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Re: BT dongle Q

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On Friday 02 March 2018 21:40:18 rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:

> On Friday, March 02, 2018 08:19:54 PM Gene Heskett wrote:
> > 2; They don't supply the dongle since they assume everyone has a
> > $500 smartphone.
>
> Not picking on you, Gene, but I hope no one is buying $500 smartphones
> (even though I know they do).  The last 3 I've bought (1 for myself, 1
> for my son, 1 as a spare) cost me about $50 each, and I'm not aware of
> missing any significant functionality.
>
That $500 was POOMA, to illustrate the point. It could have been less 
since the competition is best described as cut-throat. Meaning the 
street price is more determined by the market than what it costs to make 
the phones. 

> The first 2 (VSN V.45) run Android 4.4.  The newer one (Blu Studio G)
> runs Android 6.0 (bought when I had trouble getting FreedomPop running
> on my phone in parallel with T-Mobile, but turned out not to be needed
> but I would have incurred a $35 restocking fee at Best Buy.)
>
> (All 3 are dual SIM machines.)



-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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BT dongle Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-03-02 18:40 +0100
  Re: BT dongle Q Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2018-03-02 19:40 +0100
    Re: BT dongle Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-03-03 02:30 +0100
      Re: BT dongle Q rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-03-03 03:50 +0100
        Re: BT dongle Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-03-03 04:20 +0100
          Re: BT dongle Q rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-03-03 05:20 +0100
  Re: BT dongle Q Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-03-02 19:50 +0100

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