Best value phone for < $150 ?

[Muse]

AirVoice uses AT&T's cell towers.

Verizon phones use CDMA frequencies. The Moto G i got uses GSM frequency, with 850mhz (AT&T), and 1900mhz (T-Mobile & AT&T) bands.

BTW, the AirVoice $10 month policy for 250 minutes & 500 texts is misleading.

If you use up 250 texts then you only have 125 minutes of talking left.

I don't think they are misleading at all about that plan. They say 250 voice minutes or 500 text messages, not both. They indicate 4 cents/minute talk, 2 cents/text. Also counting against that $10 is the data charge at 6.6 cents/MB. Is there any ambiguity there?

https://www.airvoicewireless.com/PlansC.aspx

I'm still waiting for my SIM from them. Haven't decided whether to go with the $10/month or the $10 for 90 days plan. The rates are the same. I suppose I can get the 90 days plan and if I run out just switch to the other plan.

 

[k3n]

I don't think they are misleading at all about that plan. They say 250 voice minutes or 500 text messages, not both. They indicate 4 cents/minute talk, 2 cents/text. Also counting against that $10 is the data charge at 6.6 cents/MB. Is there any ambiguity there?

https://www.airvoicewireless.com/PlansC.aspx

I'm still waiting for my SIM from them. Haven't decided whether to go with the $10/month or the $10 for 90 days plan. The rates are the same. I suppose I can get the 90 days plan and if I run out just switch to the other plan.

Each time you talk or use text, you get a pop up telling you how much "money" you have left, it counts down from $10.00. So yeah, hopefully you can just buy another $10 refill on their site, which seems to use low bandwidth, due to its unappealing layout, lol. I'll be sure to give mobile data a try, when accessing Google maps, I think I figured out how to enable it.

My phone only supports "micro-sim" cards, meaning I had to buy a cut-to-fit card on Amazon or eBay, from a reputable independent seller, as Airvoice doesn't carry these directly on their site it seems.

And get ready to deal with an incompetent female tech supporter on the phone.

The 1st female tech supporter "directed" me to a brick and mortar store located in 1 hour 30 minutes away from my metropolitan area; and came to her senses and gave me a phone number to a much closer store withing my metro.
I called the "much closer store", which may have been a gas station judging by google maps, said they don't sell any cell phone plans lol.

Finally on the 2nd call, the 2nd female tech supporter (who sounded unenthusiastic as the 1st), finally directed me to a sales man, and I was able to order the 10$ "refill" over the phone.


Edit: I can't seem to get mobile data to work, even after enabling data under mobile network settings.

Error code: ERR_internet_disconnected; this while in google chrome.

I've also followed the directions here, and no luck:
https://www.airvoicewireless.com/SupportAndroid.aspx

Thanks to a google search, I came across the following site: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-a...n-they-fix-data-issues-on-your-prepaid-phone/
Then followed the link: http://airvoice.wds.co/phonefirst

From there a 4 digit pin was generated.
Unfortuntely mobile data still doesn't work...

 

[Rayb]

Here are some of the rate options available from multiple MVNOs that use the AT&T network, prepaid or pay as u go.

http://www.prepaidphonenews.com/2011/09/five-at-mvnos-compared.html

 

[k3n]

Turned out I had to also give Airvoice wireless a call to enable the mobile data, so they could warn me its 6.6 cents a megabyte; it is subtracted from my $10 dollar plan.

Be careful of google maps, eats up more bandwidth than i thought...

NET10 750 Minute Plan 1, seems interesting, thanks for the link Rayb.

The internet/map is mainly reserved for emergency situations, or finding out about latest sport outcomes.

 

[Muse]

Turned out I had to also give Airvoice wireless a call to enable the mobile data, so they could warn me its 6.6 cents a megabyte; it is subtracted from my $10 dollar plan.

Be careful of google maps, eats up more bandwidth than i thought...

The internet/map is mainly reserved for emergency situations, or finding out about latest sport outcomes.

A main reason I got the $60 Nokia Lumia 520 is the support for offline maps/GPS. You download the maps ahead of time (for me the California maps), there are no data charges when using the GPS functionality.

I was going to call Airvoice to find out why I wasn't connecting to data when away from my wifi network but found the setting in Settings/data. The default was off.

My phone only supports "micro-sim" cards, meaning I had to buy a cut-to-fit card on Amazon or eBay, from a reputable independent seller, as Airvoice doesn't carry these directly on their site it seems.

