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A month or so ago, Tracfone informed me via email that the old, non-smart phone that was previously my main cellphone (LG328BG) was apparently only 3G capable and, as such, would soon presumably become a useless piece of plastic. A few days ago, I bought a new phone through the Tracfone website that is 4G capable (as opposed to 5G, since the only phones they had compatible with 5G were in the hundreds of dollars range, and I was uninterested in paying that much). That new phone arrived today.
The new phone I got was a Samsung Galaxy A10e. I have no idea how "modern" that phone model is, nor do I really care. I don't need cutting edge bullshit. One cool bit, though, was that I was able to transfer everything over from the older Samsung Galaxy S3 that I was using as a smartphone-device-but-not-as-my-regular-phone-for-actually-carrying-around-with-me-and-making-actual-calls thing. Meaning that I now have an actual smartphone that I can use for everything, including (get this) making actual phone calls. Imagine that.
I can even still use the basic $20/3 months plan I had been using before (even though Tracfone really wanted me to buy a smartphone specific plan, which cost more, instead, enough so that they initially hid the basic plans behind a drop down menu). Since all I really care about at this point is upping the service time, I don't need that extra smartphone plan stuff. I already have like 1800 minutes and 1.7GB of data built up from all the previous refills or whatever that I'd bought that I'll probably never use all of, anyway, and even if I download stuff through the phone, I plan to only use WiFi instead of the data stuff, anyway. If Tracfone offered a cheaper plan that was only for additional service time and didn't bother with additional minutes/data/whatever, I'd probably get that instead, but they don't, so I get what I can get. That said, I do think this phone actually does 3x the minutes when I buy a plan, whereas the older, non-smart phone I'd been using "only" did 2x.
In any event, I have a new smartphone now for use with Tracfone. <Monty Python> Yay. </Monty Python> and all that good shit.
The new phone I got was a Samsung Galaxy A10e. I have no idea how "modern" that phone model is, nor do I really care. I don't need cutting edge bullshit. One cool bit, though, was that I was able to transfer everything over from the older Samsung Galaxy S3 that I was using as a smartphone-device-but-not-as-my-regular-phone-for-actually-carrying-around-with-me-and-making-actual-calls thing. Meaning that I now have an actual smartphone that I can use for everything, including (get this) making actual phone calls. Imagine that.
I can even still use the basic $20/3 months plan I had been using before (even though Tracfone really wanted me to buy a smartphone specific plan, which cost more, instead, enough so that they initially hid the basic plans behind a drop down menu). Since all I really care about at this point is upping the service time, I don't need that extra smartphone plan stuff. I already have like 1800 minutes and 1.7GB of data built up from all the previous refills or whatever that I'd bought that I'll probably never use all of, anyway, and even if I download stuff through the phone, I plan to only use WiFi instead of the data stuff, anyway. If Tracfone offered a cheaper plan that was only for additional service time and didn't bother with additional minutes/data/whatever, I'd probably get that instead, but they don't, so I get what I can get. That said, I do think this phone actually does 3x the minutes when I buy a plan, whereas the older, non-smart phone I'd been using "only" did 2x.
In any event, I have a new smartphone now for use with Tracfone. <Monty Python> Yay. </Monty Python> and all that good shit.
