Cell Phones, Plans, & Accessories

Nextel Cell Phones

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Are you looking for spontaneity and personality all in one box? How about a reputation for good service and a brand name that is a synonym of quality? The Nextel cell phones are all that and more.

The i730 Nextel cell phone takes your personalized wireless connection to new heights. This latest Nextel cell phone release adds a fresh look and new dimension to your mobile life. With its cool silver chassis and 65k color display, the i730 Nextel cell phone is professionally stylish. The vibrant color display gives your picture messages enhanced clarity. It also allows you to customize your screen with downloadable wallpapers, adjustable color palettes, and a choice of three font sizes.

The i730 Nextel cell phone also has an advanced user interface. So if you like everything quick and instant, this Nextel cell phone model allows you to perform easy, one-touch shortcuts to functions and exciting phone features. Its icon-driven menu lets you navigate your phone in four ways with the addition of the OK selection key.

Speakerphone and Voice Capabilities

Tired of hand-helds? The i730 Nextel cell phone comes equipped with speaker phone capabilities. So if you’re driving, you can simply place your phone on speaker mode without having to take your eyes off the road or your hands off the wheel. The built-in speakerphone allows you to engage in safe, hands-free cellular conversations.

The i730 Nextel cell phone also comes with its very own voice recorder. So now, there’s no need for you to carry around that bulky tape recorder. All you need is your i730 Nextel cell phone and your problems are solved. The Nextel mobile lets you capture memos or phone conversations for future playback of phone numbers, tasks, or driving directions (caller must notify other party of any call recording).

Voice-activated dialing is yet another nifty feature of the i730 Nextel cell phone. Simply press a button and speak. The phone comes with a voice recognition system which would then allow it to automatically dial a certain number associated with the words you speak. You can also access phone features using the voice-activated dialing.

Java Applications

In the mood for games? Do you get bored easily? Take a break from your hectic schedule and sit down for a nice little game right from the screen of your Nextel cell phone. The i730 Nextel cell phone comes with pre-loaded applications and games, such as FOX Sports Footbal game demo, Bejeweled puzzle game demo, and Zip Zavier adventure game demo.

Verizon Cell Phones

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Verizon Wireless is the nation’s most reliable wireless operations network in the whole United States. With its Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) Digital Network Technology, Verizon Wireless is capable of serving over 43.8 million voice and data costumers. The company is headquartered in Bedminster, New Jersey and is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD).

Verizon Wireless lets you choose your pick of Verizon cell phones no matter what make or model. Along with the phone, you also get a chance to take advantage of Instant Rebates and Online discounts which are only available for website purchases.

Now, instead of enumerating to you all the Verizon cell phones they have available, why don’t we just highlight one single item for you? The hottest phones in the marketplace these days are camera phones or phones that come with built-in digital cameras so you can take digital snapshots of your life in an instant. The LG VX8000 Verizon cell phone is one such phone.

The VX8000 Verizon cell phone offers an interactive experience that promises to go beyond your wildest dreams. With all its interactive features and multimedia capabilities, this Verizon cell phone seems poised in changing the world thinks – the way you think – about mobile phones.

The LG VX8000 Verizon cell phone offers the V CAST Coverage area service. This allow you to watch video clips as though you’re watching them right off the TV monitor. So a TV on your mobile phone? Why not? Choose from News, Entertainment, Sports & Weather and be the first ever mobile couch potato!

And as if a TV on your Verizon cell phone isn’t enough, how about tossing in a camera, too? The VX8000 Verizon cell phone comes equipped with a built-in 1.3 Mega Pixel Camera which allows you take instant photos of friends and family. The camera comes with a 10x Digital Zoom and Embedded Flash. So take photos like a pro with your Verizon cell phone!

The VX8000 Verizon cell phone also allows you to capture 15-second Videos and Photos which you can share with your friends who are also using a Verizon Wireless video messaging capable phones. You can even share these photos via the Internet. Simply send the photos stored in your Verizon cell phone gallery and send it to any email address.

