| Eric at Lucii.org on 6 Jul 2012 08:14:51 -0700 |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2012 11:02 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote: >> The Galaxy Nexus sounds great. I see I can get it from Verizon for $149 with a 2-year contract (AKA: enslavement agreement.) I can get it direct from Google for $349 - but it's GSM only. Decisions, decisions. > > I was just doing comparision shopping, and if you're willing to forgo the phone subsidy you can get 4 lines of unlimited voice+text and 2 lines with 2GB of data (with no overage charges - just throttling above that) from T-Mobile for $100/month. By my math that is a savings of $50-100/month that you can put towards phones compared to most plans. The math might not be as close if you have fewer lines, but for a single line their plans can be fairly cheap. > > I'm thinking about going that route so that I don't end up with debates over whether I should get the cheap phone offered by the carrier or the better one offered elsewhere. > > The downside is that if you don't want the Nexus but you want a flagship phone, you could be close to $600 up-front for that. However, it usually still works out long-term. Keep in mind the carriers aren't giving you the phone to be nice, so they're making money on the subsidy somehow... > > Rich Ah, that's good to know, thanks. I hesitate to switch from Verizon though (see next post/reply.) Eric - -- # Eric Lucas # # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/3AMUACgkQ2sGpvXQrZ/709QCeIsyS00d5z0Kqel8IGqhhb9Jj ECEAn0q2AB4r/C0mn4Ix566U78oR47ee =IF4b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug