long-term contract, no offer of a cheap subsidized smartphone, and no periodic low-cost smartphone upgrade. Upstart T-Mobile started the trend; Verizon and Sprint joined in later. Equity analyst ...

These days, you can find perfectly adequate — sometimes great — smartphones for just a couple hundred dollars, no contract required ... Furthermore, going with a cheap off-contract phone ...

No contracts ... and a two-year contract. But in the last several years (prodded by T-Mobile), the marketplace has burst wide open. Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile all sell phones contract ...

Buyers looking for the best cheap smartphone in March aren’t in search of the latest and greatest smartphone, but don’t want to lock in to a contract ... you would in a Verizon or AT&T store.

Attention Verizon ... cheap LG clamshells. We’d considered AT&T iPhones, but I’d heard the rumors about a Verizon iPhone coming in 2011. My wife’s family lives on a farm in the Midwest with ...

The smartphone boom ... Plans start as cheap as $25 per month, but that's for as little as 300 call minutes. According to Best Buy, which carries many no-contract providers, most customers opt ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Verizon’s new no-contract smartphone plans are a good deal no matter how you slice them, but there are ways to maximize the bang for your buck. A quick recap for the ...