I detest cell phone companies and wish to have nothing to do with them. That being said, I still require use of a phone. The solution would seem to be a wi-fi VoIP stand alone smart phone. What do you recommend?
Not put in a SIM into whatever phone you want. Then use WIFI, if you want to have the cream of the crop go for a phone that has AC wifi such as GalaxyS4 or the HTC One, those would be cheapest options I would think for you
Well using a phone for just voip and wifi would then just make it a small tablet, so i would go with a small tablet. But if you wanted to use voip over 3g/4g then you'd be better off looking at plans then phones for starters.