Ask HN: Phones Under $100
Anyone have some quick recommendations, looking for a secondary backup phone. The answer depends a lot on what you need it to be able to do. Make calls? Support the latest banking/travel/communication app updates? Run any old VOIP app in a pinch as a true "backup phone"? Simply connect to wifi and browse the web? Just play basic media? The older they are, the less they will have support for recent app versions or "modern" websites. But there are some good old iPhones under $100. Whether it does what you need it do, to serve as a backup, depends a lot on what sort of functionality you are backing up. Go on Swappa, sort unlocked iPhones by low price, pick one with good photos and description in your budget. Ask an LLM what limitations it will have, since at that price it will probably have some compared with what a new phone can do. Look at the galaxy A17
Here's one for $103.
https://www.hsn.com/products/samsung-galaxy-a17-5g-tracfone-... I have the A15. It's been a good phone. I suspect the A17 is good too. The biggest issues I found is no video out and only 1 loud speaker.