want advice on cellphones with no camera

I'm trying to find a basic phone with a 'pay as you go'
plan that has no camera. I can't have a phone
with an internal camera where I work due to security regs
and I don'd want a phone I can't take into work.

I want a plan where the phone will be pretty
cheap if I don't use it (I'm not a huge cell
phone talker but still want the phone available).
T-mobile can get down to about 8-9 bucks per month,
virgin down to $5 (assuming you don't use any minutes,
then of course you pay up from there)

I just ordered the vox 8610 phone from virgin but
I'm thinking about returning it within the 30 day
return period (read some bad reviews on the phone)
and would like a better phone...
thanks
Mark

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Mark wrote:
> I'm trying to find a basic phone with a 'pay as you go'
> plan that has no camera.

http://gobeyondwireless.com/

In a couple of years you'll have to change to a GSM phone, but for now,
prepaid TDMA/AMPS offers the best prices and excellent coverage.

Virgin is very poor. Even though they use Sprint's network, unlike
Sprint, there is no roaming onto other CDMA networks, or AMPS, when you
have no Sprint coverage--which can be a lot of the time!

On Beyond Wireless, there is no monthly minimum. You have to make a call
every 60 days, or your account is deactivated.

We had T-Mobile $19 plans one each for my wife and myself. With taxes and
fees it was running $50/mo. We had 60 anytime and 400 weekend/mo. I
figured out that for what we were paying and the little amount we were using
the phones it worked out to about .25/min. So we switched over to T-Mobile
pay as you go and put down $100 ea for 1000min and they carry it for a year.
So now it only cost .10/min. We were able to use our GSM phones.

"Mark" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> I'm trying to find a basic phone with a 'pay as you go'
> plan that has no camera. I can't have a phone
> with an internal camera where I work due to security regs
> and I don'd want a phone I can't take into work.
>
> I want a plan where the phone will be pretty
> cheap if I don't use it (I'm not a huge cell
> phone talker but still want the phone available).
> T-mobile can get down to about 8-9 bucks per month,
> virgin down to $5 (assuming you don't use any minutes,
> then of course you pay up from there)
>
> I just ordered the vox 8610 phone from virgin but
> I'm thinking about returning it within the 30 day
> return period (read some bad reviews on the phone)
> and would like a better phone...
> thanks
> Mark

SMS wrote:

> Mark wrote:
>> I'm trying to find a basic phone with a 'pay as you go'
>> plan that has no camera.
>
> http://gobeyondwireless.com/
>
> In a couple of years you'll have to change to a GSM phone, but for now,
> prepaid TDMA/AMPS offers the best prices and excellent coverage.
>
> Virgin is very poor. Even though they use Sprint's network, unlike
> Sprint, there is no roaming onto other CDMA networks, or AMPS, when you
> have no Sprint coverage--which can be a lot of the time!
>
> On Beyond Wireless, there is no monthly minimum. You have to make a call
> every 60 days, or your account is deactivated.

So I guess there's no good pay-as-you-go that starts you with a
modern cdma/gsm phone but has a good minutes policy like
beyondwireless? I wonder if beyond wireless will just offer
the new phones as the tdma network eventually shrinks or what?
Is tdma very good at reaching into buildings or do you need to
be in the clear to get a reliable signal?
thanks,
Mark

The T-mobile GSM Nokia 6010 goes for $50 new from T-mobile. But maybe you
could buy an older T-mobile Nokia from E-bay and use that but I'ed call
T-mobile and ask them if they would activate it. I'm using one but it was
from a working plan and they activated it without any problems. Checkout
http://www.t-mobile.com/

