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I second trying to get out of the Sprint plan. If you have a spouse/child/SO that can stay on the network, you can probably just be honest and explain the situation to the CSR and explain how by letting you off now, they can keep the other contract on.

Also, if you don't mind lying, you can almost always talk your way out of a contract. One of the above posters suggested having someone say you are dead, which I guess you can go for. I think the more common lie is to say "oh I'm going to be out of the country for the next 7 months on sabatical, is there any way I could end this contract without an ETF?"

Finally, since you happen to be a Sprint member, you should know that there is currently money from a class action lawsuit available over Early Termination Fees. You should look over the details yourself, but if you were discouraged from leaving your contract before October due to ETFs, you're entitled to some cash, and at the very least, you should be entitled to 6 months of 300 free text messages. You can see the settlement website here: http://www.sprintetfsettlement.com/php/home.php

Re: Cheapest Plan for N900 WITHOUT Internet?
 

OFF-TOPIC @GENEVEN

If I'm remembering right, you've been dissing the N8x0 tablets for a while now (praising, instead, for example, Kindle as something you would prefer carrying around). So I'm curious: why are you getting an N900?

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Another vote for TMO's prepaid. If you don't already have a TMO sim card I'd grab their $20 Nokia 1208 prepaid from Walmart instead of $15 for just a sim card and a $100 card. The $100 card will get you a straight $0.10 per minute and is good for a year.

If was stuck with another contract I might being doing the same thing.

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Actually it's better than for a year. If you refill with *any* amount by the end of the year, your leftover minutes carry over into the next year.

Even without a stop at Walmart, you can go online and get a good deal on T-mobile prepaid with a phone thrown in. But right now their inexpensive telephone offerings -- both Nokias -- are Out of Stock; I suppose they're emptying the shelves to replace them with a deal on the N900 :rolleyes:

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I think T-Mobile prepaid is the best plan, as someone else already mentioned. If you don't talk much, it could cost even less than $15 a month. A while back I bought $100 of prepaid minutes on T-Mobile and that lasted me for a year - so it was about $8/mo.

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Well, I'd like to have a complete set (except I don't have a 770).

I do think that the Kindle is a much better value, overall. But it really isn't a phone, and I need a phone. I only want to carry one device, and I can use the N900 to call AAA if my car breaks down. Tmobile has always seemed to me to be the least awful mobile phone company. And the N900 seems to me to be the least awful phone/tablet combo in release.

I like open source and have been running Linux for quite awhile; I started with Slackware back in I think the 1980s. In those days I knew nothing about Linux, whereas today I know... almost nothing.

Buying it might be a big mistake; I've made mistakes before.

I am nearsighted in a way that works well with small tablets. So, though I would buy a bigger tablet if there was one that met my specs, there isn't one. In a way, it seems to me that the N900 is the only choice, limited though it is.

Maybe I'm getting one because the hype worked on me. That is entirely possible.

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T-mobile prepaid. $100 a year with VOIP in WiFi areas covers all my needs.

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But doesn't T-Mobile charge $1 per day PLUS 10 cents per minute?

I know boost mobile is only 10 cents per day with out the daily connection fee . . . with out that daily connection fee it would be worth it . . . but with it ?????


thats $30 a month BEFORE you add the minutes used?

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Is their another GSM company out their in the USA . . . . I am in Manhattan . . . . where thier is wifi "almost" every where . . . I just need some pre paid minutes to get me by when their isn't wifi . . . I am at home most of the time and have a skype $3 per month unlimited plain that I use in the house . . . It would be GREAT if I could save $70 a month and only pay for what I use outside of the house . . . . Anybody know of any good cheap gsm companies for voice that would work on N900?

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The plan with the daily fee is the Sidekick plan. However, there is also another plan called the "Pay As You Go" plan which doesn't have any daily fees. You strictly pay for the minutes you use. (about $0.11/minute or so, $0.10/text msg) The only downside is that the minutes expire. If you fill the account with $100, then the minutes will last a full year.

I'm on this plan, and they also include free access to yahoo. This works great for me as I can get news and access my email while not connected to wifi at home or work. So my overall cost is $8/month. The next year will be even cheaper as I won't have to put in $100 to keep minutes from expiring within a year.