Realtors can soon get an inexpensive Android phone with no contract

$175 contract free Android

Radio Shack will soon be offering the T-Mobile Optimus T for $175 with no contract required. The smartphone will run Android 2.2 and for data, users may have to purchase a monthly data plan through T-Mobile but still, no two year contract is required.

Our research shows not only that agents are interested in Android, a majority are in the market for a smartphone in the next year and Android is poised to take 50% of the smartphone marketshare by next year.

How this is good for Realtors

Realtors, we know that everyone has their hands in your pocket for $20 a month, $99 a month, and so on, and purchasing technology is sometimes cost prohibitive, but you feel yourself falling behind as other agents in the field flip out a phone and perform computer tasks that your old flip phone just doesn’t know how to do.

Instead of buying a $600 Android (like I did), and committing to a $250 monthly cell bill at Sprint (like I did) and being locked into a two year contract (like I am), you can go to Radio Shack and modernize your phone life.

This makes for a great second phone or data phone. We have a few tech tips on how to make this work:

1. Don’t worry about getting a phone line, you can just get a data plan and use Voice over IP to make phone calls.
2. Set up your Google Voice to go to your phone so you can screen your calls like an old school answering machine.
3. Take data off of your existing phone and use this as an email machine and app machine. Get your news, use e-signature apps, complex mortgage calculators, tweet on the go, facebook on the fly, etc.

What are some ways that you can think of to use a cheap yet awesome non-commital Android phone? Could this be your next phone that you actually commit to?