I know. I'm archaic. I'm still using a dumb phone though. Mostly because of the battery life but also because I have been moving between countries quite a bit these last couple years. I'd rather read a book than browse facebook so that helped postpone it as well. Recently my phone, which I've had as pay as you go for about 4 years ($12 a month), has started to get funny on me. It didn't work in a country I had business in even though it worked on my previous trip. Yesterday it entered demo mode and wouldn't get out until I took the battery and sim card out - twice.
I can get full 4G data plans now for $30 a month with 1.5GB or $37 for 3GB of data. Unlimited calls and sms. How much is typical bandwidth usage?
I was thinking of just buying the phone outright rather than get a plan. Should be cheaper that way. I live in Europe so the plans aren't expensive but the phones are. So if I buy the phone in the states and the plan here I probably come out ahead. However when I go to a phone store they rabble on about the amount of cores, the type of processor, and how one has better music and another a better camera as if that's some kind of logical comparison.
I don't want to spent too much but I also don't want to be cheap and get a garbage phone. I've used a $100 smart phone and the thing was a joke. The response time on that thing was too slow for practical purposes. My girlfriend has a S3 mini though and that thing is very nice. It's tough to swallow spending so much though when my $30 phone has served me so well all these years.
Get the Nexus 4 and be done with it? Is it worth it to me to spend almost twice as much on something like a HTC one, S4, iphone 5? The lack of a removable battery bothers me as does the lack of a memory card slot.
How do I make sure I'm getting a phone that's fast enough? How do I compare? The nerd talk coming out of these phone peddlers is useless to me. I want to watch videos, youtube, GPS, browse the net, pod casts, and I'm pretty sure I don't want a phone that's big enough to need a purse.
I can get full 4G data plans now for $30 a month with 1.5GB or $37 for 3GB of data. Unlimited calls and sms. How much is typical bandwidth usage?
I was thinking of just buying the phone outright rather than get a plan. Should be cheaper that way. I live in Europe so the plans aren't expensive but the phones are. So if I buy the phone in the states and the plan here I probably come out ahead. However when I go to a phone store they rabble on about the amount of cores, the type of processor, and how one has better music and another a better camera as if that's some kind of logical comparison.
I don't want to spent too much but I also don't want to be cheap and get a garbage phone. I've used a $100 smart phone and the thing was a joke. The response time on that thing was too slow for practical purposes. My girlfriend has a S3 mini though and that thing is very nice. It's tough to swallow spending so much though when my $30 phone has served me so well all these years.
Get the Nexus 4 and be done with it? Is it worth it to me to spend almost twice as much on something like a HTC one, S4, iphone 5? The lack of a removable battery bothers me as does the lack of a memory card slot.
How do I make sure I'm getting a phone that's fast enough? How do I compare? The nerd talk coming out of these phone peddlers is useless to me. I want to watch videos, youtube, GPS, browse the net, pod casts, and I'm pretty sure I don't want a phone that's big enough to need a purse.
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