{"id":11221,"date":"2025-07-11T14:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T21:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11221"},"modified":"2025-07-11T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T21:39:38","slug":"inexpensive-flagship-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/11\/inexpensive-flagship-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Inexpensive Flagship Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I did well getting a new phone&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I just paid $110 cash plus $320 over 2 years for a new Google Pixel 9 Pro with 256 GB. I&#8217;ll soon trade-in my working-well-enough phone for $120.<\/p>\n<p>For the service, I&#8217;m now paying $55\/month (fees included) for &#8220;Google Fi Unlimited Standard&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<p>I had bought a Google Pixel 7 Pro from Swappa a few months ago. It took me 3 months to realize that something was wrong with the radio in the phone; I had TERRIBLE coverage with a variety of providers. OMG, over the course of a few months I tried about 5 providers and they ALL had terrible terrible service. I figured that it wasn&#8217;t the provider but my phone.<\/p>\n<p>Google Fi Unlimited Standard comes with 50 GB data, 1\/2 of which can be used for hotspot. I need the hotspot for my work.<\/p>\n<p>The base model phone comes with 128 GB, I paid $100 extra for the upgrade because I figure I&#8217;ll have this phone for a while. It comes with 7 years of free OS updates after all! Though batteries tend to last only about 5 years, so there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I did well getting a new phone&#8230;. I just paid $110 cash plus $320 over 2 years for a new Google Pixel 9 Pro with 256 GB. I&#8217;ll soon trade-in my working-well-enough phone for $120. For the service, I&#8217;m now paying $55\/month (fees included) for &#8220;Google Fi Unlimited Standard&#8221; Details: I had bought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11242,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221\/revisions\/11242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}