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Old Sep 15, 2012, 4:45 pm
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nkedel
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Originally Posted by Yaatri
Wirelessly posted (Samsung Galaxy S: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.4; en-us; SGH-T989 Build/IMM76D) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30)
What's a vood deal for you? I have an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S 4G (1700/2100 and 2100),T-mobile version that's been used for less than 6 months. It will do every thing you want and 3G/4G on the above two bands as well if the need arises. Of course it's not tje true 4G.
Isn't that keyboardless? Regardless, it'd be a great phone if it were in my price range; I'd expect it to be worth a good bit more.

As I said above:
Originally Posted by nkedel
my price point (under $200, under $150 would be better)
Currently leaning towards a refurb Nexus One, which is pretty much what I need except for the keyboard, and $149 on overstock. There are a couple of used models on Ebay which would fit my needs better, but which seem riskier.

There are some new (surplus) HTC Desire Z in my price range on eBay (around $165), which looks like a near-ideal phone, but they ship from Hong Kong and would be risking being here too late for my next trip (9/26.)
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