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https://www.amazon.ca/ZTE-Z557-8GB-Android-Smartphone/dp/B08QMZ3LJ9/ https://www.amazon.ca/ZTE-Z557-8GB-Android-Smartphone/dp/B08... That's about 50 USD. Same
by retrac 5y ago
https://www.amazon.ca/ZTE-Z557-8GB-Android-Smartphone/dp/B08QMZ3LJ9/ https://www.amazon.ca/ZTE-Z557-8GB-Android-Smartphone/dp/B08... That's about 50 USD. Same day delivery, too! Devices can be found even a bit cheaper sometimes, as little as 35 USD. I see such devices in corner stores, grocery and drug stores. It's a bit of a clunker sure. But it'll stream porn or display Instagram just fine. (That device actually has a faster CPU, though less RAM, than my present smartphone, from 2018, which I have seen no need to upgrade yet.)
A prepaid data plan will set you back about 25 a month here, but Canada has infamously high mobile fees. I know people in the EU who pay about $10 a month for unlimited mobile data.
And yes. They will sell one to an unaccompanied minor. Sure, maybe not a 6 year old, but if a 14 year old comes in with the money, that's a sale. There's no law against it (at least here). And unlike with a 14 year old trying to buy a giant butcher knife or spraypaint or whatever, society doesn't seem to have a "uhh, wait a minute" catch on this particular one. It's just a phone. Every kid has a phone, right? They probably just broke their last one. Again.
- Wowfunhappy 5y ago> It's just a phone. Every kid has a phone, right? It's the plan I was thinking the store wouldn't sell, don't those have to be in someone's name? (But I might be wrong, I've never used a prepaid SIM.) > I know people in the EU who pay about $10 a month for unlimited mobile data. Perhaps, but not on a prepaid plan. I'm sure you can't buy a post-paid plan as a minor, that wouldn't make any sense!
- Macha 5y agoThe going rate on prepaid in my country these days is €20 for unlimited data[1][2], which, while not $10, is totally in kid lunch money range. Prepaid tends to be cheaper in Ireland. Because postpaid is theoretically subsidising your phone and even sim only plans tend to get price shopped around against phone included plans. The cheapest postpaid plan with unlimited data is €30/month without a phone or €55/month with a phone [3][4] 1: https://www.three.ie/buy/prepay.html#prepay-phone-plans https://www.three.ie/buy/prepay.html#prepay-phone-plans 2: https://www.eir.ie/mobile/prepay/ https://www.eir.ie/mobile/prepay/ 3: https://www.eir.ie/mobile/simonly/ https://www.eir.ie/mobile/simonly/ 4: https://www.three.ie/buy/bill-pay.html#sim-only https://www.three.ie/buy/bill-pay.html#sim-only