Verizon Phone Sale: Amazon Offers Droid Bionic, HTC Phones, No IPhone For One Cent

If you're looking to sign a new two-year contract with Verizon, and you have in your possession one American penny, you can get a pretty sweet smartphone from Amazon, thanks to a big new sale.

Amazon Wireless is offering over thirty Verizon phones, including Androids, Mangos and BlackBerry handsets, for one cent, from now through October 17; you'll have to sign a new two-year contract with Verizon, but once you do, a new smartphone (or flip phone!) is yours for almost free.

Among the well-reviewed Verizon phones on sale for a single penny are the Motorola DROID Bionic 4G, the HTC DROID Incredible 2 and the Samsung DROID Charge 4G. Non-Android devices include the HTC Trophy 4G (powered by Windows Phone Mango) and the new BlackBerry Bold.

Among the well-reviewed Verizon phones that are NOT on sale for a penny are any generation of iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy S.

The sale does come with some bad news for certain Verizon customers: If you were grandfathered in to the no-longer-existent unlimited data plan, you will have to give up that all-you-can-eat option in order take advantage of the deal. Tech site DVICE confirmed with Amazon spokespeople that the deal only works with "new activations," which means that your unlimited data would disappear once you signed the contract. If you never had unlimited data, however, or if you're going after one of the flip phones available, this won't mean much to you.

The Amazon sale on Verizon phones is scheduled to take some of the spotlight away from the iPhone 4S, which is being released on October 14 to record pre-sale orders and which is reportedly sold out at Sprint, Verizon and AT&T in the United States. This fire sale on Android phones also comes soon before the unveiling of the Samsung Nexus Prime, the newest flagship Android phone from Google.

The Amazon penny sale on Verizon phones ends at 11:59 PM PDT on October 17 (that's 3 AM EST on October 18, East coasters). You can browse through the 31 phones on sale and maybe make a purchase here.

Comments

[Andres64]

03:06 PM on 10/15/2011

Droid Bionic on Verizon's LTE network *rules*! With four bars, I get mid to high 20s (Mbps). Faster than my cable internet.

[barbra1971]

12:48 PM on 10/15/2011

Honey string?

[AJ Hoffman]

10:57 AM on 10/15/2011

They forgot to mention one very important detail. If you're an existing Verizon customer and you are not yet eligible for an upgrade, you do NOT qualify for this deal. Boo.

[JWoode]

12:35 AM on 10/15/2011

A flip phone?
Didn't the guy who invented post-its use one of those?

[Andres64]

07:53 PM on 10/14/2011

Hello? Moderators? Is there any reason my previous post has been pending for hours?

[Dorrell Wilson]

07:53 AM on 10/14/2011

Just got the Droid Bionic, bye bye AT&T-Mobile hello Verizon Wireless :)

[mairs]

02:09 PM on 10/14/2011

Have fun! :)

[Andres64]

02:39 PM on 10/14/2011

You're gonna love it.

[DungBeetle]

07:40 AM on 10/14/2011

Remember flip phones? Oh man. Good stuff.

[aristippe]

03:29 AM on 10/14/2011

Wow the economy must be really bad if they're giving all this stuff away for almost nothing.

[barbra1971]

12:49 PM on 10/15/2011

Just two year contract, really sweet.

[jayded]

03:08 PM on 10/15/2011

omg yeah blame obama cuz amazon is playing the lose-money-to-promote-burgeoning-business game.....guess you can draw the same assumption from them pricing their tablet $300 cheaper than the ipad.....lol.....they've been giving out dirt cheap phones for months to build up Amazon Mobile....

[GEM-592]

01:11 AM on 10/14/2011

If there's a way I can pay only a penny a month forever as well, then we might be on to something.

[tuff guy]

11:08 PM on 10/13/2011

and, on another story here on huffpo:

Verizon Privacy Changes: Verizon Now Monitors And Shares Your Web Surfing Information

[mairs]

02:10 PM on 10/14/2011

I just went to my account at Verizon online and they tell you to read the info and then give you the choice of opting out, so I did.

[tuff guy]

11:02 PM on 10/13/2011

i recently (several months ago) tried a verizon phone.

absolutely the worst user experience ever! returned the phone for a full refund and purchased my very first iPhone (unlocked iPhone 4). hands down, the best user experience i've ever had with a phone.

thanks, but i'll fork out money for a good user experience any day.

[Clairvoyant Evangelist]

10:28 PM on 10/13/2011

""Old Lamps for New! Old Lamps for New!" the Evil Wizard cried in the streets, pretending to be a lamp salesman.

"What a fool!" Aladdin's wife said. "To give a new lamp in exchange for an old one? Well! But if he is such a fool, why should I not take advantage of him?" And she took Aladdin' s old and battered lamp out to the street and to the Evil Wizard,, and he exchanged it, giving her a new one for it. And when he had the lamp he sought, he sent the rest of the wives who would exchange their old lamps, too, away. He had the prize he desired. He could take to himself all of Aladdin's power and wealth..."

Of course, that is only a story, and no one today would offer such an exchange. A deal too good to be true. A new phone with an OS full of holes and Malware factory-installed, with access to all the user's personal information and files and data, all built in...

[O K Ali]

09:23 PM on 10/13/2011

Amazon has always offered different phones for a penny, provided you signed a two year contract. I paid a penny for my Samsung Galaxy S, two weeks later got one for my father, for free from Radio Shack.

[SteveDenver]

07:52 PM on 10/13/2011

"If you're looking to sign a new two-year contract with Verizon..."

read no further

[Demidan]

04:43 PM on 10/13/2011

Ooooh more heavy metals for Indian/African children to sift through!