Cell phone n00b questions...
 

Well I need a new phone, but not a new plan and phones are EXPENSIVE through cingular retailers... so...
How exactly does buying a phone off ebay work and getting it configured..
Can I buy any phone that is locked on cingular and just put my sim card into it? What exactly is a sim card and are they universal through phone brands? I tried searching google but didnt pull up anything useful. Thanks..

i think sim cards hold the info that were in your phone

I use sprint dude... but i got the 2500 minute plan shared with my mom.
Bonus though is that pcs to pcs of course is free and 7 pm starts the nighttime not 9 pm like verizon or other companies... along with free weekends blah blah blah... and i think they still have the buy one color camera flip phone and get the second free, i have that deal, only thing is it doesnt have speaker phone.

If you are within X months of the end of your plan some companies will allow you to get a new phone if you are willing to extend your current contract. This is cool if you are happy with your plan because as you know you can get the hardware for next to nothing through these deals.

Contact your carrier and tell them that you want a new phone and if they can help you out.

i got a gsm phone for .99 when i signed up for my contract rock:

Cingulair is the worst cell phone provider right behind Sprint.

Well see I dont have options like that, I get a really good plan deal through my dad's work but I dotn get any of the cheap phone deals etc. I just need to know that if I buy a cingular phone of, say ebay, I can physically remove thew "sim" card from my current phone, put it in that phone, and it will work like normal?

ya you can, most sin cards are right under the battery, as long as the sin cards format fits the phone you are using, older phones use bigger clunkier type chips, newer ones use really small ones, etc etc. gl. I swapped the sin card from an old nokia into ericsson phone awhile back. Worked perfectly.

[quote="Short Hand":e0672]ya you can, most sin cards are right under the battery, as long as the sin cards format fits the phone you are using, older phones use bigger clunkier type chips, newer ones use really small ones, etc etc. gl. I swapped the sin card from an old nokia into ericsson phone awhile back. Worked perfectly.[/quote:e0672]

SIM

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VERIZON FOR LYFE BYTCH

AS good as verizon is, they are fucking expensive. I have tmobile and its resonably priced and their service is good. Plus when im out of the service area, i pick up other serivce towers (IE Suncom) when i went to NC to Cam Lejeune, i was getting signal off a suncom and Cingulair tower, it tells me on my main screen whose tower im using for no extra charge.

And SIM cards are the shit, cause you dont have to worry about losing your numbers and shit when you change phones. tmobile 4 lyfe

Fuck catherine zeta jones.

Wife and I paid 100 bucks for 2 phones..our bill is 95 bucks a month for 400 anytime, unlimited night and weekends, free mobile to mobile(my parents/bro have verizon now) we dont even have a home phone just our cells.

Ive had ATT(shit) Nextel(shit) Sprint(okay but still shitty) and now Verizon.

for the love of god dont buy one, and if you do use it in private, ffs, pls.

verizon is the best service of all

I saw a some free Razyr deal on tiger direct

[quote:5456b]Wife and I paid 100 bucks for 2 phones..our bill is 95 bucks a month for 400 anytime, unlimited night and weekends, free mobile to mobile(my parents/bro have verizon now) we dont even have a home phone just our cells.
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You are getting riped off. I have tmobile 600any time mn, free weekends and fridays. free long distance and roaming. 45$ a month