Motorola Prepaid Mobile Phones

Before I changed my mobile phone to Nokia recently, I was one of those who really fond of Motorola mobile phones. In fact, I used to own one of Motorola’s mobile phones, Motorola V3x. The mobile is a flip version and I was impressed with its stylish looks. That was the main reason why I decided to purchase the phone. Since I was using prepaid plan at the time, I have no problem switching the sim card from my previous Nokia prepaid mobile to the Motorola mobile phone. The phone that I bought at the time was in shiny dark blue color and I just couldn’t resist looking at the phone all the time.

That was about two years ago. I was using a Nokia prepaid prior to the Motorola mobile and therefore I could easily felt the coolness of using the mobile. I was looking for a flip phone and I had put much consideration on other phones before I finally found that Motorola phone. I tested the built-in camera and found out that the images taken were quite impressive (though these days other phones have superseded it). The Motorola V3x mobile phone has a 2.0 mega pixel camera and to me, the clarity of the pictures taken by this mobile is sharp enough as long as you pause briefly for about 2 seconds after snapping the picture. The image resolution can be configured up to 1600 by 1200 pixel and the phone is just excellent at taking the pictures anytime anywhere. If you are in dark places, you don’t have to worry since the mobile has its own LED flash and to me at that time that was really convenience.

Since the day I used the Motorola V3x, I didn’t encounter much trouble with it except for one thing. Once a while when I flipped the phone up or down, the mobile went blank for a few seconds and then restarted on its own. I have read somewhere on the net complaining similar issue but apart from that annoying circumstance, I had no other issues with the phone. Oh yes I did have some problem with setting up the 3G for the Motorola phone earlier but after I made few calls to my mobile service provider, the issue was resolved and I finally got to use the 3G feature. Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough opportunities to review the phone’s 3G capabilities since only few of my friends had 3G enabled mobile phones back that time.

However, I found out that the mobile does a good job when it comes to 3G. The speed is acceptable and the lag is only around one or two seconds. That might be due to the coverage and therefore I couldn’t really comment on that. Another thing that I loved about the Motorola prepaid phone was its external display. It is 96 by 80 pixels and it can display 65K colors. Once you have setup your wallpaper (Hillary Fisher’s wallpaper perhaps lol), you could just close the phone and your wallpaper would be shown on the external display. How cool is that huh?

The Motorola phone supports external memory card where you can slot in microSD memory card up to 2GB. I’m not sure whether you could actually put a 4GB memory card in it because I heard rumors among the phone sellers that that is possible. I rather not take the chance if I were you because all the capabilities that the mobile has is great enough that you don’t have to worry much about the memory.

When I had the phone, I managed to download few applications from the net to be used with the phone. The mobile supports Java-based mobile games but if the gaming experience might not be that good with this phone. Though the keypad is well-placed ( I have chubby fingers so if I say the keypad is good, it means it is good), you might experience a lot of lagging while playing. This assumption might vary from phone to phone but as far as I am concerned, the particular Motorola mobile is not dedicated for mobile gaming.

After I got married, I gave the Motorola V3x prepaid mobile phone to my wife and I used hers which was a typical candy-bar mobile phone. The phone could only be used for two main things; make and receive calls, and send or receive text messages (SMS). I was quite busy at that time, settling down at a new city and the new job, so I wasn’t paying much attention to what phone I was using. I only began to think of changing the mobile after a few months of using it.

So I did change the phone. I purchased a local made phone called i-Mobile. Not that impressive since the prepaid phone can’t be used for 3G though it has a camera. The camera can only take VGA format picture and therefore the pictures taken by the phone’s camera are not that good. However, I was satisfied with other capabilities. The phone can play MP3 songs and it can hold external memory up to 2GB. I can also listen to local radios and other functions are just moderate. Can’t say much about it since I only paid about two hundreds for the phone, if you know what I mean.

Deep in my heart, I still think that I am still in love with Motorola phone. So I spent some time lurking around in the city and stop virtually at all phone stores to find out more about latest Motorola mobile phones. I found one which is called Motorola MotoRazr VE20. I was told that the phone was introduced back in August last year. Yet, the Motorola phone is certainly a fine tune mobile. I can’t see any flaws and after trying out the phone (at the store of course), I once again fall in love with Motorola phone. too cliché for you to hear that, isn’t it?

