[_yb2s]

Phones that come with low cost prepaid no contract plans, and are boxed to sell from a display rack in a department store, but can also be purchased online. “Burner” because you can set them up with no personal details- popular for criminals, teenagers, etc.

I honestly don’t understand why anyone would not use prepaid plans- I use visible for example, and it has full unlimited data on the Verizon network for $25/mo with an iphone that cost me under $200. It doesn’t seem in any way inferior to a high priced contract plan to me.

[onionisafruit]

I think your definition is a little different from what others are thinking. I think of a burner as an alternate phone you can toss (burn) at a moment’s notice. For that, even the iphone se you described would be pretty expensive.

This isn’t to say you are wrong. Just that some of us are thinking something different when we see “burner phone”.

[esperent]

I always thought that (as well as the things you said) the word burner means it is cheap enough to discard (burn) after a single use.

[smcin]

But you can still play DRM content on them?

[_yb2s]

Yes, they're regular iphones, not different in any way.