And get ready to deal with an incompetent female tech supporter on the phone.

I called Airvoice before ordering my SIM and the CSR told me that in order to get a microSIM (yes they will send you one) you have to specify that's what you want in the "Comments" before confirming the order. I did that. The comments is a text box, and I put in around 40 words, but when I confirmed my order, to my amazement it cut off my message to around a dozen words, WTF! Well, luckily the first thing I'd said what that I needed a microSIM.

I'm finding that the CSR's are varied. I've called them probably at least 8 times. Some seem to really know what they are doing but one I talked to evidently pretty much faked it and gave me the wrong info, even after putting me on hold to confirm. I asked how you restart a voice mail message and she said press 9. That saves it, actually. To restart you press 1. To pause/play you press 2. I figured out that stuff fiddling around, I've seen nothing in their online support explaining it. I asked her if there was something and she said I could Google wireless telephone usage! I'd think it depends on your supplier.

I'm on the $10/30 days plan, autorefill on my credit card. The rates are:

4 cents/minute calls
2 cents/text message
6.6 cents/MB data

There's no way to determine your data usage other than to check your remaining credit. You can get that with a free request, which tells you your remaining credit and the expiration date. Get that by dialing *777#. When you call that number the info comes up on your screen in a couple of seconds, at least on mine. I'll see how it goes. If I'm not nearly using the $10 I can switch to the $10 plan expiring in 90 days. The rates are the same.

I'm loving using my Nokia as an MP3 player. I ordered a 32GB microSDHC card a couple of days ago. I haven't messed with any of the music streaming stuff, I have tons of great MP3s in storage. One feature I really want is resume, even after shutting down the phone. The FF/REW are actually really good, even for the ~3 hour MP3s I often listen to. This was a surprise. The resume is a feature I think I can work out by setting up podcast support by virtue of installing Windows app for Desktop, which requires setting up libraries on a Windows 7 or 8 machine. Of course this support is for Windows Phone 8. I found out about this in this thread: Audio Book Reader???. See the posts starting Mar. 2, 2014.

 

[k3n]

I ordered their service on Feb 28th. I entered my phone number here, https://www.airvoicewireless.com/Refills.aspx

And it turned out my plan $10/month plan expired on 3/27, not 3/31 as I thought.

I manually ordered another $10/month plan, today 3/31, and the expiration date is 4/30.

Note I had over $8.00 left on the previous month lol. Only time I see myself using Mobile is if I'm in a city, and need to know know the bus routes/maps/gps.

I'm sorry, but lol, at the person that suggested $45 a month plan...

Ultimate downside about my current phone is that I can't expand the 16GB capacity, I.e., implement and SD card, so be forewarned about the Moto G.

 

[Bateluer]

I ordered their service on Feb 28th. I entered my phone number here, https://www.airvoicewireless.com/Refills.aspx

And it turned out my plan $10/month plan expired on 3/27, not 3/31 as I thought.

I manually ordered another $10/month plan, today 3/31, and the expiration date is 4/30.

Note I had over $8.00 left on the previous month lol. Only time I see myself using Mobile is if I'm in a city, and need to know know the bus routes/maps/gps.

I'm sorry, but lol, at the person that suggested $45 a month plan...

Ultimate downside about my current phone is that I can't expand the 16GB capacity, I.e., implement and SD card, so be forewarned about the Moto G.

Not to put a damper on this conversation, but that 45/month plan is a real cell phone that doesn't require WiFi the majority of the time and will result in a phone that works almost everywhere, unlike Airvoice Wireless. Under 30/month, the quality of cell plans drops off considerably.

 

[cronos]

Not to put a damper on this conversation, but that 45/month plan is a real cell phone that doesn't require WiFi the majority of the time and will result in a phone that works almost everywhere, unlike Airvoice Wireless. Under 30/month, the quality of cell plans drops off considerably.

What the hell are you talking about? The plan he is on is as real as any other plans, it does work everywhere and the quality is the same. It got him talking minutes, text, and data, and he used it as he needed and still got an $8 balance at the end of the monthly period (which would have rolled over if only he extended the plan before it expired).

Suggesting a $45/month plan for someone who only needed ~$2 usage in a month is legitimately laughable!

