Mooseman
Isengar Tussle
I am on my way to embark on the Ting phone service adventure.
A little background is in order her:
I have had Verizon mobile phone service for 10+ years. My wife and I have phones and our son is on it too. The cost has been about 160 to 190 dollars per month (with the home phone on the cellular too).
This is nuts for the little we use our phones . We have Alias II flip phones, my son uses all the data. A few months ago a friend changed his family (3 adults and one teenager) over to Ting, from Sprint and his largest bill was only $86, they don't use over .5 gig of data. Mostly their bill is under $60.
So, my contract was up last month and I decided my son can get his own plan (and pay for it himself) and my wife and I would use Ting.
Unfortunately, Ting doesn't support my old Alias II, so I embarked on another adventure of buying a SMART PHONE. Yes folks, the mooseman is going to join the ranks of 2012.....
I decided to buy a used one and bring it to Ting (they don't require you buy a phone from them). I decided to get an IPhone 4S... no boos or catcalls now, I like Apple products for their ease of use and longitivity and no I don't have an Apple computer, but I do own an old IPod nano.
Now After porting my number over and calling Verizon to deactivate my device and some stress og getting an error message on my IPhone (error number 16, just shut phone off and turn back on), presto... I have joined the world of the smart phone.
Once I get my son on his own plan, I'll get my wife an IPhone and get her on my plan at Ting.
BTW - I bought the phone off of Swappa, a used phone site that was great, IPhone 4S for $165 with brand new green glass and new battery.
More to come on learning how to use a smart phone coming....
What the heck is an app and how do I get ring tomes that don't suck?
A little background is in order her:
I have had Verizon mobile phone service for 10+ years. My wife and I have phones and our son is on it too. The cost has been about 160 to 190 dollars per month (with the home phone on the cellular too).
This is nuts for the little we use our phones . We have Alias II flip phones, my son uses all the data. A few months ago a friend changed his family (3 adults and one teenager) over to Ting, from Sprint and his largest bill was only $86, they don't use over .5 gig of data. Mostly their bill is under $60.
So, my contract was up last month and I decided my son can get his own plan (and pay for it himself) and my wife and I would use Ting.
Unfortunately, Ting doesn't support my old Alias II, so I embarked on another adventure of buying a SMART PHONE. Yes folks, the mooseman is going to join the ranks of 2012.....
I decided to buy a used one and bring it to Ting (they don't require you buy a phone from them). I decided to get an IPhone 4S... no boos or catcalls now, I like Apple products for their ease of use and longitivity and no I don't have an Apple computer, but I do own an old IPod nano.
Now After porting my number over and calling Verizon to deactivate my device and some stress og getting an error message on my IPhone (error number 16, just shut phone off and turn back on), presto... I have joined the world of the smart phone.
Once I get my son on his own plan, I'll get my wife an IPhone and get her on my plan at Ting.
BTW - I bought the phone off of Swappa, a used phone site that was great, IPhone 4S for $165 with brand new green glass and new battery.
More to come on learning how to use a smart phone coming....
What the heck is an app and how do I get ring tomes that don't suck?