Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame

Re:Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phon... by ForHackernews on Sunday December 08, 2013 @11:48AM (#6870178)

That's what Republic Wireless does now, and they just launched with the Moto X at a surprisingly low price: https://republicwireless.com/

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Re:Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phon... by dublinben on Sunday December 08, 2013 @03:02PM (#6871112)

Be careful with Republic Wireless. They are completely anti-rooting, require customized proprietary software to use their service, and you're out of luck if you want to cancel the service after 30 days.

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Re:Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phon... by ForHackernews on Monday December 09, 2013 @12:27AM (#6872933)

I can see why they're anti-rooting--they need to be able to offload voice + SMS traffic to wifi, and they can't do that if you've flashed a custom ROM or whatever. I think they're hoping to eventually have the wifi calling stuff packaged as an app, so it could be installed on whatever ROM (or device) you wanted. But for now, it's integrated with the android system at a very low level.

> you're out of luck if you want to cancel the service after 30 days.

Sort of. There's no early termination fee, so in that way it's better than legacy carriers. But you can't take your RW phone and use it on any other network, so you are out the cost of the device.

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