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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
My next device will certainly be unsubsidized and unlocked. I am fortunate enough to have a 6 gig data plan (on a 3-year term), and although excessive, I wouldn't want to relinquish it. Hopefully there is a way to renegotiate the same type of plan but with a lower cost due to the fact that there will be no phone subsidizing tacked on. Wishful thinking perhaps. But I have over a year to see how everything pans out.
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Fat chance as the moment old plans are removed, the codes are no longer allowed to be applied. For an overhaul like this, no way that you're going to even get the same plan much less it for less.
Looks like I'm either going to have to baby my Note II for a lot longer than I thought, get the next Nexus or come into some money to feed my desire for a new toy.
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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Tablets with pretty much the same innards are less than $200. The Nexus 4 phone is $299. If everyone was paying for their phones outright, there would be a lot more competitively priced options.
Lots of talk that the Moto X might try to break the current pricing model with a low off contract price.
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Though the production costs for tablets are less than a phone just because of how specific manufacturing needs to be with such a precise device (though getting bigger) like a cellphone.
Hasn't the Nexus 4 already 'technically' broken the current pricing model? Or are we talking about smashing every and all conception of it?