Uncategorized zgreat | 21 Mar 2008
Motorola C139 Prepaid Phone (Tracfone)
Phone Features
The basic black Motorola C139 has a cool, aerodynamic candybar design with rounded corners at the top and bottom and rubberized sidings for a good grip. Its small shape fits comfortably in your hand and the backlit keypad is designed for easy dialing. The 1.25-inch screen has a 96 x 65-pixel resolution and support for 65K colors.
The C139 supports storage of up to 100 phone numbers and contacts within the phone’s memory as well as 250 contacts stored on the SIM card. Equipped with multiple organizational features, the Motorola C139 is a one-stop shop for on-the-go time management. Offering daily and weekly calendars, calculator, currency converter and stop watch, this mobile keeps you on top of your game in both your business and social circles. 
If you need basic messaging capabilities, the C155 has you covered as support is built-in for sending and receiving SMS text messages. iTap text entry, a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built-into the unit– a plus for text messaging users.
Technical Details
- Lightweight candybar-style phone with 65K color LCD and internal antenna
- Pay for only the calling time you use with minutes purchased from Tracfone–no annual contract required
- Features text messaging, free voice mail, free caller ID, free call waiting
- Up to 8 hours of talk time, up to 16 days of standby time
- Includes: Battery, AC Charger and SIM Card
Other features include:
- 20 preloaded ringtones
- 3 preloaded games
- Analog clock screensaver, calculator, currency converter and stop watch
- Lantern for illumination when you need it
- Auto keypad lock
Vital Statistics
The Motorola C139 weighs 2.8 ounces and measures 4 x 1.8 x 0.9 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 8 hours of talk time, and up to 16 days of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 GSM/GPRS frequencies.
Tracfone Service
Tracfone provides nationwide prepaid wireless service using the nation’s leading cellular providers to create a national footprint covering 99 percent of the U.S. population. This gives you service everywhere cellular service is available.
You can buy bundles of minutes (which must be used within a set time limit of 90 to 365 days) from the Tracfone web site on your home PC or directly from your phone’s web browser. This phone ships with a number of handy Tracfone services, including free voice mail, free caller ID, and free call waiting. And perhaps most importantly, the integrated TracFone Airtime Balance Display shows you how much airtime you’ve used and how much is left, so you can control your costs.
Uncategorized zgreat | 21 Mar 2008
Kyocera Wildcard Prepaid Phone (Virgin Mobile)
Phone Features
The Wild Card’s face features a large, 1.5-inch 65K-color screen with a 128 x 128-pixel resolution. You’ll also find a dialpad here and a five-way center button that controls most of the phone’s on-screen menus. Flip the phone open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, another five-way center button, and call control buttons. The design allows for calling functions to be performed with the phone open or closed. A horizontally oriented 1.8-inch screen (with a 160 x 128-pixel resolution and 65K colors) is placed above the keyboard between the phone’s dual speakers. It can hold up to 500 personal contacts, with six numbers as well as fields for email, street addresses, URL, and notes.
Because the Wild Card is Bluetooth enabled, wireless communication headsets can be configured with the phone. It also incorporates a jack for an earphone as well as a speakerphone for total hands-free operation.
Support for basic text messaging and multimedia messaging (MMS) are built into the Wild Card. When used in combination with the phone’s built-in camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. Instant messaging chat is also supported, thanks to an embedded AOL Instant Messenger client. A built-in wireless web browser lets you surf Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) 2.0 sites via the Virgin Mobile Web service. eZiText text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit– a plus for mobile email and text messaging users. 
A number of handy tools ship with the Wild Card, including an alarm, a calendar, and a calculator with a tip calculator. There’s also a voice memo application for recording quick notes or numbers.
The built-in 1.3-megapixel camera captures great stills and comes equipped with an LED flash, multi-shot adjustment, and a self-timer. Because the Wild Card supports Java applications it is compatible with many Java-based games. Many games are available from Virgin Mobile’s wireless download service. You can also customize the phone with custom graphics and wallpapers, many of which are also available from Virgin Mobile. 
The phone fully supports Virgin Mobile’s wireless content service, VirginXtras. Use the pay-per-use service to download ringtones, get content and vote in TV-based polls via the MTV area of your phone, or get jokes and updates from Comedy Central. Pick a celebrity voice to answer your voicemail, or get a Sponge Bob thought of the day.
Vital Statistics
The Kyocera Wild Card weighs 4.1 ounces and measures 3.94 x 1.97 x 0.79 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 195 minutes of talk time, and up to 150 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the CDMA 1900 frequency.
Virgin Mobile Service
With Virgin Mobile, you pay only for the calling time you use. You can choose a plan that’s based just on minutes (with rates between 10¢ and 20¢ per minute) or a monthly plan with no annual contract (with select plans offering unlimited calling on weekends and after 7pm on weekdays). You can also choose from a variety of mobile messaging plans, which includes text and picture messaging, email, and IM (via AOL and Yahoo!). Virgin Mobile USA’s national coverage is powered by the nationwide Sprint PCS network.
Virgin Mobile contributes 5 percent of profits from downloadable content to The RE*Generation, its pro-social initiative to help homeless teens, as well as provides postage-paid return envelopes in every new package for customers to recycle old phones.