The good: Simple, basic, does what an infrequent user would want, cheaply.<p/>The bad: Usually sold with a 3 year, locked in plan, for "free", ( if paying typically $30 US a month for 3 years = $1000 + service charges and fees etc. is " FREE" )and has been crippled deliberately so that most of the software inside does NOT work - you must "USE" the Cell Provider's towers to upload and download ALL ringtones, pictures, phone numbers, etc. to back up or replace the standard defaults. There IS a USB cable to connect to your computer, like most phones, but SAMSUNG has diss-abled<p/>Summary: If all you want to do is make and receive phone calls - its middle of the road, and cheap. If you want to save pictures from the phone to your computer, and adjust the ringtones and wall papers, you must download software and buy a cable. For all the extra effort, you can buy any other phone for the same price that COMES WITH the computer cable and software in the box. Phone has a low quality camera, stripped down features, and functions internally that are deliberately turned off, with NO support at all on how gain access to all the capabilities. If you get one FREE as a promotion or an upgrade to a typical 3 year plan, and it is BETTER than your old phone, you will probably like it - a number of people I know who are just using it ONLY as a " phone " actually like it. They are blissfully un-aware of what it could actually allow them to "USE" it for. If you are buying NEW, get something with a USB and software in the box, for the same price or less!! A "new" first -time user would probably not know the difference, and be happy, but if you are like myself, with over 70 cell phones, and decades of cell use, it would pay to make a list of cell phone features available, and carefully shop around for the phone with the best value for your money. As I said, FREE is a good price as an upgrade or promotion only!
The good: They have great coverage almost every where.<p/>The bad: The have great phones but verizon comes in 1st when it comes to cell hne celections!!<p/>Summary: The AT&T company us great by means of service but it could do a bit better in cell phone selection.
The good: It has a great camera and good sound quality on the mp3 especially and its very durable and strong and I love the qwerty keyboard<p/>The bad: It turns off alot and the battery power runs out too quickly<p/>Summary: The phone is awesome! Id recommend this phone to anyone. I'd also make sure I'd keep the charger somewhere close.
The good: light weight, 2 keyboards, lots of features<p/>The bad: when switching keyboards its bout 2 secs instead of instantaneous. I sat on it and it broke and im only 162. hard to hear ppl on phone calls<p/>Summary: Its a decent phone but the con outweigh the pros. If your gonna buy a phone buy the pantech matrix. it transitions much faster and is more durable
The good: this phone is little, durable, cute style, and easy to figure out.<p/>The bad: i don't see much.<p/>Summary: i've had this phone for 4 years now. my mom gave it to me as my first phone & i completley love it.<br>seriously - if i was offered an apple phone or something spectactular & new, or this phone; i would choose this one. i've grown attached, and it VERY durable!! i've dropped it like, 395840857482626 times, & it still works like a charm. i've gotten it wet, dropped it, everything.<br>still works very well. sadly, it's getting old, and there's a rattling sound inside.. i think i broke it.... finally. ]: so, i'm off to get a new one - but this phone will always be missed & cherised.
The good: Great Camera, fast sending messages, great audio, and long battery- fast charging.<p/>The bad: You order the internet connection. Can't download songs. Needs more memory!!!<p/>Summary: Overall I give this phone a 4 out of 5 because the camera works great with clean cut pics. You can't download music so do it the ghetto way and record it through audio cause it's clean cut stuff. The messaging works great, and finally it's the best tracfone to ever come out.
The good: Qwerty keyboard is excellent and easy to use. Many great features! The bomb if your not needing all the smart phone features.<p/>The bad: It won't clean the windows.<p/>Summary: Great features and the Elink technology is awesome! Easy to read and use. Nice addition of shortcut buttons. Durable feel. Bright clear screen and nice 2.0 megapixel camera. Simply a great 'dumb' phone with some smart phone features. Samsung made the right improvements to an innovative flip phone.
