My 2014 Prepaid Cellphone Strategy - Nokia Asha 501 with Sun Power Unlimited Text 200

I began 2014 with a some changes on my prepaid cellphone usage.

And in doing so, I hope that I can get the most out of my cellphone unit and the services that I avail.

Nokia Asha 501 is my daily CP.

I have decided to use my Nokia Asha 501 as my day-to-day phone and plans to give away my Nokia C2-00 to my elder brother. Then, I look into making the most out of my Nokia Asha 501 by exploring means to maximize its use. Unfortunately, updating its software can only be done via wifi. I shelled out some prepaid load just to do that.

Then, I had my Sun Cellular prepaid SIM card cut into micro-sim size. So that I can use it on my Nokia Asha 501. Sim Cut cost me another Php 100.

Lastly, I feel that I can save in prepaid by loading Sun Power Unlimited Text 200. This service offers 1000 text/SMS to other networks, 240 minutes Sun-to-Sun calls and unlimited Sun-to-Sun texts, good for one month.

Of course, I got additional savings because of VMobile's loadxtreme.

I wish that 2014 will be better mobile experience to all of us and more sales for my prepaid loading side-business. :) Type rest of the post here

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CPcoming to Nokia via Nokia C2-00

For the past month or saw, I tried using smartphones. A hand-me-down Apple iPhone 3G and a Samsung C3312. But for some reasons, I never did get the hang of both.

Guess, what? I am back to being a Nokia Cellphone user. A homecoming, er... CPcoming... of sorts. Just this very evening, I decided to purchase a new cellphone with only these considerations: A Nokia dual sim phone that fits my budget. And this is what I ended up with.

Check out my brand new Nokia C2-00.

Prior to purchasing this one, I was using a Samsung C3312 for my main phone and sometimes an Apple iPhone 3G starting from December of last year.

But before those two, I own a Nokia C2-03 whose LCD finally gave up on me after just a little over a year. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! I long for the days of my good old reliable Nokia 3210 and those 3310s.

Anyway, I hope that my new Nokia C2-00 will outlive my C2-03 before I inevitably and probably begrudgingly shift to android phones. Now, I should start updating my contacts.

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Maintaining Multiple SIM Cards

Prepaid cellphone users stands to benefit from maintaining multiple SIM cards. SIM cards being cheap these days combined with multi-sim capable cellphone models make it a lot easier.

I, myself, maintain 3 sim cards. My dual-sim Nokia C2-03 contain my default Globe SIM and my old Smart number. I also have a Sun Cellular SIM on the side. Yesterday, I loaded all three of them to keep them all active.

How do you maintain multiple SIM cards? Do you have a cellphone unit for each of them? Do you have a schedule, say every month reloading for them?

Various SIM Cards from Philippine Telcos
Image taken from here.

My Globe SIM is loaded regularly. For my Smart SIM, I periodically PASALOAD 2 pesos worth of prepaid credits from my Smart Bro plug-it. It is my Sun SIM that seldom get loaded.

Yesterday, I checked the LoadXtreme online loading facility for the lowest amount of credit for Sun Cellular. I decided on Sun Xpressload Budgetxt 5. However, it is only for 10 text/SMS message to other networks. Just to be sure, I again loaded my Sun with 10 Php regular load.

That's extra expense on prepaid credits for me but necessary so I keep all my SIM active and that I can avail of unlimited offers in any of those networks. Also, to be easily contacted by friends from other networks that uses unlimited services.

I remember in the early days of cellphones, a SIM card gets deactivated when left with out prepaid load for 120 days. I am not sure if that is the case till now. But as much as possible, I see to it to reload my secondary SIM cards once every month.

Do you also maintain multiple SIMs? Do you have a cellphone unit for each? Perhaps you use dual-sim cellphones or even a quad-sim one? Kindly share tips in maintaining your multiple sims.

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