SO has a finance-savvy friend who is trying to talk us out of our iPhone contracts. apparently we can get an android through verizon with 4G/unlimited text (only 100 minutes of calling/mo) for $30/mo each. SO's job would pay for his (they won't now because we use a different carrier), so it would bring our total bill from $150 to $30 a month.
our contract doesn't expire until this end of this year, but he was asking if I'm interested in making the switch. I think I love my iPhone too much, but it would be nice to have an extra $1,440 a year for something that seems like it should be NBD. he said I could pick out any android I want, and we'd sell our iPhones on CL.
would you do it?
Is T-mobile any good in your area? If it is there's a compromise.
Sell your iPhones on CL, switch to T-mobile and pay full price for the iPhone ($650), and then get their cheaper plans. At the worst it's probably $120 but with two phones on the same line and possible some employer-based discount, you might get down to $100. If you can manage your data carefully you might even be able to go prepaid. Either way after 12-18 months the switch pays for itself. I don't know if I would do it until my contract expired though, or at least until the ETF dropped to zero.
ETA or do what awkward penguin suggests, but Sprint has the worst data network of the big 4.
I would love to know this plan that Verizon has. I have an Android with them and my contract is nowhere near 30 a month. They no longer offer unlimited data plans. I was grandfathered into the unlimited as I've had an account with them for years. The best H could get when I added him was 4 GB.
No, bc 100 minutes is almost no time and it would cost $$ when I'd go over it. I also think a $30/month plan couldn't possibly even include data. I'm skeptical of this.
And I guess we are in the camp where $120 doesn't kill us, and the iPhone is worth it to me.
I don't understand why your SO's company won't pay based on carrier. My firm reimburses me even though I'm on my own plan, I just expense it.
No, bc 100 minutes is almost no time and it would cost $$ when I'd go over it. I also think a $30/month plan couldn't possibly even include data. I'm skeptical of this.
I'm with Straight Talk and it's $45/mo for unlimited talk/text/data. Seriously. They also have a $30/mo plan that is 1000min/1000text/30MBdata. DH and I could probably use the $30/mo plan, but the extra $15/mo is worth it to me "just in case".
I'd go with the cheap phone. There is NO question of this...
I would not give up my iPhone, but I have been using Apple products exclusively since 1989. I have never owned a Windows computer or even used one for more than like 10 minutes at the library or something. Everyone made fun of me for having a Mac in college because they weren't "cool" then, lol.
Anyway, I like how seamlessly all of my Apple products work together and I wouldn't give that up unless I truly could not afford it.
Post by sillygoosegirl on Feb 3, 2013 12:28:25 GMT -5
I also want a link to this plan. For right now, I'm content paying my parents $40/month to have my iPhone on their family plan, but they are thinking about getting rid of the family plan, so I'd be interested in other options. Also, does this plan have free in-network calling? I don't talk on my phone much, but definitely more than 100 minutes per month, mostly with DH and my mom, who are on the same network. I travel for work, so being able to talk a lot with DH on the phone is important to me.
Cuz you can be fined $500K for jail breaking a phone?
I know lots of folks who jail break their phones and no one has been fined, but even if you are fined $500 < $1,440.
It's $500k, not $500. I'm not sure how much it'll be enforced, but the laws just changed/went into effect very recently. The grace period ended yesterday.