03-22-2015, 08:56 AM
Here's mine, though I'm sure you've seen these before:
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RAMChYLD Wrote:Well, my parents started me off with prepaid- since it's dirt cheap and a great way to teach you to manage your funds. Plus you need to bring your own phone- cue me receiving my uncle's old hand-me-down.I don't really plan on going outside the USA though since I probably won't ever have enough money to vacation anywhere. I'll be lucky if I can get to Disneyland in California in my lifetime. And if I ever do get a chance to go overseas in my lifetime, I'll just use the Internet for communication purposes and stick to landline phones.... if they still exist by the time I get to Europe.
PS: If you're going to go non-contract, you might as well go GSM+UMTS+LTE. CDMA has very limited use outside of the USA.
RAMChYLD Wrote:Well, my parents started me off with prepaid- since it's dirt cheap and a great way to teach you to manage your funds. Plus you need to bring your own phone- cue me receiving my uncle's old hand-me-down.
PS: If you're going to go non-contract, you might as well go GSM+UMTS+LTE. CDMA has very limited use outside of the USA.
Also, that's another thing I like about my Blackberry Passport. It's name is meaningful, it's the first phone in the world with deca-band LTE support. It works in LTE in both Asia, Europe and The Americas. And currently, it's the only phone in the world with such a transceiver. Other companies tries to hide the fact that there are multiple models of the same phone for different regions by calling them all the same name (bet you didn't know there are at least three different iPhone 6es- two for the US alone. The first one only supports US LTE bands, the second one supports US LTE bands AND CDMA, and the third one supports RoW LTE bands and is sold in Europe and Asia).
Although, I should note that the Passport does have a inferior version sold only to AT&T customers- the version is clearly labeled Passport for AT&T and has it's LTE band support chopped down to only US LTE bands, but adds CDMA support (although why they call it the passport when it doesn't live up to it's namesake is beyond me. They might as well call it the RoundRect- since unlike the real deal which is perfectly rectangular, the AT&T version has rounded edges).