Anyway I tried out all the mobile’s functions from the camera down to its calls quality. I called up my wife just to check the audio and it turned out that the audio is convincing enough. The coverage meter (bar) on the screen jumped from one to two and backwards but even with that, the phone still excels in delivering high quality calls. As usual, I have no trouble using the classic metallic keypad on the shiny Motorola mobile phone. The display screen is quite big and the phone is slim enough that you could easily hold in your hand with comfort grip.

Unfortunately Motorola has not changed much in some of its phone designs. The slot for the external memory card is still located underneath the phone’s battery which is not that user-friendly. I know, I hate it too when you have to take the battery out first and slot in the memory card carefully (if you place it wrongly, you have to repeat the same tedious task) and then put the battery back. If you are not that lucky or if you are not that fast, you might have to configure the time and date again on the mobile.

I went back and showed the phone’s brochure to my wife and she loved it. The phone has a feminine look and it is just so obvious why a lady will automatically falls in love with the phone at first sight. Ok, I admit I fell in love with the phone too at first sight, but perhaps that was triggered by my feminine side lol. Anyway I think that the Motorola prepaid is a smart investment and I don’t think that the phone would disappoint me much in the future.

If you are a Motorola fan, you might notice one of its RAZR’s phones, V3i. The V3i phone was announced years ago yet the phone is still one of Motorola’s great mobile phones. The phone weighs about 100 grams as usual it has almost all Motorola phone’s identities and trademarks. Shiny metallic keypad is one of the trademarks. What I love about this phone is its ability to keep up to 1000 entries in the Phonebook and that is cool. It’s silver quartz color is stunning and stylish that I always try to compare the prepaid mobile with mine (when I still owned the V3x).

The Motorola V3i’s camera is not that great since it is a 1.23 mega pixel camera but you may take pictures with resolution up to 1280 by 960 pixels. However, the mobile phone could not be used for video calls. I have no objection if you would want to have this phone now, but in the future when 3G coverage becomes ubiquitous, I suggest you to switch to another prepaid phone. Try Nokia prepaid phone because in my humble opinion, Nokia has produced a lot of 3G enabled mobile phones that are great in terms of its reception quality as well as its mobile’s video quality.

What is so great about Motorola phones then? To me, Motorola has gradually improved its array of mobile phones and at the same time ensuring that all of its phones still share the same design, at least at one of the parts or the body. Not like some other brands where their mobiles differ from one to another and the only thing that they have in common is the brand’s name printed on the back of the phone. apart from that, I think Motorola is a reliable mobile manufacturer since it has been producing telecommunication products for almost 75 years. What’s more, I bought a USA version of Monopoly and there must be a reason why they choose Motorola mobile phone as one of the avatars.

If you are looking for prepaid plans that come with Motorola phones, you can check out Alltel offers. You can get a Motorola V710 prepaid for less than $20 at Alltel. You can also get a Motorola C139 from Omni Prepaid, a prepaid company based in Georgia. We will talk more about this prepaid service provider in the future and in fact, I will be talk about all the prepaid companies in the Unites States.

Back to our discussion, if you prefer to get prepaid plan from Tracfone, you can look out for this unique Motorola phone called C139-4. The Motorola phone is just a simple phone but if you are looking for unlocked phone, than this phone can be grabbed at Amazon. However the only color available is Black for an unlocked Motorola phone, so if you are interested to have another color for the phone, for instance pink color, you can get the normal phone from Amazon too.

Friends, if you are light users and you rarely depend on mobile phones, then I recommend you to subscribe with less popular prepaid companies. Don’t go for the giants as their plans might sound perfect in the short term but they are not in the long time. If you spend less than half an hour every single day on the phone, then you are a light user. Check for other prepaid companies that are small yet recognized by many. Avoid the giants as much as possible, if you know what I mean.

One funny thing about mobile usage in America is the phone is considered as a necessity and not a lifestyle. Perhaps the coming of iPhone has changed that perception but the change towards that is climbing at a slow rate. Compared to those in Europe countries or in Asia countries, the mobile phone users are more concerned about what type of phone that they are using what are extra features available on the phone. To them, the mobile phone is a lifestyle.

