I’ve had Android tablets going all the way back to the Barnes & Noble Nook. I’ve never had an issue with “phone apps” that some people complain about. Chrome, Office, and every game I’ve played work great. I don’t really use the tablet for much outside of that.

I’m not really too concerned with the color of the tablet. There’s a good chance it’ll end up in a case & you’ll never see its color…

$20/month, though, is a little too much for my particular use case. The vast majority of the time (probably close to 99.99% of the time), I’m going to be using the tablet at home, where I have ample WiFi.

I’d only potentially need LTE (or 5G) a weekend or two a year. A full week at the very most. Just whenever I happen to get a chance to travel somewhere. And the last time that happened was two years ago, back in 2018.

So if i paid the standard $20/month plan, that means I would have paid $240 in 2018, $240 in 2019, $240 in 2020… That’s $720… And out of those 3 years, i would have only used LTE for a single Friday-Saturday weekend. And really just the 10 or so hour travel time each day. I only had the phone with me when we were exploring the city, the tablet was either at the hotel or sat in the empty bus. And I don’t really see me needing it too much for the rest of 2020… I’m holding my thumbs, but I’m not too hopeful for 2021 either… Maybe a weekend excursion during the summer, if we’re lucky.

I’d like to do an LTE(/5G) watch as well. Which if I’m not mistaken is only $10/month. But again, I’m not going to need LTE that often on it given I almost always have my phone in my pocket so I can use its data plan via Bluetooth. Or when I don’t, I’m generally at home in WiFI. Given it just mirrors notifications and the occasional Assistant query (Hows the weather? Turn the lights on! etc) I probably would be able to get by with just one of the old 200MB of free data tablet plans, for the few times I forget the phone at home or it runs out of juice or whatever.

And preferably, I’d like to do (Tablet+watch)*2 for both of us on the family plan. So it would have really been $1,440 for the three years when we only would have used it that one weekend…

The T-Mobile line is only $20, so it’s not too bad, it’s cheaper than an additional phone line. My beef is they usually offer the low end version in black. I was able to get the Tab S4 256GB Wi-Fi version in the pearl gray color for just $650 over the holidays that year.

You can get a 2GB LTE Data Plan for $10 and it only slows down after you use the 2GB LTE High Speed there are no overages charges…keep In mind if you’re getting a tablet promotion it has to be on 6GB plan or higher but you can get Unlimited High Speed for $20…comes in handy when traveling

That cool. But still,that only 3 yrs. I am in NYC,so the tax would be about 10 pct. So I looking at $1700. Yes I know either Tmo or Samsung might have sale on them,but still that’s without keyboard,going by the Tab 6 keyboard,that another $100-150. Bring it up to $2000. To tell u the truth,if I could afford it,I would go for the + myself. Like I wrote at least with windows I know will get updates until they bring out a new version of windows.

you lose me at not wanting to pay 20 monthly but willing to pay 10 for one use

Because it would be cheaper for me to pay $10 per day* than it would to pay $20 per month. [*Assuming we’re talking a day of unlimited data – if it’s $10/GB that would probably be a different story]

The standard $20 per month plan would run me $240 for a year.

I mainly use my tablets at home, where I have WiFi. I’d only need access to the T-Mobile cellular data network when I go on a bus trip somewhere. If I’m adventurous that might be two weekends a year, usually less. So we’re talking probably never going over $40 for the year.

My last trip, and the only one that year, was a weekend trip into the city to catch a show, two years ago in 2018. We left Friday morning and were back late Saturday. In 2018 instead of paying $240 I could have only paid $20. In 2019 and 2020, instead of paying $240 each, I would have paid $0. $20 is a lot less than $720. And with the way things are going, I have a feeling I probably won’t be doing too many trips in 2021 either.

I think just like you, plus I don’t like missing TMo bands, so I never buy anything lol.
We need to think more like Tek- way cheaper than a Sam flagship phone. But it’s tough to pull the trigger when in turn way more expensive than…