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I am curious where you live. I get along just fine using a $150 BLU phone.

Edit: Thought about getting the $50 version, but I'm not quite that frugal.

Second Edit: You probably need NFC for this huh? Drat.



I get along just fine using a $150 BLU phone

Wow. Not a comment about you in particular, but about the industry in general. I did a quick search and found this: http://bluproducts.com/android-phones

Really? 66 different phones? Is this entire industry, except for Apple, run by imbeciles? Not that I'm in the target demographic, but I only have a relatively few years left on this earth. I don't want to spend half of them just figuring out the differences between Android phones!

Hasn't the rest of the world learned anything from St. Steven?


> Really? 66 different phones? Is this entire industry, except for Apple, run by imbeciles?

Out of curiosity, I went to find out how many variants Apple is currently selling[1] (model, color, storage). I counted 42 distinct combinations you could possibly choose! I guess not even Apple learned from 'St. Steven', or he was wrong.

Removing the color axis whittles down the model/memory combination to a more manageable 12 options - but the point remains.

1. http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/


What point remains? When you're trying to figure out what phone you want, model is just about the only thing that matters. Apple has 5, of which 3 are current. It's easy to compare them, and nearly impossible to compare a list of 66 different models.


New Zealand. My example iPhone is probably on the expensive end of the spectrum.


For comparison: 1000NZD is 705USD. An iPhone 6s is 649USD, and the plus is 749USD. I've got a Nexus 5, which was 400USD a couple of years ago.

BLU is a usually-cheap phone brand, with handsets starting around 60USD.




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