New cell phone? What's up without the subsidizing?

mhardy6647

FWIW, It makes perfect sense to me to think twice about the investment of one's income and/or financial resources... e.g., I decided a long time ago that I'd rather drive a Ford and retire early than to drive a BMW and work 'til I die.

YMMV, though, I suppose.

PS -- you should see *my* cell phone ;- )

Joey_V

tonyb wrote: »

Payments on the purchase of a phone ? Whats next.....payments for that toaster ? lol

All because your told and sold the idea that you NEED this xyz phone. Guess that's a testament to what good marketing can accomplish.

Joey,
I'm sorry pal, don't mean to bust your nuts too bad but lets put things into perspective for a second. You just spent 30-40k on audio gear and your seriously going to whine about a 700 buck phone, subsidies ?? Maybe you need to reorganize that priority list, especially if the phone is a tool for you to make a living on a daily basis.

Key issue to me anyway, is it's a tool to make a living with.....the audio gear is a luxury you enjoy once in awhile. Which should hold more water ?

I will agree with you Tony, you do make good points. I guess I'm just peeved about it.

Nightfall

Have you thought about just keeping your current phone and getting a tablet? Doctor jacket pockets are pretty big aren't they? I think you'd dig an iPad mini.

Joey_V

Nightfall wrote: »

Have you thought about just keeping your current phone and getting a tablet? Doctor jacket pockets are pretty big aren't they?

I'm going to keep my phone until it is utterly dead.

By then maybe iPhone 7 or 7s will be out.

I thought about a tablet, but it's heavy at times and I'm not on the phone all the time. I just need it if I forget something on the fly... usually my phone serves as a way to communicate with consultants or when EMS/ambulance needs me.

A tablet might be overkill.

I wish my brain was connected to the electronic medical records, I'd be like 10x more efficient and wouldn't need these scribes following me around.

Nightfall

The iPad Mini 4 weighs a little more than a half a pound.

Joey_V

Nightfall wrote: »

The iPad Mini 4 weighs a little more than a half a pound.

I should look into that. I bet i'd just use it for surfing the interwebz and youtube.

But we havent figured out how to incorporate ios to our medical EMR system. I wish I could just use it to use Siri to write my notes and if I could just order labs and imaging on the ipad.. wow.

I'd be like an android.

Smarter than a doc too cuz I'd be able to look things up on the fly.

ken brydson

mhardy6647

oooh, ooh! I want one of those!
Does it have a bell?

Joey_V

lol

a rotary cell phone

nguyendot

AT&T switched to this with NEXT long ago. I chose not to go to NEXT and just buy my phones. I mean an iphone 6 is $25/month for 2 years = $600 (16gb). The monthly price goes up with the higher model phones. So my 6S+ is like what, $799? $33.50/month in that case.

Before it was $199 + 2 year contract. Contract had a built in $25/month that you didn't ever see, so the price is the same.

Now that I'm not subsidizing a phone, they gave me back $25/line that I'm not using. In the end, the price is the same one way or another.

PSOVLSK

nguyendot wrote: »

Before it was $199 + 2 year contract. Contract had a built in $25/month that you didn't ever see, so the price is the same.

Now that I'm not subsidizing a phone, they gave me back $25/line that I'm not using. In the end, the price is the same one way or another.

This^^^

Verizon lets you pay it out over two years for the same cost as paying it all up front with no contract. Ex: iPhone 6s is $27.08/mo for 24 months or $649.99 retail. So basically, my bill didn't increase because I was already paying the $25/month "rental fee."