How Much Money Can You Save?

Take me for example: our household is currently on Verizon and the cost for our service is over $200.00 a month (Verizon only has the Canada calling option which we need). But if I didn’t need to call Canada and use in Canada to call Canada and the US, I could switch to T-Mobile for $50.00 a month. For the both of us, we  would save $100 a month. That’s $2400 over the course of 2 years. We could buy our phones at $600 each and STILL be ahead over $600 annually.  I just used T-Mobile as a quick example but let’s look at  some other Carriers to see what the best price you can get on a smartphone plan:

Cheapest Verizon Smartphone Plan

Verizon’s pricing for smartphones is far from the cheapest option, but they do offer great service for the most part and as I mentioned earlier for me it’s the only option for a Canadian living in the USA. But with Verizon for smartphones you pay $40.00 for the phone line and then you pick a share everything plan you want. The cheapest smartphone plan you can get with this is $80/month with unlimited talk and text and 500mb of data.

Cheapest AT&T Smartphone Plan

AT&T gets a little cheaper than Verizon when you compare the two. With AT&T, for one smartphone and unlimited talk and text will cost you $70.00 and you only get 300mb of data included in that price. AT&T does offer some prepaid plans that are actually better than the 2 year contract prices if you want to bring your own phone or buy one outright and then bring it to AT&T for activation. With AT&T, the Go Phone service can be had for $40.00 a month for unlimited  text and 500 minutes of calls with 200mb of data. Not a lot of either call time or data but if you don’t use your phone lots this is the cheapest smartphone plan at AT&T.

Cheapest T-Mobile Smartphone Plan

T-Mobile might just be the cheapest smartphone carrier. T-Mobile is different in that you don’t need to commit to a contract and the cheapest rate they offer is $50.00 a month for unlimited talk and text and 500mb of data. There’s also another even cheaper option from T-Mobile for smartphones that  is a bit  hard to find. For just $30.00 a month you get 100 minutes, unlimited data with the first 5GB at 4GB speeds and unlimited text. Another choice for just $30.00 a month is 1500 minutes talk and text and just 30mb of data. For smartphones if you don’t need to use your  phone a lot when it comes to actual calling the $30.00 a month plan is one of the cheapest smartphone options.

Cheapest Sprint Smartphone Plan

The cheapest smartphone plan from Sprint is $70.00 a month.$50.00 a month for the smartphone line and an additional $20.00 a month for the 1GB of data.

Other  Cheap Smartphone Plan  Options

There’s also lots of other carriers out there where you can get a pretty good deal on a smartphone plan: Most have no contract and for the most part cost under $50.00 a month. Let’s have a look at a few other choices for cheaper smartphone plans:

Ting

Ting is without a doubt the cheapest smartphone plan you can buy today. If you don’t use your smartphone a lot it’s sure hard to beat $9.00 month for 100 minutes, 100 text messages and 100MB of data.

Straight Talk

Straight talk offers unlimited talk and text and 2.5GB of high speed data for just $45.00 a month.

Aio Wireless

Aio Wireless offers plans with unlimited talk and text with 250mb of high speed data for just $40.00 a month.

Virgin Mobile

Virgin mobile offers a pretty cheap  smartphone plan for just $35.00 – 300 minutes, unlimited messaging and data. Another great choice if you don’t call a lot.

Boost Mobile

$50 a month for unlimited talk, text and data.

Who has the cheapest smartphone plan?

If you rarely use your phone it’s hard to beat Ting. My next bet would be on T-Mobile and if I could get away with the 100 minutes I would be all over the $30.00 a month plan or if you need more time for calls, the $50.00 a month plan is a good one too but  at this price you should also consider Virgin Mobile, Straight Talk, and Aio Wireless and Boost Mobile too as they’re all in the $50.00 window.

It’s a great time to shop for smartphone plans with so many affordable choices.

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Verizon

Verizon offfers plans for smartphones with may  price choices:

Verizon Pay As You Go

Pay as you go plans allow you to only pay when you use the phone and costs are:

Pay as You Go: .25 cents per minute and .20 cents for text messages and data is .99 a day.
Daily Simple Plan .10 a minute, unlimited mobile to mobile calling .10 for text messaging and .99 a day for data.
Pay Per Day unlimited calling, mobile to mobile , 0.02 texts and .99 a day for data for  just $1.99 a day.

