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Straight Talk 128GB Apple iPhone 16e (Locked) + 30-Day Silver Unlimited Plan
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Straight Talk has 128GB Apple iPhone 16e Smartphone (Locked) for $149 + 30-Day $45 Silver Unlimited or Higher Prepaid Plan (see all plan options/pricing). Shipping is free.
Note: Select the prepaid plan after adding the phone to cart. Phone is unlocked after 365 days of paid and active service (view unlock policy).
Thanks to community member FrugalForever for finding this deal.
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Note: Select the prepaid plan after adding the phone to cart. Phone is unlocked after 365 days of paid and active service (view unlock policy).
Thanks to community member FrugalForever for finding this deal.
Product Specs:
- 6.1" 2532 x 1170 Super Retina XDR OLED Display
- Apple A18 (3 nm) CPU Hexa-core (2x4.04 GHz + 4x2.20 GHz)
- Apple GPU (4-core graphics)
- 128GB internal storage
- 8GB RAM
- 5G (sub-6 GHz and mmWave) with 4x4 MIMO11 | Gigabit LTE with 4x4 MIMO and LAA11
- Bluetooth 5.3
- Main Camera: Single 48 MP, f/1.6, 26mm (wide), PDAF, OIS
- USB-C Charging (charge cable included)
Editor's Notes
Written by johnny_miller | Staff- Straight Talk is a prepaid, no-contract wireless service provider, owned by Verizon. You are not obliged to continue service past the initial 30 days of included airtime, unless desired.
- Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
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Straight Talk has 128GB Apple iPhone 16e Smartphone (Locked) for $149 + 30-Day $45 Silver Unlimited or Higher Prepaid Plan (see all plan options/pricing). Shipping is free.
Note: Select the prepaid plan after adding the phone to cart. Phone is unlocked after 365 days of paid and active service (view unlock policy).
Thanks to community member FrugalForever for finding this deal.
Product Specs:
Note: Select the prepaid plan after adding the phone to cart. Phone is unlocked after 365 days of paid and active service (view unlock policy).
Thanks to community member FrugalForever for finding this deal.
Product Specs:
- 6.1" 2532 x 1170 Super Retina XDR OLED Display
- Apple A18 (3 nm) CPU Hexa-core (2x4.04 GHz + 4x2.20 GHz)
- Apple GPU (4-core graphics)
- 128GB internal storage
- 8GB RAM
- 5G (sub-6 GHz and mmWave) with 4x4 MIMO11 | Gigabit LTE with 4x4 MIMO and LAA11
- Bluetooth 5.3
- Main Camera: Single 48 MP, f/1.6, 26mm (wide), PDAF, OIS
- USB-C Charging (charge cable included)
Editor's Notes
Written by johnny_miller | Staff- Straight Talk is a prepaid, no-contract wireless service provider, owned by Verizon. You are not obliged to continue service past the initial 30 days of included airtime, unless desired.
- Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
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This Straight Talk iPhone 16e deal stands out for the low upfront price and the Apple trade in angle, especially if the phone is being used as a short term bridge to gift cards or another iPhone purchase. The 16e is eSIM only, and activation or rebranding to TracFone has worked in some cases through customer service. The main catch is unlocking, since the phone appears to need a full year of new paid service on that specific device, and carryover service may not count. In store activation and trade in results have also been inconsistent, so it is best viewed as a deal with some setup friction.
Common Questions (5)
Apple trade-in can return $310 per phone, but in-store and online trade-ins may be rejected or come back as zero unless the device passes diagnostics or gets a manager override. Some buyers still completed trade-ins successfully after activating the phone, updating iOS, and preparing it before visiting Apple.
Yes, but it usually requires TracFone support to rebrand the device, and the result is not guaranteed. Some activations go through the TracFone flow or a CSR rebrand, while others are told the IMEI is ineligible.
It stays locked to Straight Talk until you complete 1 year of paid service on that specific phone. After that, it can be unlocked and moved to another compatible carrier; carryover service from a different phone or brand does not count toward the unlock timer.
No. The Straight Talk iPhone 16e is eSIM-only and does not have a SIM slot, so activation has to be done with eSIM rather than a physical SIM card.
You can stop using the service after the first month, but the phone remains locked until the full 1-year paid-service requirement is met. The included plan is tied to the original Straight Talk activation, so it does not transfer if you rebrand or move the line.
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Whoever voted not helpful should chime in and tell us what they know if they know this will not work.
Whoever voted not helpful should chime in and tell us what they know if they know this will not work.
Just because something worked before doesn't mean it will still work the same way.
Just because something worked before doesn't mean it will still work the same way.
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Just because something worked before doesn't mean it will still work the same way.
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look at nano review. i decided to buy at least 2 from metro and lock one away for unlocking as a backup phone. good enough with sim card and esim. may not have trade in values like flag ships samsung apple google but its a dirty little secret if you read reviews the cpu is the bottle neck but good enough for everyday use and good camera for the price range.
https://nanoreview.net/en/phone-c...e-pixel-11
compare google pixel 11 to edge 2025 2026 is same as 2025 so no difference
https://nanoreview.net/en/phone-c...-edge-2025
compare samsung s26 to moto edge 2025
edge with gcam/stock cam is almost equal to s26? NO WAY
https://nanoreview.net/en/phone-c...-iphone-17
iphone comparison camera itself is 80% of iphone 17
good enough bottle neck is of course CPU.
8gb is good for the next 3-4 yrs.
12-16 gb is due to ai wasting system resources remove and disable them.
thus for 99% of people there are basically no performance gains at all for the past 2-3 years due to ai wasting resources.
google selling moto was a mistake it was always themselves. they feel inferior to apple when they could have been dont be evil corporation they are evil now.
project ara was the one i wanted. that google destroyed. hot swapping modules replace camera replace display battery easily. add ram if you want. only thing that is stock should be motherboard/cpu even then can also be upgraded modules making it a open source ecosystem like linux would be the golden age of innovation not this crap.
the fang stonks apple google samsung nvda set the technology back 10-20 yrs not forward
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