Expert Cell Phone Comparison Guide and Reviews

Verizon Cellular Phones - Features, Phones, Service, Plans

August 4th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

Exclusive Verizon Features

The cellular phones that Verizon offers have numerous features that are exclusive to Verizon wireless; features such as VZ navigator and VCAST services. VCAST gives a user the ability to moonlisten to music or view television directly from their Verizon cellular phone anywhere and instantly. The VZ navigator utilizes the integrated GPS system to provide exact turn by turn directions to the user in many locations.

Verizon Phones

Verizon cell phones share the same brands as many other cellular service providers, Verizon however offers superior wireless capabilities with its multimedia devices than many other companies. Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung are just a few of the well known brands that can support Verizon’s network. All of their phones are able to provide internet access, customizable ring tones, games, phonebooks, voicemail, and many other premium features.

Verizon Service

Verizon wireless offers many service options for a Verizon cellular phone, both individual and family calling plans. Verizon provides individual plans begin at 450 minutes, and can be expanded up to 6000 minutes per month, with unlimited night and weekend minutes.

Verizon wireless family plans start with 700 minutes and will expand to 6000 minutes per month; also with unlimited night and weekend minutes and a low per minute charge after the initial shared minutes have been used. Both plans offer Verizon’s IN network service, which allows all members of any Verizon wireless plan to speak free; and all night minutes begin at 9pm in the local time zone.

Family Plans

The cellular phone family plans that Verizon offers gives users one account to utilize their Verizon cellular phones for a single lower monthly fee as well as being able to add additional lines as required. It will cost you roughly $10 extra a month for each additional line on a plan, and each member within that plan must share the available minutes.

Due to the fact that Verizon cellular phones provide free in-the-network calling anytime minutes likely will not be that significant of an issue for the majority of families. Each member of a family plan doesn’t necessarily need to be living together; the members listed on the account basically should have the same local area code.

Verizon’s Network

The coverage in most areas for Verizon cellular phones is typically high quality, and Verizon wireless has researched and tested extensively the network they created; for the areas where it was shown that the network to be lacking or weak they made the strategic investment of over $35 billion into their network to make it a dependable and strong.

The guy in their commercials “Can you hear me now?” was actually inspired by the networks team of actual testers that traveled the nation recording data on how well the Verizon cellular phones were able to make calls and access the internet from different areas both urban and rural.

Making the Switch

For customers which are not currently subscribing to Verizon cell phone services making the switch is easy to do, Verizon allows new customers to keep their existing number, plus they offer many of the same (or better) multimedia features as other cellular companies do.

Verizon cellular phones are also available in a variety of styles with features to attract any customer from the basic talk and data phones to the top of the line video/music/camera ultra thin super texting phones, Verizon has them all.