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enter the huawei honor. it's a budget phone. in fact, it's a mere $299.99 unlocked (it will be available on cricket wireless under a different name soon). that's half the price of your average high-end android smartphone. you can use it on almost any regional carrier in the us (it's sim unlocked, using standard gsm 3g bands with 14.4mbps hspa), as well as nationals like at&t and t-mobile. but the end point here is that you're free to use it pretty much wherever.
now, if you're looking to buy your first smartphone with all the top-notch 4g speeds and data bundles on a major national carrier and are willing to pay $80-100 a month for your plan,abercrombie and fitch jackets, this isn't the phone for you. in fact,custom soccer shoes, you should never buy a budget smartphone on a major carrier if you plan on paying that much monthly,prom dresses, because you're getting ripped off. but that's a rant for another day.
the honor is different from your average unlocked budget phone. mostly because it doesn't suck. in fact, it's actually pretty good - even before taking price into account. that's something to get at least a little excited about.
budget phone. the very sound of those two words, together, makes me slightly ill. in fact, it makes me almost immediately seethe with a sort of "nerd-rage." i hate the way budget phones are peddled onto the tech-illiterate by commission-motivated hucksters at "big four" carrier phone stores. i hate seeing people get locked into 2-year contracts because they got a "great deal" on a smartphone. "it was free!" they'll say, and that the nice sales representative (his name was jimmy) kept them from buying "something they didn't need," because they walked in with a firm spending limit and they weren't going to budge! i hate to then see that "free" phone utterly destroyed and broken just 6 months later, so that they end up making a $100 insurance deductible claim to get the same crappy phone again. but most of all, i hate the way that all of these budget phones completely, totally, suck. it's like watching the same b horror movie, over and over again. really, buying a budget smartphone on a 2-year agreement is like buying a car (the expensive monthly plan) in order to get a free $100 chile's gift certificate (the phone) - just plain dumb.
the huawei honor is the perfect phone for two kinds of people: the person on a low-rate regional carrier (eg,moncler jakets, metropcs, bell south, us wireless, etc) who wants a decent smartphone without having to buy an expensive data plan or get locked into a contract, or the person that needs a second smartphone for business or international travel (or any other reason). i'm sure there's other ways to justify it, but those are the big ones. why?
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