Dennis Nicholls
Senior HTF Member
Being single and retired, I don't have a wife and I don't have a boss, so I've never had a cellphone. But I have reluctantly decided to get one for emergency "car breakdown" reasons. I looked for a pay by the minute non-contract phone.
Fred Meyer (Kroger) here had this phone for $17.99 close out price.
https://shop.tracfone.com/shop/en/tracfonestore/phones/tf-zte-zfive-c-lte
It's the ZTE Zfive C, a 4G LTE phone running Android 7.1.1. Built around the Snapdragon 210 chipset. I added a $7 32 GB flash card to bump the storage to 48 GB. Every feature on the phone seems to work: LTE, Wi-fi, front and back cameras, FM radio, etc. I have not found GPS in this phone. It even has features that the present iPhones lack, to wit an analog audio jack and a user-replaceable battery. Mine had been on the shelf so long that there were 6 or 7 Android upgrades available that I had to download one at a time.
Going from no phone to Android is a big learning gap, so I will take some time getting comfortable with all the features. But I've only got $25 total invested in the hardware at this point.
Fred Meyer (Kroger) here had this phone for $17.99 close out price.
https://shop.tracfone.com/shop/en/tracfonestore/phones/tf-zte-zfive-c-lte
It's the ZTE Zfive C, a 4G LTE phone running Android 7.1.1. Built around the Snapdragon 210 chipset. I added a $7 32 GB flash card to bump the storage to 48 GB. Every feature on the phone seems to work: LTE, Wi-fi, front and back cameras, FM radio, etc. I have not found GPS in this phone. It even has features that the present iPhones lack, to wit an analog audio jack and a user-replaceable battery. Mine had been on the shelf so long that there were 6 or 7 Android upgrades available that I had to download one at a time.
Going from no phone to Android is a big learning gap, so I will take some time getting comfortable with all the features. But I've only got $25 total invested in the hardware at this point.
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