Don't let a $100 or $200 price difference be the deal breaker if it's really the phone you want. A year from now you'll never miss it. I bet there are lots of things you spend a couple hundred bucks on that aren't as important to you as that phone!

[Listen to me, the great expert whose most expensive cell phone I ever bought cost me $21 without contract, and it wasn't even the most expensive choice. I really went high-end with that one. I still have it, too, but Tracfone doesn't operate in Mexico.]

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