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Originally Posted by issybird
I came to my senses and cancelled, too - just in time, as it happened. The phone wasn't going to do anything for me gadget-wise that I don't already have covered and I'm better off with my tiny flip phone in terms of the ability to stick it in my pocket.
If my Prime had been expiring in the immediate future I might have made a different call, but I was anticipating renewal by several months. The bottom line is that I'm relieved instead of wistful. My problem is that I don't have gadget-lust, I have bargain-lust, but when the bargain creates the want, it's no bargain.
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I'm a bargain hunter, too, and while the price for the Fire Phone itself was and even now is quite tempting, for a Smartphone I haven't found anything to compete with the LG Volt on a Virgin Mobile prepaid account. The phone itself is cheap, runs KitKat, and I pay $35 a month for 300 minutes of talk and have unlimited data & text including 2.5 GB of high speed data (3G/4G). With a $20 microchip added to boost the memory to 40 GB, what can't I do with it? I don't know of any providers that offer that kind of a plan for the Fire Phone. Of course, someone like my wife or son would be running out of minutes halfway through the month, but for people like me who absolutely despise talking on phones it works out well.
Would be nice to have the Fire Phone's awesome camera, though. The Volt's is serviceable, but nothing to write home about.