Moto X for GoPhone?

[Jonathan Wills]

Hey all. I have been looking for a budget service provider for a Moto X and I can buy gophone cards at my local store for $35. They give me unlimited data and 500 minutes of call time a month so I consider this to be an acceptable plan considering AT&T has fantastic coverage where I live, also most of my friends use AT&T so my minutes would not be used up while calling them. (I tested this)

Anyways I was wondering if the new Moto X 2014 would work under GoPhone right away, or do I need to wait for them to officially support it? I want the newer X, but would not mind buying last years model if it goes on sale and just use it with a GoPhone plan.

Also if anyone has any suggestions about affordable, yet good providers for me to look at feel free to chime in.

 

[cgardnervt]

As long as its the unlocked version it will work on any GSM service it's bands will support. (Tmo & att)

 

[Woosh]

Hey all. I have been looking for a budget service provider for a Moto X and I can buy gophone cards at my local store for $35. They give me unlimited data and 500 minutes of call time a month so I consider this to be an acceptable plan considering AT&T has fantastic coverage where I live, also most of my friends use AT&T so my minutes would not be used up while calling them. (I tested this)

Anyways I was wondering if the new Moto X 2014 would work under GoPhone right away, or do I need to wait for them to officially support it? I want the newer X, but would not mind buying last years model if it goes on sale and just use it with a GoPhone plan.

Also if anyone has any suggestions about affordable, yet good providers for me to look at feel free to chime in.

Yes the Moto X will work on AT&T from the start. I believe GoPhone recently changed their plans and that plan no longer exists. At least I couldn't find it on their site. Iirc it was strictly for dumb phones anyway and to get around that you'd need a phone that is foreign to AT&T. Go Phone wouldn't give you AT&T to AT&T calls either, so those 500 minutes would get used up calling your friends.

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To give a decent suggestion then we'd need to know how much data you plan to use. Keep in mind nobody but T-Mo or Sprint will give you truly unlimited data.

I think the best deal is probably Cricket. They run on AT&T but they slow speeds down to 8 down on LTE and 4 down on HSPA. Which imo should be enough to do whatever you rly need to do on a phone anyway. But you can make that decision for yourself.

I believe Go Phone is the only prepaid that will give you full AT&T speeds but their plans are a bit more and they cut you off fully instead of throttling you when you hit a certain data point.

 

[Jonathan Wills]

So T-Mobile and Cricket seem like the best options then. I will research them, thank you.

 

[Woosh]

So T-Mobile and Cricket seem like the best options then. I will research them, thank you.

If you need truly unlimited and have a single line then Metro PCS might be best. Its technically T-Mobile but they include taxes in the final bill and are $60 for unlimited everything compared to $80+tax for what T-Mobile charges.

Cricket uses AT&T towers so they would have better overall coverage but worse data speeds. They also include taxes in the final price.

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[someguy01234]

I think people need to do things legally and stop trying to cheat. If you think AT&T plan is expensive just don't give money to them.

 

[Woosh]

I think people need to do things legally and stop trying to cheat. If you think AT&T plan is expensive just don't give money to them.

It's entirely possible that he didn't know that the Go Phone plan was for dumb phones only. I won't make the assumption that he was trying to cheat the system and maybe just had no idea.

Still...if the OP wants a more options then he should lay out exactly the price he's looking for vs how much data he actually needs a month. H20 does provide a cheap $27 or so plan but only has 500mb of data.

 

[someguy01234]

Ultra Mobile is $29 unlimited call/text, free international call for 40 countries and 1000min for 45 others, and 500mb LTE. It's T-Mo network. You can also purchase more data. $5 for 500mb or $10 for 1gb.

I'll probably go full time on it if they give more data.

 

[Jonathan Wills]

Okay. for using it I plan on streaming 1-3 episodes of low resolution Japanese anime via crunchyroll a week. I would check my mail on the phone, news, my sisters facebook posts.

I plan on using it to make calls from work for emergency purposes, but may make some personal calls as well. However most of my free time is already spoken for.

 

[Jonathan Wills]

I figure my data usage would be about 1gb per month, maybe 2 tops. I do not need unlimited calling.