Buying a cellphone

Heyo

I was thinking about buying a cellphone, but there seem to only be phones with 2 year plans.. Aren't there any phones with 1 year plans? Or is it better to just buy "burners" (phones with x-amount of $ on them to call for, then throw it away)?

Thanks

 

can we have the chance to buy an iPhone 3gs???

 

iphones are on 2 year contract. i tried and it's a no go, unless your willing to waste alot of money

 

You definitely don't need a contract. The only thing is that you will have to buy your phone. Meaning like $500 if you want an iPhone!!!

Check out the following companies for prepaid and no contract plans:

Virgin Mobile ( virginmobileusa.com ), Metro PCS (metropcs.com) and as well as AT&T and Verizon.

I was looking at a plan with Virgin that is $19.99 a month for unlimited texting, and 10 cents a min for talk. I text way more than talk. Or with Metro PCS you can get unlimited everything, including international long distance for $50 a month. No contract or anything. I found last time I had a prepaid phone, it cost me quite a bit. A no contract monthly plan is better.

You can get a decent phone for less than $50 with most of these companies, especially Virgin.

Hope this helps.

 

hey Brad,

Im just looking on this metro pcs site.. so if we get one of these plans are we able to just keep our phone and get a new sim card then? i have a blackberry bold i would love to keep if i can

 

I think you need to buy one of their phones to use....it's not a GSM network. It's CDMA, meaning their phones don't use SIM cards.

 

ya i realized that as soon as i posted that! lol
seems like the only network that carries bolds is at&t (which seems weird to me) and thats a 2 yr contract. dang!!

 

I haven't even been accepted yet but all this cell phone business is interesting to me. So, with metropcs, I can have everything unlimited including international calling for $50/month?? Now, is there a system access fee on top of that? And is that prepaid or is it a month-to-month plan where I get a bill in the mail? Also, being Canadian, is that an issue when purchasing a cell phone on anything other than prepaid? btw that is a really really great price. I work for Telus here and I wish we had a plan like that lol!

 

I wanna buy a blackberry maybe, but i guess ill decide which is the best option. Im gonna hire the skype home phone service here for my family to use, but i have no idea what i'll be using in Orlando.

 

I'm keeping my current blackberry, unlocking it and using the at&t yummy sim.

 

im also getting the yummy one
its free calls to every1 on AT&T hich i think most ppl are. so im guna go for that
xx

 

I just go for the $19.99 unlimited calls, coz its free to call other people off the apartment phone anyway, even to mobiles..I normally just shot that on every month, otherwise its $3 a day now I think for that unlimited talk to other mobiles, so works out at $90 a month, which is a bit steep, you could get an iphone contract for that!! haha..

 

who the $19.99 contract with mate?
x

 

I'm on the $19.99 unlimited texts with AT&T

 

i cant find that plan on the website..
xx

 

They're just prepaid cards you pick up in Walmart

 

oh really, so with the sim that yummy have sent me i can just pick up the card and put it on that or do u meen sim card.
i think im guna stick with sumit like that, defo cba with a contract.
x

 

with the prepaid text packages you buy a phone card from walmart or wherever and then you ring up 611 and buy a text feature package...i'm currently on 1000 texts a month which is $9.99

 

I want a Sidekick, have u checked it out lately??? it's awesome, but still I'm clueless on the plans and everything else.

 

I'm with T-Mobile prepaid and I absolutely love my phone. I've come to find though that if you actually talk on the phone it's not that cheap but if you just text it's good. I'd recommend T-Mobile. I did a lot of comparing and apparently if you're a big texter, T-Mobile, AT&T and Virgin are the best.