{"id":14732,"date":"2014-06-09T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=14732"},"modified":"2014-05-16T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T17:59:34","slug":"samsung-galaxy-centura-prepaid-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/samsung-galaxy-centura-prepaid-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy Centura Prepaid Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tracfone (a prepaid wireless phone provider) used to be strictly low-tech, throw-away, prepaid burner phone territory, but they&#8217;ve recently introduced an Android smart phone to their line-up. It currently costs about $80, and you get triple minutes for the life of the phone. It operates Wifi when it&#8217;s available, and then you get a meg of data for every minute you buy on one of their cards. I end up using about 20 minutes a month strictly on data, but I could probably shave that down if I limited some of the apps I run to Wifi only. (30 minutes cost $10 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tracfone.com\/direct\/Purchase?payGo=true&#038;app=TRACFONE&#038;lang=en\">Tracfone.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The phone (Samsung Galaxy Centura) isn&#8217;t top of the line, by any means, and runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), but I haven&#8217;t found an app I couldn&#8217;t load (though browsing the Web on it can be a little daunting, and when I tried to run Fruit Ninja, the program lagged to the point that it was sort of unplayable).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s got an adequate rear-facing 3meg camera, and supports Bluetooth, and you get a little more than 2.5 gig of non-upgradable storage. I suppose that if I were downgrading from a more expensive smartphone, I might be a little frustrated with it, and not just because the screen size is much smaller than other phones I&#8217;ve seen. But when you consider a more conventional smartphone with data plan would probably cost you upwards of $50 a month, minimum, this is a real bargain. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracfone.com\/jsplib\/verify_mapcov.jsp\">Tracfone availability map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bargain smartphone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14734,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732\/revisions\/14734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}