Buying the Perfect Cell Phone
You comparative shopped your fanny off looking for a cell phone service provider. No doubt you compared charts and graphs an all kinds of cool things. You shopped online and found the absolute best plan you could. Now what? Well now you have to start thinking about your cell phone.
Everyone around has had telephones in their lives for their entire life. A lot of people grew up with a cell phone in one hand and a bottle in the other. You would think that people in general would know everything there is to know about cell phones, but this just isn’t true. In this article you will get a few tips on what to look for as far as functionality, service available and styles.
The very first thing you should be looking at is your current carrier. What kind of service do they offer? With a majority of the larger carriers such as TELUS, AT&T and Verizon going all digital, their networks are pretty stable and offer a wide variety of services from data to voice and all at a good price. However, many smaller companies are still on a lower grade of digital and some are still analogue. Buying that neat-o, whizz-bang of a mini laptop type cell phone won’t get you anywhere is the service you are using won’t support a data stream.
The next step in your search is for a brand. Normally, brand names aren’t that important to most people these days but with cell phones, this is something to consider. There are certain phones that will not work on certain networks. For example one phone brand might work great with AT&T but will not work at all on Verizon. What’s even more confusing is that just one model might not work on two networks. So a Nokia XX.1X might work great on TELUS, but that same phone will not work at all with Verizon, where as other Nokia models do fine on both.
Functionality is the big kicker. All major and minor carriers have phones with cameras now. That can be said without any worries on being called wrong. But you might be looking for more than that. Obviously, if you plan on having an all in one phone for email, movies ect, you will want to look into the Blackberry or Palm Pilot series, these are nice and considered the Cadillac of cell phones. If you’re a texter you might want to look at a nice slide out phone with a keyboard. List these things and don’t back down. No one has really come up with anything too new in the last few years, so you should be able to find what it is you’re looking for. Just don’t get so caught up in one aspect of your phone you forget about another.
The style of your cell phone says nearly as much about you as what you drive. From school cafeterias to the pub, people do take note of what you are talking into. The main thing after functionality and service is comfort though. If you are comfortable with a certain style, go for it. Sometimes you might have to make concessions on your purchase, but as long as you get what you’re after in the end, really who cares?
Insurance is a concern as well. Make sure you check with your provider to make sure your new phone will be covered under your old insurance plan. It would be a very bad thing to wreck your new phone and realize you have to purchase another one or go back to the same boring phone you had before.
With any luck you’ve already got an idea of what kind of phone you want. You’ll notice that no specific recommendations were offered during this article, but that’s because cell phones preferences are highly personalized. Remember to look online too; often your carrier will have better deals on the phones you want and models not seen in the store. Carry on cell phone users!
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