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Remember "Smartbeep"?
Smartbeep. Those $1.99 a month pagers we all had about a decade ago (Ok some of you won't remember).
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martes off on a trip without one, and decided to take a closer look at the Ralphs Grocery phones.
Yup, cell phone service from a grocery store. It was even on sale and only cost $20
Its an iwireless.com phone. Quarter a minute prime time, dime a minute off peak, dime for an outgoing SMS message.
Thats it. NO charge to have it on, active and available to take incoming calls. If you are not a common cell phone user (I am not) and merely have one in case of emergencies, and essentially AS a pager (I get incoming SMS messages from work, but THOSE are free on this thing!), this is ideal.
All I have to do to keep it active is add at least $20 of air time once every 3 months. I doubt she will use that much.
I am debating shutting off my blackberry and getting one of these for myself instead. This explains why little kids in school all have cell phones now.
Nobody has pagers anymore because cell phones have gotten cheap. I didn't know HOW cheap until I was about to send
martes off on a trip without one, and decided to take a closer look at the Ralphs Grocery phones.Yup, cell phone service from a grocery store. It was even on sale and only cost $20
Its an iwireless.com phone. Quarter a minute prime time, dime a minute off peak, dime for an outgoing SMS message.
Thats it. NO charge to have it on, active and available to take incoming calls. If you are not a common cell phone user (I am not) and merely have one in case of emergencies, and essentially AS a pager (I get incoming SMS messages from work, but THOSE are free on this thing!), this is ideal.
All I have to do to keep it active is add at least $20 of air time once every 3 months. I doubt she will use that much.
I am debating shutting off my blackberry and getting one of these for myself instead. This explains why little kids in school all have cell phones now.