First off if you want the sweet deal on a phone like the $0 ones you will have to lock into a 3yr plan.
There is the plan, pay per month, or if you have no credit and fukk all the last option is pay as you go...AKA: hit 7-11 to buy a phone card.
For me it was a no brainer. I just finished being with Rogers for around 5 years back in 02, and couldn't bare to be with those fukks again. Fido has no family plan, Bell just had a shit phone selection IMO, so Telus had good choices and a family plan.
So in February (couple mos ago) I bagged 2 LG 200's.
You may think LG 200, pretty pussy when compared to the motorola razors and alike. But the two times I was in the store the people that came in all asked for this...."just give me a fukkin phone, not a camera, not a fukkin TV, and not a fukkin radio (mp3) just a damn phone to get and make calls.
IMO I feel the same. The camera on the LG200 is pretty shitty, but who cares, I never use it.
One last thing. I fail to see the point of text messaging. Typing out more than 2 words on the phone keypad is frustrating as all hell, just phone the fukkin person. If you don't wanna be bothered turn your phone ringer off, or just turn the whole friggen phone off.