Monthly Prepaid Plans $60 and $70/month. Both get you unlimited talk, text and the only difference between the two plans is the difference in data: 2GB vs 4GB

T-Mobile

Monthly Prepaid  Plans

In effect, all of T-Mobile plans are pre-paid because there’s no contract if you bring your own phone and if you buy a phone from them you can buy it outright.  The plans are $50, $60.00, and $70.00 per month with the differences between them being the amount of data you can use (500mb, 2.5GB, Unlimited). T-Mo also offers a $30.00 a month plan with 100 minutes a month, unlimited text and 5GB of 4G data speeds. If you don’t need much talk time, this is one of the best pre-paid plans in 2013.

Pay as you go plans

There’s also the following pay as you go plans for T-Mobile:

$10 = 30 minutes
$30 = 160 minutes
$50 = 400 minutes
$100 = 1000 minutes
text messages are ten cents each and 25cents each to send photos or videos.

Per Day

$3/day gets you:

• Unlimited Talk
• Unlimited Text
• Unlimited Web – First 200MB at up to 4G speeds

$2/day gets you:

• Unlimited Talk
• Unlimited Text
• Unlimited Web – 2G speed

AT&T

AT&T’s pre-paid plans are called GoPhone and come in four different rates: $25.00, $40.00, $50.00, $60.00. The features of these plans are:

$25.00 – 250 minutes, unlimited text and add 50MB of data for $5.00

$40.00 – 500 minutes, unlimited text, and 200mb of data

$50.00 – Unlimited text, unlimited calls and wifi only data

$60.00 – Unlimited talk and text, and 2GB of data.

Sprint

Sprint is another carrier to offer prepaid wireless service in addition to their on contract smartphone plans. Sprint’s offerings in pre-paid come in a few offerings:

$35.00 Basic Smartphone 500 minutes
$50.00 Unlimited Basic Phone
$45.00 Unlimited Talk and Text
$60.00 Unlimited Talk, Text and Data

: $50.00 a month for basic phones and $70.00 a month for smartphones. Not the cheapest when it comes to no contract plans from the carriers above.

Virgin Mobile

Virgin Mobile offer  three no contract smartphone plans:

$35.00 – 300 minutes, unlimited messaging and data

$45.00 – 1200 minutes, unlimited messaging and data

$55.00 – unlimited talk, text and data

Boost Wireless

Boost offers one plan for $50.00 a month that offers unlimited talk, text and data is 2.5GB per month. One interesting thing about Boost Mobile is that your bill can shrink to $35.00 a month if you stick with ‘em for 18 months. Boost is on the Sprint Network.

Ting

Ting takes a different approach and offers you to mix and match talk, text and data plans to your needs with the cheapest pay as you go plan costing just $9.00 a month. You don’t get much, but for more than an emergency phone you could save considerably and is the cheapest price for a non contract cell phone plan this year.

Straight Talk

Straight Talk gets straight to the point – $45 a month gets you unlimited talk, text and data.

All of the Pre-Paid Cell Phone plans are from reliable cellular carriers but if you can get away with the 100 minutes of monthly call time, the $30 a month plan from T-Mobile is hard  to beat and the cheapest pre-paid cell phone award has to go to Ting at just $9.00 a month.

AIO Wireless

Aio wireless is a relatively newcomer to the  prepaid phone market but considering they are backed by AT&T this looks like a pretty good prepaid company: There’s but 3 prepaid plans to choose from on AIO wireless and the only real difference is the data you get. All plans from AIO wireless include unlimited talk, text and data but the high speed data you get depends on the plan you choose:

$40.00 – 250mb of data (basic phones only)
$55.00 – 2GB of high speed data
$70.00 – 7GB of high speed data

Airlink Mobile

Airlink mobile offers some pretty cheap plans for prepaid:

$10.00 – 30 anytime minutes and unlimited nights and weekends – expires after 7 days.
$20.00 – 90 anytime minutes and unlimited nights and weekends – expires after 14 days
$30.00 – 150 anytime minutes and unlimited nights and weekends – expires after 30 days
$50.00 – 350 anytime minutes and unlimited nights and weekends – expires after 30 days

All prepaid plans from Airlink come from include no credit check, no roaming charges, no US long distance charges.

Additional text message packs are available for:

$5.00 – 200 text messages
$10.00 – 1000 text messages

or the basic text messaging rate from Airlink is 20 cents per minute.

