Please recommend a phone....

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Dovki

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I am currently on Tmobile and I have a private wireless network set up in my house to get access to the internet on my laptop. I would like to get a new GPS phone that would do the following things:

1. Access to wifi, when available without having to buy a plan with the phone (since I already have it).
2. An extensive, easy to use calendar with alarms for appointments, etc.
3. Decent music player.
4. Decent camera.
5. Expandable storage. (micro SD card, etc.)
6.GPS would be nice, but not necessary.

Thanks for any help!
 
You are probably looking for a T-Mobile phone, but I will post anyways..For Verizon Wireless..you have the Blackberry Curve 2 & Blackberry Storm 2. I think those would be your best bet.
They BOTH are wifi capb., You have the Ability to "Tether" (use it as your modem for your laptop to get internet). Easy calendar access with alarms etc.
MP3 Player.
Micro SD slot up to 16GB and Location On (GPS for Either VZ Nav. ($9.99/month) or GoogleMaps (free).
Not to mention they have "Blackberry App" World for fun in between =]
 
Thanks for your reply. I am not necessarily looking for a Tmobile phone, just one that will work with my SIM card on Tmobile. If I buy one from Tmobile, they will want to charge me for a data plan, which I don't need because I already have that service at home (from another source). I just want the phone to be capable of using the wifi I already have at home or in public places. Are the phones you mentioned able to pick up wifi if available, or only if I subscribe (pay extra) to the service? When the kids come over and bring their ipod touches, they pick up my wireless internet. That is what I want my phone to do, if possible. Thank you for your help.
 
You need to have the $29.99 data feature, there is no way around that, but ones you have the data, the wifi comes WITH the phone. There is noway to make voice/txt/picture anything with JUST using wifi.
 
That's only Verizon. T-Mobile is probably the most permissive as far as letting you use phones without necessarily having a data plan. Smartphones will still require a data plan no matter what carrier you have, but T-Mobile should allow older smartphones and most feature phones to use a voice plan without data. There are a lot of older devices that you can get for fairly cheap that have WiFi and can take a SIM card.

I'm not the most knowledgeable guy here but come on, Verizon is the last thing this guy wants or needs. Verizon phones don't even use SIM cards. Besides, getting a full smartphone plan plus tethering is like the most expensive option possible since you have to buy a voice plan, a data plan, AND a tethering plan.
 
WITH SIM CARDS you can ONLY bounch off of the carriers towers (at&t or T-Mobile) WITHOUT being CDMA, you can use anyones towers ei. The MOST Coverage.

And He didnt want tethering, he wanted WIFI, so tethering isn't needed in a package, You have to HAVE a data plan with ANY Carrier on a smartphone, you MAYNOT have one on an older phone, But tell me ONE phone what is "older" that is WIFI CAP?
 
Maybe the best way would be to get an iPod Touch and use the WiFi on that. A lot of people here have mentioned using an iPod as their data device and then having a basic phone with a voice-only plan in order to save on monthly fees.

The only other option is to find an older phone with WiFi but no 3G. Every carrier has different rules for which phones can slip by without a data plan and which ones require it. Maybe something like the T-Mobile Wing/HTC Herald or another such GSM-based Windows Mobile phone with WiFi.
 
As far as a data plan you will have to take it up with T-Mobile. I don't think you will be able to get around having a data plan. I realize you just want to use it at home, however, you can't turn it off when you leave home.

You are looking for the type of phone called a GSM. I was with Centennial, now part of AT&T. Look for a quad-band UNLOCKED phone. Make sure you check it out thoroughly on what ever reference site you prefer.

The Quad-Band gives you the best coverage, some of them can be used world wide as well.

Unfortunately, it won't work without a setup from T-Mobile, so you are screwed. Besides if you have a contract with T-Mobile, most likely you agreed to have a data plan if you ever got a smartphone (wifi is definitely a smart phone)

Good Luck!!!
 
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