Mobile Phone thread: do you use them and if you do, what's your device?

[Sirotnikov]

My device:

(i didn't pick it. my father bought it for himself, to save space [he had a bulky one before] but then decided it was too small for him, and bought himself a bigger one. I got this one)

[Az]

Calling cards? those suck IMHO. you can always check you bill anyhow, so why bother?

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Calc II
you mean with calling cards..

No, they're cards that put X amount of minutes on your phone. The minutes last a month, but if you add more minutes at the end of the month then your old leftover minutes don't expire. I bought 250 minutes that last for an entire year, which is another option. It's not a calling card, because once you enter the card's information into the phone the card is just worthless plastic, and you'll never need to enter its access number or PIN or whatever ever again.

[laurentius]

Nokia 3650, My phone
I use it to surf the net, take dodgy photos of my friends and play mp3's

[MRT144]

I use payphones and calling cards. seems to work for me and is cheap

[Starchild]

I've got a bog standard Nokia 3330 that I can't live without simply because of all the txt messages I send. I want laurentius' phone however. The 3650 is kickarse.

I'm still amazed that in America you get charged if someone calls you and that pre-paid minutes expire at the end of the month. In the UK, you only pay if you call/txt someone and any minutes from a pre-paid card stay in your account until you use them.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Starchild
I'm still amazed that in America you get charged if someone calls you and that pre-paid minutes expire at the end of the month. In the UK, you only pay if you call/txt someone and any minutes from a pre-paid card stay in your account until you use them.

It all depends on the calling plan, really. Trac Fones are cheap ass phones, which is why there aren't any perks to them -- I see them as no-frills emergency phones and nothing more. I was talking to a mobile phone junkie the other day, though, who was trying to decide whether he'd prefer Phone A (which had unlimited text messages, didn't charge for incoming calls, had unlimited calling minutes between 7:00 PM and 6:00 AM, and had 400 minutes available for the rest of the time) or Phone B (which had no test messaging, charged for incoming calls, had unlimited calling between 7:00 PM and 6:00 AM, had 600 minutes available for the rest of the time, and cost half as much as the other). It all depends on what you're looking for, i.e. how tied to your cell phone you are.

[Sirotnikov]

Btw, Azazel - I think that in Israel until a few years ago, people would also pay for incoming calls.

[Dis]

yes. mainly for work. I really don't have much of a social life

I use AT & T service and use a motorola. I did have cingular service before and a Nokia phone. I may go back to that.

[Urban Ranger]

Mine is a Nokia 2100. Got it just a couple of days ago.

[Aro]

Samsung and Nokia.

[Zopperoni]

Siemens M50, I had a Siemens C35i before this one. My network provider is Vodafone, and I'm quite content with it.

[Az]

Sirotnikov: That was a COUPLE OF YEARS ago. in cellular time history, we're talking stone age.

Zop, that's a great phone. simple and effective.

[Sirotnikov]

It terms of cellular history, US is hardly entering the iron age

[Az]

yeah, they're lagging behind. But in terms of Broadband internet connection, we've just invented fire, while the Japanese have already landed on Alpha centauri in both fields.