DEAL $39 Android SIP Phone

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Here's what looks to be a perfect Android WiFi/SIP phone to use with Asterisk and a SIP softphone such as Zoiper or CSipSimple. It's $39 at BestBuy.com.

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Now, give credit to mazilo over at DSLR for pestering us starting a week ago all about using this phone for that very purpose. :)

My understanding is that the phone is basically the next iteration of a LG Optimus F3, which is rather nice for a basic-to-mid level phone. I was just mucking around in one this very evening.
 

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2100 mah battery, bluetooth, a micro sd card slot (32gb capacity)....in addition to SIP, Skype and Hangouts duty, it would make a nice music and Netflix player too. Even has KitKat.
 

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Now, give credit to mazilo over at DSLR for pestering us starting a week ago all about using this phone for that very purpose. :)


Absolutely. Posted this from my smartphone and forgot to go back and add the link. My apologies.

LG smartphones have been the standard issue on pay-as-you-go plans for a very long time. What's changed is the price. Very durable and feature-rich Android devices. We have several of them. Used to be well over $100.

p.s. Not to take anything away from mazilo, but Nerd Vittles has been recommending using LG smartphones for this purpose for years.
 

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This would even make a nice device for my 8 year old daughter to play on and use. A lot cheaper than buying another ipod.
 

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This would even make a nice device for my 8 year old daughter to play on and use. A lot cheaper than buying another ipod.

I tried that with my 3 year old with an old LG Escape. After an hour, she handed it back to me and asked for her old iPad 2 back. :-(
 

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What's unfortunate about all these phones, they are so proprietary that you cannot repurpose them once they are no longer usable as a phone. How many dual or quad core phones are out there that could be turned into little Linux computers? A boat load which reflects the number of them that will be shipped overseas to be recycled.
 

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These LG phones don't require an active SIM card. They still work just fine with WiFi and the complete Android feature set.
 

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These LG phones don't require an active SIM card. They still work just fine with WiFi and the complete Android feature set.

Yes, I get tired of my daughter asking to use my phone in the car. This way I can say "Here's your own phone" - and she can play candy crush or whatever, plus when she's at home she can call her little girlfriends with it and cost me a big fat zero !!
 

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seriously for $40... my 2yr old can have one and call me anytime, and maybe give her mom a little reprieve ;)
 

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sure.. buy it.. bring it home...set it up...lock it down so kiddo can only travel'n man and Zoiper... and wifey pulls out a big red VETO card :(:banghead:
 

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sure.. buy it.. bring it home...set it up...lock it down so kiddo can only travel'n man and Zoiper... and wifey pulls out a big red VETO card :(:banghead:

Why? Kid having a phone? Need to know cause I'm afraid I'm going to hit a wife roadblock too.
 

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yeah, thinks 2 yr old with technology in hand == making kids stupid
 

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Bought it. Will 911 still work without registering it?
 

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Pretty sure yes. I think the law is that 911 will work on any cell phone, initialized or not (in fact, most initialization screens have an option for "emergency call"), and/or in -service or not.
 

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So how does Sprint pre-paid work? Do you have to refill every month or can you just buy a block of minutes that you use until gone? Thinking about picking one up for wifi use, but would be nice to have some LTE minutes as a backup too.
 

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So how does Sprint pre-paid work? Do you have to refill every month or can you just buy a block of minutes that you use until gone? Thinking about picking one up for wifi use, but would be nice to have some LTE minutes as a backup too.


Sprint prepaid does not have a "block-of-minutes that you can use til gone" option. Few prepaid offerors actually have that.

Google is your friend -- this took me 10 seconds. :) Here's what it does have:

https://myaccount.prepaid.sprint.com/myaccount/topup.do

http://www.sprint.com/landings/prepaid/

Edit to add: not sure what you mean by "LTE minutes." If what you are looking for is cheap pay-per-minute talk-time as a backup, I can offer tons of suggestions in that regard. I think of LTE as data and minutes as minutes no matter what the technology (GSM; CDMA). Voice over LTE is barely being offered at present...
 

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