The LG VX8000 Verizon cell phone allows a total talk time of 265 minutes and standby time of 184 hours. The phone comes in a convenient, pocket-size box. It measures 3.76H x 1.97W x 0.93D inches and weighs only about 3.88 oz.

Cingular Cell Phones

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With more than 48 million subscribers, Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless cell phone company in the United States. The company is a joint venture between the domestic wireless divisions of SBC (NYSE: SBC) and BellSouth (NYSE: BLS) and as such, Cingular cell phone subscribers are assured of using only the nation’s largest digital voice and data network.

Cingular Wireless offers a plethora of various products and services, including Digital Wireless Voice, Rollover, Cingular Nation Rate Plans, Voice Connect, and of course, the Cingular cell phones which in themselves come with a host of other features and services.

As a cell phone carrier, Cingular lets you choose the type of phone you want of all models and makes. Let’s take the Samsung X427M Cingular cell phone, for example. This Cingular cell phone has an ultra cool, silver chassis that’s just oozing with style and elegance. As with all Samsung cell phone models, the X427M Cingular cell phone comes with an individualistic clam-shell style which you can snap open every time you the answer the phone.

Do you like multimedia interactivity all in one, tiny box that slips right through your pocket? The X427M Cingular cell phone is Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) capable. So you can send, receive, and create multimedia messages complete with text, video, and audio to your friends and family.

Communication has never been better with the X427M Cingular cell phone. Are you all for instant messenger services? The Samsung X427M Cingular cell phone allows you to access your AOL Instant Messenger on your mobile. So you can chat and connect with all your online friends even while on the go and even without your computer.

The X427M Cingular cell phone is also data connect capable. It features 128 x 160 pixel, 65k color display screen, perfect for receiving all those colored MMS messages you’re getting. This Cingular cell phone model also has a 40-tone polyphonic speaker so you can listen to great audio clips of the hippest, coolest music to hit the audio world.

Downloads, anyone? The X427M Cingular cell phone allows you to download supertone/music ring tones and graphics, games, and more. It also comes with a personal organizer where you can manage all your daily activities and plans for this week. The Cingular cell phone’s personal organizer comes with a calendar, a calculator, and to-do lists.

Have a lot of friends or acquaintances? The X427M Cingular cell phone allows you to store up to 500 alphanumeric phone book entries. So gone is your problem of memory usage in your phone book. Now, you can store everyone’s contact numbers without having to delete any old entries.

PDA Cell Phones

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Organize your life!

It seems that the latest buzz over cell phones these days are focused more on its ability to act as your Personal Digital Assistant or what is commonly referred to as a PDA or palmtop. PDA cell phones are quite new in the market but they are vastly popular among the busy, mobile people who are always on the go. Yuppies, those young urban professionals, are especially taking to PDA cell phones like flies to a pie. After all, who wants to tug along two devices when you can have one?

PDA cell phones combine the benefits of both a mobile phone and a personal organizer. But instead of carrying two devices in your pockets, you only carry one. Convenience and portability all rolled into one! That’s exactly what PDA cell phones are offering.

Your PDA cell phone acts like a comprehensive phonebook directory. You can store up as many names, contact numbers, and addresses as you want. You’re only limited by the number of friends and acquaintances you have and the amount of memory the device. Some has as much memory power as 3.5MB. PDA cell phones also let you take down notes during meetings and store them up as a file. And because most PDA cell phones can be synchronized to your desktop notebook or laptop, you can even store these notes as a file in your computer.

The PDA cell phone is also an astute scheduler. You can input important dates into the interface and set alarm for those dates. The built in timekeeper can even be used as an alarm clock so you no longer have to worry about being late for important appointments.

Ever since they first broke into the market, PDA cell phones have undergone a constant change. Every year, new software upgrades are constantly added to make your PDA cell phone even more easy to use and convenient.

The Series 60 Platform is just one of the software programs used to run your PDA cell phones. Built on the Symbian OS, this PDA cell phone software is currently the leading smartphone platform in the world. Series 60 is licensed by some of the foremost mobile phone manufacturers in the world, including LG Electronics, Lenovo, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Sendo, and Siemens. Series 60 gives your PDA cell phones a large color screen size and an easy to use interface. Plus, it provides you with a suite of applications which makes this software ideally suited to support new mobile services in your PDA cell phones. These services may include rich content downloading and MMS.

