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.

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ZYB works in the US as well

[ZYB]

I just want to clear up a small misunderstanding here. ZYB https://zyb.com/ that Cnet lists in the article is not a UK service, it is a world-wide mobile backup service that also works in the US. ZYB is absolutely free (forever), but your operator will charge you for the data-traffic you use. For the first synchronisation of 80 contacts an 60 calendar events the data amount should be below 100kb. Subsequent synchronisations use around 10-20kb of data traffic depending on the amount of new information added on either the phone or on ZYB.

Runar Reistrup, ZYB

Re:Uh....WOOSH!

[Ash Vince]

I use a train time info service quite a lot.

Basically I text them the name of a local train station (local to which ever pub I am in usually) and they text me back the list of trains on the departure board and what time they leave.

So I can leave the pub at the last possible moment and still miss one and wait an hour.