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Just a few weeks ago, Sprint unveiled a pretty tempting (and brusque-lived) offer on the iPhone 8:
$8 per month
when you sign up for a Dart Flex program.

Today, the carrier has a similar deal lined upward for
Apple’due south best phone (for now): The
iPhone 10 for $v per calendar month. Once more, that’southward with an 18-month Sprint Flex plan — but there’south a second requirement as well: an eligible merchandise-in.

What phones are eligible? In a rather frustrating move, Sprint doesn’t provide a list — you lot but have to work your way through the phone- and plan-choice pages, and then enter details virtually your phone to run into if it qualifies.

Thankfully, I’ve got the listing right here: Apple iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, vii, vii Plus, 8, 8 Plus, SE and X; Asus Zenfone AR; Essential Phone; Google Pixel, XL, 2 and 2XL; HTC 10 and U11; LG G5, G6, Stylo iii, 3 Plus, iv, V20, V30 and V30 Plus; Motorola Moto Eastward Plus 5, E5 Play, G6, X4, Z, Z Droid, Force Droid, Z Play, Z2 Strength, Z2 Play and Z3 Play; Samsung Galaxy A8 Plus, J7, J7 Perx, J7 Prime, J7 Refine, Annotation five, Note 8, S5, S5 Agile, S6 Edge, S6 Edge Plus, S7, S7 Active, S7 Border, S8, S8 Active, S8 Plus, S9 and S9 Plus; Sonim XP58 and XP8.

Don’t have a phone to trade in? Sprint lets you charter the iPhone 10 for $20 per month, which still beats the other Big Four carriers past a lot: AT&T charges $33.34 per month for xxx months; T-Mobile, $30 for 30 months; and Verizon, $41.63 for 24 months.

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Of course, there’south more than to the equation than the toll of the phone itself. Don’t forget the required service program that goes with information technology. In Dart’s example, your options starting time at $twoscore per calendar month (with autopay), a price that includes just 2GB of high-speed data. The unlimited plan costs $60, or $seventy if you desire it to include Hulu, Tidal, HD video streaming and other perks.

But if you’re able to get the iPhone X for simply $5 on top of that, in that location’s no other Big Four bargain that comes anywhere shut.

Keep in mind that at the end of 18 months, you’ll have to pay off the balance or return the phone. You can too upgrade to a unlike phone after 12 months, but of course it’ll probably cost you more than $5.

The other affair to consider: Apple will very probable unveil some
new iPhones next month, and the Large 4 carriers oft trot out compelling deals to go with them. Just I’d exist surprised to meet annihilation quite like this. Assuming you’re going to pay effectually $60 per month for an unlimited plan anyhow, getting an iPhone X for just an extra $5 is mighty tempting.

Your thoughts?

Bonus deal:
Kids these days become all the absurd Star Wars gadgets. And Cheapskate readers get all the cool deals on them. (The gadgets, non the kids. That would be weird.)

To wit: For a limited time, and while supplies terminal, Daily Steals has the
VTech Star Wars First Order Stormtrooper Smartwatch for $25.99 shipped
with promo code
CHPSKTROOPER. That’southward an exclusive, folks! Civilians pay $35 (and Amazon charges $thirty).

I hadn’t heard of this thing until yesterday, only it sounds mighty absurd. It has a colour touchscreen, a option of 30 faces, a vox recorder (with vocalisation-irresolute effects!), a motion sensor that can trigger Star Wars sounds (vwoom! vwoom!) and even a figurer.

Forget kids — I want ane of these for myself! To analyze, it’south non a smartwatch in the traditional sense in that it doesn’t pair with a phone, but it certainly does audio similar a smart buy, especially because that it was originally $60.

CNET hasn’t reviewed this, just over at Amazon, nearly ane,600 buyers rated information technology 4.3 stars on average.

Originally published on Aug. 10, 2018.

Update, Aug. xix:
Corrected information regarding finish-of-lease options.

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