Dadnology
May 28
My motto for the night.
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May 27
In memory if the spatula
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The Shower Trick
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May 27, 2012 at 01:28PM
May 26
De La Soul - Freestyle (Dat Shit) 06'
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from impossible Mission: Operation: Japan
The youngest would rather keep his feet on the ground that soar through the air.
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Fly like an eagle
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May 24
I got my eye on me
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May 23
McDonalds baby
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Phone Freedom for Less Than a Cup of Coffee a Day
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| Set Your Phone Free |
For a few weeks now my friends and I online have discussed how phone contracts (especially those from the big 3 and little one) suck so bad. As a country we are hooked on the lie that is subsidized phones. Get a phone for free to $200 and pay for it over the course of your locked in two (2) year phone contract. If you were paying for the difference fine. But the margin is so crazy you are really paying for the full price of the phone on top of the money you put down for it. However much like crack, its hard to kick the thought that you are getting something for free or at least for way cheaper than you normally would.
Lets be honest. With phones that without a contract and unlocked cost you $400 (Galaxy Nexus on Google Play Store), $600 (Unlocked Apple iPhone), and even $800 (Samsung Galaxy S3 International though Amazon) its not hard to understand why people jump at the chance to get a subsidized phone. But then while doing a backup of a system and reading my news feed it hit me. $12. Not dollars a day. Not even dollars a week. What if you could put twelve dollars away a paycheck which for most people is every two weeks. That is less that ninety (90) cents a day. If you save that amount of money up every two weeks in two years (the length of most phone contracts) you have $576 saved up. That is enough to almost by any 16 GB phone on the market right now. Better yet if you save $15 every two week in two years you have $720. More than enough to buy any phone you want except maybe the S3. And best of all that money is yours. You can let it gather dust, fill up the belly of your piggy bank, or gather interest in your bank account.
Its not a perfect solution but it makes sense. And once you have an unlocked phone that you own you can go to any phone company you want and choose any plan you want. You will find without the subsidized phone the plans are cheaper per month. You can even get insurance for these phones. A company like Ensquared lets you insure most phone models for 12 months for under $60. And that for up to $1000 per claim with a max of two claims a year. That’s a great deal considering that if you have a smart phone under even T-Mobile you are paying eight (8) dollars or more a month and you still have to pay a really high deductible (sometimes over $100). Ensquared deductibles are around $75.
In closing, freedom isn’t free. But it can be cheap if you know how to plan it.
May 22
Test 2
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