T-Mobile Cell Phones

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The U.S. operations of T-Mobile International AG & Co. K.G., is based in Bellevue, Washington. It consists of T-Mobile USA, Inc. (formerly VoiceStream Wireless) and Powertel, Inc. (together “T-Mobile”). As one of the fastest growing nationwide wireless data services, T-Mobile delivers strong consumer appeal and excellent service to more than 16.3 million customers in the United States.

A wireless cell phone carrier, T-Mobile International is the first mobile communications company to offer service on both sides of the Atlantic with a single global brand name and a single digital technology standard, GSM or Global System for Mobile Communications. Thus, what they offer their customers is the advantage of using their wireless services when traveling worldwide.

T-Mobile Cell Phones: Coverage

We all know that when choosing a cell phone, the first thing we need to consider is coverage area. T-Mobile cell phones cover more than 224 million people in more than 8000 cities across the United States. If you want to find out exactly if your area is covered, simply visit the T-Mobile cell phone website at T-Mobile.com and check for yourself. The site offers you free coverage check so before you sign up, make sure that you are getting the right service by checking coverage where you live, work, and play. You can even check street-level coverage for your T-Mobile cell phone if you want.

T-Mobile Cell Phones: Plans

There are several service plans which you can take advantage of with a T-Mobile cell phone. For one, the T-Mobile National plans give you free domestic long distance and no digital roaming charges anywhere across the USA. Other plans such as Basic gives you 60 minutes worth of whenever minutes per month plus 500 minutes during the weekend. There’s also the T-Mobile Cell Phone Basic Plus plan. For only $29.99, you get 300 minutes every month anytime of the day plus unlimited minutes during the weekend.

There are other plans available of course and if you want to find out more, simply log in to their site. They have regional plans, Internet plans, and even Pay-As-You-Go plans.

T-Mobile Cell Phones: Services and Features

Following up on the company’s motto of “Get More”, T-Mobile cell phones are heaped with all sorts of services and extra, ancillary features. Enhance your communication capabilities with picture and video messaging, text messaging, instant messaging, email, and more. Or if you like to download fun stuffs, you can personalize your T-Mobile cell phone with MegaTones, CallerTunes, wallpapers, games, and more. You can also stay connected with the world with your T-Mobile cell phone. Get instant news feeds from the Internet or the latest entertainment news.

Sprint PCS Cell Phones

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When it comes to phones, we all recognize the name ‘Sprint.’ Since its founding in 1899 in Abilene, Kansas by Cleyson L. Brown, Sprint, known then as Brown Telephone Company, underwent a rapid growth with its ingenious technological advances which made it an industry great by 1976. But it was in 1989 that Sprint International emerged as a global name with its series of high-profile technological advances, such as the nation’s first coast-to-coast fiber-optic transmission and the first transatlantic fiber-optic phone call.

By 1993, Sprint provided service to more than 6.1 million customer lines in 19 states. The year 1995 saw Sprint with its partners acquire PCS wireless licenses in 29 major trading areas in the FCC’s first auction. The result was Sprint PCS and one of its latest products, the Sprint PCS cell phones.

The Sprint PCS Fair & Flexible Plan

Sprint has put together a variety of service options for their subscribers to help ensure that you always get the right solution at the best possible value. The Sprint PCS Fair & Flexible Plan protects you against ugly overcharges. The plan works by adding low-cost minutes when you need them.

The Sprint PCS cell phone plan provides options that are specific for individuals and family users. Unlike other plans where if you go over your allotted time, you have to pay overcharges, with the Sprint PCS cell phone plan, you get to have additional minutes for much lower costs. This helps you save money. The Sprint PCS cell phone plan includes unlimited night and weekend minutes and nationwide long distance every minute of every day.

