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<blockquote data-quote="Laura" data-source="post: 2185123" data-attributes="member: 209247">I&#039;ll be traveling in Australia from June 30th to July 21st. I&#039;m kinda confused on what I should be doing.&nbsp; Can anyone give me a little guidance?The basics: I&#039;m on Verizon Wireless and I have the LG Flip Chocolate (it&#039;s old, I know).&nbsp; I ordered the HTC Incredible which should be arriving before I leave (I&#039;m not planning on activating it until I get back though).What I want to know is what makes sense for me to do.&nbsp; I need a phone that makes cheap calls and has cheap texting in Australia because I&#039;ll be keeping in touch with my friends who are there.&nbsp; I also need it to make occasional cheap calls to the US so I can talk to my parents.&nbsp; I will have Skype on my iPod so the cheap calls to the US aren&#039;t as much of a priority.&nbsp; Mostly I really, really don&#039;t want to get slammed with huge roaming charges just for having the phone on.Also, can someone explain roaming to me?&nbsp; I thought it was if I&#039;m abroad, any time I have my phone on and it&#039;s connected to cell service it&#039;s roaming, right?&nbsp; But that seems completely ridiculous if it&#039;s over $1.00 a minute in some places.&nbsp; Verizon&#039;s Global phone thing also doesn&#039;t totally make sense to me.&nbsp; Do they give me a phone that works where I&#039;m going, but I still get hit with roaming charges?&nbsp; Or is the whole point of the global phone that I don&#039;t get charged for roaming?&nbsp; I checked the Verizon website about both, but I&#039;ve found it to be pretty useless.If you read all that and took the time to answer: thanks!&nbsp; You rock.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Laura, post: 2185123, member: 209247"] I'll be traveling in Australia from June 30th to July 21st. I'm kinda confused on what I should be doing. Can anyone give me a little guidance? The basics: I'm on Verizon Wireless and I have the LG Flip Chocolate (it's old, I know). I ordered the HTC Incredible which should be arriving before I leave (I'm not planning on activating it until I get back though). What I want to know is what makes sense for me to do. I need a phone that makes cheap calls and has cheap texting in Australia because I'll be keeping in touch with my friends who are there. I also need it to make occasional cheap calls to the US so I can talk to my parents. I will have Skype on my iPod so the cheap calls to the US aren't as much of a priority. Mostly I really, really don't want to get slammed with huge roaming charges just for having the phone on. Also, can someone explain roaming to me? I thought it was if I'm abroad, any time I have my phone on and it's connected to cell service it's roaming, right? But that seems completely ridiculous if it's over $1.00 a minute in some places. Verizon's Global phone thing also doesn't totally make sense to me. Do they give me a phone that works where I'm going, but I still get hit with roaming charges? Or is the whole point of the global phone that I don't get charged for roaming? I checked the Verizon website about both, but I've found it to be pretty useless. If you read all that and took the time to answer: thanks! You rock. :) [/QUOTE]

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