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shaun wallace
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I have 2 with different area codes. just as everybody elses sometimes sketchy service in some areas. I donot have the fancy ones.Use you call me I call you and voice mail no texting,no internet.
Blackhole49
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- White Lake MI
It depends on how much you use your phone and how many aps. you require (think GB per month). I have had my android for 2 1/2 years and I don't live on it, still do nearly all my web browsing on my laptop. My phone has cost me about $150 per year to use plus the $99 price of the phone. For me, it is far and away the cheapest option for a smart phone.
$125.00 + taxes = $138.00 for 365 days of service. It is my wife's phone and is used for emergency or when I can't find her in a store. She can text, make a phone call or surf. Easy to keep track of time used and you can buy extra time. The unused minutes compound, I think she has 7 or 8000 built up.. If you just need a mobile phone, it is the way to go.
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mikewood869
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You could use your old phone if you want to depending on what it is. I ended up getting a iPhone from someone after my old phone wouldn't hold a charge. It's cheaper to refill your minutes, data, & messaging online or you could buy a card. I haven't really had any dead zones unless I you past New Hampshire.
I use "straight Talk" from Wal Mart. It is a subsidiary of trac phone. I have had no problem at all. 45a month, there is supposedly a point at which they slow down your data, but I have never reached it. I do not use it for a gps in my vehicle. I listen to Pandora a lot and have never had a problem.
I've always had Tracfone. My SIL gave me a smart phone to replace my dying Tracfone $9.00 flip phone that I'd had for 10 years. I had been paying about $100 a year for minutes. Once I got the smart phone set up (it was a Version phone, so it was "unlocked") I started using it. I've had it almost a year now. My monthly cost for minutes has averaged out to about $6.00 a month! I can buy 500 talk/1000 texts and something like 1G of data for a little over $20.00. I mostly text and get a few calls. I don not use the smart phone features really and rarely use any data. It's fantastic for me. I even figured out how to record music to the phone so I can listen to what I like in the shop, barn, car or on the tractor. I never have coverage issues.
It works great if you want a phone. If you want to watch movies and be online on phone it's probably just as expensive as anything else. The rest if my family uses Smart Talk and it's inexpensive, but it's a lot more than Tracfone for my uses.
UncleTom
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The wife and i have had them for over 10 years. Love them. Our usage figures out to be 6-8 $dollars a month. The only way to go in my opinion. Why pay $100 plus a month. My $99 dollar Samsung does everything my boss's $900 dollar Samsung does.
Bret, how do you record music?
Bret, how do you record music?
timcasbolt
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It's Tracfone, and I've had one for nearly 20 years. I don't need all the bells and whistles that go along with most plans, nor do I need a smart phone. A year's worth of service runs about a hundred dollars, and then they give you an option to buy an extra year with no extra minutes for fifty dollars. Since I don't use it that much, I always have more minutes than I need. Also, your minutes accumulate, you never lose them.
onefarmer
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- 6735 S Lowell Rd, St Johns, Mi 48879
I've had tracfone for over 10 years now. I don't use it for talk much but do use text and internet. $10 a gig lasts me for several months and the year plan for just over $100 lasts me just fine. I have extra minutes to burn now. At home and everywhere I can, I use wifi to save the data.
I get a $100 unlocked smart phone from Bestbuy and a sim kit for tracfone from a retailer. With the sim kit you can choose which network you want to use. Most popular is ATT and Verizon. I use Verizon. You see they are nothing but a reseller and contract with them as their carrier. In my area Verizon has more cell towers than anyone so I choose that network.
I get a $100 unlocked smart phone from Bestbuy and a sim kit for tracfone from a retailer. With the sim kit you can choose which network you want to use. Most popular is ATT and Verizon. I use Verizon. You see they are nothing but a reseller and contract with them as their carrier. In my area Verizon has more cell towers than anyone so I choose that network.
If you mostly text and don't need a lot of talk minutes or a lot of data, one of the lowest cost options is to buy the 60 minute/90 day cards for $20 each. That is $80 per year or $6.67 per month. Multiple cards can be loaded into a phone to add 90, 180, 270, 360 days in a short time.
I think Tracfone has dropped the double and triple minutes bonus on most new phones, but smaller bonuses are still available by looking up the bonus codes. One website for bonus codes is:
www.tracfonereviewer.blogspot.com/p/tracfone-promo-codes.html
I think Tracfone has dropped the double and triple minutes bonus on most new phones, but smaller bonuses are still available by looking up the bonus codes. One website for bonus codes is:
www.tracfonereviewer.blogspot.com/p/tracfone-promo-codes.html
Wife and I have them. We have no plans to change from them to another provider. Their plans are not designed for the big talkers of the world. My wife has over 2500 minutes accumulated. She uses hers mainly for texting. I usually have 400 - 500 minutes. I use mine mostly for texting, but also talking to feed and fertilizer people. We figure that each phone costs us about $10 per month.
One thing to be aware of - if you buy a Trac-fone from a store, it might not work well in your home neighborhood. I had to return one that I bought 20 miles from my home zip code, because it would not work well at my home. If you go directly to their website and plug in the zip code where the phone will be mostly used, they will give you a list of phone choices that will work in your zip code. It's odd because the phone that they recommended for my zip code works everywhere I go, including in that same store 20 miles from home.
I don't claim to know anything about cell phones. This is my only experience with them.
One thing to be aware of - if you buy a Trac-fone from a store, it might not work well in your home neighborhood. I had to return one that I bought 20 miles from my home zip code, because it would not work well at my home. If you go directly to their website and plug in the zip code where the phone will be mostly used, they will give you a list of phone choices that will work in your zip code. It's odd because the phone that they recommended for my zip code works everywhere I go, including in that same store 20 miles from home.
I don't claim to know anything about cell phones. This is my only experience with them.
I've had a Tracfone for years. Works for what I want. Calls, texts, wifi net access, Photos, notes and more. I don't use alot of data on purpose. Costs about $10.00 a month. Phones coat about $30.00 and up. Read this article about CDMA and GSM.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/cdma-vs-gsm-whats-the-difference
https://www.pcmag.com/news/cdma-vs-gsm-whats-the-difference
Frank(Mi.)
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Wife and I have had them for over ten years. They are just fine for talk and texting. By far the least costly way to go. I also use the camera in mine when I am taking something apart that I want to re-assemble at a later time and want to make sure I get it right.
I found the directions on line someplace. You have to have a way to get the music to a lap top or tower type computer. I also had to look up how to record (download/upload whatever) from CD to my laptop. Once it's stored on the laptop you use the charger wire to the phone and you use it as a data transfer cable. When you plug it into an Android type system you should be able to pull down a "Choose what the USB cable does" type screen and choose data transfer or whatever it says. Then you go to what ever music program is on the laptop, mine is Windows Media Player, and you should see the phone one it's plugged in. Then you "sync" the music to the phone. The music will go to your phones "Music" program, "app" I guess they call them now. There are tutorials on You Tube or via search engine that can explain it better than I can.
I'm basically computer illiterate and using the flashlight or camera on my phone requires I actually think about how to do it. So if I can figure it out, I think most anyone can.
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