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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Tracfone 1 ( Cheap and Easy Prepaid cellphone)

Now our life is difficult without having a cell phone. Even your stay in the U.S. is short or you won't make a phone call often, you should have a cell phone for your convenience. Tracfone is a choice for those people. It's easy and cheap.

Tracfone is just for call and simple text massage, but it's cheap !!

I have used Tracfone since I moved here. I own Samsung S390 which was $49.99, but you can get lower model from about $15.
I found the cheapest one on sale and it was just $5 !!

I bought this model, because keypad seemed easy to use, and it had wifi equipment.
Keypad which like Blackberry was good, but wifi was not so useful. It's too slow.


In America, AT&T, Verizon, T-mobile are big three cellphone connecting company.
Tracfone is using those big company's network, so connecting is not a problem.

Tracfone is required to buy a prepaid card before you use it.
You can buy cards almost every supermarket and drug stores or online.
60 min/ 19.99 and it's effective for 90 days.
Normally, about 10 minutes are set with your purchase of phone.

Even the cheapest model phone has Double minutes for life free,
this means if you buy a 60 minutes card and charge it, the time will double ! (60 →120 min)
If you hae "triple life time model" like the model above picture, the charged time will triple!

The price of text massage and phone call are comparatively high cost than other companies.
One short text takes 0.3 min, and phone call costs 1 minutes even it's less than 1 minutes.

However it's cheap and easy. This is good when your friend or family come to the U.S.
I don't recommend Tracfone for the people who stays more than a year.
In that case, you have other selections, such as AT&T, Verizon, T-mobile, Sprint.
They have much high quality phones and several plans for them.

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