AirVoice Wireless

Airvoice wireless offers prepaid phone plans as monthly plans, pay as you go  plans or  a simple  250 minute plan.

Monthly Plans
$30.00 – unlimited talk, text and 100mb of data
$40.00 – unlimited talk, text and 1GB of data
$60.00 – unlimited talk, text and 3GB of data

Pay as you go plans

$10 for 100 minutes – expires in 90 days
$20 for 210 minutes - expires in 120 days
$30 for 320 minutes – expires in 150 days

250 minute plan 

This is the cheapest plan at just ten dollars for 250 minutes.

Black Wireless

Black wireless offers four different prepaid cellular phone plans:

$30 – unlimited talk and text, 50mb of data
$40 – unlimited talk and text, 500mb of data
$50 – unlimited talk and text, 1GB of data
$60.00 – unlimited talk and text 3gb of data

The $30 plan gives you 100 free international texts and 118 free minutes to India, 125 free minutes to Canada and 90 free minutes to the UK.

The $40 plan gives you 100 free international texts, the $50 plan gives you unlimited text messages and the $60 plan is back to 100 international text

The  $40, $50, and $60.00 plan offers free international minutes to the following countries:

• India – 294 Mins.
• Brazil – 250 Mins.
• Colombia – 185 Mins.
• Mexico – 151 Mins.

Cricket  Wireless

Cricket wireless offers prepaid plans for both basic phones  and smartphones:

Basic Phone Plans
$35.00 a month for unlimited talk and text
$45.00 a month for unlimited, talk, text and data

Smartphone Phone Plans

$50 a month for unlimited talk, text and 2.5Gb of high speed data
$60 a month for unlimited talk, text and 5Gb of high speed data
$70 a month for unlimited talk, text and 10Gb of high speed data

Eco Mobile

Based on the Sprint Network, Eco Mobile has the simplest prepaid plan ever: 5 cents a minute for talk, 2 cents for text messages, 10 cents per MB data, 1o cents per MMS. The funds expire at 30 days.

For pre-paid plans there’s four different pricing options:

$30.00 – unlimited talk and text
$40.00 – unlimited talk and text and data and mms
$50.00  - unlimited talk and text and 3G data and mms
$60.00 – unlimited talk and text and  4G data and mms

Giv Mobile

Giv Mobile keeps it pretty simple with just two monthly prepaid smartphone plans:

$40.00 – unlimited talk, text, and 250MB of  high speed data
$50.00 – unlimited talk, text, and 2GB of high speed data

Good to Go Mobile

Good to Go Mobile offers four mobile plans and every plan includes:

• Domestic long distance
• Nationwide coverage, no roaming
• FREE voicemaill, caller ID, and call waiting
• Great international rates: add $5 or $10 to your account to be used for International calls and/or 411 directory assistance
• No activation charges

$20.00 – pay as you go – 5 cents a minute and 5 cents per text. .50/mb of data
$30.00 – unlimited talk and text, .30/mb of data and up to 300 minute of international calling
$40.00 –  unlimited talk, text and 250MB of data. Up to 300 minutes of long distance calling
$50.00 – unlimited talk, text and data and up to 300 minutes of long distance calling.

Go Smart Mobile

Go Smart Mobile offers 3 different prepaid mobile plans:

$30.00  - unlimited talk and text.
$35.00 – unlimited talk, text and unlimited 2G speed data
$45.00 – unlimited talk, text and unlimited 3G speed data

Unlimited texting to international is available for $5.00 a month and 10 dollars a month for the international texting and  calling bundle.

H2O Wireless

H20 wireless offers both monthly prepaid plans as well as pay as you go plans too. There’s 4 monthly pre-paid plans to choose from:

$30 – unlimited talk, text and 50mb data with $5.00 international calling credit and unlimited international incoming text and 100 outgoing international text messages.
$40 – unlimited talk, text and 500mb data with $20.00 international calling credit and unlimited international incoming text and 100 outgoing international text messages.
$50 – unlimited talk, text and 1GB data with $40.00 international calling credit and unlimited international talk and  text
$60 – unlimited talk, text and 3GB data with $20.00 international calling credit and unlimited international incoming text and 100 outgoing international text messages.

