Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked

Re:Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Sta... by homersapien on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @01:01PM (#6727018)

At $0 subsidized you would be getting ripped off. You'd be better off buying a subsidized iPhone, selling it, then buying the G at full price (plus pocketing a bunch of $$ at the same time).

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Re:Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Sta... by hackula1 on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @04:08PM (#6728524)

I would bet cash flow is more important to which phone someone buys than absolute value.

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Re:Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Sta... by tesseractive on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @05:13PM (#6729030)

Sure, but there's so much differential that it would make sense to buy a 5S on a contract using a payday loan, put it on eBay, and then use the proceeds to pay off the expensive loan, buy the Moto G, and go buy a bunch of groceries for your family with the difference.

The Moto G would be a straight-up ripoff on a traditional contract. I expect it to be a hit in the prepaid market, however.

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