Help Please, A Basic Cell Phone Suggestion?

For basic cell phone service, I, too, would have to recommend TracFone. We have a basic phone...$15 from Walmart...and I buy 100 minutes every 90 days....slightly over $7 a month. We only use this phone when we are away from the house, and then, perhaps only about 10 minutes a month....we have over 1800 minutes built up on it, which will probably never get used. Coverage is great...I've never found a place where it didn't work, and should we lose our fiber optics, due to a storm, etc., this gives us all the basic communications we would ever need...at the lowest price I've ever found.
 

Don M. said:
For basic cell phone service, I, too, would have to recommend TracFone. We have a basic phone...$15 from Walmart...and I buy 100 minutes every 90 days....slightly over $7 a month. We only use this phone when we are away from the house, and then, perhaps only about 10 minutes a month....we have over 1800 minutes built up on it, which will probably never get used. Coverage is great...I've never found a place where it didn't work, and should we lose our fiber optics, due to a storm, etc., this gives us all the basic communications we would ever need...at the lowest price I've ever found.
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What model phone did you get?

I just want a basic flip phone.

The one thing I like about the one I have know, I think it's an LG Accolade, is that the battery life is excellent.
 
I have a Samsung. It's a smart phone. But I can put it into Ultra power saving mode and the battery will last up to 10 days without recharging. So it basically becomes a simple home phone with six icons including phone and messaging. I got rid of my land line and the contract gives me the phone at the end of two years which is up in July and then I own it. It's the same price as what my land line was costing. So why not go for it instead? I get 200 minutes phone time a month without any extra charges.

In Canada for the first time, ownership of cell phones outstrip land lines.

By the way that's the big advantage of a land line. It never has to be recharged. Cell phones are all battery operated and depending on usage, the battery goes down fast and has to be recharged.

As for simple? Well like everything else you start out simple and then wish you had more features.

With my phone the best feature is to be able to fine out when the bus is arriving so you don't have to stand out in the cold or the snow or the rain.
 

Trade said:
What model phone did you get? I just want a basic flip phone. The one thing I like about the one I have know, I think it's an LG Accolade, is that the battery life is excellent.
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This is the one I got...just a few dollars at Walmart a couple of years ago....and now Tracfone is offering a reconditioned unit for free. If you shop the available phones on the Tracfone web site, you should find something that will suffice for your needs.

http://www.tracfone-orders.com/bpdi...w&_ga=null&productVariantExtensionId=52251614

Walmart currently has a basic flip phone for about $30....which works with TracFone

https://www.walmart.com/ip/TracFone-LG-L442BG-3G-Prepaid-Phone/54772951
 
Camper6 said:
As for simple? Well like everything else you start out simple and then wish you had more features.
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That's true for a lot of things for sure, but I've had my little cheap burner flip phone for 4 and a half years and I still feel like it's all I need. The only problem is the "4" key is getting worn out and it doesn't work every time.
 
A friend of mine uses Republic Wireless and is really happy with it. He says for $30 a month he gets unlimited talk and text, and they offer coverage all across the country. Their service utilizes WiFi as well as cell towers. I've been using Consumer Cellular for about a year, their $10 a month plan with a basic flip phone. Works for me. But I may switch to Republic because there are times when texting would come in handy.
 
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