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Do $10 smartphones exist today?
by ghkbrew 11y ago
Do $10 smartphones exist today?
- shiftpgdn 11y agoOn the second hand market, as a locked down android phone, absolutely.
- ck2 11y agoIn the USA there is a $10 smartphone sale practically every week of one brand or another. This week: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/tracfone-alcatel-onetouch-pixi-glitz-no-contract-cell-phone-black/4427501.p http://www.bestbuy.com/site/tracfone-alcatel-onetouch-pixi-g... It's very low end for a smartphone but can run almost any android apk and use wifi even without airtime. Some $10 phones can be rooted and then you almost have a full linux-like system. For $20 you can get quad-core with 1GB of ram: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Straight-Talk-LG-Prepaid-Destiny-L21G-Smartphone/45822123 http://www.walmart.com/ip/Straight-Talk-LG-Prepaid-Destiny-L...
- protomyth 11y agoI'm not sure a $10 smartphone is going to be bought for a elementary school child to learn to program on. Nontechnical parents are not going to buy something like that, root it, and teach their child to program. The glory of the 8-bit era was the ready to go nature of the programming environment and the cheap price.