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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JDragon" data-source="post: 5659295" data-attributes="member: 780">Ok, let me put my work hat back on for a few minutes and see if I can provide some helpful information for you.First with most carriers you will be looking at three things, voice, SMS & data.For voice you will pick a minute per month plan, these are usually anytime minutes, which you use during the prime talking time of the day. Approx 6am - 9pm, the exact time depends on the company. In addition most companies offer free nights and weekends (nights are 9pm - 6am or so).  Alot of companies also do unlimited mobile to mobile on their network.  (IE find out what companies your friends have, then most likely your calls to them will be free for both of you).For SMS, you will most likely be able to do a pay per message (usually runs between $.20 and $.30 per message) a prepaid bundle of x messages per month for y dollars.  Or an unlimited messaging plan.  Just be aware SMS are not considered data by most carriers so an unlimited data plan does not cover SMS.For data depending on who you go with you may be able to get an unlimited plan otherwise you will be looking at a specific amount plan. (this is they way most carriers are going)In regards to your question about how much data will you need, it really depends on what you use your phone for.For example My wife has an iphone 4 and is averaging a little of half a gig a month for the last 3 months.  She has 3 email accounts on it and gets multiple emails everyday on each account.  She also uses it for facebook, and a few games like words with friends (online 2 player scrabble).  I don't think she does alot of surfing or watches a huge amount of videos.AS for what phone to get, best thing I can suggest is go in to a store and play with them or ask to see your friends and play with those some.Most all smartphones are going to have close to the same options. If you want something that just works, has a easy to use UI and has lots of apps go for an iphone, if you want something you can tweak and customize more look a the android options.XG is talking about the Data network the carrier has available.All the major carriers have 3g or 3rd generation networks and you should get between 500kb - 1mb download speeds with slower upload speeds.4g is the new thing and is a bit different depending on the carrier.  I can tell you that Verizon Wireless 4g will provide 5mb+ download speeds with close to that upload speeds.  I'm not sure what speeds ATT is claiming for their 4g speeds.The trick to anyone's 4g or even 3g network is you have to be in their coverage area.  All the carriers should have coverage maps on their websites.Hope this helped some.JD</blockquote>

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