Straight talk cell phone service review

With the economy the way it is, it seems like most people are looking for ways to save money. My husband and I have switched from a contract cell phone plan, to a prepaid cell phone plan called “Straight Talk™”.  Straight Talk™ offers several different cell phones, and they offer 2 different cell phone “plans”. You can buy Straight Talk™ phones and/or prepaid cards directly off of their website or you can head to your local Walmart and buy Straight Talk™ phones and/or prepaid cards. I’m not sure what other stores you can buy them at, but I am sure there are other stores that offer them.

Anyway, on to the phones that my husband and I got. We purchased the LG 220C. This was the cheapest Straight Talk™ phone at Walmart. We paid $45.00 + tax and we purchased the $45.00 unlimited 30 day service plan, which includes unlimited talk, text, mobile web and FREE call’s to 411. Very much worth the 45 dollars. You can also get a 30 dollar plan which is 1,000 nationwide minutes, 1,000 nationwide text messages, and 30MB mobile web, and I believe you still get free 411 calls even with this plan. For us, the 45 dollar plan was better because we text a lot.

So, do we like the phones/service? Yes, for the most part we do. My husband LOVES it, while I, myself LIKE it. The phones that we have (the cheaper ones) are very simple. No camera, no video, and that means no multimedia messaging to or from anyone. But, eventually we are going to get the phones that are capable of doing multimedia, and as soon as we do, I will add to this review. But for now, the phones that we have are simply phones. We do text with them, and the thing that I do not like with the texting is that I can only send 1 page of 160 characters or less. With our contract phones (I had an LG Chocolate Touch, and even my older Chocolate was able to do this) I could send 7 pages of 160 characters. So, that for me is a bummer, because my texts always end up going over and I have to send separate text messages to complete what I was saying. Hubby on the other hand is a man of very few words (as most men are..no offense..lol) and so this is fine with him. But for me, I wish they would change this. Now, the more expensive phones  may allow more than 160 characters per text, I don’t know.

The call quality is excellent in mine and my husbands opinion. Everyone I talk to tells me that I sound crystal clear. We rarely have any dropped call’s on our end and the person on the other end is always crystal clear as well. Another plus, is that we actually have service in area’s where our contract phones did not. The customer service is absolutely another story..granted we have not ran into problems as to where we have had to call customer service, but my parents did, and I have read where others have also had to call customer service with the same problem…foreign employees who were very hard to understand and according to my parent’s, and others I have read about, said that the employees did not solve the problem they had very easily, but again, we have thankfully not had to experience this.

Another thing that I miss with having these phones is the ringtones/ringback tones. With our old contract phones, I was able to make ringtones on my computer and send them to our phones fairly easily..but with these, you can not do that, but you can buy the ringtones for $2.99 directly off of the website. As for ringback tones (you know, where music plays for someone when they call you) they do not offer them. But hey, at the cheap price, I honestly chalk these up as minor “issues”.

So all in all, I would rate the Straight Talk™ service a C+. No major complaints here. I am just thankful to even have a phone with the way finances are right now..lol. So, if you are in the same financial slump as we, and many other people are, you may just want to get one of these for yourself. Any questions??? Feel free to ask me and I will gladly try to help and/or find the answer for you.

DISCLAIMER:  I am a Straight Talk™ customer. I purchased the cell phone and the service plan myself and this is my own honest review and opinion. I DID NOT receive this phone and/or service from the company mentioned above, nor did the company mentioned above ask me to review this product nor did the company mentioned above compensate me to give this review.

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