My regular line is on AT&T, the rest of my family is using Cricket. That said, by the time you add four lines to an account, the fifth one is free, assuming you stick with the $40/mo plan. I've been using that to acquire (and test) cheap Android phones for work.

Cricket is basically AT&T throttled to 8mb/s on LTE. Family seems to be reasonably happy with it, except my daughter who frequently goes over the 4GB monthly allotment and gets slowed to 128k/s :P

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There are actually three SIM card sizes:

  1. Standard SIM (used by the 3GS and all my old Nokia phones)
  2. Micro SIM (The iPhone 4/4s had this, as did my Nokia Lumia 520)
  3. Nano SIM (Most GSM phones use this now)

I actually meant the Micro SIM (not mini SIM).

the only odd thing about it: it uses a mini SIM instead of a micro SIM. Had to find an adapter for it (fortunately have plenty of those).

@kdfrawg however, it might be the winner of my informal "cheap Android" shootout.

@kdfrawg it's a phone. It runs Android somewhat smoothly. It takes half way decent pictures.

@kdfrawg that's a lot of peppermint patties!

it's roughly the same size as my iPhone 6s Plus. It's not the highest resolution screen, but it's decent.

My latest "cheap Android" handset is here: the Alcatel OneTouch Flint [alcatelonetouch.us]. Only cost $20 as a refurb. Already seems like a huge improvement compared to the Kyocera one.

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@kdfrawg exactly. The overabundance of insulin in my system is the more immediate concern. I suspect addressing that will also address the weight problem.

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@kdfrawg no doubt dropping 75 pounds would do me good.

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