Sprint PCS Cell Phones

When you get a Sprint PCS cell phone plan, you get to enjoy tons of special offers on phones. You can get special discounts on the coolest phones available in the marketplace plus instant savings and web specials. Take the Sprint PCS cell phone Vision V1660 by Samsung for one. This Sprint PCS cell phone model comes with a compact design and a super-cool clam-shape style for which Samsung is known for. The regular price for this phone is around $180 but if you get it as a Sprint PCS cell phone, you can save up to $20 via their web special promo.

Other phones include PCS Vision phones, multimedia phones, video phones, and picture phones. There are also Ready Link phones which really stretch the bounds of mobile technology and PCA phones. Do you like games? Or hip ring tones? Why not get them through the Sprint PCS cell phone Nokia 6016i by Nokia.

Calling Plans

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When speaking about calling plans, there are three fundamental, interrelated things to consider:

* Carrier coverage
* The phone
* The service or calling plans

Of course, the most important is your carrier’s coverage. This is so because your calling plans won’t do you much good if the phone won’t work where you need it to work. However, the thing with coverage is that it is very subjective. The best solution therefore available for you is to ask friends or colleagues who use the carrier in areas where you are likely to use your cell phone.

The next important thing may be something to debate over. Which is more important – the phone or the calling plan? Often, it is best to choose your calling plan first, then the phone. If you’re wondering why, just think how choosing the wrong calling plan could cost you extra money each month. Then think about the phone and how it is merely a one-time decision. Also, from a more practical viewpoint, most carriers these days, in an effort to entice more costumers offer a full range of free phones for each service or calling plan. Thus, with your calling plan, you can have your pick from the most inexpensive phone to the one with the fullest features. So unless you have your heart set on a specific, hot new phone, go for the plan first.

And this thus brings us to selecting your service or calling plan. There are many things to consider of course but they all boil down to “How and where will you use your phone each month?” When you have the answer to that question, then the decision process over your calling plan would be made a lot easier. If anything, the answer to that question will help you determine if you should pick a local, regional, or national coverage area. It would also tell you whether you should opt for special features such as an off-peak package, first incoming minute free, and/or free long distance.

Calling Plan Guidelines

The easiest way for you to find all the answers to the situations posed above would be to visit an unbiased website that will help you figure out all this. The estimates will be based on your estimated calling patterns and comparing them against the calling plans then for sale in the market. One example of these websites is MyRatePlan.com.

However, if you do not wish to estimate your usage through a third party or simply want to use some general guidelines, just keep these three in mind: calling area, off-peak packages, and contract.

Camera Cell Phones

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To be sure, cell phones are really the hottest new mobile gadgets in the marketplace these days. Never mind what sort of cell phone you have, whether it’s WAP-enabled, Bluetooth, or Infrared-based. Most of the cell phones in the market anyway have all these capabilities and more. Take a little experiment for one.

Try standing on a crowded street corner where people are most likely to gather, waiting for the stop light to change. Persuade someone, some friend you have to call you on your mobile right about there. And you’ll notice that at least about a dozen or so people in the crowd would reach for their pockets or purse to see if their phone was ringing. Had enough proof?

There is no doubt that cell phones have caught on like wildfire in the bushes. However, the popularity of mobile phones is hardly surprising. After all, they do offer constant communications from just about anywhere. But what does amaze some people is the popularity of camera cell phones.

Today’s cell phones can be used to do just about anything. So with just a touch of a button, you can instantly send and receive e-mail, play games, send text messages, surf the Internet, and keep track of appointments. And the best thing about all this is that you can do it even while on the go. But is this why cell phones are practically selling like hotcakes? Marketing analysts will agree. However, they would also say that it is the ability to double as a digital camera that has people excitedly purchasing new phones.

Camera cell phones were first introduced in Japan several years ago. Camera cell phones immediately clicked in the Asian cell phone market. However, it was not until two years ago that camera cell phones were marketed in the US and became available to the masses. At first, they weren’t that popular. But as soon as people began to see the extreme convenience afforded by camera cell phones, the devices became so well liked that some have predicted that they will be the most popular consumer device in history.

