Posts filed under "Voice calls"
About that Public Mobile $40 plan…
UPDATE: The plan to which this post refers has expired. The post will remain for posterity. Check the homepage to see what’s new You’re here because you’ve heard about Public Mobile’s $40 plan and you want to know if it’s any good. It’s good. A bit weird (who among us isn’t) but definitely a net-positive […]
Prepaid talk and text SIM + data-only SIM = the ultimate hacked plan?
Some phones allow you to insert not one but two SIM cards. Typically targeted at the traveling set, these “dual-SIM” phones also come in very handy when you’re looking to hack your cell phone plan. We’ve talked at some length about data-only cell phone plans. Paired with Fongo (which we’ve talked about at length too) […]
The hacked cell phone plan
How does a $22/mo. cell phone plan sound? One with unlimited talk, texting and 1 GB of mobile data? How about if this fabled plan let you bump up to up to 5 GB of data, just on those months that you really needed it, for another $20 and without penalties? It’s not impossible. In […]
Make smartphone calls for free with Hangouts Dialer
When you go with a data-only plan on your smartphone, you may need to get a little creative in how you make calls. Especially long distance calls. Fortunately, you have a great many options at your disposal for making free calls on your smartphone. Even making free or very inexpensive international long distance calls on […]
An impartial review of Fongo phone service
I’ve been using Fongo exclusively as my mobile phone service for coming up on two months. For the first few weeks, I treated Fongo like an experiment. I forwarded calls from my main mobile number over to the number Fongo assigned me. I also kept an old phone on and plugged in so that it […]