I love to talk about mobile phones and I would never stop from discussing about them. I’m not really into Samsung mobile but I will try my best to find helpful reviews about the Samsung phones. As for now, no one can actually deny my love for Motorola prepaid mobile phone. Remember, the more you know about the phone, the more accurate your decision is when you want to buy a new mobile phone in the future.

Nokia Prepaid Mobile Phones

Being one of the first cell phone manufacturers in the world is not just the reason why Nokia has quite an exceptional reputation. Nokia remains as one of the cell phone manufacturers that keep on producing high quality and hi-tech cell phones from time to time. In fact, when I first saw a mobile phone, it was a Nokia prepaid mobile phone. I was too naïve to understand the concept of cell phones and to me, cell phone meant Nokia and Nokia meant cell phone. In other words, I always referred to cell phone as Nokia, for instance when I saw my friend didn’t bring his mobile to work, I would say to him why he didn’t bring his Nokia, though his phone was Sony Ericsson. At least, that was my first impression of mobile phone world.

Well, at first I thought that it was just me until recently I met a few of my alma mater friends and acquaintances at a high school reunion. While catching up with them, including talking to the prom queen at the time, I have discovered few things in common that we all share. We all use cell phones (of course some of them are using smartphones and PDA) and ironically, we all share the same brand; Nokia. Almost 90% of those who attended the reunion are using Nokia mobile phones. And quite more interestingly, almost 75% are using Nokia prepaid. Why? I assume that we are all fond of Nokia products since it launched its products here in our country.

Nokia has managed to conquer Malaysia’s mobile phone market for quite some time after the launch. This could be due to the fact that Nokia aimed to produce mobiles that can be used not just by the riches but also for everyone. Though Nokia is originated from Finland, almost no one at the time knows about it as we all tended to believe that the phone comes from Asia countries. Some would say that the mobile came from China and some said the phone came from Japan. In fact, no one really knew during that time that Nokia perhaps has been playing a very large role in the Finland’s economy.

Do you like history? No? All right, let’s just take a brief one. Nokia has actually inherited its name from a river in Finland which they called Nokianvirta and it was founded by Fredrick Idestam. Became popular during Kari Kairamo period as Nokia’s CEO, Nokia continues its journey by producing more and more high quality cell phones. By 2007, Nokia had captured the heart of all Asian people with its phone’s qualities as well as its unique shapes. Furthermore, since Asian phone users are more exposed to prepaid concept, Nokia has the advantages since its phones are compatible with either postpaid or prepaid plans. Nokia has again won the game.

Of course I can go rambling and rambling on about Nokia and its history but that is not what we are going to discuss here. Today my interest is to take a look at these days phenomenon that is related to Nokia. We are going to take some time to look at how many phone carriers have collaborated with Nokia to produce arrays of prepaid plans that utilize Nokia’s cell phone. There are no doubts over what Nokia phone can do and how many companies have actually used Nokia for both contract-based plans and prepaid phone plans.

There are just so many prepaid carriers in the US and I have listed down their names here just for your own reference. If you think you know any that is not in the list, please feel free to contact me or leave your comment just below the post. I have to remind you though that this list does not necessarily mean that they have Nokia phones offered in one of their plans. I’m just listing them down so that in the future if I have any news about these prepaid companies, I will definitely refer it to this post from a new one.

Alltel Prepaid Company
AT&T Prepaid Carrier
Boost Mobile Company
Cingular (merged with AT&T in 2007 and is now part of AT&T brands…)
Cricket Prepaid Plans
Earth Tones
Jump Mobile Company
Kajeet Prepaid Carrier
Liberty Wireless Prepaid Company
Locus Prepaid
Metro PCS
Net10
02 Wireless Prepaid Company
Omni Prepaid
Page Plus Cellular
Simple Freedom Prepaid Carrier
STI Mobile Company
SunCom Wireless
Total Call Mobile
T-Mobile Prepaid
Tracfone Prepaid Carrier
US Cellular Prepaid
Venture Mobile
Verizon Wireless
Virgin Mobile USA
Xtreme Mobile

Ok, all these prepaid companies are arranged alphabetically for reference purposes. If I manage to get my hands on any news about any of these companies, I will link it from the name to the new post.

