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Difficult Made Easy With Cell2Get
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Cell phones allow you to stay in touch with loved ones and coworkers, but there are many details involved when buying handsets that bear service contracts. Getting a single that has no contract is a well-known way to pick and choose your personal carrier. According to leading retailer Cell2Get, which specializes in this kind of no contract phones, buyers prefer this kind of cell phone three to 1. Also known as unlocked phones, so-called simply because such handsets are not “locked” into a specific carrier, meaning you could switch service providers and still have your phone work the same as usually, this category represents the fast-growing segment of new purchases.
Cell2Get has discovered it so lucrative that the organization is considering whether or not it should dedicate itself exclusively to this kind of phones. Doing so must reduce inventory overhead and result in even lower prices for its clients, a business spokeswoman said. Yet there’s a notable minority of customers who choose phones that come with a subscription. This is understandable, as such handsets are generally subsidized quite heavily by the wireless carriers themselves to be able to make a subscription more attractive. It’s an old sales tactic, offering low upfront costs to be able to lure in company, and it’s for this reason that retailers will most likely continue to sell both kinds of mobile phones.
At the very same time, pay-as-you-go services like MetroPCS and Sprint’s Boost Mobile have become very well-known for those who own second and even third phones, whether or not individually or as a part of some kind of family plan. These carriers blur the lines between the two business models described so far, and it will prove interesting to revisit the matter in an additional five to ten years to see where the industry finds itself. While it’s tough to envision contracts being a thing of the past, it’s safe to say that contractless wireless is here to stay.
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iPhone Insurance: What I want from a Mobile Phone
Sunday, June 7, 2009
When you have selected a mobile network provider it can be difficult choosing from all the handsets on offer. Everywhere you look there is media telling you which phone to choose. Magazines, high street billboards and signs, radio advertising, television commercials. Then you have your mates telling you why their phones are the best and getting personally offended when you inevitably choose something different.
The important thing is to decide what is the most important activity for your contract phones. This means (and this is very important) what you want your mobile phone for the most. The secondary elements of choice are what you desire the phone to do.
Here is my priority list of expectations from my mobile phone handset/contract:
1. Make and receive calls (obviously!)
2. Send and receive texts/MMS
3. Access the Internet…ok I’ll settle for facebook
4. Take some lovely photographs (on mad nights out which can be posted to MySpace with the main aim of embarrasing your mates)
5. Not charge me extra for doing all the above
6. Not call people by accident when I’m sat watching football (swearing and singing football songs) with my mates
7. Not resemble a brick
8. Not resemble a credit card
9. Not need to be re-charged after a 30 minute facebook browsing session
My ‘wish list’ of preferences for my mobile phone is to be able to watch YouTube videos. But that said I wouldn’t sacrifice my essentials to be able to do those and wouldn’t pay the earth for them either. I do use a PC at home and I doubt my mates at the pub would appreciate me sitting in the corner watching catch up TV on my mobile phone.
Looking around there are a number of decent handsets from the main providers and it’s these I prefer to stick too simply because they tend to have the widest choice and their name means they are most likely to provide the best service and have the best customer care (as difficult as that may be to imagine!). So the top mobile phone providers on my list are:
3 mobile – Get the latest 3G mobiles, the best in mobile services and content like mobile internet, music downloads and mobile TV, and internet connection with Mobile Broadband.
Nokia – Wide range of mobile phone devices and contract deals and of course the full range of Nokia phones the moment they come onto the market.
Mobile phone expectations
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Once you have decided which provider you are going to use it can be a nightmare choosing the actual handset model. The media is everywhere telling you which phone you should have. tv commercials, billboards, radio ads, magazine adverts. Then your friends all have different phones telling you why THEIR phone is the best and getting offended if you don’t agree.
The main decision is what you want the most from your contract phones. This means (and this is very important) what you want your mobile phone for the most. The secondary elements of choice are what you desire the phone to do.
Here is my priority list of expectations from my mobile phone handset/contract:
- Receive and make calls (obviously!)
- Receive and send text messages
- Access the WWW…ok I’ll settle for facebook
- Take some lovely photographs (on mad nights out which can be posted to facebook with the main aim of embarrasing your friends)
- Not find extra charges on my bill for doing all of the above
- Not call people by accident when I’m sat watching football (swearing and singing football songs) with my mates
- Not look like a brick
- Not resemble a credit card
- Not require re-charging after a half hour phone call
What I desire from my mobile phone is to watch amusing Google videos. Saying that I certainly wouldn’t pay more or sacrifice my essential list to be able to do all that. I have a computer at home and to be honest watching catch up TV on my phone when I’m at the pub with friends wouldn’t go down too well.
There are several good mobile phone handsets looking around and to be honest it is the leading providers that I prefer to use if only for their wide range of handsets. But they also provide the best service when it comes down to it and they do have the best and most efficient customer care (although some people’s experiences may beg to differ!). So the top mobile phone providers on my list are:
3 mobile – Get the latest 3G mobile phones, the best in mobile services and content like mobile TV, music downloads and mobile Internet, and internet connection with Mobile Broadband.
Nokia – Wide range of mobile phone handsets and monthly contract deals and of course the full range of Nokia handsets the moment they come onto the market.
