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Originally Posted by J Diddy

Mine runs $35 bucks a month. To offset that I have no home phone (actually I paid for that magicjack at $20 a year for unlimited calling). Cool thing about my phone (that I picked up new (yet older model) for $98 off ebay is that whenever I have an available wifi connection I can call from my cell without using any of my minutes(1500 any time or text). The fact that I live on campus with wifi every where makes it a very inexpensive and valuable asset.

You know there's a magicjack app you can install on a no-service phone and it will function as a cell phone? That's what we did for my ten-year old. Pay $20 a year which we were already paying anyway and she has my old smart-phone.

[ShortRoundChief]

Originally Posted by Phobia

You know there's a magicjack app you can install on a no-service phone and it will function as a cell phone? That's what we did for my ten-year old. Pay $20 a year which we were already paying anyway and she has my old smart-phone.

I've got the app on my phone and was actually using it when I went in the hospital. I used it up until the end of my old phone's life and probably would've installed it on the new phone but this htc sensation I have has it built in and will send and receive calls from my cell phone number. Pretty impressed with it. That being said, in terms of a home phone solution magic jack is freaking awesome.

Originally Posted by J Diddy

I've got the app on my phone and was actually using it when I went in the hospital. I used it up until the end of my old phone's life and probably would've installed it on the new phone but this htc sensation I have has it built in and will send and receive calls from my cell phone number. Pretty impressed with it. That being said, in terms of a home phone solution magic jack is freaking awesome.

When it works. We've had some issues but it's purely a backup solution that we wouldn't even consider if it were $50 a year. It's priced right for its consistency.

[ShortRoundChief]

Originally Posted by Phobia

When it works. We've had some issues but it's purely a backup solution that we wouldn't even consider if it were $50 a year. It's priced right for its consistency.

To be honest, I can't speak to the consistency because I use it very infrequently. Like you, it's a backup for my son to reach me when he needs to (in essence it's the first backup) but have never had an issue when it's needed. I agree wholeheartedly that it is priced right where it needs to be. I might be willing to go up to $10 a month but anymore than that it's better, imo, to get a cell for emergency use only.

Fortunately my boy isn't in the spend 4 hours a night talking on the phone phase yet so we'll see when that happens.