Comment on The Future of Cheap Androids Begins Now by tom

a couple things: the US desperately needs virgin mobile style pricing on an operator with SIM cards. in most countries prepaid and SIM card swapping go hand in hand. or at least virgin mobile should start accepting used sprint phone on their network. the closest that we have here is simple mobile(a t-mobile MVNO) with a $60 unlimited everything, but we really need something like the virgin mobile $25 deal. now for the killer apps on this thing. VOIP over 3G to add unlimited voice. and since i bet a lot of the people buying this phone have limited home access to the internet the other killer app is tethering. lately i have been running a phone flashing business converting verizon and sprint phones to cricket and metroPCS. one thing that i can tell you is that on cricket the demand for tethering on android phones is absolutely enormous, in fact in a lot of the small cricket dealers this has become the main selling point and is often the only reason for the customer switching from a basic or feature phone. also for now it is the only way to get unlimited internet over cellular since the dedicated USB dongles and MiFi's are sold as metered buckets, but not the phone data plans.

Comment on The Future of Cheap Androids Begins Now by tom

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