Cell Phone dilemma
June 28, 2006So, it is time to upgrade my cell phone (well, that is I’m eligible to get the good deals on upgrading my phone). I have Verizon Wireless which means I get up to $100 off the phone price. But I cannot decide which phone to get.
I’ve narrowed it down to two.
The Motorola E815, A fancier model of what I currently have. Would be free.
or
The LG VCast A much cooler phone with available QWERTY keypad and cool e-mail program. Would not be free but $100.00
Now why would I want to spend the extra money to get the second phone?
Side note T has rolled his eyes mightily about me even debating.
Here’s my rationale: I use my phone for the Mobile Web a lot. Primarily e-mail, but also news, weather, blogs, forums, etc as well as calling people. (When I’m supposed to be working or when I’m sans my wonderful wireless laptop :p) The second phone flips up to have the additional QWERTY keypad rather than the time consuming -and it is- scroll through letters, miss the right letter, scroll through again typing method standard cell phones use.
Now the web plan I have counts against my monthly minutes. And well, I have 100 free minutes (cause they screwed up on something for me) that are up at the end of August, and I have a tendency with my takes-me-forever-to-type messages to run right up to that limit, plus the mobile web usage is usually delayed and so I don’t really know how far over I could end up. And that costs me 45 cents per minute. Or I could up my plan to make sure I don’t go over but that would be $20 more per month. So my thinking (perhaps illogical as in I want the fancier phone) is that spending more to speed up my mobile web usage would reduce the minutes used, therefore proving more cost effective down the road.
What to do, what to do…
ohhh, bad thought, I may end up liking the speedy web usage so much, I spend more time using it. Hmmm…
But I still want it.
Your advice solicited 
“Your advice solicited”
Uh huh.
Somehow I’m not sure that’s true.
The free phone will automatically get you a new, unworn battery. That’s the only reason I ever move to the next phone.
Take the $100 and put it towards your credit card debt. Else that phone is $130 dollars in net cost to you.
Then stop using your phone and going over your minutes. If texting is taking you that long, just make the call and get it over with.
Better yet, dump it and save money altogether.
I TOLD you you didn’t want my advice.
Well, if you’re anything like me, the speedier web usage just means additional web surfing, so not really saving any minutes and maybe using even more.
Even so, I’d probably talk myself into the cooler phone!
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