The good: Cheap!!! Easy to use. <p/>The bad: some phones don't add minutes and require frustrating calls to Customer Service; hard to understand them.<br>Don't offer a phone with qwerty keyboard<p/>Summary: My first tracfone was a Motorola flip phone and I often had trouble adding minutes. I would do all the required steps and then receive an error message. I would have to go through customer service and key in long numbers that they would call out. I finally solved the problem by buying a different model phone--Motorola V170($10)-- and have had no problms since. I got the same phone for my husband because he had dropped his original Nokia model and it was pretty messed up. I still worked though. I use phone so seldom that I have accumulated a good many minutes. When I decided to do a bit of texting, I was pleased to discover that incoming messages were free (this varies by phone model) and outgoing only used up a third of a unit. <br> I had a value plan for awhile that added minutes automatically, but it didn't show on the screen so when I bought new phones for both of us, I canceled those plans and now just add minutes online myself before cut-off date. I may go back to value plan because they have a family one that will be pretty cheap. I will soon be retired and on fixed income so this value is important. <br><br>I would recommend Tracfone to anyone who uses phones only occasionally, to those on a budget, and for teenagers. Parents could pay a basic fee and extra minutes could be at the child's expense.
The good: Side-loading memory card, ability to add words to dictionary, decent camera, long battery life, 3 alarms + separate "auto power on/off" feature<p/>The bad: "Pictures" folder is several menus deep, main alarm can't be set on "vibrate", flat keypad and directional buttons, not microSD-HD compatible, calendar event menus and settings are awkward<p/>Summary: I got this phone free with a new T-Mobile plan and I can't really complain. The main thing that drew me to the phone was the memory card slot; I have a satellite radio that also accepts a microSD card, and having the slot on the side of the phone rather than behind the battery makes it easy to move the card between devices. Regrettably, it doesn't support SD-HD, so occasionally some prioritizing is required. <br><br>The camera functions well in a variety of lighting conditions, though the image displayed on the screen is only part of the picture it actually takes; to see the full picture, you either have to move it to your computer (easy enough with the SD card) or set it as your desktop, which still doesn't show the entire picture, but does show a different subsection. Needless to say this makes taking a good desktop picture a little fiddly. One of the features of the phone I remember being advertised is the shiny front panel for taking pictures of yourself, which I suppose could also be useful for various ninja applications ^_^.<br><br>The phone has a decent dictionary, though I'm a stickler for apostrophes and have to change menus quite a bit when I T9. It also allows you to add words to the dictionary (hooray!), though the "spell" submenu is set on CAPS by default. The keypad is extremely flat, with just a tiny bump on the 5 and the middle row *very* slightly textured, so touch-texting is more difficult than I'd like (especially since I don't often opt for T9). <br><br>I'm a snoozer, so the three alarms were a *big* bonus. The main alarm can be set for every day, one day, or by day of the week and has a 5 minute snooze. This alarm does *not* vibrate if the phone is set on vibrate or silent; instead, it plays the selected song or tone very softly. The other two can be set with the same frequency options, but have a 1, 3, 5, 7, or 10 minute snooze option and *will* vibrate if the phone is set to vibrate. Between the three alarms, I've managed to only be late to work because of oversleeping 3 times in the last year and a half ^_^.<br><br>I haven't surfed the web on this phone, but the screen size and resolution seem like it would make surfing a bit awkward. If you're looking for a web-phone, this probably isn't it. And then there's the calendar; I can't get the hang of the thing. Every time I think I'm marking an event as completed, it removes future occurrences. If I don't mark it completed, it reminds me every day that I need to do it, even if it's a once-a-week type thing. An organizer this is not. (Well spluh, it's a phone...)<br><br>I only have to charge the phone about every other day, which is great; my last phone had to be charged about every 8 hours! I've dropped it a good dozen times, and the back has only popped off once. The flip joint has a *tiny* bit of give, but considering the age of the phone and the punishment it's been through it's in terrific shape. <br>
The good: Its a touch screen, and its awesome.. <p/>The bad: The only problem I've been having is when I'm on the phone and want to send a txt.. And changing the screen savers on the lock screen.<p/>Summary: I love this phone. Its so awesome and its about time t-mobile got something worth while. lol. But not only that the texting is pretty easy. U can tilt the phone side ways so that the display screen turns sidewyas, and if you do while your texting you get a full qwerty board. <br><br>The touch screen is pretty responsible and i'm pretty sure you can hold between 100-200 messages. depending on how much room is available on your phone and memory card. <br><br>But in all if you have some questions you can ask. :)<br><br>ITs awesome and worth the money!!
This phone is probably the best phone you will ever use in your life. It has the nice QWERTY keyboard and the 2.0 megaapixel camera. The internet so far is so awesome you will just die for it!!! The messaging is the best use for the phone. Anyway.....
