The 5 – Mobile Phones That Don’t Look Prepaid
The prepaid wireless market is hot so hot that Sprint decided it wasnt enough to just lease its wireless network to Virgin Mobile, it went ahead and bought the entire company. Prepaid offers some advantages over contract plans, most notably in the fact that you dont have a contract. Youre free to come and go as you please and can better budget your spending. While prepaid phones have come a long way in form and function, theyre generally not the slickest handsets out there. Still, you can find some gems in this episode of The 5, Rich DeMuro takes a look at five mobile phones that dont look prepaid. techvi.com *** HEY THERE I’M RICH DEMURO AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER EDITION OF THE 5! IN THIS EPISODE WE’RE TAKING A LOOK AT PHONES THAT DON’T LOOK PREPAID. OVERALL, PREPAID WIRELESS MINUTES ARE MORE EXPENSIVE… BUT YOU DON’T HAVE A CONTRACT. JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT TO GO MONTH-TO-MONTH DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO CARRY AROUND A BARE-BONES FLIP. THESE PHONES HAVE SOME POPULAR FEATURES. KEEP IN MIND – EVEN THOUGH MANY OF THEM FEATURE A FULL KEYBOARD – THEY’RE NOT EXACTLY SMARTPHONES. ((NUMBER 1)) FIRST UP ON OUR LIST… THE MOTOROLA CLUTCH I-465 FROM BOOST MOBILE. THIS PHONE COMBINES THE BLEEP BLEEP YOU DEPEND ON WITH THE FLEXIBILITY OF A FULL KEYBOARD. YOU DEFINITELY DON’T HAVE TO BE A MATH GENIUS TO OWN THIS PHONE… BOOST MOBILE GIVES YOU UNLIMITED VOICE, WEB, WALKIE-TALKIE, MESSAGING AND MORE FOR JUST 50 BUCKS A MONTH. THE CLUTCH FEATURES A FULL QWERTY KEYBOARD, BLUETOOTH AND GPS …
If you want a cool cheap touchscreen phone you should get the Rumor Touch from Virgin Mobil it cost 150 plus whatever plan you want. Its very similar to the samsung instinct and its nice.
@prokilla0022 Now comes a rumor, courtesy of Android Guys, that Boost could also get the Kyocera Rio Android device that will be on the CDMA side
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I have the Blackberry Curve with VM. My favorite prepaid phone thus far but it does run $300.
@codyy123ify
its a good phone
i got the lg rumor touch and im through vm its prettty good
someone please help me with this….how does he compute that pre-paid minutes are more expensive overall???? I like the idea of not being owned by a contract…and I think most pre-paid plans (especially unlimited plans…if it is your primary phone) are less???? am I wrong??? please let me know…
i use my iphone 3gs with simple mobile… sweet…
@mthomas12689 i think its not the minutes that are expensive, its the phone itself… i had boostmobile, with a plan of 50 dollars a month, with the new motorola i1 /…. and the phone cost 380 /// so ur paying more because of the phone, you have to buy the phone fully, but you out of contract…./….
yeah and they cost like 400 dollars plus cell phones give you brain tumors and brain cancer..
@saxplayerale they cost like 80 dollars, and a recent study shows that they dont give brain tumors or cancer lol
@flipskater218 I’ve already had an 80 dollar one but they suck , Maybe bc I liked the expensive ones. And they do give brain cancer my aunt has cancer from cell phone use
altell was the BEST prepaid cell phone service by far…its a real shame verizon bought them out but i still have it and it still works great….i bout it a few yrs ago….i pay like 15 bucks a month free nights free weekends unlimmited free text day or night contract free…..and its a mortorola brand…iam a big texter and all my text cost me nothing….the phone i have no longer exsists anywhere so iam gonna keep it….i do have an ipod touch also lol
The finess is now available on StraightTalk which uses Verizon’s network, and only costs $50/month with tax for unlimited phone/texts/mobile web.
He forgot the LG RUMOR TOUCH for virgin mobile…touch screen,slide out keyboard,2 megapixel camera,games,memory card slot,web browser,music player…i suggest getting this phone with the beyond talk plan….for 25 dollars you get unlimited web,text and 300 minutes of talk,with no contract…check the website for more details
My iPhone is on T-Mobile pay as you go but only talk n txt no data
I love my Samsung Finesse but I got mine from Straight Talk and I get national coverage. With their $45.00 per month unlimited plan which gives me unlimited calling and texting anywhere in the States!
@fr1j0l170 I have the BlackBerry from Boost. $60 month but worth it, how do you like the motorola i1 so far?
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You forgot the beat one of all. The rumor touch by virgin mobile
@codyy123ify why
Cody, got your advise! thanks, instead I got a Samsung R451 and wow! It’s a great phone, cool, efficient: I don’t have finger anymore, they are texting turbo machines! And I only paid 110 for it at walmart. I got it with Straight talk, and the best is all the money I save, no contracts, no drop calls and only $45 a month all unlimited!
Can i use the Evo 4g with virgin mobile? since their both from sprint….
Bberry’s for old people dude! i so love my samsung. its cool and has a camera. plus because itr’s prepaid and i dont get a bill my parents dont bug me with how much i talk or text. for onlu $45 with straight talk i have unlimited text voice and multimedia.
life is beautiful.
I AM BEGGING EACH AND EVRY ONE OF U NOT 2 GET TRACFONE!!!
@Nindiscods as far as i know only phone’s the virgin mobile company sells will work as most of their phones do not use sim cards. nor are there any true 3g phones let alone 4g. So i’m betting no but of course i can’t confirm this.
@Megaz0 I know they dont use SIM cards but on my accout page i can use an ESN # to switch, so I was just wandering, and i think the Blackberry and Rumor Touch. Thanks though!