Pay as you go plans

$10.00 – 200 minutes  - 5 cents a minute, 5 cents/text
$20.00 – 400 minutes  - 5 cents a minute, 5 cents/text,
$30.00 – 600 minutes  - 5 cents a minute, 5 cents/text,
$100.00 – 2000 minutes  - 5 cents a minute, 5 cents/text,

The $100 plan is good for a year, all others are good for 90 days.

Metro PCS

Metro PCS offers 3 prepaid mobile plans:

$40.00 – unlimited talk, text, 500mb 4G data
$50.00 – unlimited talk, text, 2.5GB 4G data
$60.00 – unlimited talk, text, unlimited  4G data

Net10 Wireless

Net10 wireless offers 3 different types of plans: family plans, monthly prepaid plans, and pay as you go plans:

Family Plans

2 people – $90/month
3 people – $130/month
4 people – $170/month

All family plans come with unlimited talk, text and data

Monthly Prepaid Plans

$65.00 – Unlimited international text, talk, data
$50.00 – Unlimited international talk, text and data

$25.00 – 750 minutes
$30.00 – 500 minutes
$15.00 – 200 minutes

Pay as you go plans 

$20.00 – 200 minutes
$30.00 – 300 minutes
$45.00 – 600 minutes
$60.00 – 900 minutes
$100.00 – 1500 minutes

NextG Mobile

Next G Mobile offers monthly plans and plans with high speed data for smartphones and pay as you go rates too:

Monthly Plans

$10 – 300 minutes, 500 text messages
$20 – 500 minutes, 1000 text messages
$30 – 1200 minutes, 4000 text messages
$40 – unlimited talk and text
$50 – unlimited talk and text and 1GB of data
$60.00 – unlimited talk and text and 2GB data at 3G speeds
$70.00 – unlimited talk and text and 5GB data at 3G speeds

Pay as you Go

$10 pay as you  go (5 cents a minute) valid 90 days
$10 international pay as you go valid 30 days

Page Plus Cellular

Page plus cellular offers both monthly prepaid and pay as you go plans

Monthly Plans

$12 – 250 minutes, 250 text messages, 10mb data
$30 – 1200 minutes, 3000 text messages, 500mb data
$40 – unlimited talk and text, 500mb data
$55 – unlimited talk and text and 2GB of data
$70 – unlimited talk and text and 5GB of data

Pay as you go

$10.00 – 100 minutes
$25.00 – 416 minutes
$50.00 – 1000 minutes
$80.00 –  2000 minutes

PrePayd Wireless

Prepayd wireless offers monthly prepaid wireless plans to choose from:

$35.00  - unlimited talk and text
$40.00 – unlimited talk, text and web
$50.00 – unlimited talk, text and 3G data
$60.00 – unlimited talk, text and 4G data

Ptel Wireless

Ptel wireless offers 2 monthly wireless phone plans and one pay as you go plan:

Monthly Pre Paid Plans
$40.00 – Unlimited talk, text and 25omb of 4G data
$50.00 – unlimited talk, text and 2GB of 4G data

Pay as you go plans

5 cents per minute
2 cents per text
10 cents per MB

Red Rocket

Red rocket offers a few monthly  prepaid plans and one pay as you go plan:

Monthly Plan
19.99 – 250 minutes, 500 texts
$29.99 – unlimited talk and text, 100mb data
$39.99 – unlimited talk and text, 500mb data
$49.99  - unlimited talk and text, 1GB data

Pay as you go plans are 10 cents a minute

Simple Mobile

Simple mobile offers 3 different monthly pre paid cell phone plans:

$40 – unlimited talk and text, 1GB 4G data
$50 – unlimited talk and text, 3GB 4G data
$60 – unlimited talk and text, 5GB 4G data

Solavei

Solavei offers just one prepaid plan and it’s $49.00 a month for unlimited talk, text and 4G data

Ultra Mobile

Ultra Mobile offers a selection of  monthly smartphone plans to choose from:

$19 – 250 minutes, unlimited text, 50mb data
$29 – unlimited talk and text – 100mb data
$39.00 – unlimited talk and text – 500mb data
$49.00 – unlimited talk and text – 1GB data
$59.00 – unlimited talk and text  - 4gb data

US Cellular

US Cellular offers two pre-paid mobile phone plans:

$50.00 – unlimited  talk, text and 1GB of data
$65.00 – unlimited talk, text and 2GB of data

Voyager Mobile

Voyager mobile offers 3 pre-paid phone plans:

$17. – unlimited talk
$19 – unlimited  talk and text
$39 – unlimited talk, text and data

