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The Pantech Caper by Verizon Wireless is a non-flip, cell phone. The design is similar to a blackberry and it is a non-contract version, which means it is a prepaid cell phone. The features include a camera, internet accessibility, email availability calling and texting and Bluetooth.

This phone is pretty easy to use and has all of the components you need for a phone in the medium price range. The overall service from Verizon is a bonus as well. You can add minutes to the phone via credit card, or phone card, change the number, and check your balance all by just dialing one number and pressing the code to take you where you need to go.

Verizon, as a company, offers a good cdma service when it comes to local and international calls. You can use their phones overseas if you need to travel.

Carol is a journalist who has been writing article and blogging for seven years. She has traveled to three different islands in the Bahamas and has lived in three states in the U.S. Carol loves reading, writing, debating, shopping (preferably at the mall) Bible study, exercise and research. Green is one of her favorite colors, she loves eating out of doors and owning a cell phone is one of her petit pleasures!

Pros:
I like that it provides several ring tones you can use to distinguish who is calling, or texting you. You can also Bluetooth your photos to other devices; ex. your computer. Verizon, as a company, offers a good cdma service when it comes to local and international calls. You can use their phones overseas if you need to travel.I like that it provides several ring tones you can use to distinguish who is calling, or texting you. You can also Bluetooth your photos to other devices; ex. your computer.

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Verizon Wireless Cellular Phone Contract and iPhone 4:

I went online to the Verizon Wireless website and I signed up to have a new contract for a smartphone. The first thing I had to do was choose which phone I wanted to get. Some of the phones were free, but I wanted the iPhone 4, which is why I chose to sign up for service with Verizon Wireless in the first place. So, I selected a white iPhone 4 new, rather than refurbished, and it was added to my online shopping cart.

Next, I had to choose a plan for service. I was required to choose a data plan in order for the iPhone 4 to be activated. I selected the plan with the least amount of data, which is the 300 MB. However, when I was first directed to the screen that listed the data plans, the computer automatically chose the 1 GB plan for me, which was two grades up from the most basic. If I hadn't thought to scroll to the left to see if there were cheaper plans, I would have unknowingly chose the more expensive plan that offered more data, which was not necessary for my data needs. The data plan is set up so it includes unlimited talk and text in addition to the 300 MB of data per month.

Then I had the option of choosing protection, or insurance, for the smartphone. I declined the protective coverage. Up next were the accessories that Verizon Wireless sold exclusively for the iPhone 4. I saw that they had several options including travel bundles, protective covers and armbands. I did not purchase any of the accessories. Features available for my phone included a music player and VZ Navigator, as well as detailed billing and corporate email accounts. I declined to add any of these features to my phone plan. Once I completed this, I was taken to the checkout page, where I had to enter my billing and shipping information. Also, I chose not to transfer my previous cell phone number, even though I did have the option of doing so. I received my new iPhone 4 in the mail within a week. It worked fine out of the box.

Pros: I live in a rural town where the closest cell phone provider offering Apple products is two hours away. I loved having the convenience of being able to sign up for the iPhone 4 from my home computer. It saved me a lot of hassle of driving to the provider that was two hours away. Additionally, having my smartphone shipped to me in the mail was super convenient.

Cons: If I were to have any issues with my iPhone 4, I think I would have issues with getting it repaired from a certified Verizon Wireless dealer, since the closest ones are two hours away. Also, the necessity of having a two-year contract at minimum, in addition to the required data plan, is aggravating. It would be nice to be able to have the phone for a year contract, or even for pay by the month service.

Other Info: If given the option of dealing with a rival company, AT&T, I personally would choose Verizon Wireless due to reliability of service and customer service.

Amount Paid: $80 for contract; $99 for iPhone 4; and approximately $50 for new service, taxes and fees

Purchase Date: August 2012

Online or In-Store: Online

Recommended: Yes

Overall Rating: 4 Stars

I have had experience with Verizon as a whole over the years. I found that, as a company, lie cheat and steal is their operating policy. I've experienced this first hand. My son had Verizon Wireless and spent more time cursing them. Every time they needed customer service, they (he and his wife) were treated like dirt and roadblocks to resolution were constantly thrown up. My mother had hardly complained about any company in her life, but she did about Verizon. They made promises, neglected to keep them, and left a 70-year-old woman without telephone service or a way to summon emergency help. Their attitude was profound indifference. They are big on saying that the divisions are completely separate until they want your money. This is a scary company to do business with.