Industry analysts say that a huge number of camera cell phones were sold last year. In fact, these camera cell phones comprised 12% of the total cell phones in 2003 and they were steadfast in the belief that that number is growing rapidly. According to research firm IDC, more than 80 million camera cell phones have been sold worldwide.

It may seem to you that a camera cell phone would be no different than having a cell phone and a camera. But if truth be told having a camera in your mobile phone makes for an entirely different experience. It means that you can have cameras with you constantly, that the camera will be always ready to shoot a quick photo, and that the images can be quickly and easily transferred to others.

Family Calling Plans

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There are several factors to consider when choosing the appropriate family calling plans for you and your family to use. Coverage, you’ll agree, is the most important for what use is having a cheap family calling plan if you can’t get your phone to work in area where you would most likely need it? Therefore, coverage provided by the carrier should be the first thing to keep in mind.

The second most important thing to think of is the family calling plan or service. In an effort to keep up with the demands of consumers and the competition in the market, carriers are offering all sorts of gimmick to get you to subscribe to the family calling plans they have to offer. That is why it does not come as a surprise that one carrier may be offering you free cell phones if you subscribe to their family calling plans or any other cell phone service they have. And if one carrier is offering free cell phone models, then another would be offering bundled extra features that are sure to make your cell phone capabilities the envy of everyone. In the end, it all comes down to what you hold more important.

Aside from those things mentioned above, there are also several other factors which you might want to take in consideration. These are:

* Promotions – Once more, competition in the cell phone and family calling plans market is stiff. In order to get a head start, many companies are offering promotions to entice customers to their products. Specials are constantly being run to get you to sign up. Generally, these specials are short-term in nature, and become less meaningful the longer you are a customer. Therefore, when you’re making your decision over what family calling plan you ought to buy, try to measure the true cost of your service after the promotion ends. This then places you in a better position to evaluate whether the promotion is appropriate for you.
* Equipment – Whichever carrier you select will offer you many choices and many prices for equipment. Thus, it is often a matter of personal taste. But keep in mind that smaller phones and those with more features will cost you more since they cost the carriers more. Also, carriers in general who require you to sign a contract for your family calling plan are more likely to offer you a lower price on the phone in exchange for your commitment as a customer.
* Ancillary Services – Ancillary services such as Voicemail, Caller ID, Call Waiting, are some of the extra features included in family calling plans. Some carriers may bundle these in, thus allowing you take advantage of these extra features without the extra cost. Therefore, if you value these services, then you may want to consider family calling plans that include them.

Cell Phone Plans

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Shopping for just the right cell phone plan can be a daunting task. Don’t let appearances fool you. If a cell phone plan appears too good to be true, then it probably is. That is why it is highly important for you, as a consumer, to be very vigilant when shopping for cell phone plans. Compare prices. Read the fine print. But most important of all, consider all the factors.

The Three Factors

The three most important things you need to consider when shopping for cell phone plans is: carrier coverage, equipment, and cell phone plan, of course.

Carrier coverage is mentioned first because it is, for all intents and purposes, the most relevant of all three factors. Consider having the most high-tech cell phone available in the market and the best cell phone plan imaginable but then later find out that your carrier does not provide coverage in you area. The irony would simply be too much.

So first thing’s first then. Find out if the carrier covers your area and once you do, you can base all your later decisions on that one fact. The thing you need to remember about coverage is that it can be subjective. First, make a list of all the places that you are likely to use your cell phone – your home, office, your kid’s school, the playground, favorite vacation spots, et cetera. Do you a travel a lot? Are there any special places that you frequent? Find out if your carrier provides coverage for those areas as well.

After coverage, we have two things to tackle when shopping for a cell phone plan. Which do you think is more important – the phone or the service plan? More often that not, it is best to choose the cell phone plan first before choosing the phone. Anyway, most cell phone plans these days come with free cell phone models so you’re in a better position if you pick your cell phone plan first. Plus, a cell phone plan can cost you a lot of extra money each month whereas the equipment itself is a mere one-time decision. Therefore, it is simply no good to mince on the process of deciding which cell phone plan to take.

