I switched DD13 to a Tracfone smartphone. I find it confusing but she gets along on it okay. The minutes are done differently. Say you have 1000 minutes when you change phones. Previously that was all in one bucket and texts took .3 minutes. With the smartphone, you will now have 1000 minutes of talk, 1000 texts, and 1000 MB of data.
It has not worked out too well for DD13 to have a whole minute taken away for each text. Basically she is getting 1/3 the text allowance she used to. And I've read you can't go back to a dumb phone after you switch. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. She has TONS of talk time left though! She doesn't use the data on it much.
I had them same problem with the way they do the talk,text and data I would use all my text mins in a week and have to keep adding more mins and now have thousands of talk mins that I will never use.
bjscheel, I didn't know about the option to just buy texts, so thanks for that. I just bought them from their site for my DD's triple minute phone. But she only got 1000 texts not the 3000. I just sent them an email. I hope it triples!!
I haven't seena phone from tracfone that compares to an iphone..... but I haven't researched too much b/c there are cheaper ways to get/use a smartphone than tracfone.... by the time you pay extra for each bit of data or minute you use it's not such a bargain for kids,b/c they tend to NOT want to save anything,and want to use a lot like their friends....just IMHO
Its a no go. I got this reply:
Thank you for your interest in TracFone Wireless. We are responding to your recent inqui
Please be informed that your phone includes Triple Minutes For Life and it only apply for minutes cards not for text or data cards.
I decided to respond back with a cut and paste of the reply from tracfone mark to see if they'd do me the courtsey of the extra minutes given their mistake.
I'd suggest taking a look at other prepaid carrier options. I personally use Cricket Wireless. It's $35/mo for unlimited talk/text and 2.5GB of 4G LTE data.