How To Choose Your Next Cell Phone In 5 Easy Steps

1. Answer the basic questions: Prepaid or monthly billed?, by-the-second billing? Wireless Internet? Read my 6 questions and answers on buying a cell phone and service plan.

2. Select your 5 best matching phones: Choosing a cell phone is about choosing its features, but what do you need exactly? Take my cool test that unveils your top 5 ideal cell phones.
* Why select the phones before choosing a service plan? Thinking of your phone will help you better determine the features that you want and may have an impact on the service plan you'll choose but you may do just the inverse if you prefer.

3. Select a service plan: Browse my U.S. Service Plan Comparison Tables with more than 60 plans from the largest nationwide service providers. Once you're done, check out the phones offered by the carrier you selected and match them, or similar models, with those you found at step #2.
* If you are not living in the United States, check out the GSM World association network operators list.

4. At this point, you should have identified 2 to 3 phones that you would like to use. The next step: take advantage of professional reviews and other people's experiences that should let you avoid buying a bad phone. Check out the latest reviews.

5. Buy it: