 "AFTER TWO WEEKS PHONE BROKE" | 2009-05-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3LNYN6CG1XF46 |
| i purchased the phone two week ago and all of sudden the phone is broken. I have yet to have dropped the phone, and it did not fall in water. the screen came in already broken and i just noticed it now..never again will i order from them because i have been ordering from amazon a really long time and this is the first time something has came into me messed up..10 thumbs DOWN! |
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 "Lose the shine..." | 2009-02-20 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2DOW9P487XWAM |
Overall Rating: Meh...I hated it least of all available 'out of contract' unlocked choices...still do. Will keep until I find another militaristic-looking rubber-coated beauty that works well as a phone. (Only better...)
Looks are incomparable. If they'da lost ALL the shine, they would have been perfect. (And it fits in your pocket too!!!) Good to excellent call quality. Lousy menus, maddening phone book and battery life is a joke.
1. Slick looks with a cool rubberized matte skin and a sweet spring-open feature.
2. Hard to tell from the picture, but the hinge is chrome. REALLY SHINY CHROME.
3. The screens and keypad surface are also extremely shiny and TOTAL fingerprint magnets. Keypad is flat with ridges, sorta slippery and not the easiest to use.
4. Menu functions are virtually incomprehensible, with stuff buried in nonsensical places.
5. Phone book difficult to use, especially multiple numbers under one entry. (My sim from a four-year-old tits-up Samsung couldn't figure out how to do it, so it gave every number a separate entry with the same name.) I gave up after a while and simply annotated each separate name with 'cell', 'home', etc.
5. Excellent call quality.
6. Battery life as delivered was a joke--bought a brand-new battery from my provider (paying $37 to avoid the 2-year-old dud batteries so prevalent on the 'net) but the phone still must be charged nightly, or the low power alarm WILL wake you up in the middle of the night. (And I don't talk much.)
In sum: If you want a phone that works well as a basic phone and has a slick, militaristic look that can't be beat, buy this. If you want user-friendly software and a 'feature rich' high-tech goody-box that must be strapped to your belt, look elsewhere.
(But it'll only get shinier...)
NEW SPARTA |
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 "Great phone for the money." | 2009-02-03 |
| - Reviewed By User: A4W4O3IUKUT5W |
| This is a good cell phone model. It has pleasing style lines, folds compactly in an attractive package, and is sharp looking in its simplicity. It always had good signal capabilities and a good battery life with good stand by and talk times. It's also fairly compact, although not the smallest of phones, and well protected from falls and such. You will see some scarring on the case texture if dropped on a harsh surface but this applies to pretty much every type of phone. It tends to be more visible on this phone's finish but I have to say I do prefer this finish to the "cold plastic" feel of other phones. One thing to watch out for is that the buttons are hard to find in the dark and/or when not looking directly at it since the tactile feedback bars are somewhat recessed into the keypad, and the screen will perpetually be somewhat greasy from your cheeks unless you're compulsively good at cleaning it after every call (Get a case or use bluetooth). Overall this is a very comfortable, sharp-looking phone with an awesome 1-handed flip out (uses magnets to stay close, so it could double as a very inefficient money clip, heh). |
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 "Motorola PEBL U6 for International Use" | 2008-10-22 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2DFHGPYAMX6M8 |
| I purchased this unlocked PEBL phone for my daughter to use while she was studying in Greece, so once there she could buy a Greek SIM card, with a Greek phone number, and avoid roaming charges from using her US iPhone. She was still in the US when it arrived, and the PEBL came with an international charger and manuals, but did not come with a SIM card. This phone needed an inserted SIM card before it would allow her access to any setup menus, or to try it out to make calls, so she used the SIM card from her iPhone temporarily and it worked fine. She was easily able to bluetooth sync the PEBL to her MacBook and transfer her contacts list using iSync, and to make calls on the ATT network. Once she was in Greece, the phone has worked great with a Greek SIM card. |
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| "shipping extremely fast" | 2008-10-21 |
| - Reviewed By User: AMAQBF58G6OTZ |
The product' excelent, it's really unlocked and worked for my country, Brazil...the shipping was extremely fast.
Great deal! |
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