Electronics

[hckynut]

@Big Sister

My Samsung is 3 years old and has the 5.0 OS in it. I added to it because of keeping triple minutes etc. Piled up enough to last the rest of my life, so decided to upgrade this year. Like you, my cell is pretty much only for an emergency, or an occasion long distant call. We don't have long distance on our landline, so it comes in handy for me at times.

Don't know how high the Android OS goes now, but 7.0 is a big improvement over my 5.0, good enough for my uses. Still haven't got around to activating it, so can't comment on much, except it is HUGE next to my old Samsung, not sure if that is good or bad for me.

Unless you want the newer OS, if it were me I would pay the $50 and stay with the Samsung, if it meets your needs. Guess I just wanted a newer, maybe faster/easier phone, but I didn't know about the $50/365 extension.

hckynut(john)

[Ainhisg]

@Big Sister, Oreo 8.1 was released in December 2017, but to the best of my knowledge, Tracfone has no phone with this operating system yet.  Nougat 7.1.2 was released in August of 2016, so I would think that Tracfones with Oreo would come out before too long.  That's what I'm waiting and hoping for anyway as my phone has Marshmallow 6.0 and expires next May.  If my phone is still working well and Marshmallow is still supported...and Oreo isn't out by the time I need to refill...I will do what you do and just buy a year's worth of service.  

[Moonlady]

Even if the year's service and minutes/texts/data aren't already pre-loaded on the new phone (and they HAVE been for the past few years) Tracfone had already put the kibosh on adding the minutes bundle to a different phone. So anyone saying they're doing this now...isn't.

[hckynut]

@Moonlady

I ain't getting what you are saying about the "kibosh" on adding minutes etc. to my old(different) phone. I paid for the new phone along with the 365 days service, why would Tracfone care what phone used their services for which I have paid? 

[lulu1]

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@Ainhisg wrote:

@Big Sister, Oreo 8.1 was released in December 2017, but to the best of my knowledge, Tracfone has no phone with this operating system yet.  Nougat 7.1.2 was released in August of 2016, so I would think that Tracfones with Oreo would come out before too long.  That's what I'm waiting and hoping for anyway as my phone has Marshmallow 6.0 and expires next May.  If my phone is still working well and Marshmallow is still supported...and Oreo isn't out by the time I need to refill...I will do what you do and just buy a year's worth of service.  

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@Ainhisg

I have no idea  about the different operating systems.  I know I bought a phone from HSN in 6/17.  I really like it and rather than buying I new one, I purchased another year's service for $53.30.  I seldom use the phone so have more minutes than I'll ever use.

If you are a person who is either hard on your phone or likes to update your phone annually, you can usually get a good deal for way under $100. I believe I paid around $70 last year from HSN.

[Zhills]

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@hckynut wrote:

@Moonlady

I ain't getting what you are saying about the "kibosh" on adding minutes etc. to my old(different) phone. I paid for the new phone along with the 365 days service, why would Tracfone care what phone used their services for which I have paid? 

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I added my new minutes to my already in use, Tracfone on this deal and so did my BFF.  They don't do it automatically, you have to ask them to do it, but they do.....or did last week!

[Moonlady]

That was a good price for the Fiesta at HSN. I have the one I got last summer and love it, so I passed on this. In addition, the only difference between the Fiesta 2 and the Fiesta is that the F2 has 2 RAM (instead of the F1's 1.5). I don't run a bunch of simultaneous apps, so I couldn't care less about that. Screen size, camera, OS, and 16GB internal are all the same for both models. I like the 5.5" screen size, so I don't even know if I want to go much larger than that IF it's offered next year.

[Zhills]

Can't beat the price for a year's service and 1500 minutes.  I kept my same phone and just added the minutes to my current phone.