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Lumia 900 on Amazon for one cent. ($0.01)


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#1 Ice_Blue

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Posted 02 April 2012 - 04:49

http://www.pcmag.com...,2402477,00.asp

The contract's a killer, though.
Bummer.


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Posted 02 April 2012 - 05:07

Grr and it's ATT... the worst of the carriers...

#3 Timan

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Posted 02 April 2012 - 10:20

Blah I know the contract is what makes the phone so cheap, but if they had a way to get the phone "somewhat" cheap without one, I'd be buying every one of these phones up :p

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Posted 02 April 2012 - 14:43

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That's a bare minimum of $39.99 monthly for AT&T's basic 450-minute plan and an additional $20 for AT&T's cheapest, 300-megabyte data plan
Wow really? I used to think us in the UK got screwed on contracts. Just picked up a 600 minute, 1GB unlimited Text plan for £28.50 and a free Xperia S

#5 AJerman

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Posted 02 April 2012 - 14:46

View PostAbandonedTrolley, on 02 April 2012 - 14:43, said:

Wow really? I used to think us in the UK got screwed on contracts. Just picked up a 600 minute, 1GB unlimited Text plan for £28.50 and a free Xperia S
Yeah, you can about double that for the US. Our cell companies screw us every possible way they can.

#6 Simon-

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Posted 02 April 2012 - 14:47

These prices on Smartphones are a joke when you look at the contracts required, they could sell it to you for -$100 and still make a huge profit.

#7 guitmz

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Posted 02 April 2012 - 14:49

hahaha if you think thats bad, look for the plans here in brazil :cry:

#8 firey

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Posted 02 April 2012 - 15:03

plans in Canada are pretty rough too. However, they do have some nice ones. For example I have the "Fab10" plan. Which is unlimited local and long distance, unlimited picture, text, etc with any 10 numbers. Then I have 200 minutes, 1gb data, unlimited text/pictures/video/social networking. But I pay 80$ a month.

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Posted 02 April 2012 - 15:06

View PostTiman, on 02 April 2012 - 10:20, said:

Blah I know the contract is what makes the phone so cheap, but if they had a way to get the phone "somewhat" cheap without one, I'd be buying every one of these phones up :p
Yeah,no contract price is pretty much same.

Lumia 900 : $449
iPhone 4S : $649 (16GB)
HTC Inspire 4G : $449
HTC Titan : $549

#10 TCA

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Posted 02 April 2012 - 15:17

View Postfirey, on 02 April 2012 - 15:03, said:

plans in Canada are pretty rough too. However, they do have some nice ones. For example I have the "Fab10" plan. Which is unlimited local and long distance, unlimited picture, text, etc with any 10 numbers. Then I have 200 minutes, 1gb data, unlimited text/pictures/video/social networking. But I pay 80$ a month.

That's not too bad. I have T-Mobile unlimited plan for 50 a month. But i didn't have to buy the phone :)

#11 firey

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Posted 02 April 2012 - 15:20

View PostTCA, on 02 April 2012 - 15:17, said:

That's not too bad. I have T-Mobile unlimited plan for 50 a month. But i didn't have to buy the phone :)

I got the Atrix, had to pay 85$ for it, plus all the activation fees and such. Ended up being about 130$ total. And because it's NOT a blackberry I don't have to pay the 15$/mo Blackberry Service fee. so I ended up saving 15$ a month from my previous phone.