prepaid phone
No-contract cellular device
A prepaid phone is a mobile phone with service paid for in advance rather than billed monthly.
Users buy airtime or data as needed, with no contract or credit check required.
Prepaid phones are popular for budget control, temporary use, and privacy—the latter making them favored by criminals avoiding surveillance, sometimes called burner phones: He bought a prepaid phone so the calls couldn't be traced.
- burnerHeat-producing device component
- drug dealerSells illegal substances
- crime showTV program about lawbreaking
- disposableMade for one use
- minutesSixty-second intervals
talk time · SIM · top-up · anonymous · convenience · airtime · cellphone · flip · cheap · refill · activation · cash · untraceable · no contract · mobile · carrier · drugstore · gas station
- smartphonesSamsung, smartphone, cellphone, Google, touchscreen
- communication devicescellphone, landline, smartphone, payphone, iPhone
- Budget PhonesNokia
- feature phonesdumbphone, keypad, numeric keypad, number pad, clamshell design
- Budget TechChromebook, Raspberry Pi, budget laptop, netbook, Kindle Fire
- prepaidcalling card, top-up, top-up card, reload, recharge