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Best Buy has the AT&T Prepaid Motorola Moto E5 Play for $29.99 (choose activate later).
Motorola Moto E5 Play AT&T Prepaid [bestbuy.com]
Specs
Snapdragon 427 Processor
5.2" 1280x720 IPS Display
16GB Internal Storage (expandable via MicroSD)
8MP Rear + 5MP Front Cameras
Android Oreo 8.0
This deal from Nov is back, but without free shipping. You can order for store pickup for free though.
***EDIT*** Is now OOS for shipping. Deal is dead unless BB near you has in stock.Later it went to regular price, $99.99, and then on sale for $39.99. It's now back to $29.99. I think these won't be around for much longer, as they are a couple of generations old now.
Take note of the comments on the previous post to figure out if this is right for you.
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These seem to work on any AT&T MVNO as long as you don't power it on with the included AT&T prepaid SIM first. My son and I are using these as backups with FreedomPop 1yr pre-loaded SIMs with 1GB/mo, BUT, recently I was trying to run out of data and compare data usage of Hangouts Vs the FreedomPop app. All calls with the FreedomPop app (in/out/LTE/WiFi) were disconnected after 10 minutes. I know I've made longer calls in the past, so don't know what's up with that.
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I believe it was back in 2013 or earlier, those older AT&T Prepaid phones would not work with postpaid. They needed to be on prepaid for at least 6 months before they could be bought over to postpaid. Now some people still don't know that, so they thought that you could bypass that by simply insert a postpaid SIM or MVNO SIM first. They didn't realized that newer AT&T prepaid phone will also work on postpaid these days.
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Source: I've done this myself dozens of times with AT&T locked phones. They are locked prior to selling the device. You powering it on without the SIM in it will not magically keep the phone unlocked.
Source: I've done this myself dozens of times with AT&T locked phones. They are locked prior to selling the device. You powering it on without the SIM in it will not magically keep the phone unlocked.
Haven't followed at&t prepaid deals for a long while and just wanted to be sure this was still true before suggesting this to a family member.
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Source: I've done this myself dozens of times with AT&T locked phones. They are locked prior to selling the device. You powering it on without the SIM in it will not magically keep the phone unlocked.
I believe it was back in 2013 or earlier, those older AT&T Prepaid phones would not work with postpaid. They needed to be on prepaid for at least 6 months before they could be bought over to postpaid. Now some people still don't know that, so they thought that you could bypass that by simply insert a postpaid SIM or MVNO SIM first. They didn't realized that newer AT&T prepaid phone will also work on postpaid these days.