Prepaid Cellphones

I use the net10 phone and like it, I don't do much phone calls and the minutes carry over for about $15 a month.

 

Virgin Mobile has a $150 Android phone, LG Optimus V, the plans are $25 for 300 minutes, $40 for 1200 minutes, and $60 for unlimited. All three plans include unlimited texts and data. They have more phones than that as well, some cheaper, some more expensive, like a $200 Blackberry Curve.

 

boost mobile/nextel here.$50 a month,unlimited calls,text,etc.Have had it for almost 5 years now and only places i dont have service is parts of wyoming and montana...

 

Ditto. I have the Blackberry 8330 on the $60/month plan and now if I pay on time, I get the shrinkage bonus. I will NEVER get a contract again. Im still fighting with Verizon on my old bill.

 

Net 10 has some great deals if you watch for sales. Last week Radio Shack had the LG 900g ( which is basically a blackberry clone ) for 29 bucks and if you dont use it much you can keep it alive for as little as 15 bucks a month, 200 minute card for 20 bucks and 30 days or you can grab a 6 month 1500 minute card that is good for airtime on calls or internet and those minutes carry over and stack up, it's a division of tracfone and Ive used them for years and had great service, and the net 10 worked out to be even cheaper than my tracfone with a double minute setup and the TF didn't have internet capability ( I bought one for my wife and liked it so much I went back and grabbed one for myself )

There is no way on earth that I would have any kind of cell plan again either. I still have teh bag phone from the first plan I was rooked into when I was out on the road when the blamed things first came into existance and I found out the hard way that you could get charged ten bucks just for driving past someones cell tower with your phone on. Do you have any idea how many cell towers you could drive by in the course of a month pushing a big truck, even when they first came out and coverage was sketchey at best I wound up calling in my accountant and lawyer to clear that mess up. I made a grand total of about 5 calls and had a bill that looked like I'd bought a new car.

 

I've been using the Straight Talk phone for the last 4 months or so. So far, I can't really complain. I'm doing the $45 unlimited talk, text, and internet deal. I could have gotten a better phone maybe, but I did get what I paid for. I opted for the cheapest flip-phone that they offered...which in all actuality is all I really needed. For internet...I have a computer....for pictures...I have a camera....for text and talk...I can use the phone. So far, my coverage has been great...using the AT&T network. The only drawback I can see with what I need is adding an additional phone. If I add my daughter...I may as well go with a plan...Straight Talk doesn't offer any multiple line plans that I am aware of, simply an additional phone and time card for the usage you want.