What is the cheapest 3G phone?

[rfranzq]

What is the cheapest way to get a 3G phone? Are the gophones that are 3G able to use ATT MVNO SIM cards?

[Frontierjustice]

What is the cheapest way to get a 3G phone? Are the gophones that are 3G able to use ATT MVNO SIM cards?

Go to :

http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/dev...aidphones.html


and sort on "3-G" capable. The cheapest are the Z311 and the U2800, $19 and $20.

Regards, FJ

[rfranzq]

Well I got a barely used Huawei U2800A off of eBay.

Can't tell what band it is using but it does say 3g.
I will have to unlock it when/if T-Mobile refarms,
I am in southern California, so I will be interested if it ever
loses 3G.

[Frontierjustice]

Can't tell what band it is using but it does say 3g.

Quad-band GSM and UMTS --- 850/900/1800/1900/2100. What a deal for $10. $7.50 to unlock on eBay!
Regards, FJ

[rfranzq]

What a deal for $10.

And the seller left a microSIM scotchtaped in with about a week left of unlimited texting.
I have used over 1500 SMS in about 4 days. 95% incoming 'testing' a web site's ability to track passenger trains.

[rfranzq]

Any Android phone is the best 3g mobile phone.

My question was, "What's the cheapest 3G"
What is the cheapest 3G Android?

[rfranzq]

Well I got a barely used Huawei U2800A off of eBay.

I have now gotten 6 U2800As off of eBay. The first one I got got a BSOD [blue screen of death] after I stuck an old SIM card in to it. Red Pocket and H2O SIM cards do 3G. An older Airvoice SIM card does not. I will be activating a more recent Airvoice SIM next week. I unlocked one of the phones and activated a new T-Mobile SIM in it. 2G for now. Nice inexpensive phone if it what you need.

The phone seems to be the phone of choice for people who lose iPhones. Lots on eBay are used for a week or less.

[rfranzq]

Red Pocket and H2O SIM cards do get 3G. An older Airvoice SIM card does not. I will be activating a more recent Airvoice SIM next week.

The new Airvoice SIM does get 3G in the U2800A.

A reminder about Airvoice. They have THREE different $10 cards. Make sure you understand what they are and what they do. And then make sure you choose the right one for you!

[rfranzq]

I unlocked one of my U2800As and today I received 3G on it using a T-Mobile SIM.
Refarming is happening. http://airportal.de/ shows where T-Mobile has 3G on 1900mHz. I was driving on the freeways to/from Long Beach, CA. Where I live is not near any towers yet. But the point of this thread was to get an inexpensive phone that could get 3G in order to verify its existence and this phone unlocked is able to do that for both AT&T and T-Mobile.

[rfranzq]

I unlocked one of my U2800As and today I received 3G on it using a T-Mobile SIM.
Refarming is happening.

Well, my nephew saw the 3G symbol in the above quote. Today I saw it.
Time to unlock more phones.