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| Thread ID: 107998 | 2010-03-10 05:18:00 | My first cellphone. | martynz (5445) | PC World Chat |
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| 865605 | 2010-03-10 08:48:00 | Please be gentle with me!!!! I've already decided on prepay but what are the options? Is there any NZ website that lists current models? I want as few bells & whistles as possible. Best place to buy - I live in Wellington. Tia. Martynz Get a cheap Nokia. Easy to operate and they have decent screens and batteries. Stay away from Motorola phones and a few other oddball ones. Dick Smith currently has a Nokia model 5030 phone for only $49, with: Colour Screen, FM Radio, Polyphonic Ringtones, Speakerphone, Torch Light, Games. Run down tomorrow and grab one - its the best deal I have seen for awhile. Also get a 2 Degrees SIM card - it costs only 2 dollars. If you want a phone with a camera, spend a bit more at DSE and get the Nokia 2330 at only $79, and it has Bluetooth which you will not care about now but it will be good to have when you become a cellphone expert by about May or June :D. Whatever you do, avoid TelecoN :yuck: phones. :lol: [edit] How much do you want to spend? Maybe you don't want an el cheapo but can spend $200 - $300+ ?? |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 865606 | 2010-03-10 08:52:00 | Marty, I find it useful to have login to Vodafone site where I check my Prepay balance, top up, and send longer text messages using my PC keyboard (until you develop double-jointed teenage-type thumbs you may find that text messages of more than four words become quite painful! Or else by the time you finish texting a long reply the other party has driven across town and over the bridge and arrived at your door.) And I'm very pleased with my Motorola. I presume Telecom and 2degrees have similar facilities. |
coldot (6847) | ||
| 865607 | 2010-03-10 08:58:00 | Marty, I find it useful to have login to Vodafone site where I check my Prepay balance, top up, and send longer text messages using my PC keyboard (until you develop double-jointed teenage-type thumbs you may find that text messages of more than four words become quite painful! Or else by the time you finish texting a long reply the other party has driven across town and over the bridge and arrived at your door.) And I'm very pleased with my Motorola. I presume Telecom and 2degrees have similar facilities. Marty, coldot makes a good point - IF you want to send text messages via your computer. I don't know if you can do this on the 2 Degrees website. I have both a Vodafone phone and a 2 Degrees phone. Sometimes I use the Vodafone website to text via my PC and if it is a long text or series of texts it can be useful. Remember that any Vodafone phone will work on 2 Degrees, and vice versa. But with TelecoN you are stuck. Have a look at the DSE phones here: http://www.dse.co.nz |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 865608 | 2010-03-10 09:21:00 | Honestly, I'd just get a cheap and rigged Nokia. They are simple to use, come with good features and will take a lot of punishment. Put it on Vodafone or 2degree's and you'll be fine :) | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 865609 | 2010-03-10 10:17:00 | Marty, coldot makes a good point - IF you want to send text messages via your computer. I don't know if you can do this on the 2 Degrees website. I have both a Vodafone phone and a 2 Degrees phone. Sometimes I use the Vodafone website to text via my PC and if it is a long text or series of texts it can be useful.[/url] Last I knew, if you used the online SMS service, it would not count from your TXT2k or your plan... So it would cost you 20c. All being said and done, telecom has the best texting plan around. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 865610 | 2010-03-10 15:50:00 | cool congrats on your first cell phone. | Adam (7474) | ||
| 865611 | 2010-03-11 01:56:00 | Thanks everyone for your tips and suggestions. I've gone for the Nokia5030 which has disappeared @$49 from the DSE site but found it @Warehouse Stationery. Bought $20 of 2Degrees prepay. One last query....can you load your own ringtones? Or maybe thats asking too much. Martynz |
martynz (5445) | ||
| 865612 | 2010-03-11 03:13:00 | One last query....can you load your own ringtones? Or maybe thats asking too much.Martynz There will be limited ringtones already available on the phone. Next best way could be to use either Bluetooth if your phone has it to transfer ringtones from someone else's phone to your's or they could send you via txt message a ringtone. Or you could supply your credit card to a website and download *totally free ringtones*...... |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 865613 | 2010-03-11 03:49:00 | One last query....can you load your own ringtones? Yes you can, but some of the cheaper phones can only play MIDI files (i.e. no voice, limited sounds), while the mid- to high-end phones can use an MP3 as a ringtone. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 865614 | 2010-03-11 04:01:00 | I think both Voda and XT prepays are 79c per min. 20c text AFAIK. 2Degrees is 44c per min and 9c per TXT. Even compared to Voda or XT contract plans, 2D is still cheaper. That is for most of the contract plans unless you are a very high business user... I presume you may not deposit money every month but when you do, even if 1x a year, from that deposit date you get 4 weeks of half price calling again so it becomes 22c but only to 2Degrees handsets and landlines anywhere in NZ plus to a couple diff country as well. These days you cannot tell if a person has a Voda or XT or 2D due to portable number. My bro and dad both have 021 numbers on 2Degrees. Internet on the phone is more $$ though... |
Nomad (952) | ||
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