$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:
- Don’t worry about getting a phone line, you can just get a data plan and use Voice over IP to make phone calls.
- Set up your Google Voice to go to your phone so you can screen your calls like an old school answering machine.
- 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?
