topic Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone in Electronics

Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

Jordan2 — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:39:24 GMT

My current phone expires in 72 days so I'm thinking of getting a new one. I know the airtime card for 400 minutes (would triple to 1200) and 1 year service is about $100. I feel I might as well get a new phone for about the same money. I'm wondering which model to go with. Also, does anyone know if QVC or HSN will have a phone as a TTV or TSV soon?

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

Jordan2 — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:42:52 GMT

I hope someone will answer this, do the Tracfones you buy from Amazon include an airtime card or is it a separate purchase?

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

151949 — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:03:06 GMT

I just got a new LG Power tracfone from DH for my birthday last week. I love it. The setup and transfer of my existing min was very simple - though they said it may take up to 24 hours and mine did take 22 hours but it was very easy to do. It was on a sunday - could have something to do with it taking so long. I love the phone so far - and , since this is the forth LG tracfone I have bought from them, LG sent me a $100 gift card to walmart as a customer loyality gift. Anyway, he bought it from HSN to get the 1200 min deal. No problem at all. It was $107 in all. My poor old LG Olympus was just worn out after 3 years, and I could not clear anymore stuff out to make room for any pics, so I transferred all the pictures I wanted to keep to my computer when I got the new phone. All my contacts transferred easily via bluetooth, as did all my DH's - I should have turned off the bluetooth on the computer - duh to me, so i had to go thru and erase a bunch of his stuff. Like i really don't need Old farts golf carts number or Fishing freddie's bait store, or the Buick dealer or the beer store.

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

151949 — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:07:31 GMT

I asked DH if he shopped at Amazon when he was looking for a phone and he said they were more expensive because you have to buy an aircard from tracfone - so he went with HSN.

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

Jordan2 — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:12:38 GMT

@151949 wrote:
I asked DH if he shopped at Amazon when he was looking for a phone and he said they were more expensive because you have to buy an aircard from tracfone - so he went with HSN.

Thank you. I guess my best bet is to shop QVC or HSN.

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

hckynutjohn — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:07:29 GMT

@Jordan2 wrote:
My current phone expires in 72 days so I'm thinking of getting a new one. I know the airtime card for 400 minutes (would triple to 1200) and 1 year service is about $100. I feel I might as well get a new phone for about the same money. I'm wondering which model to go with. Also, does anyone know if QVC or HSN will have a phone as a TTV or TSV soon?

Might check hsn. Was watching a DVR'd program yesterday and they had a 5.5" Smart Phone for under 100 bucks. Think it had 1200 of each and a year expiration. It has the older Android, Jelly Bean 4.3 system, if that means anything to you.

E.T.A. It looks like this phone went up 10 bucks

hckynut(john)

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

BHawk — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:03:21 GMT

John....can you tell me what the new operating system is, please? Will be in the market in a few months....TY!

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

hckynutjohn — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:03:52 GMT

@sunbeam wrote:
John....can you tell me what the new operating system is, please? Will be in the market in a few months....TY!

Sure can. The new version is Lollipop. Our tablet has the 5.0 version and I think there now might be a 5.1 version out.

hckynut(john)

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

Jordan2 — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:32:40 GMT

@sunbeam wrote:
John....can you tell me what the new operating system is, please? Will be in the market in a few months....TY!

I don't know if you are interested but HSN has a LG Sunset Android 5.0 for $110.46 with free shipping.

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

151949 — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:57:59 GMT

The LG power has the lollipop OS and a little larger screen. However, it operates very much like the LG olympus if you are familiar with that. I am liking my new Power very much.

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

lulu2 — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:59:51 GMT

HSN has 15% off and free shipping on their cell phones. There are numerous Tracfones, some are former Today Specials.

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

BHawk — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:34:44 GMT

Thank you, John .... now I know what to look for!

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

Kachina624 — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:51:08 GMT

I always buy my Tracfones from HSN as they seem to have the best deals. I don't need the latest technology for the 3 or 4 calls I make every year. I apply the minutes to my old phone and pitch the new one. It's such a hassle transferring contacts that I only do it about once every five years.

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

Nuttmeg — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:21:51 GMT

@hckynutjohn wrote:
@sunbeam wrote:
John....can you tell me what the new operating system is, please? Will be in the market in a few months....TY!

Sure can. The new version is Lollipop. Our tablet has the 5.0 version and I think there now might be a 5.1 version out.

hckynut(john)

The latest version of Android is Marshmallow 6.01. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Marshmallow

I have a two year old Nexus 2013 tablet. Any tablet or phone carrying a Nexus name will always receive software updates.

Samsung smartphones from major wireless companies will receive maybe one or two updates, not a patch.
Samsung tablets may or may not get a major update of Android.
Marshmallow has a cool feature, built in power savings.

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

Nuttmeg — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:34:18 GMT

@hckynutjohn wrote:
@Jordan2 wrote:
My current phone expires in 72 days so I'm thinking of getting a new one. I know the airtime card for 400 minutes (would triple to 1200) and 1 year service is about $100. I feel I might as well get a new phone for about the same money. I'm wondering which model to go with. Also, does anyone know if QVC or HSN will have a phone as a TTV or TSV soon?

Might check hsn. Was watching a DVR'd program yesterday and they had a 5.5" Smart Phone for under 100 bucks. Think it had 1200 of each and a year expiration. It has the older Android, Jelly Bean 4.3 system, if that means anything to you.

E.T.A. It looks like this phone went up 10 bucks

hckynut(john)

HSN has some LG phones with Android 5.0. for a fair price.

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

151949 — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 02:26:32 GMT

DH & i looked at every smartphone tracfone before we bought and the lollipop was the newest available the first week in january.

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

hckynutjohn — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:13:14 GMT

@Nuttmeg wrote:
@hckynutjohn wrote:

Sure can. The new version is Lollipop. Our tablet has the 5.0 version and I think there now might be a 5.1 version out.

hckynut(john)

The latest version of Android is Marshmallow 6.01. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Marshmallow

I have a two year old Nexus 2013 tablet. Any tablet or phone carrying a Nexus name will always receive software updates.

Samsung smartphones from major wireless companies will receive maybe one or two updates, not a patch.
Samsung tablets may or may not get a major update of Android.
Marshmallow has a cool feature, built in power savings.

@Nuttmeg

Hadn't seen any of the electronic shows have a presentation with this version, I was not aware Android had already moved away from the Lollipop version 5.0/5.1. Seems like they usually get to " .3 version" before they change the 1st digit.

Appreciate you letting me and others here know about this, and I thank you.

hckynut(john)

Re: Looking To Purchase A New Tracfone

Jordan2 — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:29:19 GMT

I went to CVS Sunday and bought a 60 minute 3 month Tracfone card for $20. The minutes tripled to 180 (I don't need the minutes). I bought it to buy myself an extra 90 days in case I find a TSV for a new Tracfone.