Cheap cell phones in Negril

I stopped at the Digicell store near the roundabout yesterday with Rob & Lisa. I was looking for an inxepensive cell phone for use in my extended stays to Negril. In the past, I've always borrowed a friends phone.

I'm pleased to say that you can purchase a brand new Samsung phone for $1,850J (+ gct). The phone is pretty basic but includes text, FM radio and MP3 player. I'm very happy with it.

The GSM card, if you don't have one already, is $500J extra.

I'm very happy with my phone and wanted to share this great offer with others who may be coming down to Negril soon.

Hey Tom,
Thanks for the insight, as I am hitting town tomorrow and this serves very well.

Thanks so much for posting this information. I was considering renting a phone from my rental car company, but this price for a phone will make it much more sensible to just buy one.

thanks, I will be getting the most basic model when I get there in November. :)

I picked up the phone that Tom mentioned and with 1000 international and 125 local minutes and walked out for a little over 4000J. Agree it makes sense too much to just buy one and have it for trips going forward.

we bought one 3 years ago, it is the best way to go, soon come

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Originally Posted by booger

I picked up the phone that Tom mentioned and with 1000 international and 125 local minutes and walked out for a little over 4000J. Agree it makes sense too much to just buy one and have it for trips going forward.

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All that for under US $50??? That's amazing.

I believe the pricing. I got essentially the exact phone with SIM from Claro in June for around $25. I had a Claro phone from Alfred's Taxi and just transferred my credits on that phone to my phone, easy. I bought some minutes at Claro, but then used EZETOP to top up the phone because they had some BOGO sale on the website.

When Digicel buys out Claro, I hope that my SIM will still work and I don't lose minutes....