<div dir="ltr">Neal, <div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Sounds like JD might be able to answer the T-Mobile question. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Neal Rhodes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com" target="_blank">neal@mnopltd.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<a href="http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_174048.html?wid=21" target="_blank">http://www.gearbest.com/cell-<wbr>phones/pp_174048.html?wid=21</a> 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. <br>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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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.
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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.
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>> Just for fun, I ordered an<br>
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Access to their network on a PAYG plan.<br>
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30 minutes and 10 texts allowed, I think. Never use them. Zero data,<br>
but you can add a 7-day 1G data plan for non-roaming locations for $10.<br>
"Roaming" has burned me a few times - OBX and Alaska are "roaming" and<br>
not covered in the $10 data add-on, for example. They wouldn't refund my<br>
money - I'd used 50 bytes to verify the data was enabled in Portland on<br>
the way.<br>
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I have wifi almost everywhere. Can't see a need to have data plan most<br>
of the time. Plenty of off-line apps, plus ads don't get in the way or<br>
suck data.<br>
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Sorta shocked about the SIM cost. I've always gotten one free or for $1.<br>
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BTW, I've been on the t-mbl PAYG plan since 2007. It used to be better.<br>
No monthly costs, pay just for minutes used. Bought $10/yr for about 8<br>
yrs, that was it, before they changed it to $2.95/month in late 2015.<br>
$48/yr is pretty reasonable for an emergency cell phone, IMHO. My<br>
prepaid account expires yearly, so just put $50/yr on it. I figure most<br>
people are paying $50+/month, so adding the $10/wk for data during<br>
travel is a bargain!<br>
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But it is t-mobile and sometimes the coverage does suck completely.<br>
OTOH, in those places pretty much every cell networks suck including<br>
verizon and AT&T.
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