Wireless Basics

Today's cell phones and wireless plans contain some amazing features-features designed to make your life easier, more productive and more enjoyable. That's why Wirefly has created a Wireless Basics resource, where the cell phone features and wireless plans options are explained in common terms, so that you can use this knowledge to decide what's more important to you. Also, Wirefly has listed wireless basic features in an order mirroring the phone and plan descriptions in our shopping pages. This way, you will find it even easier to learn what each phone feature is and how it may fit your needs.

• Advanced Features: What makes a cell phone more than a phone, such as camera, video recorder, music player and data capability

• Messaging features: The ability of a cell phone to send and receive text, multimedia and other types of messages

• Personalization and Fun: What makes a cell phone a fun companion for games and everyday entertainment

• Core features: The essential applications of each cell phone model

• Battery Life : The essential applications of each cell phone model

• Technical specifications: What main technologies the phone employs to link to its network and perform its main tasks

• Basic Plan Features: The essentials that make one plan different from another in terms of minutes, mobile to mobile calls, free weekends and more

• Contract and Service: Terms, activation fees, etc.

• Special Features: What other services each plan may include—such as voicemail, caller ID, three-way calling and other features

No other store gives you fuller descriptions of their phones and plans: at Wirefly, the information and the power are yours.