Can I get a new cell phone for free without a plan?

Question

I dropped my cell phone in the lazy river at the waterpark where I worked over the summer, and it won't charge anymore. I can take the battery out and put it in my little sister's phone, the same one, and it will charge the battery. It's not a problem with the charger either. I've reverted to using my old cell phone but it's a piece of crap...

I don't want to get a prepaid plan...I'm on a family plan right now but we just got it in June, and I can't upgrade my phone yet.

Answer 1

Not really but you can get a prepaid phone like the Cingular GoPhone or T-Mobile To-Go phone free after rebate. You can use up all the minutes then just use your SIM card in that phone. Of course, that'll only work if you have Cingular or T-Mobile now. Prepaid phones do NOT have a contract.

http://www.dealking.com/deals/login.php?fid=100001069&friend=true&inxid=1
Search for Cingular or T-Mobile and scroll down to the $20 off Go Phone or $30 off T-Mo to Go. Find the $20 phone on Cingular or $30 phone on T-Mo and get that and you'll get the rebates which will make it free.
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I'm not suggesting you SWITCH to a prepaid plan, I'm suggesting you get this IN ADDITION TO. You're using this to get yourself a free phone. You just use up all the prepaid minutes and never refill it. Put in your contract SIM card and voila, there's your new phone, no strings attached.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The answer is both yes and no, depending on whom your service provider is you may be eligible for an early upgrade or an upgrade all together.

Second, if you have hand set insurance you can make a claim, pay a required deductible usually no more than $50 dollars, and have a new phone sent to you.

Lastly, if none of these above work, you can usually add a line to your account in a family plan of some sort for $10 per month, and this usually qualifies you for a new free phone. If you choose this rout then you simple do an ESN (Verizon, Sprint, Alltel) change or if you are a GSM (Cingular, T-Mobile) service client you swap sim cards the cost is $240.00 over the course of 2 years, however you get a free phone up front and only have to pay $10.00 per month.

Moreover, I would recommend that if you did not get insurance on your last phone that you add it to your new phone as that can save you lots of time and money in the future.

Answer 4

if you have insurance you can replace it....but there is no place that I know of where you can get a free phone without signing a 2-3 year contract.

its either insurance or buy a new cell. Sucks though.

Answer 5

in case you're presently on a settlement with a cellular telephone agency and your telephone breaks yet you have not got telephone insurance including your plan, then so as to get yet another telephone you're able to could desire to pay retail fee on yet another telephone. there will be no mark downs in figuring out to purchase yet another telephone. Your appropriate guess is to purchase a pay as you go telephone that's below $a hundred money counting on the cellular telephone kind and turn on that telephone in changing your broken telephone. as an occasion, in case you had verizon instant telephone and you broke your telephone then you could purchase a verizon pay as you go telephone and turn on it changing your broken telephone as your settlement telephone. merely deliver your telephone to the verizon save and that they're going to change on it.