This guide is designed to explain the difference between SIM only vs contract phones. Today’s smartphone market offers consumers a wide variety of choices when it comes to mobile phone plans. Among ...

Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile all offer cell phone service without a two year service contract. While that may sound appealing, Consumer Reports found that being contract-free is not always a bargain.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Contract-free cell phone service used to be the hallmark of upstart and prepaid carriers. But with T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon all now offering no-contract plans, Consumer Reports ...

Some mobile providers also offer bundles of data, texts and minutes if you top up your credit by a certain amount each month, ...

The two-year contract. It is the bane of a cell phone owner?s existence, especially one who must have the latest hot phone at a discounted price. Two years is a long time, and few other marketers can ...

AT&T made the leap first, revealing that it plans to offer 8-GB and 16-GB iPhone 3G smartphones at a special "no-commit" price. That translates to $599 and $699, respectively, to avoid being locked ...

Taxes, dental exams, cellphone contracts — things you hate but can't avoid. Actually, you can skip the last one. The subsidized price of a fancy phone (sometimes a third or less of what it costs ...

These days smartphones can do just about anything. One thing they still can't do? Bounce. I figured this out the hard way last year while getting out of my car in a parking garage. My mind was miles ...

Having moved back to the U.S., I found it so hard to get a reasonable deal for service with my unlocked GSM smartphone that I decided there was little reason not to get an iPhone. Formerly a ...