Where to Get a Phone
Learn Where to Get a Phone and What Type
The question of “where to get a phone” is commonly asked to me personally by friends and family. I of course naturally always tell them to go to www.topsavings.net, but seriously, there is a lot more to the answer than just pointing to a general direction where phones may be present. First off, the type of phone you are looking for is going to be an obvious first clue as to how you want to go about finding and purchasing your telephone.
Types of Phones
There are many different kinds of phones available for purchase for many different purposes when deciding where to get a phone. Finding the right phone means starting with understanding what your purpose will be. These phones should speak for themselves below.
1. Analog/Digital Telephone - This is your basic phone that we all are most accustomed to in the home. It uses a basic telephone line to plug into your phone wall jack or VoIP router. These phones can either be corded (wired from the phone base to the receiver) or be cordless (not attached to phone base).
2. Multi-line Phone - The multi-line phone is commonly used in business and is connected much like the household telephone, but has the ability to switch lines with the buttons on the keypad. Some are private connections internally within an office or assigned various phone numbers through different lines for different department call types (sales, front desk, customer service, etc.).
4. Cell Phone/Smartphone - This type of phone is no mystery to us now is it? A mobile wirelessly connected phone that comes in a variety of styles including flip, slide, and screen. This phone is never plugged into anything other than it’s power cord to charge it’s battery. Not sure if I even had to explain this one really, but can never be too safe.
5. USB Phone – This type of phone is for VoIP exclusively. Some VoIP providers offer their services not through a router but rather software utilizing your Internet connection and computer. One popular service that is used for this phone type is Skype, but there are other providers as well.
So Now Where to Get a Phone?
You have some options available to you when deciding where to get a phone. Within those options are additional ways and sources as well. Let’s dig into some of these ways to get you a phone.
1. Online - It’s an obvious step, but not an entire step altogether. For different types of phones, I suggest these different ways to go about it. Read below to understand why.
If you are shopping for a cell phone you do not want to just search online and grab the first phone that grabs your fancy or that you saw on a commercial. You will want to shop cellular carriers more so first. These days a cell phone isn’t as simple as dialing some numbers from a keypad and making a call. Many use it for much more than phone calls including going online to visit their web pages and so forth. Your carrier is the connection to your calling and web surfing activity, so you will want to make sure you know which provider can actually offer the best service first.
When shopping online, be sure to comparison shop not only the price of the phone or free phones. Most cell phones and smartphones (prepaid not included) come with a monthly billing plan that comes in the form of an annual contract. In many cases you will find yourself not only shopping for the phone itself, but the calling plan as well.
All other phones can be found online at popular retailers or even used on Craigslist or eBay for very little if you are wanting to save money. Knowing what type of phone or model can help make your search easier. Just Google it and you will be surprised to find your phone being offered from different e-commerce sites with pictures and compared prices in the search results as well as other online retailer sites in general.
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2. In-Store - This is my favorite way to shop for phones. I usually do a little of both actually. I’ll do some searching online then walk right into retail locations to handle the devices myself to get a feel for them. It is a controversial method as well to walk into a store then use your smartphone to search prices for the exact model online and order them. The two birds one stone thing.
I am guilty of walking into stores then actually buying online, but nothing still beats that impulse buy and the rush of having what you want when you want it. In these tough economic times however, you may find yourself using this method, although it does hurt the local economy. It is entirely up to you and how much guilt you are willing to go through when deciding where to get a phone.
1 CommentTop 10 Ways Phones Have Changed Us Since the 80′s
10. Everyone Plays Dress Up
Now people dress their phones up with sometimes ridiculous phone covers, and just like Barbie you can put on tacky fake diamonds with pink. What is worse is I have seen more men dressing up their phones than women.
9. Suicide Songs
Just as in the 80′s we had the one hit wonders like Ice, Ice, Baby, we now can upload even more obnoxious and shorter versions of songs to ring until we answer or put our phones on silent. Did I mention you might not just get annoyed, you might kill yourself?
