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Feb. 5th, 2012
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I'm investigating the possibility of getting a smart phone. I'm currently on a pay-as-you-go plan from BoostMobile, we spend about $45/year on it. What I want for a smartphone is:
We ended up on BoostMobile for two reasons - it only required a payment every 90 days (as opposed to every 30 days for many of its competitors), and it's considered in-network for Sprint callers. My younger step-daughter and her husband are on Sprint, they are among the people most likely to be calling our cell, and it's free to them.
Every time I check, it looks like the minimum monthly data plan for a smartphone on any network is at least $50. We cannot justify that extra $500/year for what is, for us, a toy.
Would CyanogenMod give me the access-over-wifi requirement? Assuming the base phone does wifi, of course.
Anyone have any recommendations? Or pointers to a 'choose your smartphone' site that might help me identify one that meets my needs?
- Android
- Pay-as-you-go, preferably using BoostMobile
- All non-voice-phone functions usable over wifi
We ended up on BoostMobile for two reasons - it only required a payment every 90 days (as opposed to every 30 days for many of its competitors), and it's considered in-network for Sprint callers. My younger step-daughter and her husband are on Sprint, they are among the people most likely to be calling our cell, and it's free to them.
Every time I check, it looks like the minimum monthly data plan for a smartphone on any network is at least $50. We cannot justify that extra $500/year for what is, for us, a toy.
Would CyanogenMod give me the access-over-wifi requirement? Assuming the base phone does wifi, of course.
Anyone have any recommendations? Or pointers to a 'choose your smartphone' site that might help me identify one that meets my needs?
