No matter who you are or how much money you make, you most likely have a cell phone. Just because you don’t have a month-to-month plan (pre-paid) doesn’t mean that you aren’t a valued customer for companies like Nextel, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile.
It’s easy to get your hands on cell phones, and finding sites with resources about these phones is also pretty easy as well. Any information that you could possibly be looking for, you can find on sites like wirefly.com. They offer many different phones and many different companies, Nextel phones, Sprint cell phones, Verizon, T-mobile, it doesn’t matter who you’re interested in going through. They give you all of the resources you need so that you can go out and choose the best phone for you.
I’m personally a fan of T-Mobile, while Verizon has a few more areas of coverage (in NY at least), T-mobile works very well for me down here in Delmarva too. They offer very cool phones with your plans. The one I can say I want the most is the Sidekick. I know it seems kind of ‘old-school’ but it’s also a pretty solid little phone, especially if you’re heavy into text messaging – the pull out keyboard really makes it easier to type.
My sister has mainly had Nextel phones, but they’ve also merged with Sprint?Ǭ† so either one of them is basically like going through the same company. They offer you many different phones, the majority of which offer push-to-talk because it seems that walkie-talkies (while they cost more monthly) are really a bit more effective – especially for those who don’t really like spending much time on the phone. I think, safety wise, having a push-to-talk phone is much better while driving. You don’t have to hold it up to your ear and since most people hold their phones up to their mouths on speakerphone anyway – it just seems like an ok thing to do. Even though in the long run I prefer the people driving around me to have a headset.
Blue tooth headsets are pretty popular, I’m not sure why more people don’t have them. Wirefly.com offers free blue tooth headsets with some of the phones phones ordered through them. They’ve also got cash-back rebates, deals on upgrades, free shipping, and a huge database of phones and plans that you can search through to make sure all of your needs have been met. It’s a pretty nifty site, you should check it out.