Comment by trvz
3 days ago
Disingenious title, as the phone at 25$ is subsidized.
Sure, you can properly buy a phone for not much more, but so can you a Raspberry Pi.
3 days ago
Disingenious title, as the phone at 25$ is subsidized.
Sure, you can properly buy a phone for not much more, but so can you a Raspberry Pi.
Also, the llm that did the vibe coding did not run on the phone.
Of course not, just the client. But it did make real tool calls on the client device and write + modify existing config, troubleshoot and get it running, which is still pretty damn cool in my eyes
what do you mean by subsidized? do you have to buy a phone plan with it? i tried to add it to cart, and while it says it's locked to Straight Talk, it's not making me pay for a plan (though i'm not in the us so i'm not gonna actually order it to check)
Nowhere in the world can you make a smartphone at $25 each, even with a bit of slave labor. Either the LTV of a phone is like few k dollars for them, or someone argues it is, or they want network effect, whatever. But $25 is too cheap of a price to make sense.
You do not need to buy a phone plan with it (although they hope you will).
Eh, nitpicking I think. It really was $25 and anyone in driving distance of a Walmart can pay 25 real USD and grab one. For sure they are losing money on the hardware in hopes that you subscribe to the plan.
I decided to buy one, but for the price of two Walmart delivered them to my door in just a few hours.
Hell yeah