I use mine as a phone, period. I deactivated the web browser because the idiots (purposely, I'm sure) set the damn thing up so you hit it accidentally every time you were searching for anything, like a phone #. And they figured you wouldn't notice the extra charges for all the "accidental" web openings. Bullshit. I called them on it and they deducted them from my bill and then I told 'em what they could with their web browser and their texting--deactivated, too, because I was only getting spam--which I also got deducted from my bill. Actually, I was quite nice, I just WANTED to tell them where they could put it.