A cheap flip phone is usually sufficient . I think for most people a Smartphone isn ' t excessive . There ' s a lot of information you can ' t access and communication you can ' t do with a flip phone . Most communication seems to have moved to text and chat apps . That said , you do a lot better than $ 120 a month . I ' ve had a prepaid $ 30 a month plan for unlimited data and text and 120 minutes of talk for the past 3 years . I use to do post paid , but this is a lot cheaper . It works out fine and on the rare occasion I need to talk more than 120 minutes I use Skype to make phone calls at 2 cent a minute . <| sep |> Survivability in all honesty is only an issue when you ' re extremely unfunded . When you start getting items on a NL , survivability is a non issue you have so much avoid you barely get hit anyways . Additionally , most bosses do % health damage , so disregarding classes like MihilePaladinetc that reduce % health damage , everyone will have the same survivability in a boss generally .