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Re: Questions about Droid phones
[quote name="Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)"][quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"](You guys are the only people I trust.)[/quote]Man are you gullible! There isn't anyone here that wouldn't try to sell someone ocean-front property in Nevada if they thought they could get away with it. Or some other similar scam. I don''t necessarily exclude yours truly, either. [quote]I dropped my 3G iPhone at the bathroom in Stranahan's distillery tour. The screen broke and splintered. So I have to get a new phone now. (Even if the screen didn't break, hitting the side of a distillery toilet means instant upgrade.)[/quote]Ouch. I had a cell phone. Was leaning over and forgot it was in my shirt pocket, and it fell in the toilet. Shorted it out. Fortunately it was a TracFone which means replacing it only cost $10. Replacing my phone book took a lot longer since I didn't have any backup copies of the phone numbers. [deleted] [quote]- AT&T's service in Colorado is a whole other thing. It made the device not a phone. [deleted] Death to AT&T, I will never give them money again,[/quote]I've heard bad things about AT&T Wireless, like attempts to change people's contract terms in the middle of their contract. And billing people for things they don't use or don't order like data plans. I think it was AT&T who sent someone a multi-thousand dollar bill because they charged out the person's data plan as roaming, which is automatically per-byte billed, and gave no indication the person was on roaming. No luck getting the problem fixed until all of a sudden they decided they were able to adjust the person's bill when some television station or network did an investigation. I had phone service through TracFone which used AT&T as its provider, and to the extent I used it it worked okay, but all I ever did was make calls (occasionally) take calls (not very often) and check voice mail a lot (from my MagicJack, then call people back to cut down on the cell minutes, which were very expensive at 10c/minute). To that extent, AT&T's voice mail was fine and ordinary phone calls were okay. [quote]I guess I will go with Verizon this time, but any carrier is OK.[/quote] I've heard all of the major carriers are basically bastards. They will screw you over with the worst rates or terms and trying to figure out what you should be using vs. what you're charged is sometimes impossible. My sister gave me a phone so she could get hold of me and I can use it without paying for it. (I probably use 20 minutes a month, most of it calling Metrobus/Metrorail to get automated schedule information.) It uses T-Mobile and I haven't had any problems. Perhaps you could go with an unlimited monthly prepaid plan like Cricket or Boost at $30 to $50 and possibly slightly more if you need a data plan.[/quote]