What's changed in the past year is that my wife has several friends who live and die by SMS texting. She can do it from her dumb feature phone, but she's getting itchy to give a proper smartphone a try. There's no easy way to add a smartphone to our current plan without restarting the two year clock and shifting to one of these awful new plans which have anything but unlimited data.
How bad is her featurephone? You can get a Kin ONEm (note the "m")
on ebay for pretty cheap. The Kin phones with an "m" at the end were original Kins that were flashed to remove the "smartphone" features of the original version. It still has a (poor) web browser, but all social media features have been disabled.
So, the Kin ONEm has a full qwerty keyboard, it's cheap, and it's recognized by Verizon as a featurephone. If all she wants short-term is a keyboard for easier texting, this may be worth a look. Swapping her current featurephone with another featurephone shouldn't cause any increase in cost or contract extension.
The Kin TWOm is also available if she prefers a more typical smartphone form factor.
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