For the last couple of years I have been hobbling along with a pay-as-you-go cheapie Tracfone, which is expensive, annoying, and doesn't get good coverage, in addition to the phone not including basics like an alarm. It is notoriously unreliable, and is also still an Olympia number, so mainly I use it as a pager or voicemail system. The point is
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Service coverage in far off boonie places is less than spectacular, but service in the places I normally am has always been good.
and despite all the nifty features in modern phones, I've found that they sometimes pay less attention to the actually quality of being a phone.
Sure, more megapixels in your camera, and a it plays space invaders in three dee, or whatever, but is it a good quality, clear connecting, reliable phone?
Thanks, but I'll buy a camera seperately and a game boy, thanks.
R dropped her nokia off the sailboat into Lake washington. We fished it out, dried it off, and three years later, it's still fine.
I tried a Motorola with nifty features once. It sucked at being a phone. Sound quality was terible.
I'd recommend T-mobile, but I hear good things about the other services as well. I'd also recommend a basic, no extra cost, does almost nothing but be a phone, nokia.
oh, and every once in a while, t-mobile lets you upgrade to their special. I'm up to some silly 1,500 minutes a month, plus 1,000 bonus loyalty minutes, for some $45 a month. I've got no current contract to worry about, and I'm owned a new phone that I've not bothered to get.
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