Phones don’t need to be stupid expensive. The new iPhone Duo sure looks cool with its foldable screen that opens up to nearly the size of an iPad Mini. It’s a versatile device, but it also can cost you over $2,000—and that’s just the starting price for the phone. Increase the storage capacity a bit and then pick out a cellular plan and you’re now having to skip paying rent for a few months just to afford it. There’s a better option for the frugal-minded.
Mint Mobile now has a the Samsung Galaxy A17 5G going for $200 off. This phone already starts at a pretty affordable level of just $270, so this price reduction ends up taking it down to just $70. That’s $70 for a fully-featured smart phone.
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Not only that, but Mint Mobile is now also offering every one of their data plans for just $15 per month. It doesn’t matter which you pick as your limit, you’re still paying that low price. Mint offers 6GB plans, 17GB plans, 23GB plans, and they even offer and unlimited plan. All of them are just $15 per month. That works out to $180 for the whole year regardless of which plan you choose. There’s no reason though to not just choose the unlimited. Why hold yourself back with a small data limit when taking the guard rails off costs you the same amount?
It is worth noting that any unlimited plan customers that end up exceeding 50GB during a month period might notice slower speeds during the rest of that month in certain locations, if the network is busy. Videos will also stream in a lower resolution of 480p. But that’s only if you’re really pushing the amount of date you’re using. You’d have to use up more than double what the next highest tier is offering before you start experiencing that slow down.
Samsung Galaxy A17 5G
It’s kind of crazy to imagine getting a phone for only $70, but here we are. And this is an all-out smart phone.
The Samsung Galaxy A17 5G comes with a 6.7-inch FHD+ display with a refresh rate of 90Hz and a resolution of 1,080 x 2,340 pixels. Scrolling through apps and watching videos all comes through smoothly, and the 800 nits of brightness on the Super AMOLED screen looks great under any lighting condition.
This phone comes with 128GB of storage, but you can expand that to up to 2TB by adding a microSD card. The battery is strong, holding 5,000mAh and supporting charging speed of up to 25W.