How do you use your cell phone (vote for as many as apply)

Cicret bracelet phone

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Quote: DRich

Cicret bracelet phone

It's pretty impressive. I have to imagine it would be easier to project onto a table surface.



But to be honest at $200-$400 I am not sure of what problem it would fix. My phone is 4 ounces. I don't feel a pressing need to shower with my phone, but if I did there are waterproof phones for just over $100.

Quote: DRich

Cicret bracelet phone

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I see a few issues, one being you have to wear short sleeves. But I can see kids adopting it and getting even more hooked into it, even more addicting than to iPhones.

All I have is a Tracfone, emergencies only. Like
we're in the casino and it's time to eat and I
have to call my wife 5 times to get her off the
slots.

It expires every 90 days and I have to buy more
time and minutes. I usually get the 90 day 60
min plan because I have a double minute phone,
if I buy 60min I get 120min. $19.99

It expired a couple months ago and I didn't renew
it. I kept getting reminders from them and today
I hit the jackpot. They sold me 365 days and 200min
for $39.99, what a deal. So I got a year and 400 min
for 40 bucks. Best thing is I don't have to screw with
it till next summer. I'm sure I'll have 300 min left
anyway, I rarely use the thing.

In the 80's and 90's I went out of state weekly with
no phone, there were none to take with me. My wife
won't go to the store without her phone. We were
brave in the pre phone days, weren't we.

Prepaid for me now is no minutes no nothing, I pay for even the first minute etc. 50 cents a month for 911 service [non-optional] and a minimum payment per month of $5. Usually $5 more than covers my usage but I average more than that so sometimes plunk a bit more down.

If I don't pay the $5.50 they threaten to just take the balance. That's the part that seems outrageous. Otherwise I am quite happy. Verizon, so excellent coverage for the signal.

Quote: odiousgambit

Prepaid for me now is no minutes no nothing, I pay for even the first minute etc. 50 cents a month for 911 service [non-optional] and a minimum payment per month of $5. Usually $5 more than covers my usage but I average more than that so sometimes plunk a bit more down.

If I don't pay the $5.50 they threaten to just take the balance. That's the part that seems outrageous. Otherwise I am quite happy. Verizon, so excellent coverage for the signal.

I don't understand any of this. No minutes no nothing?
$5 a month if you never use the phone, is that what
you mean?

Quote: Evenbob

I don't understand any of this. No minutes no nothing?
$5 a month if you never use the phone, is that what
you mean?

Yes, but also $5 per month if I make just a few calls and texts. It's not really $5 per month but zero dollars per month ... except you can't skip a month buying at least $5 worth of service; if you make no calls or texts, the $5 is still there. I think the 50 cents for 911 service is a Virginia thing .

I don't know exactly what happens didn't pay the $5.50 every month besides losing any money in the balance left over. I keep a balance of about $80 in case I am off hunting or whatever and need to use the phone a lot.

I pay 25 cents a minute [a minute, not per call] and 20 cents for texts. No perks of any kind; if it's 3 AM I still pay 25 cents/min.

It's very hard to find info about this plan on the internet. Of course, you already need to have a phone.

PS: if you build up a balance larger than you could possibly need, you can donate the money to some charity.

With my regular Tracfone plan, I pay $80 a year,
which works out to .16 cents a minute for 480
minutes. That's about $6.65 a month. I don't
think I've ever been to a place where I never
got a signal. I think it's owned by Carlos Slim,
who has about half the phone biz in N America.

Quote: odiousgambit

Prepaid for me now is no minutes no nothing, I pay for even the first minute etc. 50 cents a month for 911 service [non-optional] and a minimum payment per month of $5. Usually $5 more than covers my usage but I average more than that so sometimes plunk a bit more down.

If I don't pay the $5.50 they threaten to just take the balance. That's the part that seems outrageous. Otherwise I am quite happy. Verizon, so excellent coverage for the signal.

My father despises cell phones, but like most people he has to use them on occasion.

I just switched my father to this same Verizon "pay as you go" plan. He was on a $30/month + $5 taxes and fee plan (200 anytime minutes) since 2004, but he was hardly touching the minutes. I called Verizon and they said they had a $100/year +$7 tax that would give him 400 minutes per year (25 cents per minute) and he was on that plan for three years. So in three years he purchased 3*400=1200 minutes, but his balance was still over 700 minutes.

They said that he could reduce payment to $5 a month + taxes and fees and he would get 20 additional minutes every month ( still 25 cents per minute) , but he would retain the 700 minutes of rollover if he ever gets in real trouble. The only time he ever made heavy use of his cell phone was when he lost electric and phone service to his home for four days.

The first charge just came in at $6.30 but with no explanation for surcharges. I assume part of it was the 911 service.

They do hide this plan on the website, and it only works with "basic phones" i.e. flip phones
http://www.verizonwireless.com/prepaid/pay-as-you-go/

They also have an option for a $2 per day unlimited talk and text. Certain kinds of subscribers rarely turn on their phone, but when they do they talk for an hour. The "pay as you go by the minute" is not cost effective for them.

I go weeks without turning my phone on. Like
your dad, I hate cells also. But I never liked
talking on a regular phone either. It's boring,
my mind wanders because it's usually somebody
prattling on and on about nothing. I seldom
talk about myself in person and certainly not
on phones. A cell phone is terrible, it's this little
hunk of plastic that I now have to be bored on.
If I ever use it..