This Samsung is used. Himself got it off eBay. He's been looking for a replacement Droid for me ever since mine started to act up well over a year ago. Seems like every time he found something he liked it was gone *poof* because he wasn't fast enough. Probably bakechef nabbing it.
Now those phones are becoming scarce as people buy them up. If they buy too new a generation of phone they don't qualify for the same kind of data plan we had (unlimited). One problem with my old phone was that if I connected to WiFi the phone went off into its own little world. Got spasms. Couldn't use it at all. As long as this phone works just right (so far so good) we'll be using WiFi a lot and won't need to use the data. You sign up for the minimum you think you'll use. IF you go over, they bump the rate on that one function (voice/data/text) to the next price range for just that month. Your next billing cycle is back to what you signed up for. Himself will monitor our usage like a hawk; if he sees any regular pattern he can adjust our usage amounts on a month-by-month basis. And from what Himself told me, there really is no roaming charge on this service. If you wander off the Ting-linked Sprint tower and move to another provider's tower its all good. No "roaming charge". Huh.
After all that, all I can say is
this phone is really cool!