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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Get a flip-phone and use your Nexus 7.
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Folks in other countries don't get nickle and dimed on phone plans like folks in North America tend to be. Went on vacation in Asia and the prepaid plans were very reasonable. The cost of wireless service was the same regardless of whether you're using a basic phone, smartphone, tablet, 3G USB modem, or wi-fi hotspot. I spent $27 total for a month's service for 4 smartphones and $23 for unlimited LTE on my Nexus 7.2 (used ~20GB since we were using it to tether
). The situation is likely quite similar in Europe.
On another note, found an interesting fineprint on Verizon prepaid smartphone service.
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- $70 Plan includes Unlimited domestic calls only, Unlimited Texting* to anyone on any network in the U.S. and participating carriers in Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico and 4GB of Data.
- $60 Plan includes Unlimited domestic calls only, Unlimited Texting* to anyone on any network in the U.S. and participating carriers in Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico and 2GB of Data.
- If you have a sufficient balance for your monthly access on the Prepaid $70 Plan or Prepaid $60 Plan, enjoy the benefits of your calling plan. If you don't have enough funds to cover your monthly access fee, you will be charged 25¢ per minute, 20¢ per text, 25¢ per picture or video messaging and 5¢ per MB.
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Been planning on grabbing a $20 Verizon flip phone for emergency use but I think I might get the $100 Moto G instead and try it on Verizon Pay As You Go. Should be fine as long as I disable data.
