My Opinions about Cell Phone providers.

Last Up date: 2010 November 13
Recent changes: Added Pre-Paid phones and carriers.
Page started: 2006 September 9

Since the early 1990's I have had cell phone service from several different companies:

The above is roughly in the order I tried them. Today, I would rate "T-Mobile Prepaid" is a "Best Buy". Verizon probably has the most complete coverage, but you pay for it both in dollars and having to deal with them. "360 Cellular and Altel were in Las Vegas, and Voice Stream was in Utah; the rest are in California. Brands of phones were:

The best phones, from the point of ease of use, was the AT & T and early Nokia's. As time has gone by the phones have become smaller and the battery life has increased; but for "usability" every Nokia phone is worse than its' predecessor. OKI, Sony, and Erickson were bad enough their name are no longer on cell phones; and Qualcom (who I believe made the Sony) should try to make something else.

Unfortunately, today it is for all intent impossible to get a cell phone without a color display. The problem is: color displays are hard to see in the daylight, and they have to be illuminated which shortens battery life. Thus, they all turn off the display except when the phone is in use; hence you can't look at the phone to see the signal strength. I wonder when, or if, the cell phone manufactures will realize: Voice Communications is what a phone is far. Cameras, Electronic Games, and PDA's are much better in the devices made for the purpose than a contrived cell phone will every be.

I have other pages: One about what I think the laws should be reguarding cell phone features and how to use a cell phone when driving. Another about VeriZon who I am very unhappy with, and another T-Mobile I think has the best deal going. Click on the links for the details.

Currently, I have three cell phones: A Samsung X495 (a 408 area code). I bought a Samsung SGH-T139 at Fry's and put the SIM card from Nokia 6010 in it, (keeping the 435 area code). Lastly, a Samsung SCH-U350 (435 area code on Verizon I bought in Shelby Montana 2009 July 10 at Wal*Mart when I found out T-Mobile doesn't have coverage there.) I am moderately happy with them given what is available today; the first Samsung was bought through T-Mobile on their Prepaid Plan. The link goes to their web site.


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