Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Upgrade and pay more for less Date: 3 Dec 2024 16:08:16 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net /2k5psYvFrEDb8iXb8uiqQIGyLyp0HC/4PsGmp6rXqk5LoJe9T X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:3qEADz+WTUjzSomov4wR9MjRUQ0= sha256:hNJBmsGFPy+nWSOAx0XmY0UCz9v1gt67Q5IqTGfOD4Y= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:144820 Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 2024-12-03 14:57, Frank Slootweg wrote: > > Steve Hayes wrote: > > ... > > > As to getting a new phone from your "service provider". I would never > > do that. I would just buy the phone and have a SIM-only contract or > > pre-paid. Or don't you have those options in your country (SA?)? > > In Canada (Ontario), for instance, this is hard to do. Nearly impossible > to buy "free phones", not attached to a contract, at a normal site like > the phone section of a supermarket. Amazon sells them. Well, I don't expect unlocked phones at a supermarket, but I expect them at a phone store or electronics store. A little Google search indicates that that is the case, also in Ontario.