About Tracfone Prepaid Cell Phones

by John Bear

Tracfone is a company that offers a large selection of prepaid cell phones. The tracfone cell phones offered by the company are generally from the two of the worlds leading cell phone manufacturers, Nokia and Motorola. But currently, there are LG cell phone models offered by Tracfone.

All of the phones offered by tracfone are equipped to handle free voice mail, free caller ID and free call waiting services. Sixty days of active wireless service and 10 minutes of starter airtime is also included in the tracfone starter package.

Tracfone emphasizes affordability and service quality over flashy cell phone features that is tracfone takes pride in itself on offering the largest selection of basic and easy to use prepaid cellular phones with easy and simple to understand plans.

There are some tracfone flip phones available as well as non-flip ones. There are phones that have either monochrome or color screens. There are phones that features like alarm clock, radio, calculator, currency converter, call divert, and speakerphone capability. The higher end tracfone cell phones come with a lot of extra features such as downloadable screensavers, wallpapers, ringtones and games. There are also tracfone camera phones available. But generally, the two tracfone prepaid wireless cell phone types are standard-rate tracfone and single-rate tracfone.

With a standard-rate tracfone prepaid cellular phone, calls for 1 minute from your home calling area uses up 1 unit of your account balance, 1 minutes uses up two units for roaming calls and it costs zero point five units to send or receive text messages. While for a single-rate tracfone cell phone, 1 minute uses up 1 unit of your account balance, there are no roaming charges and text messages cost only zero point three units.

The tracfone Airtime Balance Display shows the user how much airtime you’ve used and how much is left allowing the consumers to track their usage and to take control over their cellular phone expenses.

Tracfone cell phones and tracfone cards through their website and at the retail outlets nationwide. Many people like to decorate their tracfones with customized accessories, which is why each cell phone manufacturer offers accessories for specific models. Cell phone accessories are also available online and at the various retail outlets nationwide. The Motorola tracfone W370, Motorola V176, Motorola c261, Motorola C139, Lg 3280, Nokia 2126, Nokia 5100 and the Nokia 1100 are just some of the tracfone phones being offered.

With the vast variety of tracfone cell phones to choose from, you should compare the tracfone prepaid cell phones according to the features to be able to find the handset that suits your lifestyle and needs. The best tracfone cell phone for you also depends on where you live; it should have a great cell phone coverage in your area.

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