Before the suspected new iPhone comes out (check the date), I need to sell my old one while it still has value so I decided to buy a cheap phone to hold me by. I decided to go with the Nokia 2610 from AT&T. Why did I choose this phone? The total cost for a refurbished 2610 for a prepaid account was only $10. Yes only $10 given you get a prepaid account. Well actually you don’t have to keep the prepaid account or even pay any money to start it up. I actually did pay for a prepaid account because I needed the SIM card for a GPS tracker I am using.
Not much to say about this phone. This Nokia is the same Nokia you could buy 4 years ago. I did not notice anything new or special about the phone but for $10, I am more than happy. This model does have speaker phone and it does live up to Nokia’s reputation for great reception. This is a great way to get a phone when you need one for something temporary. The next time you kid decides to kill their phone buy getting it wet, make them use this $10 phone as punishment. Oh, and one more thing! I’m pretty sure you can only get this deal online.
A Chinese company named SoloMobi claims that a phone with a 16,800mAh lithium battery, yes 16,800mAh, will stay powered on stand by for a year. I seriously doubt it but a 16,800mAh battery is what I sure need in my phone. Typically, in any battery powered device, the higher the mAh, the longer the battery will last. I am not too educated on batteries so I may be wrong but this has been my experience. What is really cool, the company is rating the phone as a 3-5 day talk time. Could you imaging charging your cell phone every week instead of every night? Heck! Sometimes I have to charge my phone more than once a day. All information here was summarized from Engadget.com
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If you talk too much on your cell and suffer from horribly huge cell phone bills, it is time to update. Just about, wait… All major cell phone companies are now offering or will offer an all you can eat (that means unlimited) cell phone plan. Helio, Sprint, Verizon, AT&T and now T-Mobile are not offering unlimited voice plans for $99.99. Some include text and some don’t but you can get unlimited data and text with most of these plans.
If your cell phone bill is over $100 a month for voice, go to your local cell phone company store or call and update to the unlimited plan.
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I was just at the AT&T web site and saw they now offer a SIM card only option where you can use any GSM phone you want. Of coarse there seems to be some SIM Compatibility issue with some phones and a two year contract is required. What 2 year contract is required!
To me, this seems like a great idea and step in the right direction because this phone locking business has to stop; however, the excuse for the two year contract was you used to get the phone subsidy (phone at a discount). To me, this seems more like one step forward and two steps back.
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