Bluetooth for your prepaid cell phone
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So, it’s come to this. While the majority of states don’t yet have laws which ban cell phone handset use while driving, the trend seems to be moving that way. In July, California and Washington state added such restrictions. They join Connecticut, Washington D.C., New Jersey, New York, and the U.S. Virgin Islands as states which completely ban the use of a handset while driving. Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Mexico, Massachusetts, and Illinois have particular jurisdictions which ban the practice, though it’s not statewide. So what’s a prepaid user to do? Get a Bluetooth, of course. Problem is, it’s not as easy to find on the usually low-end selection of prepaid phones from most carriers.
Seeing as not many prepaid phones have Bluetooth capabilities, we at Prepaid Reviews are going to do what we always do: Go through the options and sort them out for you.
Alltel
- LG AX300 — in green, pink, and silver
- Samsung MyShot — in red and black
- Alltel Hue by Samsung
- MOTORAZR V3a — in blue and fire
- LG Scoop — in citrus, slate, lavendar, and turquoise
- LG AX565
- Samsung Muse (pictured)
- MOTOKRZR K1m
- MOTOROKR Z6m
- MOTORAZR V9m
- LG Glimmer
AT&T
- Samsung a437 — in slate, red, gold
- Sony Ericsson Z310a — in black, pink
- Pantech C150 (pictured)
- LG CE110
- Nokia 6085
- Motorola RAZR V3
- Motorola V365
- Sony Ericsson W580i — in black, white, gray, pink
- Nokia 6555
Boost Mobile
Cricket
- Kyocera Lingo
- Motorola RAZR2 V9m
- Motorola ROKR Z6m (pictured)
- Motorola RAZR V3a
- Nokia 6275i
- Samsung r500
- Samsung MyShot
- Samsung Spex
- UTStarcom CDM-7126
Earth Tones
- Nokia 6103
- Motorola RAZR V3
kajeet
MetroPCS
- Samsung Spex
- UTStarcom 7126
- Kyocera Mako S4000
- Samsung MyShot (pictured)
- Samsung r410
- MOTOROKR Z6m
Net10
None
Tracfone
- Motorola W376g — GSM only
T-Mobile
Verizon Wireless
- Samsung u410
- Samsung u340
- LG VX5400
- Motorola RAZR V3m
- Samsung Alias(pictured)
Virgin Mobile
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I believe you’ll start to see a number of lower end handsets with bluetooth. The above list is a good one, with the only one that stands out as missing being Boost Mobile.
It’s interesting that you can still text and drive but not talk on the handset….oh well…I’m sure we’ll get there eventually ;-).
Cheers,
PrepaidWirelessGuy
http://www.prepaid-wireless-guide.com
Posted on August 7th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I’m not sure why you linked to ABCNews for the Samsung Slash review. You could have just linked directly to the CNet review.
Posted on August 7th, 2008 at 11:53 pm