Can I Really Get It All For $80 A Month?

When you are using your EVO, the first question that most people ask is, “Is there any way to make this cheaper every month?” Well, in short, the answer is not really. You will see people that purchased the phone at $500 and now just use it on WiFi at home and blah, blah, blah… But in reality, you can’t use your EVO for under $80 a month.

Now, there are some great ideas you can do to make it a bit of a money saver to your home. First off, if you are a light internet user, the Sprint HotSpot app allows you to use your EVO as a wireless router for your home devices. The cost on this is $30 and is great if you are the only user. I don’t recommend this if you are out of a 4G area or if you are a heavy Nexflixer, but for the average “Facebooker/Twitterer” this is a great solution. This can save you as much as $50 a month in home internet fees through companies like Comcast or $15 off the Clear price for the same service.

The next piece of the puzzle is you can use your device as your camera/camcorder pretty well. If you are taking snapshots and home video, the quality is excellent. You can share these over Wi-Fi to the internet or again using your phone connection, you can upload them directly to YouTube, Picasa, Facebook and more.

The barebones package that Sprint offers on the EVO is, unfortunately, $79.99 a month plus taxes. This covers almost everything your EVO can and will do, including unlimited data, both 3G and 4G.

Now, a knock against the EVO is that it is not a worldphone, or a phone that will work overseas. To live life to the fullest, simply get over there, turn off your voice connection and use a VoIP solution like VoIPBuster or Skype while on Wi-Fi. You can use this service to make free calls to many countries and other users.

Many hotels and public venues worldwide offer a free Wi-Fi internet connection and VoIPBuster requires one of the lowest bandwidths of any of the low cost VoIP providers. You can also use services like this at home when you are close to using all of your included land-line minutes.