The TCL 40 XE 5G is now available at a super-low price point.
By Corinne Reichert
Verizon has announced it's the official carrier of TCL Mobile's new phone, the 40 XE 5G. Even better, the already low price point has dropped by $50 since the phone's announcement in February, meaning you can get your hands on a 5G phone for only $120. It has also launched a month earlier than originally projected.
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- Moderator's Note
- [RANT]
- When Verizon sent me a letter that said the "4G" phone my wife had
- been using wasn't "4G" enough for their network, they offered to
- sell me a new, improved, and more sexy instrument that was
- guaranteed to solve the problem - for about 0 dollars. The fact
- that the "new" instrument was *ALSO* "4G" was, AFAICT, supposed to
- serve as a lesson to junior executives-in-traning that the lower
- classes will believe anything: a party favor they could joke about
- while swilling their "Stirred but not Shaken" martinis and laughing
- themselves to sleep every night for a few months.
- Having helped Motorola to dispose of dated inventory at a nice
- profit - just like RCA and Tung-Sol and Sylvania and all the other
- makers of vacuum tubes had talked the FCC into reassigning the
- Eleven-meter Amateur Radio band to the Citizen's Radio Service, just
- before transistorized designs were to be made available, so that
- they could help to push out millions of CB sets that ran on their
- soon-to-be-worthless inventory - Verizon then reconfigured it’s
- network so that the "Range Extender" I had bought for hundreds of
- dollars when I moved to the high country, where mountains are a dime
- a dozen, but usable Verizon cell towers are nowhere to be found,
- became inoperative. The fact that I capitalized their business,
- saved them the on-so-plebian task of actually building a reliable
- network, and paid for the Internet connection that made it possible,
- well, that just proves that I'm in the lower classes, where ordinary
- people think that the current crop of corporate executives are
- drunken, avaricious tools whom kneel before their betters.
- [/RANT]
- Bill Horne