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Part I: Getting Started
You and Your Shadow: Understanding
How Your Cellular Carrier Bills You
In the United States, most cellular companies sell phones at a significant
discount when you sign up for a service agreement. And most cellular com-
panies offer discounts on phones when you want to upgrade to something
newer (as long as you also sign up for another couple of years of service). So,
it’s not surprising that most people buy their phones directly from cellular
companies.
If your new Galaxy S phone device is an upgrade from an older phone, you
might have a service plan that was suitable with your last phone but isn’t so
great anymore. If this is your first cellphone (ever, or with this particular car-
rier), you might start with an entry-level plan, thinking you won’t need “that
many minutes,” only to find that you and your phone are inseparable, and
you need a better plan. The good news is that most cellular carriers allow
you to change your service plan.
Most cellular service plans have three components of usage:
Voice
Text
Data
I walk you through each of these components — and how they affect using
your Galaxy S — in the following sections.
Voice usage
Voice usage is the most common, costly, and complex element of most ser-
vice plans. Cellular providers typically offer plans with a certain number of
anytime minutes and a certain number of night/weekend minutes. Some pro-
viders offer plans with reduced rates (or even free calls) to frequently called
numbers, to other cellphones with the same cellular provider, or to other
cellphones in general. If you talk a lot, you might be able to opt for an unlim-
ited voice plan (for domestic calls only).
At its core, a Galaxy S phone device is, obviously, a phone. In the early days
of smartphones, manufacturers were stung by the criticism that smartphones
weren’t as easy to use as traditional cellphones. Indeed, you do have to bring
up the phone screen to make a call (more on making and receiving calls in
Chapter 3). As an improvement, Samsung has made sure that the screen used
to make calls is only one click away from the Home screen.
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