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Benefits of Boost Mobile Phones

The phones for Boost Mobile are phones you can buy just about anywhere else but you get a cheap plan without any contract and you can buy your own phone outright and they offer a pretty good selection of phones too for every budget – let’s have a look:

Samsung Galaxy S3

This was the best selling phone in 2012, so it’s not bad a deal at $399.99 for a 4.8 inch AMOLED display, 1.5GHz dual core processor and 8 megapixel digital camera

Kyocera Hydro Edge

The Kyocera Hydro Edge is a waterproof android phone that’s priced at a very reasonable $119.99.  Featuring a 4 inch display, 1.5 GHz processor, Android 4.1 OS and shock proof and waterproof design, the Edge is one of the best selling phones from Boost Mobile on sale today.

LG Optimus 7

The LG Optimus 7 is a newer phone for Boost Mobile and offers unique note taking capability with it’s quick memo feature. A big and bright 4.7 inch true HD IPS display combined with a 1.5 GHz processor and an 8 megapixel camera with full HD video recording make this one of the best selling phone from Boost. Priced from $299.99

Samsung Galaxy Prevail 2

The Samsung Galaxy Prevail 2 offers a 4 inch display for those who prefer a smaller form factor in a smartphone and offers a fast 1.4 GHz processor, 5 megapixels of camera resolution and Android 4.1 out of the box for just $179.99 – A great choice for a phone under $200 for boost mobile.

LG Mach

The LG Mach is another choice when it comes to choosing a Boost Mobile Smartphone and features a QWERTY keyboard for those that prefer a physical keyboard when it comes to a new smartphone. Like the Optimus 7, the Mach features a quick memo option and the 1.2 GHz processor is fast for the Android 4.0 OS.

These are just a few of the best selling Boost Mobile Phones on sale today.

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I did a bit of research and my old phone, a Motorola Droid 3 was worth $16.00, and a droid RAZR was worth $30.00 as a trade in device. In the case of a droid 3 you should use the mototradeup program instead and get $100 towards a new Motorola phone. The moto tradeup plan has more limits as only certain phones qualify but if you have an older Motorola phone you should investigate the Moto tradeup program first.

Here’s a few more examples for smartphone trade in prices from Verizon:

• droid razr maxx hd – $119.00
• droid razr hd – 82.00
• droid razr $34.00
• iphone 4s 16gb – $200.00
• iphone 4 16gb – $100.00
• iphone 5 16gb – $300.00

It’s funny to see that for every generation of Apple iPhone you lose exactly $100 per. $300 for the iPhone 5, $200 for the iPhone 4s and $100 for the iPhone 4. Compared to the droids the iPhones held their value considerably more.

What phones to buy with your verizon trade in money?

There’s a few choices for new phones to trade up to as we end 2013 (and enter 2014):

LG G2 – (check prices)

HTC One – (check prices)

Samsung Galaxy S4 – (check prices)

Motorola Moto X – (check prices)

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 - (check prices)

Motorola Droid Maxx - (check prices)

How Does The Verizon Trade In Program Work?

The Verizon trade in program is pretty simple in how it works:

1. visit the verizon trade in page.

2. search for the smartphone you want to trade in

3. answer 3 questions about whether the phone powers off/on and goes to the home screen – if there’s any cracks and if there’s any dead spots on the LCD. For Apple iPhones it asks if find my phone under iOS7 is turned off.

4. they ask if the battery is missing

5. You’re asked if anything is cracked or missing on your smartphone.

6. You’re asked if you have a verizon trade in coupon code.

7. At this point you are given the trade in value of the phone along with the option to receive a Verizon gift card via email. Verizon will pay for shipping for you to trade in your device. Or, you’re given the option to donate your phone to the hopeline by Verizon. You’re donating your device for a good cause and you will not get a gift card if you choose this option. If your phone’s only worth a few bucks you might want to consider donating your phone. Some of these phones are not worth much at trade in.

The small print states that you must have accurately described the condition of your phone and verizon cannot return the phone to you. Also, the device must be received within 30 days to receive the trade in price and you should delete all personal information on your phone before you trade it in to Verizon. You must also remove find my iPhone using your Apple ID if you are trading in an Apple iPhone with iOS 7 installed. If the device has been reported as lost or stolen it is not eligible for a trade in and you must deactivate your phone on all services before trading your phone in via Verzion.

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