[zrobotics]

Yes, but 1000 phones aren't normally in the cards for poor people unless they're financing via carrier or using a tax refund. Before switching into software, I spent most of my mid-late 20s under the poverty line, I never had a high-end phone. But cheap android phones are readily available, here's one [0] for $100 USD that honestly looks like an absolutely fine phone.

IME people who are poor enough to not be able to get a contract with a carrier buy a phone at Walmart and then do prepaid carriers. This has the 'fun' side effect that they get a new number whenever they have to switch phone plans. These switches aren't deliberate, they just run out of money to keep up the old prepaid line, go a week or 3 without a phone, then sign up again. Porting the old number is too much work/time, so they just end up with a new phone number. Its just one of the shitty things about poverty.

[0] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/motorola-moto-g-play-2023-32gb-...