The good: great keyboard<br>awesome pictures and video quality<br>easy to navigate<p/>The bad: battery. i charge it every night. not a big deal<p/>Summary: i got this phone for my birthday and it is my first phone that wasn't prepaid. i was a little nervous about not being able to get used to it, within a day i had it completely under control, and i love it. i text 24/7 so this phone is the best.
The good: Bright Screen, Takes Video & Pictures, Great Corporate Email Integration, Good Web Browsing, Excellent GPS Navigation with Sprint, QWERTY Keyboard<p/>The bad: Wish Battery Life Was Longer (But it's still reaasonable).<p/>Summary: Sprint's version of the Curve is better than all of the other Curve versions out there! I would recommend the phone to anyone who wants a great phone with a QWERTY keyboard!
The good: It's a brill phone touch screen, stylish, apple didn't think about the stylus nor other phone companies. It's great.<p/>The bad: It's not everones cup of coffe as the sound quality slightly lacks.<p/>Summary: I'm only 11 a young girl from England and I think it's great I don't actually have an LG cookie but for under £100 it's a bargain(£97.95 from most stores on pay as you go) I want one so much. I really do insist you buy one they sound great on YouTube, no matter what the faults are, you've got to have respect for such a cheap touch phone
The good: Messaging is fast, web browsing and email are great! Having everything at your fingertips at all times and pretty much anything you can do on a PC you can do on this made it wonderful. There are tons of applications out there that will fit everyones needs.<p/>The bad: System freezes/locks to where you have to reset the phone. Any problems you have with the phone isn't usually dealt with in the store which means they have to send you a replacement or talk with you over the phone which means more down time with a problem phone. Updates for these phones are done at home on a PC and can be very time consuming<p/>Summary: Although there were a lot of great features, I stopped using mine because of dependability. The system froze a lot and I'd have to take out the battery and "reboot" it. Once or twice is ok, 5-10 times a day was not. I ended up going through 3 phones and many reprograming and after 8 months of dealing with this, I went back to a normal phone.
The good: Nice and small.<br>Menus are fairly easy to use.<br>Very good battery life.<br>No buttons on the outside, so no possibility of accidentally pressing one. <p/>The bad: 1) It's difficult or impossible to see the time on the front of the phone, especially in the dark.<br><br>2) The volume control is a soft key that brings up a dialog, so it's impossible to adjust the volume while actually talking on the phone. Oh, maybe I can memorize how to press the buttons without looking.<br><br>3)There's no volume control for the incoming text message alarm.<p/>Summary: The phone works fine and has an excellent battery life. The "cons" I listed seem a bit trivial, but I find them more and more bothersome the longer I have the phone. I wish I had realized this during the buyer remorse period.
The good: MP3<br>Radio Player<br>Nice Design/Size<p/>The bad: Put together poorly<p/>Summary: internally it is very well, but physically it could b build alot better. also my mom has the same phone, her screen has almost been pushed in. if u take care of your phones, this phone shouldnt be a big problem
The good: price<p/>The bad: POOR Customer Service<p/>Summary: I wanted to get a number from an old Motorola 120 to a W370... after talking to 20 Indians, I lost the Number that I had for 4 years and this IS BAD for My Consulting Business. I was on the Customer Service Number for 15 Hours on 6 days.... this is sooooooo bad.... Unreal, and all them Indians names were BOB, MARY, Joe Charlie... Those guys were good believe me, but the Tracfone SYstem SUCKS<br><br>
I switched from T-mobile because of its Bad Customer Service, bars, droped calls. Made me wait 2 hours Paying for 2 phones $220 no addons. I joined At&t who's customer care actually cares they fixed my problems in just a matter of minutes and were very nice. I didn't have to wait the next bill cycle to get my plan or features changed. I get bars everywhere tmobile was not able to. People told me Tmobile's problem is temp. and will be fixed in about a month two months later still like that. I even talked to my friend who is an manager at tmobile(he doesn't use tmobile himself hates it) and he said this problem isn't a temp. problem this will be a problem. Att has higher pricing than tmobile but is way worth it...
The good: Awesome Screen, Texting so Easy, Multitasking, Accelerometer- specially for reviewing pics, easy to im<p/>The bad: No cons!!! Except cant download games from computer <p/>Summary: This is the awesome phone. When im in a group this phone always beats all theres one problem you cant download apps from computer yet..(then again eternity hasnt gotten that far yet either)It beats all friends phones in features and style great sound quality and graphics
