steel dont you have a macbook? originally we went to apple comps at work ,leading to getting an iphone 4s they play well together also ..what do most of your family use because messaging/calls between iphones is always free..
And hopefully since my contract has been over for the past several months there won't be an activation fee but thanks for the warning and i'll deff keep an eye out for that.
Worst case scenario, you can always call the carrier and say "customer service rep said I qualified for free activation. So wave the fee, pl0x?" It's worked for me