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[Ice_Blue]

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

The contract's a killer, though.
Bummer.

[+remixedcat]

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

[Timan]

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

[AbandonedTrolley]

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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

[AJerman]

AbandonedTrolley, 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.

[Simon-]

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.

[guitmz]

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

[firey]

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.

[BajiRav]

Timan, 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

Yeah,no contract price is pretty much same.

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

[TCA]

firey, 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

[firey]

TCA, 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.