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[reijigin]

I want to get a Hawai'i phone! I love my ghetto brick of a 6-year-old Nokia but I want to get a phone here so I have a Hawai'i cell phone for one but also so I can fuck around on it during my boring classes. The thing is that I know fuck all about cell phones and phone plans so I figured I needed to ask the interbutts

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[bekscilla]

I'm not sure about all stuff over there, buuuut - be really careful about using your phone and bluetooth to get internet on your netbook. Like I said, i don't know stuff over there, but a guy at my work ran up a $10,000 bill doing that. His phone had xMB of data a month and he very quickly went over that using the laptop

[reijigin]

Yeah yeah I don't know how it works but I KNOW they charge you for it so I'm gonna check everything out like that before I do it. You can slap another $25 monthly fee to use it totally unlimited but that seems like a lot of money for something I won't use that much.

[phoenixsansfyr]

And actually, unlimited has a cap. I believe it's 5GB of total usage. Read the fine print of the contract; unlimited data with phone service is actually not unlimited.

[sugar_high_07]

T Mobile loves to charge for internet usage and it's required for the fancy phones. X/ I pay 30 a month for internet and unlimited texting and then another 30 or 40 for the Individual 300. I think my bills will be around 70 a month with the fees and taxes added in. I haven't gotten a bill since I changed my plan. It used to be 95 for 600 minutes and the internet and texting.

Anywho, the internet on my phone really, really, really sucks. That's either because it's a G1 or because T-Mobile's internet just blows.

I do like T-Mobile though. I've had them for like seven years now and I haven't had any real problems with them. They tend to fix stuff really quickly.

But the best reviews for a phone that I've heard of are the iPhone. If I remember correctly the sidekick is a pretty damn good phone. I think one of my co-workers has it. I'll try and see next time I'm working with him.

[reijigin]

It's because it's a G1 :P I heard their internet browsing was really shitty but it improved with the G2.

I'm not getting no got dangded iPhone. For starters they're gigantic, but secondly the plan is OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive and it's with AT&T. I have them now and, well they're not the worst, but I don't like them very much.

[phoenixsansfyr]

Actually, according to all the geek blogs and geek sites I read, the iPhone is the best smartphone on the market. TMobile coverage is shoddy at best in a lot of places (I've found it to be kind of crappy for friends here in Austin), AT&T coverage is significantly better (especially on 3G capable phones - I've found no true dead spots in Austin, and I've gone to various bits of boonies in the south and west part of Texas, and haven't had more than a blip in lost coverage where cell towers do not exist

[phoenixsansfyr]

....Long comment is long. Sorry. I'm a geek by hobby and was a geek by trade, though, so I do know what I'm talking about. And based on what you want, the extra $5 a month for a better phone and a better plan and better coverage is so worth it.