Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
For cell phone, I use a vintage cell. No data plan, just a pay by the minute plan.
And, I have a smartphone running android 4.1 but I have no cell plan for it. I only use it where I have wifi. Thus it is basically a wifi device for when I want to check e-mail or the latest news at a restaurant with wifi. I also have the mapping GPS apps on it. And I have Google Voice and Groove IP Lite which allows me to use VOIP for phone purposes when my regular cell is out of range, but that means that I only can use it where I have wifi, thus I only make calls on this, do not receive calls on it.
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I also only have a simple pay as you go plan. My phone costs me $20 every 3 months, so $6.33 a month. I was thinking about doing what you're doing and buying a smart phone with GPS, but not activating it. I was wondering if there's any problems with doing this? Does a phone need a sim card for the WiFi to work? How about the GPS? I've toured for over 20 years without using GPS, but the idea of having GPS with downloaded maps is very appealing.
I found a smart phone on Amazon for $99 with free shipping. It says it's got an Android 4.2 operating system. WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, with a
MTK 6572 processor . (2G only)