Posted: 7/23/2012 4:41:26 AM EDT
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You know, Boost Mobile has plans for Android phones that start at $55 a month (unlimited everything) and go to $50 at 6 months, $45 at 12 months and $40 at 18.
So in 18 months you'd have 2 smart phones with unlimited usage for $80 a month. I just can't see getting a contract phone. |
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me too $45/mo. unlimited Samsung Galaxy Precedent |
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I'm looking at Verizon's Share Everything plan for my husband and I. Looks like about $180 for two smartphones, unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, hot spots for our laptops, and a 10 gigs of data a month. That sounds like the plan we just got. The hot spot was awesome this weekend at the camper Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I have been using prepaid for a long time. Contract plans are just too damned expensive for what you get. It would be different if the hottest phone available today was going to still be considered desirable and nice in two years, but that isn't going to happen, in two years a top of the line phone today will be ancient and worthless in two years (in the eyes of a person who figures signing an expensive two year contract to have the hottest phone around is a good idea).
With more and more prepaid services allowing bring your own device on their unlimited plans, even the substandard device complaint is not ringing as true as it once did. Straight Talk not only has a killer bring your own device plan that allows any T-Mobile or AT&T phone, they now have straight talk branded android phones on the Verizon and AT&T networks (most Straight Talk branded Androids are on the Sprint network, which is as useless as tits on a boar hog for most of us). Page Plus has a plan that give unlimited talk, text and 2GB of data for $55, all on the Verizon network, and you can use any Verizon handset you wish, of course as of now no 4G, but I imagine that will be coming soon. All of this is using completely legal, and completely authorized and fully permitted methods. There are slightly shady methods that allow an even greater flexibility on what handsets can be used, but that is way outside the scope of this thread. ETA: In my house we pay a total of $116 a month (actual amount, with prepaid there is no laundry list of extra fees and charges, if the plan is $29.95, that is all you have to pay). We have five smart phones, two of them are on unlimited 4G data plans, I haven't totaled up the included minutes, as none of them are on unlimited voice plans (none of us need unlimited voice), but it is in the thousands of minutes. You can get pretty nice smartphones in excellent condition used with warranty dirt cheap if you know where to look. |