StraightTalk prepaid cellphones?

I bought one to try out because my service with Alltel was being taken hostage by AT&T. As far as voice service is concerned, it worked everywhere my Alltel phone worked (I run southeast regional).

As for the phone itself, I bought the Samsung R355C which kinda looks like a Blackberry, but in no way functions like a Blackberry, so if that's what you're expecting, you'll be severely disappointed.

Texting worked ok, however the internet service, which the $45 plan came with, was completely unusable. Most web sites wouldn't load because of the lack of phone memory allocated to the web browser. Installing a 2GB memory card didn't help either--there was no way to get the web browser to recognize the card. All in all, I'd say they're not worth the money unless all you are gonna do is talk on it... a lot.

 

If you'd like to buy that Samsung from me, PM me an address where to send it. It cost me $99 a month ago and I think they're selling them for $78 now. I'll sell it for $35.

 

I have heard that straight talk is actually quite good. Ive been thinking of getting one and I prob going to get one very soon as a second line. They have great prices on cellphones and their unlimited everything plan for 45 bucks sounds great. Also, no contracts, and no monthly bills is a plus.

 

That seems to be a common problem with Samsung "dumb" phones. My daughter has a Samsung Gravity T (we have Tmobile) and it sometimes won't open the web browser due to lack of memory. The biggest problem with that phone is Samsung didn't give it enough RAM or a fast enough processor (only 187mHz) to deal with the TouchWiz UI. The internal carrier/Samsung programming just took up too much memory. Having a memory card didn't make a difference unless she moved all her pictures/songs to it, thereby opening up some storage space. She will eventually get her mom's Android when my wife gets an upgrade.

On the flipside I bought my phone unlocked (ATT Tilt with Windows Mobile 6.1) and cleared the memory of all the built in ATT files. That opened up nearly 30mb of memory! Branded phones have WAY too much built in junk.

 

Straght talk does just fine for phone calls only, but the internet is way to SLOOOOOOOW!.

 

My girlfriend bought one and seems to like it. She has fewer dropped calls than she did when she had a Sprint phone.

Straight talk has phones using both types of networks in the US, CDMA and GSM. On the box of the phone somewhere it will say which one it is. The CDMA phones run on the Verizon network, and the GSM phones run on T-Mobile. The phones will ONLY run on towers native to those networks, so if you have a Verizon phone, and are in areas a lot where your phone says "extended network" a ST phone will not work there. As far as data, at least on the Verizon side, the phones use the slower 1X RTT network instead of the 3G or 4G networks, hence why they are able to offer a $45/mo unlimited plan.

 

Thanks for the codes sazook. The CDMA is the one I want. I'm not into all that texting and internet on a phone. That's what a laptop is for. I think I can get by on the $30 month plan. I never talk more than a 1000 minutes. On the other hand my sister is a textaholic and gets by on $30.

Much better than $75 month and a two year commitment. I think most people in the past had to play around with different plans until they found one that is suitable for them. I had a few two year commitments I couldn't wait to get rid of.

 

http://vzwmap.verizonwireless.com/d...EST?requesttype=newsearch&coveragetype=prepay

If you go to that link and ignore the "prepaid roaming" areas, that should give you a pretty good idea of ST's CDMA coverage.