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Re:Poverty in America: Greater Than Statistics Indicate by darpa_escapee on Friday November 30, 2018 @08:23PM (#18574363)
> Why would you choose to take on a $40/mo expense when you could buy an entire fully functioning low end Android phone for $40?

I've used $40 Android phones, and they're barely usable with modern apps.

Once the battery starts to degrade, which happens quickly, performance drops from barely usable to intermittently usable, with frequent freezing and reboots.

Looking at Sprint.com, iPhones are available for $18 a month.

Do you own a laptop or a workstation?

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Re:Poverty in America: Greater Than Statistics Indicate by scarface74 on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:52PM (#18575013)
My son couldn’t even get Uber to work on his cheap Android Phone and the battery life was horrible.

On the other hand my “luxurious” iPhone 6s I bought in 2015, is still going strong, getting updates, and speed wise, is still faster than most modern Android phones.

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