 

[bearxor]

Not to put a damper on this conversation, but that 45/month plan is a real cell phone that doesn't require WiFi the majority of the time and will result in a phone that works almost everywhere, unlike Airvoice Wireless. Under 30/month, the quality of cell plans drops off considerably.

What the hell are you talking about? The plan he is on is as real as any other plans, it does work everywhere and the quality is the same. It got him talking minutes, text, and data, and he used it as he needed and still got an $8 balance at the end of the monthly period (which would have rolled over if only he extended the plan before it expired).

Suggesting a $45/month plan for someone who only needed ~$2 usage in a month is legitimately laughable!

Agree with both of you, actually.

On one hand, paying almost seven cents a MB for data usage is insane. Two cents per text or ten cents per MMS all sound crazy. Switching to something like even Airvoice's $30/mo plan for 500MB and unlimited text/data would make any device so much more usable.

However, if someone isn't really going to be using the phone on the go for stuff like data, then I can understand why they wouldn't really need the plans that include all of that stiff.

 

[cronos]

Agree with both of you, actually.

So which part are you agreeing with him exactly?

He said the $10/month plan is not 'a real plan', that it won't work 'almost everywhere', and that the quality of plans less than $30/month are lower than more expensive plans. Every single one of those are untrue.

On one hand, paying almost seven cents a MB for data usage is insane. Two cents per text or ten cents per MMS all sound crazy. Switching to something like even Airvoice's $30/mo plan for 500MB and unlimited text/data would make any device so much more usable.

However, if someone isn't really going to be using the phone on the go for stuff like data, then I can understand why they wouldn't really need the plans that include all of that stiff.

It's pretty obvious that everything is a case per case basis depending on personal usage needs. In this case the person he replied to is saying that even on a $10/month plan (and data and mms rates you said 'crazy' and 'insane'), he still had around $8 of balance at the end of the month. For him, subscribing to $30 monthly plan *is* crazy and insane!

 

[bearxor]

I'm not taking his text literally like you are, but am instead inferring the intent behind it. The Airvoice plan is severely limiting, data-wise. You won't be able to use the phone to the full benefit because you'd run through your balance too quickly. Having the $45/mo ST plan would allow him to use the phone more to it's potential than the AV plan.

But, having said that, if he doesn't use that stuff then he doesn't need to pay for it. Which is where I agreed with you.

 

[cronos]

I'm not taking his text literally like you are, but am instead inferring the intent behind it. The Airvoice plan is severely limiting, data-wise. You won't be able to use the phone to the full benefit because you'd run through your balance too quickly. Having the $45/mo ST plan would allow him to use the phone more to it's potential than the AV plan.

But, having said that, if he doesn't use that stuff then he doesn't need to pay for it. Which is where I agreed with you.

I'm not going to argue about this anymore, especially because for the most part we are agreeing with each other. However, I'll just have to say with all the comments made about lower monthly plans being 'not a real plan', 'have lower quality' and that it 'doesn't allow us to use our phone to its potential' that I kept reading, I swear you guys are just jealous at us '$10 or less per month' type people .

No, seriously. I use my phone as much as I want and I have never ever felt like I'm hindered because I'm only on a $10 paygo plan (with H2O in my case). With this plan I usually used up about $7-8 in a month. And I use my phone a lot! It's an HTC One so I don't have to tell any of you what it's capable of.

My situation is definitely special and I understand that it applies to me only (pretty much 95% of my phone usage is done through wifi, and I got covered with it both at home and at work). But really, in my opinion it is pretty ignorant to make a statement that implies that a smartphone is always wasted without being subscribed to a plan with unlimited (or 1000/whatever) minutes/txt and gigabytes of data.

 

[Muse]

I ordered their service on Feb 28th. I entered my phone number here, https://www.airvoicewireless.com/Refills.aspx

And it turned out my plan $10/month plan expired on 3/27, not 3/31 as I thought.

I manually ordered another $10/month plan, today 3/31, and the expiration date is 4/30.

Note I had over $8.00 left on the previous month lol. Only time I see myself using Mobile is if I'm in a city, and need to know know the bus routes/maps/gps.

I'm sorry, but lol, at the person that suggested $45 a month plan...

Ultimate downside about my current phone is that I can't expand the 16GB capacity, I.e., implement and SD card, so be forewarned about the Moto G.

Exactly, that was what steered me away from the Moto G, the unexpandable memory. I ordered the Nokia Lumia 520 instead.

My Airvoice wireless's $10/month (first month) expired yesterday. I had ~$4.50 left yesterday evening when I went to bed. Today, with having my automatic payment set up with Airvoice I find that I have ~$14.50 credit, so to my complete surprise I'm finding that unused credit rolls over. I saw no mention of it anywhere on their website, forgot to ask about it, I figured "no rollover."

It was only mid-month that I figured out why I was getting no data connections away from my wifi network, even though I had cellular data enabled (by default it was disabled). I called Airvoice and they said I had enter an APN, and was sent an email explaining how it's done with my 520.

Not to put a damper on this conversation, but that 45/month plan is a real cell phone that doesn't require WiFi the majority of the time and will result in a phone that works almost everywhere, unlike Airvoice Wireless. Under 30/month, the quality of cell plans drops off considerably.

On the same network?

Agree with both of you, actually.

On one hand, paying almost seven cents a MB for data usage is insane. Two cents per text or ten cents per MMS all sound crazy. Switching to something like even Airvoice's $30/mo plan for 500MB and unlimited text/data would make any device so much more usable.

However, if someone isn't really going to be using the phone on the go for stuff like data, then I can understand why they wouldn't really need the plans that include all of that stiff.

You do mean unlimited text/calls, now don't you?

Truthfully, I'm finding AT&T coverage in my area to be spotty. I was on a par 3 golf course this morning and my partner pointed out we were right next to an AT&T installation, literally 5 feet from us and I pulled out my Nokia and sure enough it got 5 bars. However, in the house I can't make a connection or call at least 1/2 the time. It's wifi in the house. I'm a light phone user anyway, so it's not a huge inconvenience right now. I have a land line and nobody knows my new Airvoice phone number anyway. Away from the house, sometimes I get data sometimes not. I truly wish I was on Verizon in spite of the reputed slowness of the data, at least it's there and I could make calls almost anywhere. I still have my old dumb flip phone with Verizon, it has auto payment every 120 days $10. For the time being I'll keep that in case I want "reliable" wireless telephone capability.

 

[Muse]

In response to the discussion concerning the validity of cheap plans I'll quote the review that made me aware of them. I had never heard of Airvoice before reading this excellent review at Amazon for the Nokia Lumia 520 (the phone I later bought):
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5.0 out of 5 stars This phone is a steal, September 20, 2013
By MDMac
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Nokia Lumia 520 GoPhone (AT&T) (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I&#8217;ve been waiting for a phone like this for a long time &#8211; that is, a reasonably-priced, no-contract device that does not have to apologize on quality, performance, or style. I&#8217;m no technophobe (I work in an IT related field) but I&#8217;ll admit it, I&#8217;m a cheapskate. I&#8217;m not interested in putting a large amount of my paycheck towards a fancy phone or unlimited-everything contract. By managing my phone use and relying on wi-fi as much as possible, I can get all the calls, texts and cellular data I need for 10 bucks a month. The problem is, there hasn&#8217;t been a good selection of phones that give me the performance I want, at the price I&#8217;m willing to pay. That&#8217;s where the Nokia 520 comes in! I give it 5 stars not because it&#8217;s necessarily a perfect phone or OS, but because the value here is incredible. I can see why this is being snapped up all over the world. A lot of reviewers have commented that it&#8217;s a good &#8220;starter&#8221; smartphone, which it may be, but the only thing &#8220;starter&#8221; about it is the price. Sure, it doesn&#8217;t have the specs of a flagship phone and won&#8217;t appeal to everyone, but in my estimation it&#8217;s a very good phone that should be fine for most average users.

After using the phone for a month, here&#8217;s a few specific thoughts:

