Posted: 5/8/2017 3:25:29 PM EDT
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Question. I have a LG phone with unlimited call and text. My Verizon bill is $25 a month. Verizon has a nice tablet on sale for $10. I would have to add data and my bill would look like this. $70 per month with 2G's or $78 for 5G's. Should I Fo ? Or should I buy a tablet at walmart and get something like Boost Mobile or a pay as you go plan ? Help me out here.....
The Tablet retails for $299. They were overstocked or so they say with a case of 50. They have 6 left all propped up on the counter, there're pushing them hard so I have about a day or so to figure this out. |
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1: You don't NEED cellular data to use a tablet, you just need a wifi spot.
2: If you DO get a tablet that works on cell networks, you'll eat up a low-end data allowance FAST doing daily web surfing. I had to rely on mine due to equipment issues last year (neighbor severed the phone line killing my DSL connection for about a week) and my wife and I burned through 2GB in a week just doing normal stuff (email, facebook, youtube, etc). 3: If you get an unlimited data plan, VZWs is stupidly expensive, look at T-Mobile or Sprint. 4: Be prepared to take it in the ass if you go over on a limited plan. and what kind of tablet is this? You can buy cheap Android tablets all over the place online for a lot less than $299, so that had better be a clearance iPad or something rather high end. |
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do you currently have data on your phone, or is this your first step into wireless data? Take a look at how much it would cost to (1) have a data plan on your phone if you don't already have it, and (2) have the ability to activate your phone as a wireless wifi hotspot. It might be cheaper to buy a non-wireless tablet and just access wireless via your phone hotspot as necessary. I do that with my laptop a lot.
Also, 2GB for a wireless tablet is the crack dealer's cheap sample to get you hooked. You gotta manage your device on wireless properly or you'll bust 2GB a month easily. Gotta uninstall Facebook, make sure any podcast programs are set up to download on wifi only (learned that one the hard way), and make sure YouTube is set to wifi only (videos are bandwidth hogs). Wife and I did a major review of our apps for two months to figure out why we kept busting our data cap on our smartphones, and one of the many things we learned is that Facebook apps are constantly streaming data even if you aren't using it. |
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I fell for the tablet promotion with Verizon. I thought I would use it more than I do, like for Waze and stuff.
The tablet is slower than my phone plus sometimes the screen goes blank, it's some kind of feature that senses if you are looking at it or something. I would just get the tablet and use it WiFi. I suspect Verizon won't want you to do that. I would not have gotten a tablet if I had it to do over |