my very first

[Rising Phoenix]

cell phone....I'm buying it tonight....woo hoo....my carrier is AT+T....any suggestions on what phone I should get...and not the iphone...I'm a broke mofo...lol

[billyskank]

1. I love my new Motorola Razr V3i

[Rising Phoenix]

2. thats exactly what I was thinking

they have it in platinum and gold... I was thinking platinum.... I also like the old razor....it pink and everything....but I'm afraid if it breaks, fixing a discontinued phone will be a bitch, and my sister plans on getting it...don't want to mix up phones....but on the other hand ITS PINK ...lol

thanks for the reply

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. nokia. they are not fancy but last forever.

i love my nokias

[billyskank]

4. The predictive text doesn't work very well though

I had a 6230i until a few weeks ago.

[LynneSin]

10. I turned off the predictive text - worst feature EVER

other than that - I love my Nokia

[MissMillie]

5. I have AT&T as well.

I just got the LG CU400.

I looked up the customer reviews online and as near as I can tell, no one likes the Razr.

The LG CU400 got really good reviews, and I'm happy with it.

[Rising Phoenix]

7. whats the price range for that

if you don't mind my asking

[MissMillie]

14. it was $30, but I got a $30 rebate

so it was free

[LaurenG]

6. I have a trac phone (Idropped AT and T)

it cost $20.00 and I pay $20.00 every three months to buy the minutes. I only use it if I have to make long distance calls from work or if I need AAA or some other emergency.

If you are really broke, don't buy into the "beautiful" phones with the fancy plans for minutes just go basic and save your money for a nice camera or vacation.

Of course if you are a heavy phone talker it may not be worth it to get a trac phone.:hi:

[kay1864]

8. Check out this site:

www.LetsTalk.com (recommended by Clark Howard)

They'll show you the best deals for the carrier of your choice. Some of the deals you actually make money on! We got two free RAZRs and made $100 to boot.

Caveat: You can usually get better deals going through a third-party (like letstalk) rather than directly to the carrier's store. But you have to wait a couple days since it comes via UPS.

MAJOR CAVEAT: If you really really have to have one tonight, do NOT go to a mall kiosk. Make sure it's an actual AT&T or TMobile or whatever store (not just a licensed dealer). Kiosk employees will lie to you and promise you all kinds of things.

They charged us $250 that it took me six months to get refunded (and only because I happened to get the phone number of the local TMobile sales rep, and called her every two weeks to follow up).

Why are you limited to AT&T?

[Rising Phoenix]

11. family plan

and my brother just bought a 300 dollar phone from them on the aggrement that we won't change carriers from our old plan....he needed it for work and couldn't wait for my sister and I to save up enough money

and thanks for the info

[kay1864]

12. Oh okay. The site covers that too

Even if you can't get the phone through LetsTalk (because of your brother's plan), you can at least see some family plans with good deals, and then ask AT&T if they have those phones or deals. You shouldn't have to pay more than about $79 or so for your phone.

Too bad he paid so much...lots of good free or cheap phones out there, even through AT&T.

[kay1864]

13. Delete-dupe

Damn that DU hard drive! :P

[LynneSin]

9. I've always had Nokias from Cingular/AT&T and very good luck with them

You know, for all the bells & whistles you can get with these phones I hardly find paying $500 for an iPhone worth the money. I usually get whatever phone I can get free or near-free with the package and the current flip-phone nokie I've had great luck with it (even got some nice pictures at the Roger Waters concert using the camera on the phone).

I got my mother a Samsung and she's had it for 3 years now without a complaint - and that was a $25 phone she got with the package.

[bigwillq]

15. Me too.

And I agree on all counts...I have this nokia flip-phone, it was only like 50 bucks when you signed a three-year contract...i love it