Chapter 5: Managing your Mobile Phone
In this topic, we'll see how to use a cell phone. See, from flip phones even
down to camera phones and all the way to a phones with applications which
support the playing of music and other multimedia, cell phones are a very
great help to us in making communications, and it fully connects us to the
world in a simpler and straight forward way. Now especially, they are a must
for teenagers and adults alike, and often times, it is essential to acquire it for
work, or school, and in order for us to socialize more. So let's start our
discussion with the technicalities of finding a good cell phone for your use.
Finding the Best Cell Phone Plan
The first thing for you to do is to make a research of local cell phone carriers
who are in your area, or the popular phone and mobile devices which are
common in your country. Although it depends on the region you're living in,
there will be so many phone companies with a wide variety of plans here and
there. You can also decide to go on the various website of these devices to
know more about them and their mobile phone plan or else, you can also
make a visit to their shops and ask them for a brief information about their
various services. Yet another way to get prepared to acquire a new cell phone
they will serve you better is for you to read reviews and be able to ask others
what their experiences of using each brand of a cell phone are, how they
related with their provider, which version and model of the phone are best,
and which one will serve you better. In real fact, the number of people
making use of a certain provider is a very good marker of what carrier best
works in your very area.
You need to seek a provider with the best network coverage that can support
your area and country. A good company should readily make provisions of a
truly large range of mobile or network coverage and reception that is truly
reliable. This then will mean that they will own the most number of cellular
towers and network stations in order for them to provide network service to
more even more wider areas. It gives an assurance that all your calls and any
of the communications you make won't be dropped down while you're
moving down from one place to another and you will also be very able to
make reception of service in even very low populated regions or underground
locations.
In fact, many of the countries will have a unique map of every cellular tower
that makes a label of which towers are used by which provider that you can
actually find by doing a very quick internet search. A very good provider
should have the most towers in the area or areas where you are living it or
where you are most often, where you visit frequently. A company may make
advertisement of their plans, which actually come with great deals, but this
does not necessarily mean that they will have a very reliable network. A very
great plan is only useful if you can carry out calls and reception services
wherever you may be. If you are actually the type that travels a lot, you need
to consider looking for a carrier that provides national or even international
coverage.
Then, the very next thing you must need to do is for you to evaluate the
network speeds of the data of your cell phone providers, such as network
coverage, as well as data coverage as it depends on your region and the
carrier too. Data is very useful if you plan to use the Internet on your phone
or if you have actually had a smartphone. You need to make certain
comparisons about the speed of the data network and the various carriers'
speeds. You can and will always find this very notification on their website
or from a close sales representative. One more thing to note is that the higher
the number of kilobits per second (kbps), the faster you will actually be able
to use the internet to upload and download data. Actually, technology is
always updating and upgrading with time. The very latest data "G" of mobile
technology will be the fastest, and this"G" actually stands for generation.
There are several generations of mobile network, and in these days, we are
right between 4G and 5G. However, not every mobile phone or device can
support our time's latest and fastest data connection.
You then can make a decision about what cellular service plan is right for
you. The very plan you will choose will truly dictate which kind of phone
you can ever get — either directly or indirectly — what you can actually do
with your Mobile phone, or the length of time you will have to stay with the
carrier, and even how much you will every have to pay a single month. You
then need to choose a plan that is really within your budget but will at the
very same time still allow you to have the best features you've ever wanted to
use on your phone. Some of these common but really important features
include the following:-
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