Re:Poll: What kind of cell phone do you have?
by larrykubin on Thursday May 07, 2009 @11:37PM
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I have a prepaid from T-Mobile. A hundred bucks gets you 1,000 minutes that expire after 1 year. While the iPhone and Android are awesome, I don't really talk on the phone very much (was averaging 76 minutes a month) and would rather avoid monthly fees. I guess I'm cheap. I do have an iPod touch, which gets me many of the benefits of having an iPhone, but without the monthly fee. Most of the places I hang out have wifi and I save content for offline reading w/ Instapaper for bus trips.
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Me too, but I use more like 20 minutes per month. (Seriously, who needs a phone? That's what the internet is for.) The great part is that I can buy $10 worth of minutes at the end of the year, and all my minutes last another year. So, after four years or so, I will have paid maybe $160 including the phone. You can't come close to that kind of deal with any other provider.