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No matter how fancy a smartphone is, it’s not worth much if it doesn’t make decent calls. You may have music, apps, and the Internet, but connecting to a carrier’s network and enjoying satisfying audio clarity is much more important. For much of its life, AT&T’s iPhone hasn’t received rave reviews as a phone. Many users, particularly those in dense …

If you use your phone primarily for making calls, you might not need unlimited text and data services. If so, you might be the sort of customer who would buy Virgin Mobile’s latest handset, the Kyocera S2100, recently launched under its cheaper PayLo prepaid service. The S2100 is as basic as it gets, with only a VGA camera and Bluetooth, …