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3 Tips for getting the best cell phone deal
#1. Understand your needs
What do you really use your cell phone for? Unlimited anything always seems attractive, however, “unlimited” typically comes with a hefty price tag. I happen to have an unlimited data plan – a relic by today’s standards – but I only use 25MB of data per month. So what do I with it? Well, I check and respond to emails repeatedly when on the road. I can’t say I enjoy typing emails on my phone so I keep it short; however, I do approximately 150 emails per month. I don’t do a whole lot of web browsing from my device, in part because the experience isn’t the greatest, (HTC S720 – Slider Keyboard) but I do browse the web as more of a necessity. For example to win an argument or prove a point – I Google It -, to find a location or the contact information of a business or to get updated scores of games. The cell phone market usually communicates data plans in gigabytes (GB), so to put it differently I use 0.025 GB of data per month. So if I had a 1GB data plan I would be able to do 40 times as much as I do per month all things being equal. The biggest culprit we hear off when it comes to exceeding one’s data plan is watching videos from YouTube on your cellphone. That is the fastest way to run up a huge bill if you aren’t careful, so some common sense is required. Know where you stand in terms of data usage, check out this table to learn more about what you can do with the various data plans.
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Coming in November: iPhone available at Bell and Telus!
iPhone Available at BELL and Telus!
All over Canada, thousands of people are rejoicing over the fact they can get Apple iPhone with any of the Big 3. Sometime next month, Canadians will be able to purchase the Apple iPhone at Bell or TELUS. Up until now, the revolutionary Smartphone could only be obtained through Rogers, but the times are changing. What does this all mean? More options to consumers! More say in which provider they want to partner with, without compromising the wireless device of their choice. Customers will be able to port their GSM phones and/or numbers from one network to another, reducing the likelihood of having to get a new device.
Canada will be the first country in the world that Apple will licence their product to more than one carrier.
RIM to launch the Blackberry Tour on July 15th!
In a continued effort to gain more consumers, RIM is set to introduce the Blackberry Tour, targeted at executives and non-executives alike. Blackberry took the best of the Bold and Curve to come up with the Tour. Blackberry hopes that their latest device will offer strict competition to the Apple iPhone and the Palm Pre. Read the rest of this entry »
