Cingular Pre Paid SE T237 Phone $30 Shipped!

[unarmdragon]

Originally posted by: MogyBear
GRRRR WTF. I tried to put my AT&T subscription service SIM into it and it says "please insert correct SIM." Now I could understand this if it were not an AT&T or Cingular card, but come on! It looks like it's locked for Cingular's prepair cards. This sucks; time to get ANOTHER new phone. If anyone knows a way around this, please let me know. Thanks!

its locked to any cingular sim card, not just prepaid. i'm using the cingular monthly plan sim card in it right now and it works.

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: MogyBear
GRRRR WTF. I tried to put my AT&T subscription service SIM into it and it says "please insert correct SIM." Now I could understand this if it were not an AT&T or Cingular card, but come on! It looks like it's locked for Cingular's prepair cards. This sucks; time to get ANOTHER new phone. If anyone knows a way around this, please let me know. Thanks!

Unfortunately, AT&T is an "old" service. You'll need to unlock it if you still want to use that sim card. Find a place local to you that'll unlock gsm phones.

 

[ww4397]

Mine came today. Retail packaging. When I called to activate it I was surprised to learn that the sim card it came with had $10 credit on it. This kinda makes this deal a little hotter: T237 phone + $10 card for $30.

I added an additional $25 to get the 90 day expiration. The $10 card expires after just 30 days.

 

[MogyBear]

Anyone else who needs their phone unlocked, I'll be happy to sell you an unlocking kit for $22 shipped. Thanks.

 

[ww4397]

FYI. If you are on the 25c plan (I don't know about the 10c plan) and you activate the voicemail feature, just be aware that you are charged 25c/min when the caller leaves his/her message (even if they hang up during your message!!) and then charged 25c/min when you get your messages with the cell phone. I haven't tried to access the mesages from a land line but the CSR says that I would not be charged if I got my messages that way.

You can have the CSR deactivate our voicemail, if you want.

 

[spinn]

Originally posted by: robby69

Originally posted by: ironcrotch
t-mobile is the best deal imo.

The per month charge & # minutes per month, comes out the same with cingular or tmobile. T-Mobile won't do 850mhz.

Cingular $25/3-months / .25 = $8.33 per month & 83 minutes per month.
T-Mobile $100/12-months(1000mins) = $8.33 per month & 83 minutes per month.

Your math is incorrect...
$25/3months and at $0.25/min you get 100 min to use in 3months. That equates to 33.3 min/month

The T-mobile plan is 83 min per month avg.

 

[bupkus]

For me, someone who's looking for a very cheap/year service that can scale up if I need it, is the T-mobile the best or near best plan going? I need a phone. Does t-mobile supply one as well or... ?

 

[robby69]

T-Mobile Prepaid Phones LINK

 

[bupkus]

Originally posted by: robby69

T-Mobile Prepaid Phones LINK

I may be nuts, but this T-Mobile sounds sweet.
Ok, lets see if I get it.
1) I start with a starter kit for either $40, $50 or $80 for one of the three phones offered
2) It comes with 60 starter minutes
3) I can buy more minutes but do the "prepaid rates and minutes" represent what I am offered on refill or do I need to order those minutes when I get the started kit?
I ask cause I suspect I should just pay the $100 for the 1k minutes and just see how long that lasts me. Probably a long time considering my phone usage at home.
4)Does that mean at $100 for 1k that's $.10/minutes, right? Damn this sounds good. Am I missing something?

What about the phones?
For just $10 more I can get the Nokia 6800 over the 3595.
I seem to get things not in the more costly Siemens CF62T.
For instance:
e-mail
FM radio
Infrared
Backlight keyboard
Text messeging

The Siemens has a few things the 6800 doesn't, like
Active flip phone
Antenna
World phone (Tri-Band)

As for the FM radio, I just ordered a Creative mp3 player with FM from Dell, so I guess that's not needed. The Siemens is certainly smaller.
Uhh, are either of these "unlocked"? I'm not sure if that question is that important, but I figured if I didn't ask I just might regret not checking into it.

What's Infrared needed for?
Don't both have text messaging?

What did I forget?! I always forget something!

 

[bupkus]

AT&T towers are the only ones near my residence.
One infact is only .72 miles away according to MS Streets and Maps.

 

[ww4397]

How do drop calls get handled with Cingular's prepaid service? Will Cingular refund anything when a call is dropped? I know some of the monthly plans will not count the minute if a call is dropped. I was wondering if this also happened with the prepaid service.

 

[QTPie]

Thanks OP.
Just ordered the Sony Ericsson T237 last night. Got the email from them saying that I should receive my phone within 2 business day. I ended up paying $41.54 after tax.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Originally posted by: mscdex0

Originally posted by: bash125
I think virgin mobile is a better deal for the occasonial user .25 minute for the first minute .10 after. Plus you only have to buy a $20 card every 90 days (not $25) of course their $30 phone is not as nice as the Sony Ericson.

You mean .25 a minute for the first 10 minutes..... THEN it's .10 a minute after that.

It is .25 for the first 10 minutes each day, .10 therafter.

Target recently had it for $39 with a Kyrocera.

 

[ww4397]

I just looked at my Account History and noticed a -$1.00 Adjustment. There was no further explanation. I called customer service and they explained that this is a monthly charge for 911 service that everyone is charged. Have any of you also been subject to this adjustment?

Thanks.

 

[jalaram]

I don't have Cingular, but a lot of members on Howard Forums have posted about this.

 

[ww4397]

I recently dumped Cingular and their 25c GSM plan for this 14c GSM plan from Locus -- Oxygen. I'm still using the T237 phone from this deal. I simply changed the SIM card.

So far, so good. They use the Cingular network and voicemail deposits are free with free land line access. The only downside was I had to change the phone number but I feel it was worth it for the 44% rate reduction. Expiration times are shorter, however ($20 card is 45 days rather than 90 with Cingular). With my usage pattern, this is not a problem.