Alcatel Venture

Alcatel offers the Venture to Virgin Mobile's prepaid crowd, an Android smartphone that includes a QWERTY keyboard, Gingerbread, and a 2-megapixel camera. Here's Phone Scoop's full review of this $99, no-contract smartphone.

Pros: Cheap Price for an android, touch screen with qwerty keyboard.

You can pick these up for $39 and it is a nice basic Android phone. It is a great value for that price.

I've been a Blackberry user for a number of years but finally gave up on them after having my last on fail after less than a year. I wanted a couple months and researched pricing I found this model at my local Radio Shack for $79.99 about 1/4 of what I...