Was doing a little research on lowering my bills and all. Came across an article on low cost, high feature cell phones. Looking now at getting the BLU advance 5.0, which is $59, total. Android, and on paper, it looks like it is gobs better than the iPhone 7 I'm paying $31 a month for. It also gets excellent reviews everywhere, not for being the greatest phone ever, but for succeeding at just being a decent smartphone at a good price. If it lasts me six months, I'm ahead of the game. Hell, of it lasts me two months, I'm ahead.
I figure if anyone here has any firsthand knowledge, I'll buy one, try it out for a few days and if it's acceptable, sell my iPhone for payoff plus a couple hundred bucks and make the switch to cricket at that time. My wife will never give up an iPhone, but hers is paid for and she's happy with it still, so no biggie.