Meijer will become the first major retailer to launch its own prepaid cell phone service.These new services will be available in Ohio,Illinois , Indiana , Michigan and Kentucky.

You can find more about their services at www.Meijermobile.com.

The external screen shows the caller ID , date, time,   battery life and signal strength. The phone doesn’t support MiniSD or any other external memory .

The internal screen supports 65,000 colors and a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels. SCH-U340 has a 2 styles menu interface and allows you to change the contrast ,the font style and backlight time.

Specifications and Features

Basics:

•  Weight: 2.82 ounces
•  Dimensions: 3.5 x 1.8 x 0.77
•  Form Factor: Clamshell

Display:

• Type: LCD (Color TFT/TFD)
• Resolution: 128 x 160 pixels
• Colors: 65,536 (16-bit)

Telephony Features:

• Built-in Speakerphone
• Conference Calling
• Headset Jack: yes

Memory:

• Phone Book Entries: 500
• Internal Memory: 6MB

Phone Book Capacity:

• 500

Messaging:

• Text Messaging
• MMS
• Text Messaging Templates

Entertainment:

• Photos And Video
• VGA camera
• Brightness,Self-Timer

Productivity

• Calendar
• Calculator
• Alarm

Battery Performance:

•  Stand-by Time:170 hours
•  Talk Time:200 minutes
•  Battery Type: Lithium Ion
•  Battery Power: 1000 mAh

Other Features:

•  Speech Recognition: yes
•  SAR rating: 1.38

Samsung SCH-u340pp Prepaid Cell Phones is currently available at Verizon Wireless.More information about Verizon Prepaid Cell phones here.

You can refill your account with 4 types of refill cards :

• 300 minutes - 60 days - 30$
• 450 minutes - 90 days - 45$
• 600 minutes - 120 days - 60$
• 1000 minutes - 180 days - 100$

You can buy Net10 refill cards or pay for your Net10 airtime online ,by phone or via an authorized Net10 retailer.

Prepaid cell phones

Currently , Net10 offers 17 prepaid cell phones : LG 400G , Motorola W375 , LG C200 , Kyocera K126c , Motorola W370 , LG 1500 , LG CG225 , Nokia 1600 and many more.The cell phones aren’t that expensive (none of the models on the website exceed $80).

Net10’s biggest disadvantage is their limited coverage and ,of course,the fact that they don’t have some newer prepaid cell phones in their offer.

“This new partnership allows us to strengthen our presence in the prepaid arena in the US with a partner that has the desire to grow alongside us,” said Albert Wong, Executive Vice President of TCL Communication Technology Holdings.

Alltel U prepaid plans

I’m a big fan of Motorola cell phones and this prepaid cell phone is one of my favorites.Why ? Well, first of all its light and thin , measuring just 89x 53 x 13.9 mm and 95 grams.Although it looks really fragile,its aluminium casing is durable enough to withstand a drop.

Motorola RAZR prepaid cell phone has 2 screens.On the front panel , RAZR its equipped with a 96×80 pixels colour screen  with a VGA camera directly above it capable of taking photos at a resolution of 640×480 px .The internal screen it’s amazing.It supports 65 000 colors and a resolution of 176 x 220px.

The keyboard looks really cool at night.The phone has Bluetooth® which gives the user the freedom of a wireless connection ,  polyphonic ringtones and MP3 ringtones .Some other great features include : Downloadable ringtones , miniUSB , Email Client , Games , Handfree and MPEG4 Video.

Although it was released in late 2004 , Motorola RAZR V3 is still one of the best prepaid cell phones out there .The phone is available at AT&T Wireless stores and T-Mobile stores.

The prepaid cell phone acts as an important security blanket effect for the owners ,many Americans agreeing that a prepaid cell phone is very important in emergency situations.

Features:

• Daily access : If you don’t use your phone ,let’s say on Saturday,then you don’t pay anything on Saturday.
• 3 prepaid cell phone plans to choose from
• Reliable wireless network

INpulse Core : 99cents / day used ;  10 cents/minute from 9:01pm to 5:59am ; 10 cents per text message sent/received

INpulse Plus : $1.99 / day used ; 5 cents/minute from 9:01pm to 5:59am ; 5 cents per text message sent/received           

INpulse Power : $2.99 / day used ; 2 cents/minute from 9:01pm to 5:59am ; 2 cents per text message sent/received       

The refill expiration varies from 30 days ($15 - $29.99) to 120 days for anything above $150.Ok… Verizon’s prepaid cell phone plans are a little expensive, but their wireless network is great .One thing I really like about them is the fact that they have some pretty cool prepaid cell phones in their offer :  Samsung SCH-u340pp , LG VX5400pp , Motorola RAZR V3mpp and Samsung Alias - SCH-u740pp in Black.The Samsung Alias  prepaid cell phone is really great.Here is a picture.

First of all I want to say that ,although I’m using T-Mobile as my provider I am really impressed by AT&T.Let’s start with their prepaid cell phone plans.You can choose from two plans :

• Pay as you go Unlimited Talk
• Pay as you go $ .25 per minute

The first prepaid plan is actually quite interesting : you pay $1.00 per day, only on days you use your phone .So if you don’t use your phone…you don’t pay.There are also some cool features included: Basic Voice Mail, Call Forwarding, Call Waiting,Three-Way Calling or Caller ID.

Bonuses

AT&T offers some great bonuses to new prepaid cell phone users.You get $10 airtime bonus and $10 more if you buy $25 or more airtime within 7 days of activation.You can buy of refill your prepaid cell phone card in a variety of ways : online,in person ( prepaid card) or by phone.When you buy prepaid cards from AT&T be sure to check the expiration days.If you don’t refill your prepaid card before it expires then you lose all your unused minutes.

Prepaid cell phone cards available at this moment:

• $15
• $25
• $50
• $75
• $100

Like I said I an really impressed by the prepaid cell phones services AT&T’s offering ,especially by the Pay as you go Unlimited Talk Plan.