What cell phones do you use?

[backseatjuan]

I have iphone 4 black and iphone 4s white. I love the iOS, works great for me. Then I have samsung jack, with windows mobile 6.1, this thing is horrible! But I use it for one of my numbers that I rarely use to call b1tches. Then I have nokia 6500s-1, excellent phone, simple, just for calls, I have a cool number on it. I carry with me usually two phones, but sometimes three, all have beautiful numbers and all from a different carrier.

 

[FairShake]

It's a Samsung and it flips closed with a satisfying, finalizing snap.

 

[FairShake]

Oh, and it was outside during Hurricane Sandy but keeps on ticking.

 

[Bible_Belt]

I get the cheapest phone they offer, which unfortunately keeps getting closer and closer to being a smart phone every year. AT&T doesn't offer any of the old flip-phones. I have to have a touch screen, which I fvcking hate. It calls people in my pocket all the time.

Everything about my phone is arranged to maximize revenue for the service provider. It slides open and has a keyboard, but with the newest phone, they put the "connect to internet" button right where your thumb goes, to make you hit it by accident all the time and rack up fees. They also removed the ability to make your own recordings into ring tones, obviously to make you buy ring tones.

The days of non-smart phones are numbered. The phone company can't stand having customers get by with only a $10-20 a month bill. They want everyone's bill to be $80-100 a month.

And that i-watch thing that just came out, what a fvcking joke. I guess it's for people who think their cel phone screen is too big and want to squint at something even tinier.

 

[backseatjuan]

Here you just go to a provider store, we have MTC, Megafon, Beeline, TELE2, and now Yota. You bring your passport and buy a SIM card for 3 bucks. Then you stick that SIM card into a phone you have or you buy, and if you buy a phone it will not be carrier tied. By the way that 3 bucks they put on your balance, and you pick your calling plan, etc. For normal usage it comes to about 5 to 10 bucks a month. You also with some plans get free calls between same carrier numbers. Internet costs 5 bucks a month. When your balance gets low you just go and put some money on it, either online, or in bank, or street terminals. There is also a promised pay feature, when you get low, you dial a code and get credit.

Phones start at 8 bucks, that's with a SIM card included, and a special calling plan, and you get that 8 bucks on your balance, but the phone is carrier tied. Prices for phones are same as everywhere, but there is no carrier tied phones, they are all, 98% of them are unlocked.

You can also pay more and pick a beautiful number, prices start from 8 bucks and can go as high as 300 bucks for a specific pretty number, something like 555 5555.

Most of us have at least 2 numbers, usually MTC and Beeline, or Megafon. We stick it into either different phones of into one phone with 2 or 3 SIM cards. That way calls between same operators are either free of cost low. Personally I don't cary about my phone bill, it never gets high, it is always low, I just have 4 SIM cards and phones because I think it's cool.

I remember ATT bills in Miami and we'd pay like 120 bucks per months for 3 phones and calling plans. Crazy.

 

[Tictac]

My kids are on IPhone 6s.

I use a Nokia - Windows Mobile 8.1 because it's fully integrated with my business and my life. And it's awesome!

 

[FairShake]

You bring your passport and buy a SIM card for 3 bucks. Then you stick that SIM card into a phone you have or you buy, and if you buy a phone it will not be carrier tied. By the way that 3 bucks they put on your balance, and you pick your calling plan, etc. For normal usage it comes to about 5 to 10 bucks a month.

Interesting. Now...what is a SIM card?

 

[backseatjuan]

Oh, this thing. You should recornize it, lol!

Tictac you are the first person in my life that said windows mobile is awesome. It is horrible, very bad.

 

[Eph]

I've got a Nokia Lumia 635. Replaced the white back cover that came with it with a glossy blue one and now everyone thinks it's an iPhone lol. iOS, while being smooth and fast, is just too restricting for me, and I just can't do Apple. Android, while I love the freedom and Material Design, there's just too many security holes, it lags too much (due to the original developer thinking phones were ready for true multitasking), Google's getting a little too invasive and full of itself. I'm one of the few that likes Windows Phone, it's just the best of both Android and iOS.

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

I've got a Nokia Lumia 635. Replaced the white back cover that came with it with a glossy blue one and now everyone thinks it's an iPhone lol. iOS, while being smooth and fast, is just too restricting for me, and I just can't do Apple. Android, while I love the freedom and Material Design, there's just too many security holes, it lags too much (due to the original developer thinking phones were ready for true multitasking), Google's getting a little too invasive and full of itself. I'm one of the few that likes Windows Phone, it's just the best of both Android and iOS.

I have a Lumia too. I cannot get any real office work done on IOS or Android. IOS is the best for social media and Android is the best for customizations but if you need business function over form or entertainment, Windows Phone nails it. Plus, Windows Phone 10 is going to be a game changer. It may not win in popularity, but its innovation will be duplicated.

 

[VladPatton]

iPhone 6. I tried the Galaxy, I tried the Android OS, and it was just dog$hit. I couldn't wait to get an iPhone. The OS works for me, is stable, never crashes, I barely ever turn it off, and it works 99% of the time I need it to. For computers, though, I can't even look at a Mac, it's Windows all the way.

 

[Poonani Maker]

Htc

 

[Barnes66]

Galaxy 3