{"id":20304,"date":"2013-07-26T11:05:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T16:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=20304"},"modified":"2013-07-26T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T16:03:51","slug":"on-the-cheap-almost-all-t-mobile-phones-with-no-up-front-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/on-the-cheap-almost-all-t-mobile-phones-with-no-up-front-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Cheap: Almost All T-Mobile Phones With No Up Front Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile really, really wants your business. First came the contract-free plans, then the ability to pay for your phones over time, and recently the new <a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comhardware\/voice-of-objectivity-new-smartphone-upgrade-options-are-a-good-deal\/#.UfKdRm15ZaQ\">JUMP service<\/a> for early upgrading. Now, the carrier has announced a back-to-school sale. For a limited time, all handsets (minus the 32 and 64 GB iPhone 5 models) will have no money down. You pay over time, as the below chart shows, but the upfront costs are, well, nonexistent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20306\" alt=\"Pricing\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pricing-575x225.png\" width=\"575\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pricing-575x225.png 575w, https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pricing-290x113.png 290w, https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pricing-610x239.png 610w, https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pricing.png 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the above handsets, let us break it down. There&#8217;s the current flagship phone from the industry leader, a 6&#8243; mini tablet, one of the most popular phones ever, a powerful stylish handset, a phone that never goes on sale, two rather decent Windows Phone devices, the comeback kid for BlackBerry, an underrated quad-core phone, and a 10&#8243; tablet. In some cases, you pay a little more, like $480 for the tab instead of $449. Except that assumes you keep it. Tying this into JUMP means you could theoretically pay as you go for one handset, and then move on to the next.<\/p>\n<p>You must decide for yourself if this is a good value for you it, but it&#8217;s certainly worth breaking out the calculator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile really, really wants your business. First came the contract-free plans, then the ability to pay for your phones over time, and recently the new JUMP service for early upgrading. Now, the carrier has announced a back-to-school sale. For a limited time, all handsets (minus the 32 and 64 GB iPhone 5 models) will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,512,1917],"tags":[4969,43,3,4955,61,66,2746,2046],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20309,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20304\/revisions\/20309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}