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What are the Best Cell Phone Services in the US?
James Hewfanger asks: "Cnet.co.uk has run an article on the five best cell phone services in the UK. These include a text-based service that gets you the number of a licensed cab company in London, Google Maps and Gmail on your phone, a service that can tell what artist and song you're listening to, an online service that backs up all your cell phone contacts and a text-based service that answers any question you can throw at it. What, however, are the five best cell phone services in the US?" Wirefly's cell phone plan comparison tool gives a good up-to-date look of all cell phone plans on the market.
And aparently i've gotten so used to reading slashdot that not only do i not read the article, i don't even read the summary. :-P
I think you all are missing the question. It's what services you can access THROUGH your cell-phone plan. NOT what cell-phone plans are good. So what services do you all access that makes your cell-phone more useful?
Out of about 30 comments, only 3 or 4 people have even bothered to skim the story. It's not asking about cellular providers, it's actual phone-based services (location-based, web, etc.). I know no one ever reads TFA, but please at least RTF summary.
ugh... i'm an idiot... perhaps I should read TFA before posting like a dumbass... oh well... live and learn I would plug my favorite, but Verizon cripples everything remotely decent about my phone and I'm not going to pay through the nose to make my phone do something non-phone-like.
Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket!??
Yeah, I've had a Treo 650 for about a year and a half and I only use it for phone calls. In fact, I've shut off all of the other services and disabled downloads and everything else. The only thing I didn't shut off was text messaging, in case people need to reach me that way (maybe five messages a month). I use about 2,000 minutes a month, but I don't use email or web browsing or calendaring or any other crap. I used the camera once or twice in the last couple of years, but I couldn't be bothered to figure out how to copy the images over to my computer. Not to mention, the Palm OS software for the Treo was ridiculously stupid, so I didn't bother with it. I used the note-taking facility a few times, too -- because I didn't have a pad of paper handy.
If the person is not asking what "cell services" are best in the united states in as much as "what cell phone company should I go with", then I'm not sure what the poster is expecting. There aren't really any services. There are services where you can pay $10 for a ringtone or a dollar a day for really insultingly stupid jokes and a few other things, but they're usually just poor scams to work you out of your cash and are very difficult (or so it seems) to shut off once you have been snared into them.
If I want to use email or something, I have a laptop. Or a desktop. If I want to talk to someone, I could peck away at a stupid qwerty keyboard the size of a credit card or I could just press a button to call the person directly and... I dunno... TALK to them. Really can't imagine what kind of services people would *want* on their phones. *shrug*