- I haven&#8217;t experienced any lagging, freezing, or need for restart &#8211; something that cannot be said for my previous phone which cost over twice as much.
- I like the feel and responsiveness of the phone hardware. I have used other Nokias in the past and they have all been solid as a rock hardware-wise. I hope this does as well.
- About the battery, with wi-fi discovery turned off and screen brightness set to auto, I typically have about one-half of the battery left at the end of the day. There was one day that some app or another (I&#8217;m guessing) drained the battery way down so I&#8217;m being more careful about what I leave open.
- Camera so far is working well for me when the lighting conditions are decent. I use a real camera anyway for stuff I really care about. Plenty of options available for editing and uploading photos.
- So far I like using the Windows Phone 8 OS. It was really easy to set up personal and work email accounts, etc. Navigating around is easy and kind of fun. I like all the info you can see right on the lock screen, let alone the home screen &#8220;live tiles.&#8221; The web browser has worked fine for what I need. I&#8217;ve adapted well to the onscreen keyboard and I&#8217;m becoming a big fan of the predictive text. I&#8217;m also using the voice commands more as I learn about the phone&#8217;s capabilities. Recently at a day at an amusement park, I used the voice command to speak and send texts back and forth with my wife, and it translated what I said great despite all the ambient noise. I understand some of the criticism of WP8 regarding some nuances and settings it would be nice to have. But here again, nothing for me has been a big deal and they seem to be listening to customers and adding improvements with each release.
- Nice to have the free downloadable maps and turn-by-turn navigation. Works great with no data costs.
- Availability of apps for Windows Phone has been a deal-breaker for some. Statistics show that most people REALLY only use a handful of apps and this is true for me. So far, I&#8217;ve found what I needed. (I&#8217;m a busy dad and mostly use my phone as a tool, not something I spend hours entertaining myself with.) A warning though, I&#8217;ve run into a couple apps and games that require a higher-powered phone, but nothing I really cared about.
- It&#8217;s nice to have the Office apps on here so I can open docs I get from work, etc. I&#8217;m also getting into using OneNote.
- The latest thing I&#8217;m loving is the Xbox Music Pass. Unlimited music downloads and/or online listening for a REALLY reasonable subscription price. I&#8217;m on a trial now but I think I&#8217;m gonna keep this one. Music is my one big weakness for spending money!

To sum up, all I can say is, I think a lot of consumers (in the U.S., particularly) are hoodwinked into thinking they HAVE to have such and such phone on an expensive monthly contract. But if you&#8217;re like me and you have better things to do with your hard-earned money, then get this phone with a prepaid service and join me in laughing all the way to the bank!
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Comment: What carrier/plan are you using to get data, talk and text for $10/month?

Reviewer reply: on Sep 21, 2013 9:20:57 AM PDT
MDMac says:
Airvoice Wireless - works on the AT&T network.

 

[k3n]

Another reason I'd find myself using data on my smartphone, would be to access the internet, to find solutions of problems to my main computer/desktop, or if its power supply broke, etc.. In both cases, I'd use wifi connection.

I used the Moto G to take pictures at a concert, that did not permit "flashing" cameras. Using its full optical zoom of 4.0x, the pictures were just flat out horrible, on my desktop at 720+ resolution. It makes a great MP3 player though , adding custom ringtones are easy as well.

This is a bit overkill, but hopefully it does its job during a power outage. The Moto G in comparison is around 2070 mAh.
http://www.amazon.com/15000mAh-Porta...r+direct+15000

 

[k3n]

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[bearxor]

I'm not going to argue about this anymore, especially because for the most part we are agreeing with each other. However, I'll just have to say with all the comments made about lower monthly plans being 'not a real plan', 'have lower quality' and that it 'doesn't allow us to use our phone to its potential' that I kept reading, I swear you guys are just jealous at us '$10 or less per month' type people .

Honestly, I am kind of jealous that I could never get away with a plan that cheap. Just in one day I use a few hundred MB's. I'd have to completely change my usage pattern. That, along with my complete mistrust of any WiFi network I don't have control over, means that something like the AirVoice plans will likely never be an option for me.

I don't think you'll ever hear me say that one of those plans are 'not a real plan'. But I could say, under certain circumstances, that it has lower quality. Only because some providers have roaming agreements in place to really flesh out their network and you may or may not get those on a prepaid plan, but that's totally a case-by-case basis. I also don't believe they let you use the phone to it's full potential but they can let you use your phone to your full potential.

You do mean unlimited text/calls, now don't you?

Yes. Must have tripped over my keyboard, lol.

 

[Muse]

I'm using hardly any data on my Airvoice $10/mo. (w/ rollover) plan. Do whatever data I need on my wifi. I have roaming data turned off in the options on the phone.

 

[gus6464]

Only Verizon phone I know of that works on everything is the Moto X which I have and have used with T-MO, Verizon, and ATT sims. HSPA+ also works if you are in the right area.

 

[Belegost]

On the same network?

Yes, though how much you'll notice it varies. The carriers have control over priority levels for each device, in general post-paid subscribers get the highest consumer priority (emergency services, internal testing, and gov't contracts may get higher) and when contracting with MVNOs will sell lower priority access (but cheaper).