Let’s take a look at the first carrier which is Alltel. Alltel does not have Nokia phones offered in its list but as far as I’m concerned, they have other brands such as Motorola, LG, HTC, and also Blackberry cell phones. Alltel itself is a reputable and has earned quite a lot of recognitions and it is worth to talk about the company soon in the future. Their prepaid plans are worth to consider too we are not going to go deeper about it yet. But they have three different basic prepaid plans; pay-per-minute, pay-per-day, and pay-per-month plan. Pay-per-month starts from $29.99 per month where you can have up to 700 minutes airtime (accumulated minutes you speak on the phone). Their popular plan at this moment is pay-per-day plan where the plan starts from 75 cents per day.

AT&T on the other hand does not need an introduction. Almost everyone knows who AT&T is. Since its merge with Cingular, AT&T could be considered as the country’s number one cell phone service provider. This Atlanta prepaid company has managed to design a great flexible prepaid plan and some of their plans are much better than other prepaid plans offered by other providers. However, their rates are considered pretty higher than other prepaid services from other companies. In other word, you should consider AT&T if you prefer to have branded names but if you are not, then you should consider other prepaid service providers as well.


How about Kajeet Prepaid? Who is Kajeet by the way? Kajeet is a prepaid company that is based in Maryland and dedicated to provide cell phones that are suitable for kids. To Kajeet, kids are intelligent and therefore they should be provided with the right cell phones. Since Kajeet believes that prepaid plans are suitable to be provided to kids, their plans are all prepaid which means you won’t find any contract plans in their offers.

Kajeet prepaid has a range of prepaid plans that are attractive yet affordable by anyone. With only $4.99 per month, I assume that this amount is affordable by almost anyone especially kids. Parents are welcome to subscribe to any of Kajeet’s prepaid plans for their children. I heard that Kajeet offers Nokia 6151 for one of their prepaid plans. The Nokia 6151 is a not-that-pretty cell phone yet it is a good cell phone. the Nokia 6151 does support 3G at 384 kilo bytes per second (kbps) and all other data connections such as GPRS, HSCSD, EDGE, Bluetooth, infrared, and also USB 2.0 connection.

For messaging purposed, the Nokia 6151 prepaid cell phone can be used for SMS, MMS, email, and instant messaging (IM). Oh yes the Nokia 6151 does have a camera which is 1.3 mega pixel. This cell phone could be considered as a tough mobile since many has claimed before that they had accidentally dropped the phone many times yet the phone continues to perform without any interruption. In other words, the Nokia 6151 prepaid cell phone from Kajeet is a superb cell phone and I really do recommend the phone for your children. Not just for them though, even I myself would buy the phone since the mobile is a great cell phone. oh yes, another thing is you can get up to 3000 free text messages from Kajeet if you purchase any of its prepaid plans.

There are a number of benefits when you use Kajeet cell phones. When you purchase any of its prepaid plans, you will be given a time manager or contact manager settings where you could block few numbers that are not supposed to be called by children, if you know what I mean. These numbers include (but not exhaustive) 911 and also 900 numbers. All these numbers can be blocked to avoid your children from calling them. However, one thing about prepaid plans that I don’t like is when they charge you for both sending and receiving text messages. I can see the reasons behind charging us when we text someone but I don’t see any reason at all why should we be charged for receiving the messages. No matter how low the cost is, I see that as too ridicule to be accepted. Yet, I’m happy enough now since in my area no one is charging your for receiving a text message!

I have already mentioned before that Cingular has merged with AT&T and therefore all of its products are now under AT&T brand. Yet, Cingular does offer Nokia phones on few of its prepaid plans. One of the phones is Nokia 6085. The cell phone is a camera phone and it is a flip type cell phone. Nokia 6085 does not support 3G and HSCSD but it does support Bluetooth data connection as well as USB 2.0. The camera is VGA (unfortunately) and you may capture up to 640 by 480 pixel images with it. It can be used for video capturing as well but I doubt that the video would be a clear crystal one.