And now, we’re down to the final factor in cell phone plan shopping. The equipment. Now, as mentioned earlier in the article, most carriers offer a full range of free phones for each service or cell phone plan they have. Thus, with your selected cell phone plan, you can have your pick of cell phones from the most inexpensive to the one with the fullest features.

AT and T Cell Phones

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AT&T has joined forces with Cingular Wireless in order to offer an even wider wireless mobile network in the county. Now, with the new expanded mobile to mobile calling of both AT&T and Cingular Wireless, coverage now includes 46 million people, making it the largest wireless community there is. Don’t let the partnership alarm you into thinking that you’ll lose some of the benefits you’re currently enjoying with your AT&T cell phone. As a matter of fact, you can rest assured that you can continue to enjoy your existing benefits uninterrupted and without changes to your plan or its features. What’s more, by combining the strengths of AT&T cell phones and Cingular Wireless, you will soon have access to the best services and features available.

Here are a few of the benefits you will soon be enjoying along with your AT&T cell phone:

A Bigger Network Is Better

Cingular’s GSM service allows you, as an AT&T cell phone subscriber, access to the largest digital voice and data network in American. Called the ALLOVER Network, the new AT&T cell phone combined with Cingular’s GSM service gives you more signal bars in more places you can think of.

Cingular offers its Nation Plan for your AT&T cell phone. Now, you can get the only simple-to-understand, nationwide plan that allows you to roam the country without any added cost. You pay the same low rate but enjoy tons of benefits.

GSM is the global standard for wireless technology. So with Cingular’s GSM service, you can stay in touch around the world via your AT&T cell phone. GSM technology uses a really neat feature that allows you to move phone book entries conveniently. Called the SmartChip, this technology allows you to move your phone book from phone to phone without reprogramming.

Expanded Mobile to Mobile Calling Plan

Now that AT&T is part of the Cingular Wireless family, your mobile to mobile calling community has expanded. Now, you can connect with over 46 million AT&T cell phone and Cingular wireless customers, the largest mobile community in America.

Rollover Minutes

Cingular is the only company that offers Rollover. This service allows you to cary over your unused accumulated Anytime Minutes from month to month. So if you’re not a frequent Telecom user, you can save your unused anytime minutes and carry them over to the next month. You can carry over unused Anytime Minutes on your AT&T cell phone for up to 12 billing periods.

Free Cell Phones

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Cell phones and other similar gadgets are what make our society primarily mobile. With cell phones, we can talk to just about anyone from anywhere around the world. Cell phones help us stay connected with friends and family who are now living away from us. In essence, cell phones and other such technology help bridge the gap that occurs over long distances.

But as with all high-tech technology, cell phones don’t come cheap. Yes, they are important and to some, they might even be an absolute must. Still, cell phones cost money and money isn’t something that we can just pick up right off the streets. And with the speed with which cell phones are upgraded these days, it’s inevitable that we all have to buy cell phones not only once but several times if we want to keep up with the times. So how does one afford a cell phone?

Free Cell Phones: Cell Phone Service Plans

The good thing about cell phones is that they often come with service plans. A cellular phone service plan works the same way as a telephone service in that you pay a certain fee per month for use of your cell phone service. Companies who offer such services to the masses often use gimmicks to entice more people into using their products. One of these popular enticements includes free cell phones along with your service plan.

Service plan subscriptions often meant not only low monthly fees but free cell phones to boot. Along with free cell phones, extra features are also offered. So depending on the free cell phone model, your service plan may include email, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Bluetooth wireless technology, et cetera. All these features make your free cell phone even more convenient to use.

Free Cell Phone Sites

Free cell phones are also offered on several online sites. More often than not, these free cell phones are offered only if you subscribe to some type of cell phone service provided by these sites. Websites such as LetsTalk.com or Calling-Plans.com offer free cell phones along with their subscription service plans.

LetsTalk.com is one of the top websites that offer free cell phones to their subscribers. They have the widest selection of cell phones and cell phone plans at the lowest possible prices. When it comes to deals, they have the best. Some of the free cell phones they offer may mean that you need to mail in a rebate form and after they receive it, you will get a check for the amount of money equivalent to the price you paid for the cell phone model. So in essence, you are not paying for that cell phone; you are getting it for free.

