Need cell phone advice

[MawMaw]

In your opinion, which is the better phone...

Apple's iphone 5 or Samsung's Galaxy S3?

I will be updating soon from just a regular flip phone
and thinking about buying a smart phone.

[houston]

Originally Posted by Lacey

In your opinion, which is the better phone...

Apple's iphone 5 or Samsung's Galaxy S3?

I will be updating soon from just a regular flip phone
and thinking about buying a smart phone.

Don't fall for it!! You don't need a smart phone. I went back to a basic phone. I'm only using the android at the moment because I needed to use GPS. When I insert the similar card and turn on the phone the AT&T network AUTOMATICALLY adds a $30 data plan. Most features can be removed via the website. To removed the data plan I have to call and speak with a sales rep. I hate the elevator music, so I haven't called them as of yet.

Anyway, you don't need a smart phone. They are time consuming. There was life before text and the net!

[OnTheFritz]

Originally Posted by Lacey

In your opinion, which is the better phone...

Apple's iphone 5 or Samsung's Galaxy S3?

I will be updating soon from just a regular flip phone
and thinking about buying a smart phone.

I last had a Galaxy 2, and just switched back to iPhone (5). Liked them both. iPhone 5 battery life is really impressive comparatively. I also am using Siri a lot. Voice recognition on all platforms is starting to get ridiculously accurate. I dicate 80% of emails and texts now.

Also depends on what "ecosystem" you have with other devices if any (eg., any tablets, etc). I have a lot of Apple stuff now, so just makes it nice to have coherence.

[returnman]

iphone vs droid seems to be preference. Once you get used to one makes it hard to change, i.e. wife. The only reason I have a smart phone is because my wife had one and only cost me 15 more a month. Phone itself was free because contract was up. If I were only using one phone on the plan, I would opt out of smart phone since you would probably save 40 bucks a month. I rarely use the data package. You can negotiate a lot of things person to person on the phone. I have At&t.

[Praxeas]

Droid Razer maxx NOT the HD version but the older one. Great battery life

http://www.brighthand.com/default.as...ew+verizon+LTE

[High & Low]

straighttalk...$45, unlimited everything...if you have a phone with a sim card then you can use that and bring your exisiting phone number along with you. Good service, runs off att and verizon towers ...i had my iphone with att...got sick of them so I switched to straighttalk..with my iphone.

[HADDOCK]

I have used straight talk for probably 2 years now. Works great for me. May not be what someone needs that needs a family plan, but saved me a chunk of money each month to have unlimited talk and text.