Best Prepaid Phones — All The Features Without The Contract

Prepaid cellular phones have always offered hassle-free convenience but they haven’t always given you a choice of the best phones. Now you can shop online to find the best prepaid phones—top-quality phones with a full range of features.

Tracfone, one of the leaders in the prepaid industry, offers a lineup of popular Nokia and Motorola phones and accessories. Liberty Wireless gives user choices between Nokia and Samsung phones with full color displays along with a range of LG and Samsung flip phones. VirginMobile has one of the best prepaid phone lineups, with Audiovox camera phones and the Kyocera Slider V5 (MTV Edition) cell phone.

The prepaid market is so competitive that traditional carriers are starting to offer prepay plans. AT&T, Cingular and Verizon Wireless all offer prepaid plans along with phones that rival their traditional phone selections.

Prepaid phones can be dressed up with the full range of accessories available to their traditional cell service cousins. Changeable faceplates, retractable headsets, even FM radio headsets can be used with compatible phones.

The growing popularity of prepaid phones from Jasper, Alabama to Queen Creek, Arizona or even Searcy, Arkansas, has a lot to do with the reason people buy wireless phones in the first place—freedom. Prepaid phones come with no extended contracts, no credit checks, and no monthly fees. Prepaid carrier plans have a number of different ways to charge for service. Most offer a pay-as-you go option where you buy the minutes you need as you use them. Users can buy refill cards at a wide selection of retail outlets. Some prepaid plans offer a more traditional cell phone billing structure as well.

The great thing about prepaid plans is that you don’t lose unused minutes at the end of the month. Some plans do have an “expiration” date on minutes, while others like Tracfone let you keep the minutes as long as your prepaid cell phone is in service.

Also see; pay as you go phones.

Author Notes:

Greg Marsden contributes and publishes news editorial to http://www.cell-phones-n-plans.com. A cell phone industry resource that features service plan comparisons, cellular phone reviews and articles.