Wireless Phones

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Are you thinking of cutting the cord on your home phone and going totally wireless? You are not alone. According to a survey made by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), about 7.5 million Americans now rely on their wireless phones as their only phone. Out of this 7.5 million, it seems that a higher percentage tend towards the younger generation. There are no hard numbers of demographics of course but apparently, younger people with more mobile lifestyles are leading the charge in wireless phone usage.

“But what about the rest of us?” you ask. Obviously, the decision to go completely wireless with your phone is an individual one. However, if you can answer yes to some or all of the questions posed below, then you might be a good candidate.

Do I have a mobile lifestyle?

The primary purpose of wireless phones is to combine convenience and portability in one neat package. Hence, wireless phones are standing symbols of the mobile lifestyle. If you frequently travel or are out and about a great deal, then you are probably in the perfect position to cut the cord. Who needs a wired phone when most people you known reach you on your wireless phone?

Is my household small?

The main issue here is cost. Big household naturally means more rooms where you would need to install a phone. Let’s say, you have a spouse and two children and currently have a phone in each of four rooms. You can do this with a single wired line. But with wireless phones, you would need four separate phone lines and that could be costly. Some wireless phone companies actually offer family plans to reduce the cost for multiple cell phones in the household, but still, if you have a big household, the cost is still considerably higher compared to a single landline number.

Am I (or my family) light to moderate users of Telecom?

Telecom usage is another cost issue. Most landlines are priced at a flat “all-you-can-talk” rate. With wireless phones, the bill is often competitive with most landline bills. However, as you talk more, the cost increases. This is because wireless phones are charged at a per-minute basis. So if you want to get a wireless phone, make sure that your Telecom usage won’t be that big.

Am I okay with the occasional dropped call or bad reception?

This question deals mostly with the issue of reliability. When you pick up a landline, there is about 100% chance that you’re going to get a dial tone. Unfortunately, with wireless phones, the percentage might be a little lower.

Cell Phones

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Cell phones are hand-held telephone devices with built-in antennas. They are often called wireless, mobile, or PCS phones. Cell phones are popular with callers, especially those who are frequently on the go, since they can be carried easily from one place to another.

Basically, cell phones are two-way radios. When you talk into a wireless telephone, it picks up your voice and converts the sound to radio frequency energy or radio waves. The radio waves then travel through the air until they reach a receiver at a nearby base station. From here, it is the base station that sends your call through the telephone network until it reaches the person you are calling.

Health Concerns over Cell Phones

The most recent issue about cell phones is their perceived health hazards. As stated earlier, cell phones are radios. However, to be more accurate, cell phones are low-power, single-channel, two-way radio devices. When you talk on your cell phone, you are actually talking to a nearby base station. Cell phone base stations are low-power, multi-channel, two-way radios. Their function is to send your phone call into the regular land-line phone system so you can start talking with the person you are calling.

Now, since cell phones and their base stations are two-way radios, they produce radio-frequency (RF) energy which is what they use for communication. The people who are near them are of course exposed to the RF energy. However, because both the cell phones and the base stations are low power, meaning they only exhibit short range energies, the RF energy exposure levels from them are generally very low.

The scientific community both in the United States and internationally agree that the power from these cell phone base station antennas is far too low to produce health hazards and as long as people keep away from direct access to the antennas, they are safe from any perceived health risks.

Cell Phones – Buying and Savings Tips

Cell phones are the “in” things nowadays and it’s hard not to find anyone without it. However, despite cell phones being an absolute must, there’s no need for you to pay much for a gadget that you barely even use. So, if you don’t use cell phones very often, select a low usage service plan for your mobile. Many areas offer cell phones for as low as $19.99. This allows you the convenience of mobile phones but without making too much of a dent on your wallet.

Another excellent tactic to save on your cell phones is to only get features you need. Call your wireless provider to cancel extra features if you are not using them. This will allow you to save some on your cell phone service plan.