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Sprint Echo. Jump Ship or Stay Put?

Feb 19, 2011 6:13 PM

Looking for some input. Who better ask than people as (or more) frugal as me?

I've been on the Sprint SERO plan for a few years. $30 per month gets me 500 minutes, unlimited data, unlimited text, then the standards (roaming, N&W). After taxes and insurance I pay ~$42/m. The drawback of this plan was, until recently, a barrier in new phones I could activate. Now, Sprint lets us activate any phone (they offer) for a fee. $10/m, for some phones, $20/m for others. (This bumps a Sprint customer to a different SERO plan, with extra features that are useless to me. It's all about the phone.)

The Kyocera Echo coming out in the Spring looks pretty cool. Two screens. Sprint hasn't announced what fee-class it will be in, but I'm guessing I'll be looking at a $20 increase with it. So my monthly be would be about $68 per month I guesstimate.

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Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Does this phone look stupid to you? Should I move carriers? Any thoughts welcome. If you have other carrier suggestions, please no prepaid. No matter what I do, I can't move to a carrier more expensive than $70 after taxes. Even that is a major stretch, as it's nearly twice my current bill.

I don't have any real needs in a phone, except good call quality and text messaging. However, I want to be cool. :p

Thanks for any ideas.

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Also, this is the Echo:

http://now.sprint.com/echo/?ECID=vanity:echo

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@gregorylikescheapstu: If you say that you don't need much besides call quality and texting, I wouldn't say that this is a good phone for you.

1. It's a touchscreen phone. Yes, Android now has Swype, which is pretty good for texting, but in my opinion a qwerty keyboard is still superior.

2. Call quality is usually inversely proportional to number of features. That is, simpler phones tend to have better call quality (I can't back this with solid evidence; this is only from my experience from 3 "simple phones" and 2 smartphones).

3. You probably will care about battery life too, and my guess is that a dual core, dual screen phone will be less than optimal in regards to battery life.

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@gregorylikescheapstu: If you do get the Droid phone take some time and really use the extra features they are well worth it in my opinion.

I LOL at Windows 7 commercials. To me they are basically saying that 'the Android (maybe even iPhones) have such awesome features that you will be addicted to all the features, SO you should get the windows 7 phone because Win7 can not do all the cool things a Droid does, there for you will not be addicted.' To me this is a silly way to sell a phone, most providers will still charge the same access to data, you just as well use it.

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