[pct-l] phone for pct

[Pat]

canoeman at qnet.com wrote:
> Hank hit the nail on the head, if you buy a decent GSM phone, you can take it
> home with you.
> If you buy an unlocked phone your contract options are better.
> You may  pay a good deal more here, for an unlocked phone, but the prices are
> equal to what you pay in the EU. look for one on ebay, have it shipped to you
> here.
>
> My favorite is the Blackberry bold 9700. 
> It comes with built in gps, web browsers email etc. and tons of apps.
>
> Skylabs makes a topographic app that has all the topo maps for California, and
> the rest of the states.
> T-mobile (Deutsche Telekom) my carrier leaves the built in  GPS receiver
> unlocked, so the phone can be used as a standalone GPS receiver.
> I really love this phone, I prefer it over the touch screen phones but that's
> just me.
> I'm sure others have their favorites. Many prefer the iPhone, or the new android
> phones just coming out.
> Lets hear some more options from others.
> But coming from the EU you will have to bear with our fairly primitive
> telecommunications network. Having traveled in EU a lot, it is always a shock
> coming back to the US, to realize we are about 5 years behind the EU in cell
> phone network technology. but you will get by ok.
>  
> canoeman
>   
If your just using it to keep in touch I'd buy a trac-fone or a net-10 
about $20 - $30 to buy and airtime is 10 cents a minute no roaming and 
call anywhere, except maybe overseas, verizon usually handles the coverage.