Free with a plan just means you paid for it in installments without them breaking down how much of your monthly payment is going towards the device vs towards the network use. Had you opted for a cheaper device you could have got the same plan for less money. The phone is never actually free, just cleverly marketed to seem free.

Good foldables are way above the $ 1000 mark.

I recently got one of these (Galaxy Z7 Fold) and I can't imagine ever going back to a regular phone. The big screen is what makes the phone finally begin to resemble actual productivity tool.

Is the Flip 7 not a good foldable? It's less than $1000.

What makes a good foldable better than say a $700 RAZR?

They're tablet sized screens folding to phone size, instead of phone size folding to half phone size.

Apple should create 1.5x1.5 and 2x2 inch variations of a wrist "Panel Watch Ultra". Be great for diving - and everything else.

That would be the half sized phone I would buy.

> It was also free with a prepaid phone plan

It's not really free. It's just built in to the cost of your plan. Your plan would be half the price if you weren't paying for the phone.

Yeah, why do people call it free? You do pay for the phone, just not the full amount upfront.

It was a prepaid plan that was the same price whether I got the phone or not. I guess you could say everyone who didn’t get the phone was subsidizing those who did, but there’s no way to opt for lower pricing if you BYOD. So no, in this case that’s not really true. If it were Verizon where you can pay less if you BYOD then sure but that’s not what I did.

> It was a prepaid plan that was the same price whether I got the phone or not.

Fair enough, then it makes sense to get the phone.