XTRA 205 + Channels By Verizon Wireless Store:

I just got my new Verizon Bundle hooked up today – wow – happy, happy girl. I have been watching television for the last year with nothing – antenna – why you ask? Broke – the economy hit this household hard and things had to be cut out and unfortunately, cable is always the first thing to go.

You have no idea what it is like to live without cable – we have been able to only get the major channels ABC, NBC , FOX, and CBS. Nothing else and it can make for a very boring life. Especially since I work from home and would love to have the TV on while I work. So ,there has been no “non-stop entertainment” for us – no kicking back with over 190 full-time HD channels and not much for sports. TV entertainment has just been missed at this apartment for the last year.

Actually we were fighting two problems here – when we finally could afford it – it wasn’t available in our complex yet, but – today it is. I ordered the $64.00 triple bundle – with DirecTVXtrra with over 205 channels of the best in sports, music, movies, specialty, and family entertainment. Plus favorite channels (I have so missed these) Biography, E! History International Channel, National Geographic Channel and the Golf Channel – (the Masters starts today) – WOW! I am excited.

Then there is the high-speed internet – I work on the internet so the faster the net, the better for me. Then of course unlimited local and regional calling – PLUS voice mail, caller ID, call waiting.

Perhaps we are a spoiled country and we expect too much from our TV and internet – but hey that is the way life is now. When I was growing up we got 2 channels – and that was on a good day – and we were happy with that. Most of the time, we were playing outside as there were no “couch potatoes” living in my neighborhood. I am old now and yes, I am spoiled and so what if we have become a nation of “couch potatoes”. We have also become a better-informed nation – we know what is going on in areas of the world that when I grew up we had never heard of. We were in Viet Nam and we only got the war news from one perspective and we believed everything from that one perspective. We never knew that lies were being told to us.

Now we get the war news from so many perspectives that we still don’t know what is going on – but at least we have choices that can be made. When Congress is doing nothing – at least we know it now. We get all the opinions on the gun control bill, we know how back the economy really is and we get full coverage of every nation or international disaster - yes we are spoiled. In my opinion we are better off with 200 plus channels than only three. With the internet we are connected to the global world and have friends in Europe, India, and Africa – I think I much prefer the world we live in now – don’t you.

Pros: HD TV with over 120 channels plus premium channels such as Golf channel, Discovery, National Geographic and History Channel, new faster internet, phone service with free local and regional calling, call waiting, caller ID – this makes me a very happy person!

Cons: None

Website Experience: Verizon has a very good website for ordering services with your options and what they contain right on the very first page. Check the options you want make certain it is available in your area and voila! – you make your pick and get a time for them to come by and hook everything up. Quick, clean, and smart looking.

Amount Paid: $64.00 with one-year signup.

Purchase Date: April 11, 2013

Online or In-Store: Online

Final Notes: We also got the FREE genie HD DVR connected to 4 rooms, so we have television everywhere but the bathroom. If there is a way for my son to figure the bathroom TV out – we will probably have that also.

Recommended: Yes

Overall Rating: 5 stars

DROID 4 BY MOTOROLA:

My new phone from Verizon got here yesterday – and I think I am in love – it is great! After I got everything hooked up the way I wanted – I have a computer with me now all the time. Messages, Facebook, Twitter, and just about everything I need to have is with me all day long – I am connected!

It took me some time to decide which wireless company I was going with - I checked out AT&T, but I think in the long run they will be too expensive just for wireless and I don’t want to bundle anything else with them. My cable TV and internet is with Time Warner and I have a great deal with them.

Any of the other wireless networks – I just didn’t care for. Too expensive or slow network with too many dropped calls. The best phone you could get was refurbished as the others were too expensive.

Verizon seems to meet my needs more – for watching movies to surfing the web or getting social with all my friends to play games or share pictures – Verizon Wireless seems to be better. Verizon gives me all the power to do everything, all on the biggest high-speed wireless network in America. That is how Verizon is able to help you connect to all the things that matter to me the most.