Fortunately, the Nokia 6085 prepaid cell phone supports all popular media playback for music; polyphonic, AAC, and also MP3. That’s why the cell phone has a built-in slot for you to slide in your own microSD memory card up to two gigabytes. The Nokia 6085 prepaid cell phone’s talk time is up to 5 hours and standby time could last up to ten days. If you don’t have a memory card, don’t be too worry about it since the cell phone has an internal memory up to 4 MB. The mobile is quite light where it is only weigh 84 grams and its dimension is 92mm by 46mm by 23mm. If you are not that savvy or you are not really into mobile, then this Nokia 6085 prepaid from AT&T is definitely a smart choice.

When it comes to T-Mobile, I am always fascinated with its prepaid plans. But since our discussion evolves around Nokia phones, then I have to restrict my selections to only plans with Nokia phones. However, I’m not sure why they don’t have much sophisticated Nokia mobile phones in their store. One of the phones is Nokia 1208. The Nokia 1208 is a simple and basic cell phone yet it is good enough for anyone who believes that cell phone should only serves two purposes; make and receive calls, and texting. This phone from Nokia is just suitable for these audiences and if you want to get this phone from T-Mobile, just choose any of their prepaid plans. The phone’s specification is not that glamorous like any other Nokia mobile phones.

Let’s continue our journey. Virgin mobile is also one of those phone service carriers that do not need an introduction. It is an established company and Virgin mobile is recognized all over the United States though it is originated from the United Kingdom. Virgin Mobile has also expanded its services to prepaid service by introducing an array of prepaid plans that are competitive. Two types of prepaid plans are available to be chosen and they are pay-per-month prepaid plan and another one is pay-per-minute prepaid plan.

That’s all for now. I will continue with other prepaid companies in my next posts. As for now, I believe that I have made my points to show you that Nokia is a great mobile phone and there is no doubt why the cel phone is popular for both contract plan and prepaid plan.

Blackberry Bold 9000 Prepaid Mobile Phone

There is not even a slight doubt when it comes to Blackberry as a notable business mobile phone. For many years since RIM started producing it, the Blackberry mobile phone has become the standard in deciding whether a mobile phone is good for business purposes. The Blackberry mobile phone has easy to use user interface (UI) as well as its capability of push email. Therefore the Blackberry’s is becoming ubiquitous in the business world particularly in corporate companies. Managers and CEOs are using the cell phone since it acts as an organizer tool for them. Recently RIM has introduced another of its exceptional business mobile phone, Blackberry Bold 9000.

The Blackberry Bold 9000 prepaid mobile phone could be considered as a stylish mobile phone due to its modern looks. The Blackberry Bold’s curvy and rounded shape adds to its wonderful look and furthermore its removable black leatherette back cover somehow gives it a even classier look. Let’s take a look at the specifications of this Blackberry Bold 9000 mobile phone. Along the way I will try to compare the Blackberry Bold with other mobile phones but most of the time the comparison is just a comparison between the mobile phone and Blackberry’s previous mobile phones.

This rather classy Blackberry Bold 9000 prepaid mobile phone supports various networks such as GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, HSDPA850, HSDPA1900, and HSDPA2100. It’s size is 114 by 66 by 14 mm and therefore it could be considered a little bulky for some people. However, once it gets onto your palm, you should find it considerable in size and somehow you will get used to it in no time. Perhaps the weigh of the Blackberry Bold 9000 phone is also the main factor to forget about its size since it only weighs 133 grams. Quite light, don’t you think so?

The BlackBerry Bold mobile phone is using Xscale 624MHz processor and the display screen has a resolution of 480 by 640 pixels. Thanks to its wide QWERTY keyboard, it is easy to type accurately without too much trouble getting used to it. For your information, the Blackberry Bold 9000 mobile phone is using an operating system called Blackberry OS version 4.6. it has a new visual style that is called “Precision”.

“Precision” Bold is designed to use array of 6 icons docked below of the display screen allowing you to have uninterrupted view of anything that you will be viewing on the Blackberry Bold mobile phone. This is perfect since it resembles of what you see on your PC where the taskbar should be somewhere below the screen. However, this is just individual perception since some may prefer to have the taskbar or the icons to be located somewhere next to the screen either left or right.

As usual, the Blackberry Bold 9000 is excellent in terms of pushing emails to the mobile phone. What’s even more interesting is now the Blackberry has supported HTML where you can view hyperlinks and images in the email. Don’t put too much hope on this feature though since some of the images were not properly downloaded onto the screen. But don’t worry too much about it, I believe that RIM will definitely work on fixing this in the future. As for now, this feature will definitely adds to the enjoyment of reading more creative emails on the Blackberry Bold mobile phone.

