> Unless someone's poor enough to need a carrier plan to buy a smartphone - which, then again, they should avoid going into debt even more - then an unlocked ph

> Unless someone's poor enough to need a carrier plan to buy a smartphone - which, then again, they should avoid going into debt even more - then an unlocked phone is by far the cheapest option. Really, you're characterizing anyone who relies on carrier plans to buy a $600 hunk of breakable, lose-able, consumer electronics as poor? Have you considered that their priorities for their immediate disposable income may lay elsewhere?