8. Don’t Trip Bro
There was a time we had to have ridiculously long phone cords and often we would trip over them, sometimes even breaking or busting a body part in the process.
7. Calorie Savings
Because of the long phone cords, we often ended up buying shorter ones and actually have to walk to our ringing phones. Cordless and wireless phones now keep us from having to loose any valuable calories by enabling us to always have them nearby.
6.Modern Love
Ring, ring, ring …
Him: Hello?
Her: Where are you?
Him: I’m at work.
Her: I’m at your work, it’s closed.
Him: (Silence) + (Woman cough in background)
DOH!
5. Fire Alert
Firemen at the fire station no longer mistake a phone ring for a fire emergency.
4. Once Bitten Twice Shy
Guy from # 6 doesn’t answer his phone anymore unless he first reads the caller ID.
3. Schizophrenia
Now when you see a man talking (sometimes yelling) into thin air while walking the sidewalk, chances are he/she has bluetooth.
2. Treason
Now you can consult with the KGB via text over your phone for answers and not be put into a Federal Prison or executed by firing squad.
1. Too Busy
“No you’re not. I see you sitting doing nothing on the bench across the street right now.”
Phone Sex – The Dangers of Phone Sex
Phone sex used to be something more of a paid service for adults. It wasn’t uncommon for a male teenager to engage in this activity by dialing a 1-900 number after looking through his father’s adult magazine while home alone. This was mainly an impersonal experience and usually the perceived voice was never more than an overweight housewife with 15 children. We all know the cliche jokes on phone sex operators, no need to dig too deep on the subject. Simply, it was more impersonal and costly.
These days, there are no $3.00 a minute fees, phone sex is free. This activity also no longer belongs to those employed by a sex agency and some unwitting teenage boy, but is now being done by teenage girls, college women, professional women, and housewives that are probably more attractive than the era gone phone sex operators of the past.
What has changed more than who engages in the act of phone sex is the technology it is performed on. Modern day cell phones are acting more and more like personal computers and with camera phones capable of snapshots and video, phone sex is more interactive than ever before. Smartphones allow easier interaction with voice, Internet, video, and text.
What makes phone sex more dangerous than at any other time in the past is the fact that many of transmitted images can be stored and shared with others. The wrong images in the wrong hands can be giving fuel to predators, stalkers, and sex traffickers online, making this dangerous for females as well as males. If your image can be shared with others, then there is a chance your phone number and other personal information can be shared as well making you easy prey. You don’t need to have phone sex with a stranger for a stranger to have your private photos and videos, remember that.
To protect your teenagers from this threat, it may take more than just talking and trust. The only 100% way to make sure your teen is not transmitting x-rated photos of themselves is to not have text or Internet enabled with their cell phone service. Sounds harsh, and it won’t prevent your teen from engaging in this activity on the Internet at home, but then they are at least safe at home, right? Yes, your teenager can still use their phone and say lewd things, but minimizing the tools available to them that enables them to enrich the act with additional media is at least one measure towards protecting your child.
The act of text messaging over a cell phone for sexual purposes is an act now dubbed “SEXTING”. This method can include photo exchanging with image enabled text messaging phones, or phones with the service activated.
The threat with cell phones is that your teen can easily be away from home while engaging and even arranging sexual encounters over the phone. Mobility is the threat and can become much more dangerous when coupled with additional technology. A predator can now verify a victims appearance beforehand, use fake photos of himself to lure the child, and meet up without the child even knowing the truth of that persons age or demeanour.
The scariest statistic on sex predation is that the majority of the rapes that result from the practice of phone and Internet sex are teenage males. The majority of these crimes go unreported due to either humiliation or the fact that the child is exploring their sexuality. Parents tend to keep a more blind eye when it comes to teenage males believing that it is mainly females that fall victim to sexual predators.
Be cautious and aware. This is a new era, and the same old games may result in a bigger loss than a large phone bill.
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