MyMan on Why such crappy phones?

The attraction for me has always been the december free phone with $100 top up and $25 bonus. Been with speakout for 10 years and have a collection of free phones. Looks like this year free phone ended, I still forked out $10 each for 2 alcatels out of habbit, cant complain for 10 bucks even just for the nice charger and long micro usb cable.
Actually gave the alcatels away to folks looking for a simple cheap emergency phone. And Grandma is still using the older alcatel i gave her long ago, she only knows to answer calls and hang up the 2 big buttons. Kids using 2 blu4 as cheap ipods. My wife and i use z220 to call and text each other when needed. Free phones worked out well so far for me. But now no more and pay more than 10 bucks for crappy phones, nah.