On Friday 02 March 2018 21:40:18 [email protected] wrote: > On Friday, March 02, 2018 08:19:54 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > 2; They don't supply the dongle since they assume everyone has a > > $500 smartphone. > > Not picking on you, Gene, but I hope no one is buying $500 smartphones > (even though I know they do). The last 3 I've bought (1 for myself, 1 > for my son, 1 as a spare) cost me about $50 each, and I'm not aware of > missing any significant functionality. > That $500 was POOMA, to illustrate the point. It could have been less since the competition is best described as cut-throat. Meaning the street price is more determined by the market than what it costs to make the phones.
> The first 2 (VSN V.45) run Android 4.4. The newer one (Blu Studio G) > runs Android 6.0 (bought when I had trouble getting FreedomPop running > on my phone in parallel with T-Mobile, but turned out not to be needed > but I would have incurred a $35 restocking fee at Best Buy.) > > (All 3 are dual SIM machines.) -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
