I am in the market for a new cell phone and carrier.
I shopped around and was pretty set on getting the HTC Incredible S through Taiwan Mobile. The plan I was gonna choose is 998nt a month(includes unlimited data) and the cellphone itself would cost 7,990nt.
However, I was recently offered an opportunity to buy an unlocked HTC Incredible S for a slight discount, 16,300nt vs. retail of 17,900nt(according to PChome). At first, it didn’t seem like there would be any benefit(price wise) to buying an unlocked phone and choosing a customized monthly plan.
Then I started getting a little creative with my thinking. What if I bought the unlocked phone and signed up for Taipei’s WiFly service? I did a search here and read every single thread within the past 3 years concerning wifly. It seems like not a lot of people use the wifly service because everyone has an unlimited data plan through their carriers.
The wifly service costs 1200nt a year for unlimited access, a stupid cheap price. 1200nt a year certainly seems much better than paying 998nt a month for a cell plan. I was thinking I could buy the unlocked phone, sign up for wifly for the internet and also sign up for one of those really cheap monthly cell plans from the main carriers for my calls(100-200nt monthly fees). I don’t make a lot of calls so those cheap cell plans suit me well.
Is this a viable strategy? Has anyone ever done this or tried something similar? Will wifly even work with the HTC Incredible S? I don’t wanna drop 16,000+nt for a cell only to find out my whole master plan won’t even work.
Obviously wifly is not the same as the carriers which is 3G. Which brings me to my next question. While doing my research here about wifly, I found out about Vibo. So I did a search and read every single thread about Vibo. It seems like this is another method I could employ. Buy the unlocked phone and sign up for Vibo. I went to Vibo’s website to check out their rates but the chart is really confusing, it looks like complete gibberish to me. So many different rates, redeemable, non-redeemable, it doesn’t even mention anything about internet access. If anyone can decipher that chart, it would be much appreciated.
So what does everyone think? Any advice, comments, or suggestions?