Their plans allow me to power any device and text or talk as much as I need to. They are straightforward and simple and they bring me the reliability of Verizon Wireless where I want it and how I want it – it’s called flexibility and they seem to have more of it.

Also, I can check account 24/7 – sign up for My Verizon and I can manage the wireless account online or from my device, 24/7. I am able to check my usage; view and pay my bill; change my features or plan; upgrade my device; bet backup assistant; access 24/7 support; run account analysis; or trade in my device – I can access my Verizon account for free from my mobile device.

So, I was quite happy with my Verizon Wireless and I think anyone would be happy with them for their wireless service. Less expensive, better phones, great wireless service, and access to my account 24 hours 7 days a week – that is a sweet deal.

Pros: Best price monthly – really inexpensive, better than what AT&T has. 24 hours a day 7 days a week access to my account to check usage or even change features. New phones for free, no refurbished ones. No dropped calls, and I can surf the web for information while taking a business call, can upload photos to a friend while talking to them because of the 4G Network. They are the largest wireless network in America today! I can be doing several functions and no call will drop – that is reliability and flexibility and I like that.

Cons: None

Website Experience: They have a website that is super – first you will automatically open up on the page to make all your decisions on. Second, they will check to ensure there is Verizon at your zip code. Then you go to the very bottom of the page and there are menu items to do everything that you need or want to do. Further information, phones, and devices that can be used, what operating system I want to use, plans and deal, service and support and other offerings. This menu will take you to any section you want to go to which will probably plan and deal phones and operating system. After those decisions – nothing else to do and phone arrived in two days. Sweet!

Amount Paid: $50.00

Purchase Date: April 9, 2013

Online or In-Store: Online

Final Notes: Verizon also offers now Shared Data which makes any plan completely shareable with other individuals in your account. It then becomes one plan with lots of options to fit my life, my devices, and my own personal network.

Recommended: Yes

Overall Rating: 5 stars

Samsung Galaxy S3 From Verizon Wireless

I have wanted a smartphone for a very long time, but I was resistant to getting the iPhone. As a Verizon subscriber for over a decade, I have been wary of dealing with them and always saw it as a necessary evil. However, I didn’t want to switch to a different company with phone plans that didn’t fit my budget. When my contract was up with Verizon for my current phone, I figured the time had come to get on the smartphone bandwagon.

I went on the website and read about the phone thoroughly. There is a handy feature that compares the phones and their capabilities for you. Although I am not a technical person, it was not hard to see how the phones were similar and different once they were compared on a point by point basis. I also called the customer service line and spoke to a cadre of incredibly helpful reps. They went out of their way to help me understand my current phone plan and how a new phone would fit in with it. I couldn’t believe how knowledgeable they were. No one tried to over sell me, and no one treated me like I was dumb for not understanding the technical features of the phone.

Using the information from the website and the help I got over the phone with customer service, I decided to go with the Samsung Galaxy S3 instead of the S4.

I really, really, really love my phone. I had no idea what I was missing out on. I have put a bunch of my music on it, and I found an app for running that is unbelievable. Even the camera on this phone is high quality. It is amazing how you can live without something so long and then you find that you cannot live without it. The phone is the best, and I am happy with my experience.

Pros: This phone does everything I want it to do and so much more than I ever expected. I can’t believe a phone can replace my GPS, my stopwatch, my music player, and my camera. I am thrilled. I don’t think I would be as pleased if the customer service had not been great. Verizon has really stepped it up, and I felt like they actually wanted me to have the right phone for my purposes.

Cons: I haven’t seen anything wrong yet. The GPS sometimes takes a few minutes to find me, but I don’t think it’s a big issue. It’s far better waiting a minute or two then having to carry around a GPS and a phone.

Amount Paid: $ 99.00

Purchase Date: April 9, 2013

Online or In-Store: Online

Final Notes: I may have been able to get a lower price if I trolled the Internet looking for one, but I would have been worried about the company I purchased from. It is better to spend a few extra dollars purchasing a phone from a reliable company. I am very satisfied.

Recommended: Yes

Overall Rating: 5 Stars

Review Title: Verizon wireless

Title: Verizon wireless

Review Body: I have Verizon wireless and it is the best wireless service anyone could have. I have tried all of them, so I know what I am talking about.

