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It's a few cents over $10 with tax, including free ship to store, no additional purchase required. Source: I bought it. Minutes run $20 for 180 if you want to

It's a few cents over $10 with tax, including free ship to store, no additional purchase required. Source: I bought it. Minutes run $20 for 180 if you want to activate it, which is a fair price for a pay as you go emergency phone, especially one running Android that includes a data plan. For a heavily used normal day to day phone sure, something else is better.

alwaysdoit 11y ago
Is there anything stopping you from using it as a WiFi only device for $10?
- jerguismi 11y ago
  Probably no, but is it a phone then?
  - sp332 11y ago
    Sure, if you use Skype or Google Hangouts you can call other phones.
    - bad_user 11y ago
      While you're right, depending on availability of Wifi is not very portable, which decreases its utility. Not sure how it is in the US, but in Romania we've got pretty good and cheap 4G-only Internet pre-pay cards. You can't call or receive phone calls, you cannot send SMS, all you can do is to connect to the 3G/4G network. The price is €5 for 1 GB, €7 for 3 GB, €15 for 13 GB of bandwidth. And you recharge whenever you want, as this is not a monthly plan. And I have an Android that I use with such a pre-pay card. It's like my personal 4G modem that I can also use for Skype and stuff. And I was actually thinking of giving up my phone number. If it weren't for my parents which are old-fashioned, I would.
  - mcphage 11y ago
    No, it's a $10 iPod Touch equivalent. Which could be a really good thing.
- giancarlostoro 11y ago
  I believe I have the same phone (or similar enough model at least), I had gotten it when it was $20 they tend to be rather slow. It's one of those "one app at a time" type of phones.
- Turing_Machine 11y ago
  Can anyone confirm that this thing will work as an Android WiFi device without any kind of activation nonsense? I like cheap Android devices for testing software (the cheaper and nastier the better, actually...)
  - DrScump 11y ago
    How would you get a phone number for it?
    - Turing_Machine 11y ago
      If you're just testing apps to see if they'll run acceptably on low-end hardware, you don't need the phone part at all.
- droithomme 11y ago
  Nope, it works perfectly fine as WiFi. Haven't activated the phone at all, but am able to do web browsing, email, google voice, bluetooth remote control, etc.
jerguismi 11y ago
But you are locked to that one telcom provider? Yanks look like idiots to me, because they generally don't seem to factor the lock-in to a specific carrier to the price. In my country you can't offer phones and plans as a bundle, and therefore the pricing of the phones is very different.
- Syrup-tan 11y ago
  Off-topic; regarding your attitude: The pricing of different services can be considered part of the living cost of an area, and is one of the many trade-offs you make when you choose to (not) move to/from an area. For example: Europe might have better access to internet, however I'm not a fan of their policies, so I can choose to pay a bit more for internet in Canada, and deal with the lock-in. It's silly to consider someone an idiot based off a single trade-off that they make. (Considering them an idiot based on many trade-offs is a different story)
  - guelo 11y ago
    Also, I didn't make the tradeoff. Some government and corporate beurocrats probably did.
    - Syrup-tan 11y ago
      That was a different trade-off, you are making this tradeoff by not living somewhere else. edit: clarifying the subject trade-off
  - jerguismi 11y ago
    I don't consider any single guy idiot. I've jsut seeing so many these "$10 phone" articles around, and people just seem to keep on talking about the "$10 phones" when it is not actualla a $10 phone. So the people are endorsing the hidden pricing involved with these packages. I think it is OK for companies to have these campaings, however I think it is stupid to endorse their tricks.
- droithomme 11y ago
  For me the telecom provider is not too relevant since I have never used a cell phone and don't plan to as I consider to be an anti-social device. Planning to use this as a smart remote controller for my media box, as a Bluetooth robot controller, and I might do Skype and what not. It's possible I'd eventually activate it though for emergencies and get rid of my land line which costs more given the little I use it.

alwaysdoit 11y ago

Is there anything stopping you from using it as a WiFi only device for $10?

jerguismi 11y ago
Probably no, but is it a phone then?
- sp332 11y ago
  Sure, if you use Skype or Google Hangouts you can call other phones.
  - bad_user 11y ago
    While you're right, depending on availability of Wifi is not very portable, which decreases its utility. Not sure how it is in the US, but in Romania we've got pretty good and cheap 4G-only Internet pre-pay cards. You can't call or receive phone calls, you cannot send SMS, all you can do is to connect to the 3G/4G network. The price is €5 for 1 GB, €7 for 3 GB, €15 for 13 GB of bandwidth. And you recharge whenever you want, as this is not a monthly plan. And I have an Android that I use with such a pre-pay card. It's like my personal 4G modem that I can also use for Skype and stuff. And I was actually thinking of giving up my phone number. If it weren't for my parents which are old-fashioned, I would.
- mcphage 11y ago
  No, it's a $10 iPod Touch equivalent. Which could be a really good thing.
giancarlostoro 11y ago
I believe I have the same phone (or similar enough model at least), I had gotten it when it was $20 they tend to be rather slow. It's one of those "one app at a time" type of phones.
Turing_Machine 11y ago
Can anyone confirm that this thing will work as an Android WiFi device without any kind of activation nonsense? I like cheap Android devices for testing software (the cheaper and nastier the better, actually...)
- DrScump 11y ago
  How would you get a phone number for it?
  - Turing_Machine 11y ago
    If you're just testing apps to see if they'll run acceptably on low-end hardware, you don't need the phone part at all.
droithomme 11y ago
Nope, it works perfectly fine as WiFi. Haven't activated the phone at all, but am able to do web browsing, email, google voice, bluetooth remote control, etc.

jerguismi 11y ago

But you are locked to that one telcom provider? Yanks look like idiots to me, because they generally don't seem to factor the lock-in to a specific carrier to the price. In my country you can't offer phones and plans as a bundle, and therefore the pricing of the phones is very different.

Syrup-tan 11y ago
Off-topic; regarding your attitude: The pricing of different services can be considered part of the living cost of an area, and is one of the many trade-offs you make when you choose to (not) move to/from an area. For example: Europe might have better access to internet, however I'm not a fan of their policies, so I can choose to pay a bit more for internet in Canada, and deal with the lock-in. It's silly to consider someone an idiot based off a single trade-off that they make. (Considering them an idiot based on many trade-offs is a different story)
- guelo 11y ago
  Also, I didn't make the tradeoff. Some government and corporate beurocrats probably did.
  - Syrup-tan 11y ago
    That was a different trade-off, you are making this tradeoff by not living somewhere else. edit: clarifying the subject trade-off
- jerguismi 11y ago
  I don't consider any single guy idiot. I've jsut seeing so many these "$10 phone" articles around, and people just seem to keep on talking about the "$10 phones" when it is not actualla a $10 phone. So the people are endorsing the hidden pricing involved with these packages. I think it is OK for companies to have these campaings, however I think it is stupid to endorse their tricks.
droithomme 11y ago
For me the telecom provider is not too relevant since I have never used a cell phone and don't plan to as I consider to be an anti-social device. Planning to use this as a smart remote controller for my media box, as a Bluetooth robot controller, and I might do Skype and what not. It's possible I'd eventually activate it though for emergencies and get rid of my land line which costs more given the little I use it.