For the cheapest levels the priority may be quite low - for instance, users on the edge of the cell are inefficient to service and can reduce the overall quality of the cell by using resources that are more efficiently dedicated to users with better conditions. So, the carriers may drop the connection for low priority users with poor channel conditions. Also, when a cell is loaded, lower priority users may be denied access to resources in favor of higher priority.

Overall how much this affects you, I couldn't say. It may be worth having a friend with an ATT post-paid phone see how the quality is at your house, it may actually be a priority issue not a coverage issue.

 

[Muse]

Yes, though how much you'll notice it varies. The carriers have control over priority levels for each device, in general post-paid subscribers get the highest consumer priority (emergency services, internal testing, and gov't contracts may get higher) and when contracting with MVNOs will sell lower priority access (but cheaper).

For the cheapest levels the priority may be quite low - for instance, users on the edge of the cell are inefficient to service and can reduce the overall quality of the cell by using resources that are more efficiently dedicated to users with better conditions. So, the carriers may drop the connection for low priority users with poor channel conditions. Also, when a cell is loaded, lower priority users may be denied access to resources in favor of higher priority.

Overall how much this affects you, I couldn't say. It may be worth having a friend with an ATT post-paid phone see how the quality is at your house, it may actually be a priority issue not a coverage issue.

Well, this post is a revelation. I haven't seen these things discussed before. I suspected that "coverage" (or should I say cell phone call quality/experience?) varies depending on whatever. This from my own experience... i.e. "...how many bars do I have now???" That this depends on such things as how loaded a cell is at that particular moment, or the priority given the user based on the plan or whether it's with an MVNO was something I had not seen discussed. Hmm. Well, chances are not good that I will get someone over here who has a post paid ATT account. Everyone I ask around here says they are on Verizon, I mean everyone! I stopped asking when I got to around 10.

Lately I've been finding excellent coverage (well, 5 bars) in some locations, but in the house I don't bother to make any cell phone calls. It would be apt to be bothersome. So far, my first smartphone is turning out to be a mobile computer, essentially. Maybe at some point I'll start using it more for cellular phone duties. Anyway, at the house I have my handy land line which comes with free continental US calling as part of my DSL plan through sonic.net and I have sufficient cordless speaker phones. An additional advantage of this system is I'm not exposing my brain to cell phone radiation. I know, that's a probably little understood risk, but figure it's one I should avoid in some degree all else being reasonably equal. :\

 

[k3n]

I'm posting to confirm that Airvoice Wireless does indeed do roll overs on their $10 monthly plan, if you pay up (manually?), on the 29th day or earlier, before the expiration date. Had $4+ dollars left on the 2nd month of my "subscription" with them.

Have yet to drop my phone :x . I don't think the case would help much http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

These are the headphones I got. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

Unforunately I need to raise the volume louder than usual, while listening to music.

 

[Muse]

I'm posting to confirm that Airvoice Wireless does indeed do roll overs on their $10 monthly plan, if you pay up (manually?), on the 29th day or earlier, before the expiration date. Had $4+ dollars left on the 2nd month of my "subscription" with them.

Have yet to drop my phone :x . I don't think the case would help much http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

These are the headphones I got. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

Unforunately I need to raise the volume louder than usual, while listening to music.

I bought a case for my 520 but I don't use it.

I have a screen protector, I consider that an obligatory upgrade, and it's not expensive. The screen without a protector shows fingerprints/oil quite a lot more.

I've got automatic refills enabled for my $10/mo. Airvoice account. I AM getting rollover. My next auto refill happens on June 2. If you want automatic refills, I suggest calling them.

I'm not having volume issues with my headphones.

 

[jhu]

I think a carrier unlocked smartphone for under $100 off contract is a lot to ask.

True. But for $30 more you can get an unlocked Moto E. If I didn't already have a Nexus 4, I'd get the Moto E just for international travel use.

 

[Muse]

True. But for $30 more you can get an unlocked Moto E. If I didn't already have a Nexus 4, I'd get the Moto E just for international travel use.

Isn't it true I can get my Nokia Lumia 520 AT&T phone unlocked by AT&T? I saw posts saying that some people had to wait 6 months before AT&T would give them the unlock code. I'm over 3 months now. I plan to do some international traveling.