It’s amazing what kind of smartphone experience $180 can buy these days. 

Let me back up a minute: I’m not talking about $180 on contract with a carrier. When you walk into your favorite carrier’s store and plunk down 200 bucks for a phone, you’re actually buying a device that costs $600 to $700. They’re just selling it to you at a discounted cost up front because you’re promising to pay their inflated service rates for a full two years — which lets them recoup the actual cost of the phone and then some. 

With the Moto G, you’re paying $180 outright — no contracts, no commitments, no obligations to pay inexplicably high monthly bills for the next 24 months of your life. You can take the phone and use it wherever you want, including at a prepaid carrier that’ll charge you as little as $30 to $45 a month, no strings attached. 

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