"Mark" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:aTw6f.3698$hP6.860@trnddc05...
> SMS wrote:
>
>> Mark wrote:
>>> I'm trying to find a basic phone with a 'pay as you go'
>>> plan that has no camera.
>>
>> http://gobeyondwireless.com/
>>
>> In a couple of years you'll have to change to a GSM phone, but for now,
>> prepaid TDMA/AMPS offers the best prices and excellent coverage.
>>
>> Virgin is very poor. Even though they use Sprint's network, unlike
>> Sprint, there is no roaming onto other CDMA networks, or AMPS, when you
>> have no Sprint coverage--which can be a lot of the time!
>>
>> On Beyond Wireless, there is no monthly minimum. You have to make a call
>> every 60 days, or your account is deactivated.
>
> So I guess there's no good pay-as-you-go that starts you with a
> modern cdma/gsm phone but has a good minutes policy like
> beyondwireless? I wonder if beyond wireless will just offer
> the new phones as the tdma network eventually shrinks or what?
> Is tdma very good at reaching into buildings or do you need to
> be in the clear to get a reliable signal?
> thanks,
> Mark

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, at 20:27:55 [GMT GMT] (06:27:55 Sunday, 23 October 2005
where I live) "Patrick Casher" wrote:

> But maybe you could buy an older T-mobile Nokia from E-bay and use that
> but I'ed call T-mobile and ask them if they would activate it.

Err... isn't T-Mobile GSM? In that case no "activation" required, just slip
in a sim card.

Just try and make sure that you get an unlocked GSM phone, or one locked to
T-Mobile, if you want to use their network.

Mark Wrote:
> I'm trying to find a basic phone with a 'pay as you go'
> plan that has no camera. I can't have a phone
> with an internal camera where I work due to security regs
> and I don'd want a phone I can't take into work.
>
> Mark

Nokia 6210i, nice comfortable size, useful features, bluetooth etc, no
camera, cheap on eBay, put in whichever sim you want.


--
Ralph5407

Your right, just ment about using it for pay as you go. Guess you'd have to
make sure the phone you get has a sim card or get one from e-bay too.

"Dogfart" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, at 20:27:55 [GMT GMT] (06:27:55 Sunday, 23 October
> 2005
> where I live) "Patrick Casher" wrote:
>
>> But maybe you could buy an older T-mobile Nokia from E-bay and use that
>> but I'ed call T-mobile and ask them if they would activate it.
>
> Err... isn't T-Mobile GSM? In that case no "activation" required, just
> slip
> in a sim card.
>
> Just try and make sure that you get an unlocked GSM phone, or one locked
> to
> T-Mobile, if you want to use their network.
>

Mark wrote:
> SMS wrote:
>
>
>>Mark wrote:
>>
>>>I'm trying to find a basic phone with a 'pay as you go'
>>>plan that has no camera.
>>
>>http://gobeyondwireless.com/
>>
>>In a couple of years you'll have to change to a GSM phone, but for now,
>>prepaid TDMA/AMPS offers the best prices and excellent coverage.
>>
>>Virgin is very poor. Even though they use Sprint's network, unlike
>>Sprint, there is no roaming onto other CDMA networks, or AMPS, when you
>>have no Sprint coverage--which can be a lot of the time!
>>
>>On Beyond Wireless, there is no monthly minimum. You have to make a call
>>every 60 days, or your account is deactivated.
>
>
> So I guess there's no good pay-as-you-go that starts you with a
> modern cdma/gsm phone but has a good minutes policy like
> beyondwireless? I wonder if beyond wireless will just offer
> the new phones as the tdma network eventually shrinks or what?
> Is tdma very good at reaching into buildings or do you need to
> be in the clear to get a reliable signal?
> thanks,
> Mark

Not really. The closest is 7-11 Speak Out (GSM), which has no minimums,
but is 20 cents per minute.

Beyond Wireless has announced that they are going to be offering GSM,
but they don't have a time-table as to when that will happen.

Mark wrote:

> So I guess there's no good pay-as-you-go that starts you with a
> modern cdma/gsm phone but has a good minutes policy like
> beyondwireless? I wonder if beyond wireless will just offer
> the new phones as the tdma network eventually shrinks or what?
> Is tdma very good at reaching into buildings or do you need to
> be in the clear to get a reliable signal?

The problem with reaching into buildings is more related to 800 Mhz
versus 1900 Mhz, with 1900 Mhz being much worse at penetrating into
buildings.

Cingular's indoor coverage got much better (in California) once they
began 800 Mhz GSM service on AT&T's network (they are selling their 1900
Mhz network to T-Mobile.