Skip to main content

AT&T discounts several GoPhone smartphones just in time for the holidays

att takes ax slashes prices several gophone smartphones version 1478130790 moto e 4g lte
Normally around to offer customers a cheaper way to officially use AT&T’s network, GoPhone now offers several of its prepaid smartphones at discounted prices just in time for the holidays.

Beginning today, customers can grab the ZTE ZMax 2 for $90, while the Asus ZenFone 2E, the cheaper cousin of the flagship ZenFone 2 smartphone, goes for $60. Elsewhere, the Microsoft Lumia 640 is being sold for a ridiculously low $20, while the Moto E 2015 is being sold at an even lower $15.

Recommended Videos

The Lumia 640 will be among the current crop of Windows smartphones to receive the Windows 10 for Mobile update, so you’d be getting a smartphone that will be supported, at least in the near future, by its manufacturer. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for the other three smartphones, most infamously the Moto E 2015, though they still represent great values at their respective price points.

The highlight of the deals, however, belongs to the ZTE Maven, which will be offered to customers for free if they opt for either the $45 or $60 a month plan. The $45 plan includes 1.5GB of 4G LTE data, as well as unlimited calls and texts. The $60 plan steps the high-speed data cap up to 4GB, though both plans include Rollover Data, which lets you use any unused data belonging to one billing cycle for the next cycle. However, customers have until the end of the next billing cycle to use the saved-up data.

The ZTE Maven isn’t that shabby of a smartphone, equipped with a quad-core Snapdragon 410 chipset and 1GB of RAM under the hood. Elsewhere, a 5-megapixel camera sits on the back, while selfie lovers will have to settle for the 0.3-megapixel camera up front. Finally, 8GB of internal storage is all you’re afforded, though that can be expanded through the Micro SD card slot.

As already mentioned, all of these deals are currently live, though there’s no word on when they will expire.

Williams Pelegrin
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Williams is an avid New York Yankees fan, speaks Spanish, resides in Colorado, and has an affinity for Frosted Flakes. Send…
I review phones for a living — here are the 10 apps I can’t live without
iPhone 14 Pro with custom home screen on Mickey Mouse phone holder next to flowers

For most of my life, I think I’ve had a pretty unique career path among my family and friends. Ever since I got the original iPhone, I’ve turned my love for writing into writing about technology, specifically mobile phones. Though I’ve pretty much been iPhone-only for most of my career, since I started at Digital Trends, I’ve been opening up to the world of Android.

Now that I’m checking out both iPhone and Android phones, the world of apps for me has expanded quite a bit. But regardless of what device I’m using, there are some apps that I need before anything else. Here are the first apps that I install when I get a new phone.
1Password (iOS and Android)

Read more
Using an Android phone showed me just how bad iOS notifications really are
iPhone 14 Pro with iOS 16 notifications compared to Google Pixel 7 with Android 13 notifications

I’ve been using an iPhone for over a decade. I received the original iPhone as a birthday present in 2008, and after just four months of use (without a case, of course), I dropped and cracked the screen. With the iPhone 3G about to launch, I decided to upgrade to that, and I’ve pretty much bought a new iPhone every year since — including the iPhone 14 Pro.

Before Apple added Notification Center in iOS 5, notifications were just alerts that would interrupt whatever it is you were doing, until you took action on it or dismissed it. And once you dismissed it, that was it — it vanished, never to be seen again, so you may have missed something important if you didn’t remember what it was.

Read more
5 phones you absolutely shouldn’t buy on Black Friday
Motorola Edge+ (2022) resting in the gnarled bark of Pacific Madrone tree.

Black Friday is one of the best times of year to stock up on new tech — smartphones included. Whether you're in the market for a flagship do-it-all phone or something that won't break the bank, Black Friday is the time to make that smartphone upgrade you keep pushing off.

But buying a phone during Black Friday isn't as easy as opening your favorite website and buying the first or cheapest phone you see. While there are a lot of great smartphone deals for Black Friday 2022, there are also a lot of stinkers. Before you head out and spend your hard-earned dollars, here are five smartphones you really shouldn't buy during Black Friday.
Moto G Fast

Read more