I thought I'd have to activate it to get the wifi to work . Any suggestions on what brand of phone would be cheapest and work well ?
I buy phones on ebay that have bad esn numbers (which means they can't be activated on the carrier network) I get them for under $10 .
Any of the Samsung galaxy s through galaxy 5 will work. Of course the older phones are cheaper. The htc evo also works very well. The keyocera hydro is only $40 at
Walmart but you can get them used for under $10 on ebay also. Its a newer phone.
Depending on the day and the luck of the draw I have to restart a phone or click done 2 or 3 times a day. There is at least one ad a day that trips me up.
My best advice is 1 phone for each of the apps your allowed to run. There are 4 apps that will give you 80 to 90 points with 2 points per 15 videos. So it will take you over 20 hours to max out the app as it stands now.
Then you have sbtv which is still 2 points per 5 videos and I believe 36 videos. So you can run that on your main phone and finish it up easily during the day.
The good news is that you will be looking at 350 points a day if you have 1 phone per app. Maybe 360 before doing anything else.
But 350 points a day = 2450 a week = 9800 a month. That is before any bonus points are awarded. So you are looking at over $100 a month. I've been averaging about $115 a month from swag bucks. My gf is getting about $80 a month. So we are able to save $200 for vacation a month right now without actually doing anything (unless you count 15 minutes or so a day of checking phones work).
We cash out every week for gift cards just incase an account gets suspended or shut down. We then take the gift cards redeemed as target ones. Go to target.com where we have a red card. The red card is our default payment. But we pay using the gift cards and still get %5 back. So we get $100 in Disney gift cards for every $95 in swag bucks.
It works quite nice.