Should I upgrade my cell phone?

The only time you get a deal on a phone is when a contract is signed.

Any time besides that, if you want to buy the phone (hardware) you will pay full price.

Is your contract up? Get a new one then.

7 years with the same phone? You have been lucky. Most are designed to fall apart after 2 years - JUST when the contract is up.

Well exactly - it has lasted so long. I think my hubby updated the contract with his blackberry - my phone is part of the overall service. I believe we have a $50 credit available for us for a new phone.

The other funny thing with this phone - last summer I had lost my recharger. I went to the phone store and the guy looked at my phone and said I don't think we have a charger for this phone. He then went to the back of the store where there was an old dusty display rack with clearance on it. And there was the charger that would fit my good old trusty phone - almost free!

Does it look like this bad boy?

I'm with you linkat.

If it does for you what you want it to do, what do you need a new one for?

When it breaks and doesn't work any more, get a new one.



ok, waiting certain people to show up and tell you what wonderful things you can do with a new cell phone, that you haven't missed not being able to do for the last 7 years.....

lordy lord, how have the 2 of us survived not being able to make our phone listen to the music playing in a restaurant, and tell us what it is?
speaking of restaurants, how have we figure out which one to go to, or how much tip to leave, without our phone telling us?

most importantly, how do we make it through the day without texting?

texting (shaking head) I really don't get that.
why not just use the actual telephone function to actually talk to the person?
Seems a lot quicker.

Not quite as old as that - here is mine...

I miss u 2.

And I looked on ebay and people are selling this guys - granted those ones don't look quite as used as mine.

I never got into texting until I got my current TracFone. Calls cost me at least one credit ("minute"). Texts cost me .3 minutes.

Texting is handy when you just want to leave a message and have no time for chit chat. It also costs a fraction of what a phone call costs.

Of course, everything is dependent on the plan etc. that you have. I never used to use texting, but now I use it all the time. I can also instantly see something that was sent to me when I was not available without going into my voicemail box.

Texting costs - most phone calls do not. If I call some one else with the same service, no cost and on weekends/nights no cost on calls. We also have alot of "free" minutes on top of that. I rarely use the thing - most often on weekends and usually just to my husband so the calls do not cost extra to the plan. Any texting would. I don't text.

I had an old razr 3 for many years. It was light, and the reception was great. I only used it for phone calls. I swore that I would keep that phone until it died.

When I got my new car, I found that the software in the phone would not pair with the Bluetooth in my car. So I got another phone.................a later razr that had just come out. It is clunkier, and the reception is not as good. It does a bunch of other things, which I don't use.

A couple of months later the attachment on the leather case broke. I brought it back to AT&T. He said that they didn't even make that model anymore, but did have a replacement case.

I would say that if you like your phone, and it does what you want it to, keep it.