<div dir="auto">Nevermind. I read the link. $0.10/min or text.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 8, 2017 7:52 PM, "Jim Kinney" <<a href="mailto:jkinney@jimkinney.us">jkinney@jimkinney.us</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On March 8, 2017 2:47:06 PM EST, DJ-Pfulio <<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><a href="https://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/pay-as-you-go" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://prepaid-phones.t-<wbr>mobile.com/pay-as-you-go</a><br>
>"Pay as you go. $3/month<br>
>Get any combination of 30 minutes of talk or 30 texts."<br>
><br>
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How much are overages? Of course as an emergency only device, overages are the least concern.<br>
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>On 03/08/2017 12:45 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:<br>
>> Neal,<br>
>><br>
>> My son is 12 going on 13. He has a nice LG phone I found at Wally<br>
>World<br>
>> for $30 dollars,I wasn't going to buy him a $300 to $600 phone. All I<br>
>> had to do what replace the prepaid sim with a sim I could add to my<br>
>> account, his phone is $10 a month with 2Gigs of Data, which he burn<br>
>thru<br>
>> in the week watching YouTube the meth of his gen.<br>
>><br>
>> I bought that watch this morning on amazon I found there for $15 for<br>
>a<br>
>> first time watch, I though ok. It will be here tomorrow, wow Amazon<br>
>> surprise me with there deliverys. Well, it his second watch, the<br>
>first<br>
>> was a Darth Varder Lego watch, which I don't think will be cool in<br>
>> Middle School. He seemed excited because a lot of friends have<br>
>iWatches.<br>
>> I guess I am mean dad, as I can't see buy kids, those expense phones<br>
>and<br>
>> watches.<br>
>><br>
>> As for the $3 on T-Mobile, I can't answer that, I pay $100 for my<br>
>phone<br>
>> a month, I have a plan back from like 2000, that have me unlimited<br>
>text<br>
>> and phone and 7 Gigs a data, and my I don't have to pay to use my<br>
>phone<br>
>> as a hot spot. So between my phone and my son and taxes, it's about<br>
>$125<br>
>> a month. I looked at changing plans, but what I have I am saving some<br>
>> money.<br>
>><br>
>> Sounds like JD might be able to answer the T-Mobile question.<br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Neal Rhodes <<a href="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com">neal@mnopltd.com</a><br>
>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com">neal@mnopltd.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> __<br>
>> <a href="http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_174048.html?wid=21" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.gearbest.com/cell-<wbr>phones/pp_174048.html?wid=21</a><br>
>> <<a href="http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_174048.html?wid=21" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.gearbest.com/cell-<wbr>phones/pp_174048.html?wid=21</a>> is a<br>
>> link to the watch I bought. It is $10.99 with free shipping to<br>
>the<br>
>> US. ( I had some bonus points left from buying a SJCAM. That's<br>
>why<br>
>> it was just $3 for me.<br>
>><br>
>> This is just a curiosity for me. My understanding is that for<br>
>> $3/mo I can have some very limited amount of voice phone time<br>
>from<br>
>> TMobile. Like for the dozens of times I'm out somewhere and my<br>
>> normal android phone is dead again. If I never run their<br>
>software<br>
>> to send emails from android phone to the watch it's still ok.<br>
>><br>
>> Without knowing how old your son is, be aware that there are<br>
>similar<br>
>> phone/watches more oriented to children: they include GPS<br>
>location,<br>
>> and a panic button to dial a set number and .... I've not<br>
>> researched them; I just ran across some on Amazon.<br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 07:53 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote:<br>
>>> A $3 watch, do you have a link, I love to get one for my son. He<br>
>>> keeps trying to take my Samsung S and S3 that I have paired with<br>
>>> my Note 4. One thing about those smart watches I don't like is,<br>
>>> that you have to pay $5 buck a month for data plan. Yes, they do<br>
>>> have a telephone number. Yes, I can make calls like Dick Tracy<br>
>on<br>
>>> it. Honestly the pairing and wireless are enough. I can use<br>
>Wifi,<br>
>>> and my Note will connect to the watch remote if I am not close<br>
>>> enough for BT.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I love my watches, I am on T-Mobile as well, been with them<br>
>since<br>
>>> they were VoiceStream. I have my S, before iWatch came out it<br>
>nice<br>
>>> to be able to sit in meetings and see alerts with out my phone<br>
>>> making a lot of noise.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> What I would be worried about, and this is just me, if there any<br>
>>> malware spying on you, you did say you got the watch from China.<br>
><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:59 PM, DJ-Pfulio <<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a><br>
>>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 03/07/2017 05:25 PM, Joey Kelly wrote:<br>
>>> > <snip><br>
>>> >> Just for fun, I ordered an<br>
>>> >> $8 SIM card to hook up with the $3/mo Tmobile service.<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > Huh? What do they provide for three measly dollars?<br>
>>> ><br>
>>><br>
>>> Access to their network on a PAYG plan.<br>
>>><br>
>>> 30 minutes and 10 texts allowed, I think. Never use them.<br>
>>> Zero data,<br>
>>> but you can add a 7-day 1G data plan for non-roaming<br>
>locations<br>
>>> for $10.<br>
>>> "Roaming" has burned me a few times - OBX and Alaska are<br>
>>> "roaming" and<br>
>>> not covered in the $10 data add-on, for example. They<br>
>wouldn't<br>
>>> refund my<br>
>>> money - I'd used 50 bytes to verify the data was enabled in<br>
>>> Portland on<br>
>>> the way.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I have wifi almost everywhere. Can't see a need to have data<br>
>>> plan most<br>
>>> of the time. Plenty of off-line apps, plus ads don't get in<br>
>>> the way or<br>
>>> suck data.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Sorta shocked about the SIM cost. I've always gotten one<br>
>free<br>
>>> or for $1.<br>
>>><br>
>>> BTW, I've been on the t-mbl PAYG plan since 2007. It used to<br>
>>> be better.<br>
>>> No monthly costs, pay just for minutes used. Bought $10/yr<br>
>for<br>
>>> about 8<br>
>>> yrs, that was it, before they changed it to $2.95/month in<br>
>>> late 2015.<br>
>>> $48/yr is pretty reasonable for an emergency cell phone,<br>
>IMHO. My<br>
>>> prepaid account expires yearly, so just put $50/yr on it. I<br>
>>> figure most<br>
>>> people are paying $50+/month, so adding the $10/wk for data<br>
>during<br>
>>> travel is a bargain!<br>
>>><br>
>>> But it is t-mobile and sometimes the coverage does suck<br>
>>> completely.<br>
>>> OTOH, in those places pretty much every cell networks suck<br>
>>> including<br>
>>> verizon and AT&T.<br>
>>><br>
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