Friday, May 15, 2009

Help Me Pick a Cell Phone Plan!

Before you look at the plans, here are some things you should know about me:
  • In the past half a year, I have gone over 700 minutes per month a few times
  • There are only a few people I talk to on the phone on a regular basis, but I usually talk a long time with them each time we talk
  • My current plan includes 250 text messages, which I usually never go over (I think I came close to going over once...)
Here are a few plans that I picked that could work:
Right now I'm kind of leaning towards T-Mobile plan 1. I feel like with the unlimited minutes with 5 of the people that I talk to most regularly, the other 300 minutes should be enough. Plus the 400 text messages will definitely be enough. The only thing is, I'm not sure how reliable (reception-wise) T-Mobile is... Also, there wasn't a phone in the store that I particularly liked.

And that's the other thing, I'm really afraid to switch phones because I'm soooo used to the way my cell phone works that it will probably take forever to un-learn everything. For example, at the AT&T store, there was a phone that I liked. But for text messages, it uses "0" for "space" and "#" for "next" (in T9word text entry mode, you only have to press each letter once, but there might be more than one combination, so you have to press "next" if the first combination that came up wasn't what you were looking for.) This seemingly insignificant feature is going to be a huge problem for me, because my current phone uses "0" for "next" and "#" for "space". I'm sure this will affect my efficiency in sending text messages...

Oh what to do...what to do?
Which one should I go with?
Refer to the poll on the right to vote.

2 comments:

Trixie Firecracker said...

I'm torn between AT&T plan 1 and T-mobile plan 1, I suppose T mobile because it's cheaper but the AT&T sounds like a better deal.

Jessminda said...

Hi I just wanted to let you know that I randomly clicked on your blog from my gmail chat list (we did a project together a couple semesters ago with Josh and Keith (or is it Kevin?) - anyway your blog is hilarious, especially the back posts.

-Jess