Just bought this phone for my daughter. Are you charged for sent texts and received texts?
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I only use the phone to conect to my home WIFI so i can not say I do know the phone freezes on WIFI constantly
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If you have the Trac Phone plan and the triple minutes that come with the plan you can download the app for Trac Phone my account through Google play. The app will provide you with how much time and days you have left and how many words or text you have also. I hope this answers some of your questions.I believe that the text coming in is not charged to the phones account only to the person sending it.
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No, this is not considered a smartphone. It is in fact, a "feature phone" that does Not require a data plan, but instead has an optional $10 add-on data plan that allows for unlimited data as long as your plan has unlimited texting. So the real answer is: it can be charged for data, but you don't have to if you don't want to.
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This is exactly what I have been wondering, do you not receive data charges because it's an unlocked phone? My sister was given an iPhone as a gift and didn't use any data, she only ever went online when she was connected to wifi, and a data charge was added to the bill because it was a smartphone. Because this is an unlocked phone, will AT&T; just... not know? I don't know much about unlocked phones :(
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Hello, I checked my manual regarding phone alerts when text messages are received and I didn't find anything on the subject, I only found alerts for voice mail and link-to-cell capabilities. The phone may have text alert though so perhaps another buyer could assist you further. I'm sorry for any inconvenience on my behalf. Karyn
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Yes. You set it up like a pre-paid go phone account. $10 per month for 1000 messages and $20 for unlimited
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no you buy the phone from amazon and then purchase minutes. there are many to chose to fit your needs. i buy the 1000 minutes for 25.00 as i get lots of messages but these dont roll over but some plans do.
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I would love to know the answer as well? Has anyone purchased this phone or a phone that was not purhased through Straight talk and was able to use it on the straight talk plan? We pay 45.00 a month, with no contract, unlimited txt, email, etc..... If you could let us know that would be great! Thanks so much all, for taking the time out to write your reviews!
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I baught from Tracfone's web site one year with 1500 minutes which gave me 4500 minutes for about $212 with tax. Text messages are .30 minutes but a text with a picture will be about a minute. All calls are rounded up to the next full minute when deducted from your remaing time.
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Yes. If you don't enroll in any monthly plan, you will be charged as pay as you go. In US 2c/min, 4c/outgoing text (free incoming text), 6c/MB 4G data, NO Surcharge. Be careful, data charge is rounded, meaning if you just check one email or weather app updates, you will be charged 1c. Charges will add up quickly. Check out this website for details. http://slickdeals.net/f/5936054-lycamobile-t-mobile-mvno-with-paygo-rates-of-2cents-minute-4cents-text-6cents-mb
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Yes it is, that's what I have. Just drop in you sim, charge the phone up and connect to AT&T and you are ready to go. I must say though that I saw a lot of charges start to appear as if out of nowhere. No nig charges but small charges usually in the 1 to 2 dollar range. I would pick up my phone to make a call, swipe it on and there would be a message "The last transaction cost $x.xx." The thing was that I hadn't used the phone since my last call and I had already seen the msg about how much that call had cost me. I ended up putting my sim back in my Samsung dumb phone. However that isn't a problem with the phone. The phone worked great, good quality sound, beautiful display, easy to use and set up. All of those small unknown charges came from AT&T. I'm thinking about when my minutes run out of finding a better pay as you go service. I hope it's something compatible with my sim and the 917
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When I purchased this phone I had a quick messaging phone with unlimited messaging data. When I swapped my sim card out I did not receive any type of a notification changing my data plan to a smartphone plan. So, to answer your question in my experience no. Like I stated earlier I did already have a $10 a month unlimited quick messaging data plan. If you don't have data at all on your phone I can't honestly tell you how AT&T will handle it. Hope this helps.
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I purchased the phone for the Qwerty keyboard and texting. I have never used it for online services (although it is available if needed) I have never been charged "smart phone" charges. Hope I answered your concerns; They seem like the same as mine :)
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When I purchased mine, it was just the phone. If you want to use it, you need to purchase minutes or use a some that is not locked to another phone. I purchased the $25 plan which came with a SIM card.
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T-Mobile provides both email and SMS access. As far as I know all email AND texting is unlimited and included in the $19.99 price, full stop. There are no extra fees and tack-on charges that I currently get with Verizon and AT&T -- these make me crazy and add about 15-25% on top of their advertised rates.
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I just activated this phone without a data plan from T-Mobile. I have only a family plan with unlimited text and MMS messaging. I activated this phone simply by creating a google account after touching the android on start-up. However, from this point forward, T-Mobile started charging for data usage on a "Pay per use web" rate at $1.99 per megabyte on my plan. So, after activation, I called T-Mobile to block my access to "pay per use web." I now use my phone only for voice and messaging. Also, according to T-Mobile, I can only send and receive MMS (picture) messaging through a WiFi access.
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Tracfone deducts 30 seconds per text. Unless you send or receive photo texts which I believe are 1 minute.
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I do not have an AT&T; phone. I went to AT&T; store and bought a SIM card for $9.99 for 1000 texts. It is text only. or 19.99 for unlimited text. It is working without any problems.