When I first got wireless service I started with AT&T, but they kept promising things that they just could not deliver. Every plan of theirs was almost twice what Verizon’s was plus there were dropped calls and receiving problems. It was just a mess.

Next I tried T-Mobile, but to get a decent plan with them you had to sign a contract for 2 years plus I never got a phone from them that I liked. Their monthly fees were outrageous plus on top of that they charged you for every little call you made or that someone made to you – yes, on top of a monthly fee.

The next wireless plan I tried was Sprint – their plan read like a lawyer’s brief, so that when I signed on with them, I had no idea what I really was signing on to. I came to find out that their plans were the same as AT&T with only the names being different and I still couldn’t get a decent phone.

All of them had their customer service centers in other countries – so you couldn’t understand the CSR because of the accents. If you ever got them off their script, they got very confused and couldn’t answer any of your questions. That was brilliantly planned just to save money on their call centers. So, as soon as my contract was over with any of these plans – I was out of there.

Then a friend of mine suggested that I try Verizon. By this time I could have cared less if I even had a wireless phone. I had just I tried all of them – I got in touch with Verizon.

If I signed up for two years the phone I got was Windows Phone 8X by HTC which is a very brilliant little phone because it is so simple. I had shopped around for smartphones before and this little phone really did have a fairly innovated operating system. The OS with this 4G LTE phone was really packed with some really amazing features such as an HD screen, exclusive wireless charging, and a powerful Beats Audio.

The Window’s Phone 8 allowed you to see everything that was happening with one single glance, with their animated Live Tiles that updated in real time. I could pin certain applications to the start screen – size and organize any way that made sense for me. Now this was a phone that was getting my attention quickly.

Plus I really liked this wireless charger feature where I could boost my battery without being somewhere that I need to plug in. It has wireless charging built in. You just place it on a charging pad and you get charging without wires – that was the feature that finally sold it for me. I have been with Verizon for two years now and it is the best phone service I have ever had.

Pros: Good service with no dropped calls or reception problems, great phone to start with, fees were fair, and I could understand their customer service reps.

Cons: None

Website Experience: The website verizonwireless.com was very simple – I entered two fields and got all the information I needed. Then when I decided to sign up with them, I entered my information only ONE time. Bingo – I was signed up and phone arrived in 24 hours set up and ready to go. This was a very simple to use website and right now in my life I am all about simple. Plus customer service with no accents.

Amount Paid: $99.00 for the phone

Purchase Date: March 14, 2012

Online or In-Store: Online

Final Notes: Easily best phone of all the different plans, sure I paid $99 for it, but it’s an $800 phone. Their monthly fee is fair and their reception is good.

Recommended: Yes

Overall Rating: 5 stars

I have been a Verizon customer for over a year now and am satisfied with my service as well as the phone that I have. I have the LG extravert which is kind of a mid range phone that has some nice features. I am surprised that I am so in love with the keyboard as I was really resistant to it at first, it seemed kind of small and I couldn't imagine being able to operate the keypad with out difficulty but this is not the case. It works great and I never have to deal with T9 texting again. The touch screen sometimes is a little frustrating to work as it tends to be not as responsive as I would like it to be but overall it functions completely fine. I rarely have an issue with no service and that is sometimes a problem where I live. All in all, Verizon wireless is a great company for you cell phone needs.

For a novel smartphone, the 4G Intuition by LG is both stylish and practical. This smartphone can be found at the Verizon Wireless store online, and features a five-inch display. With such a big screen, using the internet or watching movies is easy and gives off a vibrant picture. Even in direct sunlight, people can easily see the screen without any type of glare. A camera and video recorder is included in this phone, allowing users to capture their shots to remember later on. Also, there are many apps that are available on this phone, and it has extra padding. This prevents this smartphone from taking any type of damages even if dropped. This user-friendly smartphone is great for people looking for an all-purpose phone to use at work and at home.

Verizon has three bundles of products. FiOS which includes FiOS TV, FiOS Internet, FiOS voice digitally and FiOS Bundles. Standard includes internet High-speed DSL,Home phone, DIRECTV, standard bundles. Also includes home monitoring and control, Verizon Wi-Fi, storage and security, and device protection as well as premium support. FiOS Triple play is only 89.99 per month – for 2 years plus taxes and fees with 2-year contract. Verizon get the best for less.