How do you buy a cell phone?

Parent Cafe
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<p>“OMG those plastic containers that they package everything in nowdays
especially at Costco
How the heck are you supposed to be able to open them?”</p>

<p>With a Razor. :wink: (isn’t that one of the really sharp features?)</p>

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<p>The Costco thief obviously doesn’t watch late night tv where they advertise this nifty little cutting tool that slices open all those unopenable plastic containers in seconds. I chuckled when I saw it; what a shoplifters’ delight that one will be.</p>

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<p>I would suggest writing her a nice card with the sentiment that you would like to get her a new phone as her gift and that you can go choose one together. She may be fine with extending her contract in which case she can probably choose the phone of her dreams for next to nothing.</p>

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<p>My new Razr (or however you spell it) is arriving tomorrow via Verizon Wireless online. I’ve had my current phone for years, so it seemed that the <strong>free</strong> upgrade phone was a good plan. I am going to miss the pictures of my (store) bunnies on the screen – guess I will spend the first day or so taking new pix!</p>

<p>Happy with Verizon so extending the contract is not a problem.</p>

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<p>LOL @ Mini. I totally don’t understand why you wouldn’t want to shave and perhaps even brush your teeth with your phone. :)</p>

<p>Thanks everyone for all the great information - I have learned far more about phones than I ever had the slightest interest in knowing. Last night and this morning she talked to me obsessively about the iPhone (she’s a serious Apple person). I confessed my efforts; she said she wants to wait for the iPhone, even though that means using her barely functional phone from high school for possibly several more months. I told her I was then stuck, as I had no gift for her birthday, then she reminded me that the Nike thing I got her for her shoes (running - something that connects to an iPod and gives stats, etc.) was her birthday present. </p>

<p>Then, she sent me an email this morning that said “all I want for my birthday is you!” and reminding me we have dinner plans for that night. Oh, and then she made me watch every minute of Job’s keynote. </p>

<p>So, I can happily retreat blissfully back to my former position of total ignorance about phones, plans, contracts, etc. :slight_smile: </p>

<p>But - the eBay visit was intriguing - I’m going to have to check it out for other things…</p>

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<p>mini!! I may have found a phone for you! I saw this ad in a magazine today, and normally I wouldn’t have looked twice, but due to cc influence… well, here it is - not quite a “Princess” phone, but a simlple phone aimed at the “less is more” market. :)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.jitterbugdirect.com/[/url]”>http://www.jitterbugdirect.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>NJres, no, no, that will NEVER do for Mini. That phone actually, like, calls people. Mini wants a small piece of plastic designed in the shape of a phone that fits in his pocket, period. His criteria was NEVER that the phone actually perform any functions. :)</p>

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<p>Oh, and then she made me watch every minute of Job’s keynote.
that is hilarious-
she might enjoy this too
[whats up i-next](<a href=“http://cache.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.gif”>http://cache.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.gif&lt;/a&gt;)</p>

<p>( I do admit- I am proud to have a rainbow apple on my car):D</p>

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<p>NJres, is this mini’s new phone? <a href=“Destination for Aging in Place – Journey Health & Lifestyle”>Destination for Aging in Place – Journey Health & Lifestyle;

<p>What a beaut. Just punch up Mavis, the Operator, and tell her whom you’d like to call. </p>

<p>Nice call, mini! :D</p>

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<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-01-11-tech-no_x.htm[/url]”>http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-01-11-tech-no_x.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You want something that dose not exist. Same thing happened to me except it was the swimming pool. I had to buy a phone that was just ok and it cost me alot of money. I also have a virgin mobil for my 2 boys. There pay as you
go, no contract and they even have mini cams, and camerea in them and look darn good. Cost me about 100 dollars for the phone. There great!</p>

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<p>Funny, the guy in the pic looks like me (except he trims his moustache.)</p>

<p>Funny, my phones always seemed to work until the free market took over.</p>

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<p>My S just bought a RAZR V3i unlocked phone directly from the Motorola web site. (It’s a birthday present.) We’re grandfathered into an old AT&T plan so we can’t upgrade with Cingular. Although it might have been cheaper to find a phone elsewhere, we decided not to risk the overseas/no warranty possibilities.</p>

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<p>Capo2160, you tried to buy a swimming pool on eBay? :)</p>

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<p>Yeah, but Capo’s pool was kind of small:
<a href=“http://cgi.ebay.com/1980s-Fisher-Price-Little-People-2526-SWIMMING-POOL_W0QQitemZ220068412743QQihZ012QQcategoryZ2527QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]”>http://cgi.ebay.com/1980s-Fisher-Price-Little-People-2526-SWIMMING-POOL_W0QQitemZ220068412743QQihZ012QQcategoryZ2527QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>LOL @Calmom, only on CC…</p>

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<p>guys guys guys very funny,LOL, my cell phone fell in the pool, Latetoschool
daughters phone fell in the ocean, hence her needing a new phone</p>

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<p>So, her birthday is coming up, and she’s using some weird, old left-over phone from high school, on account of she dropped her phone in the ocean, and, the way it was related to me, her phone doesn’t become eligible for “upgrade” until end of 2007. </p>

<p>Late to school did you forget you said this? LOL</p>

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<p>Hubby says about 1/2 the time his office has been able to successfully “dry out” cell phones using a hairdryer & have them operate properly. We were lucky that with my son’s phone (after going thru the washing machine), we followed the seller’s instructions & took the battery out & then put it in a sock & ran it thru the dryer until it was VERY dry. It worked thereafter fairly well.</p>

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<p>ROTFL, Capo, when you posted “the same thing happened to me except it was the swimming pool”, I cluelessly mis-comprehended (is that a word?) and thought you meant you were having problems upgrading a swimming pool, and that you were forced to swim around in some weird, left-over from high school swimming pool. Which of course struck me as hilarious, as you can imagine. </p>

<p>Then Calmom posted, which, considering she’s a lawyer, made your swimming pool issue incontrovertible fact. LOL.</p>