[ale] somewhat OT - FreedomPop plan
Chuck Payne
terrorpup at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 22:36:55 EST 2017
Right now, it's .99 cent for a sim. I am going to get, I have an old
T-Mobile Hotspot I am going to try to unlock and use with it.
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
> This is indeed fascinating. The verbiage talks of 4g LTE coverage. I
> wonder whose towers? And for how long is this free? Until they decide it
> isn't free? Are they just hoping eventually enough free users will want
> more data?
>
> My impression is that most of the inexpensive smartwatchphone devices are
> 3G only. Thus far I've only experimented with TMobile SIM, which seemed
> to work.
>
> On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 15:18 -0500, Mark Ulmer wrote:
>
> Nothing is free yet close is FreedomPop has 100% Free Plan (200 mins,
> 500 Texts, 200MB) and no Credit Card required. Right now you can order
> 3-in-1 SIM card for $1.99 (normally $10-15). Of course be sure to opt
> out of mails and trials.
> http://fpop.co/jp1f
>
> I've already ordered 2. I got one for my android tablet and going to try
> second in my old 3G iPad. Plan to order more if my laptops have SIM slots.
>
> -Mark
>
>
> On 3/8/2017 2:47 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> > https://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/pay-as-you-go
> > "Pay as you go. $3/month
> > Get any combination of 30 minutes of talk or 30 texts."
> >
> >
> >
> > On 03/08/2017 12:45 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
> >> Neal,
> >>
> >> My son is 12 going on 13. He has a nice LG phone I found at Wally World
> >> for $30 dollars,I wasn't going to buy him a $300 to $600 phone. All I
> >> had to do what replace the prepaid sim with a sim I could add to my
> >> account, his phone is $10 a month with 2Gigs of Data, which he burn thru
> >> in the week watching YouTube the meth of his gen.
> >>
> >> I bought that watch this morning on amazon I found there for $15 for a
> >> first time watch, I though ok. It will be here tomorrow, wow Amazon
> >> surprise me with there deliverys. Well, it his second watch, the first
> >> was a Darth Varder Lego watch, which I don't think will be cool in
> >> Middle School. He seemed excited because a lot of friends have iWatches.
> >> I guess I am mean dad, as I can't see buy kids, those expense phones and
> >> watches.
> >>
> >> As for the $3 on T-Mobile, I can't answer that, I pay $100 for my phone
> >> a month, I have a plan back from like 2000, that have me unlimited text
> >> and phone and 7 Gigs a data, and my I don't have to pay to use my phone
> >> as a hot spot. So between my phone and my son and taxes, it's about $125
> >> a month. I looked at changing plans, but what I have I am saving some
> >> money.
> >>
> >> Sounds like JD might be able to answer the T-Mobile question.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com
> >> <mailto:neal at mnopltd.com <neal at mnopltd.com>>> wrote:
> >>
> >> __
> >> http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_174048.html?wid=21
> >> <http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_174048.html?wid=21> is a
> >> link to the watch I bought. It is $10.99 with free shipping to the
> >> US. ( I had some bonus points left from buying a SJCAM. That's why
> >> it was just $3 for me.
> >>
> >> This is just a curiosity for me. My understanding is that for
> >> $3/mo I can have some very limited amount of voice phone time from
> >> TMobile. Like for the dozens of times I'm out somewhere and my
> >> normal android phone is dead again. If I never run their software
> >> to send emails from android phone to the watch it's still ok.
> >>
> >> Without knowing how old your son is, be aware that there are similar
> >> phone/watches more oriented to children: they include GPS location,
> >> and a panic button to dial a set number and .... I've not
> >> researched them; I just ran across some on Amazon.
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 07:53 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote:
> >>> A $3 watch, do you have a link, I love to get one for my son. He
> >>> keeps trying to take my Samsung S and S3 that I have paired with
> >>> my Note 4. One thing about those smart watches I don't like is,
> >>> that you have to pay $5 buck a month for data plan. Yes, they do
> >>> have a telephone number. Yes, I can make calls like Dick Tracy on
> >>> it. Honestly the pairing and wireless are enough. I can use Wifi,
> >>> and my Note will connect to the watch remote if I am not close
> >>> enough for BT.
> >>>
> >>> I love my watches, I am on T-Mobile as well, been with them since
> >>> they were VoiceStream. I have my S, before iWatch came out it nice
> >>> to be able to sit in meetings and see alerts with out my phone
> >>> making a lot of noise.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> What I would be worried about, and this is just me, if there any
> >>> malware spying on you, you did say you got the watch from China.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:59 PM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
> >>> <mailto:DJPfulio at jdpfu.com <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 03/07/2017 05:25 PM, Joey Kelly wrote:
> >>> > <snip>
> >>> >> Just for fun, I ordered an
> >>> >> $8 SIM card to hook up with the $3/mo Tmobile service.
> >>> >
> >>> > Huh? What do they provide for three measly dollars?
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> Access to their network on a PAYG plan.
> >>>
> >>> 30 minutes and 10 texts allowed, I think. Never use them.
> >>> Zero data,
> >>> but you can add a 7-day 1G data plan for non-roaming locations
> >>> for $10.
> >>> "Roaming" has burned me a few times - OBX and Alaska are
> >>> "roaming" and
> >>> not covered in the $10 data add-on, for example. They wouldn't
> >>> refund my
> >>> money - I'd used 50 bytes to verify the data was enabled in
> >>> Portland on
> >>> the way.
> >>>
> >>> I have wifi almost everywhere. Can't see a need to have data
> >>> plan most
> >>> of the time. Plenty of off-line apps, plus ads don't get in
> >>> the way or
> >>> suck data.
> >>>
> >>> Sorta shocked about the SIM cost. I've always gotten one free
> >>> or for $1.
> >>>
> >>> BTW, I've been on the t-mbl PAYG plan since 2007. It used to
> >>> be better.
> >>> No monthly costs, pay just for minutes used. Bought $10/yr for
> >>> about 8
> >>> yrs, that was it, before they changed it to $2.95/month in
> >>> late 2015.
> >>> $48/yr is pretty reasonable for an emergency cell phone, IMHO. My
> >>> prepaid account expires yearly, so just put $50/yr on it. I
> >>> figure most
> >>> people are paying $50+/month, so adding the $10/wk for data during
> >>> travel is a bargain!
> >>>
> >>> But it is t-mobile and sometimes the coverage does suck
> >>> completely.
> >>> OTOH, in those places pretty much every cell networks suck
> >>> including
> >>> verizon and AT&T.
> >>>
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