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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Prepaid cellular phones usually offered as pay-as-you-go type plans are the most recent technical developments in communication services. Many people choose to purchase this type of service in order to avoid any kind of lengthy contract, which would lock them into services for a designated amount of time and money. Prepaid wireless also has no credit check, deposit, hidden fees, age limit, monthly bills and most plans won’t make you pay an activation fee. They offer more control over your spending and are a great way to cut down on cell phone costs. You just simply add airtime as you need it, if you stop adding airtime to your prepaid phone then the phone will simply go “inactive”.

There are fairly a large number of cell phone provider that has jumped on the prepaid cell phone bandwagon, recognizing the large market of customers that are interested in obtaining cell phones without contracts or obligations. Currently, the chief prepaid cellular phone service providers are Cingular, T-Mobile, Verizon, Virgin Mobile, 7-Eleven, Tracfone, Net10 and Boost Mobile.

Cingular wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States. They offer two distinct plan types that give customers flexibility not afforded by many prepaid service providers. They also have great cell phone coverage and have good customer service.

Though they had a relatively late arrival to the US prepaid arena, Verizon Wireless owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States. This prepaid wireless service provider offers Inpulse and EasyPay plans; and they offer a wide network footprint and a growing 3G network.

Virgin Mobile offers one of the most feature-rich prepaid wireless plans available. They have a great coverage area and plan pricing is competitive, although it can be a little complicated. Boost Mobile is a reliable prepaid cell phone service provider that takes special aim at the youth of the cell phone user population. They have tons of in demand features available, which it is easy to see why Boost Mobile is a popular choice for the younger generation.

The 7-Eleven Speak Out Wireless, a Mobile Virtual Network Operator operating out of the United States and Canada is owned by 7-Eleven. This prepaid wireless provider offers a fixed rate of 20 cents per minute for local calls and 30 cents per minute for long-distance calls. Ne10 can provide simple prepaid service pricing and decent phone selection. It offers great prepaid service, minutes are priced competitively, directory assistance calls are charged as normal calls and nationwide long distance is included.

TracFone Wireless, a subsidiary of Latin American wireless giant America Mvil offers bare bones prepaid service that doesn’t have the bells and whistles of youth-oriented MVNOs such as Virgin Mobile or Boost. It has a large national service footprint, thanks to its agreements with a variety of wireless carriers. The Tracfone prepaid cell phones are available in more than 65,000 retail stores nationwide. Tracfones are great for those people who don’t want a contract, have bad credit and can’t obtain a contract with a standard cell phone company. They are also good for those who don’t use a phone a lot, don’t use a lot of minutes each month or who only use their phones for emergencies. Tracfone prepaid offers a variety of payment options starting with prepaid cards for 40, 100, 200 and 400 minutes that are sold for $20, $30, $50 and $80, respectively. They also sell two yearly prepaid cards, one with 150 minutes for $90 and the other one with 300 minutes for $130 that also double the minutes on other cards bought.

Whether or not to commit to a prepaid wireless service really depends upon your personal needs and preferences. Before deciding on your prepaid service provider, it is important to do some research; look at the various carriers’ Web sites to familiarize yourself with what they have to offer.
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