http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/pretty-soon-your-cell-phone-provider-will-own-you/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Sun, 27 May 2012 18:03:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/pretty-soon-your-cell-phone-provider-will-own-you/#comment-58175 Sue Donovan Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:47:41 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-58175 I am new to the cell phone craze. I have had my cell phone about a week and I am afraid to use it. I did want to buy some games for it and I figured I would go out on the net and find an etailer like Handango from which I would buy my games. It was only after i purchased my cell phone that I discovered that I had to buy games, wallpaper, ring tones all from the same company from which I bought my phone and it would entail a double whammy. Shopping for these apps uses up minutes. (What???) And sometimes playing the games also uses up minutes! I think, not being msde of money, that I will limit my use to emergency calls and calls I cannot afford to miss. What is the deal? How come we cannot simply buy from an independent vendor and install much like we do PC (or Mac) to handheld? I am new to the cell phone craze. I have had my cell phone about a week and I am afraid to use it. I did want to buy some games for it and I figured I would go out on the net and find an etailer like Handango from which I would buy my games. It was only after i purchased my cell phone that I discovered that I had to buy games, wallpaper, ring tones all from the same company from which I bought my phone and it would entail a double whammy. Shopping for these apps uses up minutes. (What???) And sometimes playing the games also uses up minutes! I think, not being msde of money, that I will limit my use to emergency calls and calls I cannot afford to miss. What is the deal? How come we cannot simply buy from an independent vendor and install much like we do PC (or Mac) to handheld?

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