Blackberry mobile phones are targeted for business purposes and therefore it’s hard to see more improvements on the “social” thingy such as its media applications. The camera equipped on the Blackberry Bold 9000 mobile phone is just a standard 2.0 mega pixel camera. Nothing much to be expected from this camera on this prepaid mobile phone Blackberry Bold 9000. however, I could say the pictures taken by this Blackberry Bold’s camera is good enough in terms of its quality and you can easily see its quality on the display screen itself. It has a LED flash as well but I don’t see that added much to the clarity of the picture taken by this Blackberry. Though the Bold’s pictures are sharp, I will be more than happy to see a 3 or 5 mega pixel camera on this cell phone.

A smartphone such as Blackberry Bold is measured too at its capability of browsing and accessing various applications at one time. Though we don’t expect it to work as good as a desktop PC or laptop computer, we would want to see the phone to have better performance to open multiple applications at one time. Blackberry Bold certainly is a mobile phone with all that wonderful quality.

Blackberry Bold 9000 mobile phone supports GPRS, WAP and also EDGE. The Bold mobile phone also supports Bluetooth feature so it is easy to share files especially amongst other Blackberry’s users. I doubt that Blackberry users listen to radio since most of the users are businessman working around the clock and therefore it is not a surprise to see the phone without FM radio feature. Still, the Bold phone has the ability to listen to MP3 and MP4.

Another great feature installed on the Blackberry Bold mobile phone is “Documents to Go”. This feature allows you perform various office works on Excel files, Words, and also PowerPoint slide presentations. How cool that is, don’t you think so? This makes the burden of preparing tedious office tasks easier with this great Blackberry phone. Even more interesting, you can now view PDF files on the mobile phone as well as Rich Text Format (RTF) files though this is only possible via email attachments.

Unfortunately the Blackberry Bold mobile phone is not that great in terms of its battery life. This could be due to its capability of handling various applications at one time. For example, having the 3G application and the WiFi application turned on all the time will let the phone’s battery to last for a day and even worse when you have to make a lot of calls in that day. It might take only few hours before the Bold phone automatically turned off. So it is best to turn unused applications off on the mobile phone and only activate them whenever you want to use them.

The memory for the Blackberry Bold 9000 prepaid mobile phone could be extended by inserting third-party microSD card. In other words, the Blackberry phone could be used for video-recording purposes but as I have told you earlier, I don’t expect much from a 2.0 mega pixel camera. I don’t know, but that is perhaps my opinion on having two different devices combined into one device. When they first created a mobile phone equipped with a camera, I didn’t have much confident in it since my first impression was like seeing a television combined with a washing machine lol.

Once you bought a Blackberry mobile phone, I should say that it is easy for you to forget about using other mobile phones. This fact is true enough for a businessman since the Blackberry is an integrated organizer where it has all the things you need to keep yourself updated all the time; email, phone, instant messenger, and also the internet. What’s more, the Bold is designed to take advantage of the speeds available on the HSDPA network but this vary by carrier and are dependent on network load. The same goes to WiFi connection where it may be blocked at some locations. Still, the connection should be uninterrupted and should be smooth as expected.

Where I can get a Blackberry Bold 9000 mobile phone? Well, there are a lot of providers and of them is AT&T. If you are more interested in finding out how to unlock your Blackberry Bold 9000, it is best to check out a site dedicated just for that purpose. Don’t worry about legal issue since it is completely legal to unlock your mobile phone. This is due to the fact that most mobile phone service providers give away the unlock code or PIN code to their long-time clients especially when they really need them for traveling purposes. You can also get a Blackberry Bold phone from Vodafone.

One quick tip for the users of Blackberry Bold mobile phone is you quickly switch to another program from one program by pressing the Alt key and the Escape button first and then hold the Alt key to select which program to be used and then release it. And since the Blackberry Bold consumed the battery at such a short time, you should consider to buy Blackberry charging accessories such as Charging Pod or you can also consider buying Mini Extra Battery charger for Blackberry Bold 9000 mobile phone.