No Contract: $149 Android phone, $25 unlimited data and 300 min

Re:No Contract: $149 Android phone, $25 unlimited data and 3... by abello on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @12:49PM (#2171193)

They deduct minutes to every call to voice mail. Google Voice and Skype seem to take out from the 300 too. You really can't talk with this plan. This is for data-centric use.

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Re:No Contract: $149 Android phone, $25 unlimited data and 3... by smackfu on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @12:55PM (#2171220)

The other big limitation compared to a traditional plan is that nights and weekends are full price. So it is hard to compare a 450 minute AT&T plan to this 300 minute one.

But the texting rates are much, much better than a traditional carrier.

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Re:No Contract: $149 Android phone, $25 unlimited data and 3... by gcb on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @01:01PM (#2171256)

Like every other operator. Att here evens deduct s my minutes for received g voice calls.

But Android has sip clients. who needs voice?

Also there are plenty of skype apk patched to behave the same in wifi and 3g, meaning it will go via data no matter what

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Re:No Contract: $149 Android phone, $25 unlimited data and 3... by georgemcbay on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @01:25PM (#2171372)

In 2.3 (Gingerbread), SIP is baked right into OS and integrates seamlessly into Google Voice & the regular phone UI, so you don't even have to run an external client.

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Re:No Contract: $149 Android phone, $25 unlimited data and 3... by gcb on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:22PM (#2172471)

I call that a SIP client too :)

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