Nokia 2760 Prepaid Phone (T-Mobile)

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I am satisfied with my purchase. It has a lot of extras with it that I am sure will come in handy once I have got the directions down pat in my mind. It is easy to handle and I was able to choose wallpaper, take good photos, arrange my windows to my liking and receive voice mail that comes in nice and clear. The headphones I don't use because there is no microphone, but I purchased one that is compatible to this phone and it works very well with it. I like the flip style and blue happens to be my favorite color ! Got lucky !! I can say that I am thoroughly satisfied with this phone and shall use it for a long time.

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Samsung Behold t919 Phone, Brushed Rose (T-Mobile)

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I am a huge fan of touch electronics. I wanted a touch phone and I decided to go with this one. I had a sidekick 2009 and I hated it with a passion. The phone would drop calls and lose service like everyday. The Samsung Behold is a cute little phone with great features. The phone as we all know is touch screen, This is a great feature and overall works perfectly. It takes a little getting use to when you use the touch screen to send texts but it doesnt take all but maybe 15 minutes. The screen has a arrow that you press which brings out a bar to the left had side which displays widgets. Now these widgets are very cool cause you can drag as many as you want out of the widget bar onto the main screen. This allows you to personilize your phone as you see fit. This is a very cool feature to me.

There are other great things as well. The camera on here is a 5 megapixel camera and takes some pretty good pics for a phone. Also the phone runs on a 3G network which allows for faster texts and picture mails and internet. The internet on this phone is not all that great. It is ok but I felt could have been better. On the front of the phone are two dots to the top left hand corner. These are there so that when you hold the phone to your face while on a call it can tell so that it turns off the display light so it wont kill the battery, This is pretty neat cause when you take the phone off your face to look at the screen the light comes back on.

The front of the phone is very simple. You have physical keys on the bottom which are the answer, end call and in the middle of those two the back button. Now when you unlock the screen there are four buttons on the screen. Here we have the dial pad, the phone book, the web and the menu button. They are small and dont look weird on the screen.

The call value is great. The volume goes up to 7 but is very loud. I hear my friends clear and they hear me clear as well. I had one drop call but I think thats because of TMobile not because of the phone.

People have complained about the battery life. I have no issues with that. At the end of the day (midnight) I still have 2 bars left. Now if you the type to sit there and mess with the phone and press it all day then yeah the battery will dies fast.

Overall I have to say that I love this phone. This phone is my first touch screen and I love it. I had to get the pink cause TMobile didnt have it in espresso but I find that that pink is nicer looking. This is a great phone for anyone that wants their first touch screen phone.

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LG VX-5500 Phone, Black (Verizon Wireless)

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This phone is a decent cheap phone.
Pros:
1) No antenna to catch if phone is in your pocket.
2) Calls seem clear
3) battery life seems okay

Cons:
1) Phone often stops working as a phone if you do not power it down each night. Powering down and up again will fix it. But symptom of phone not being able to send calls is quite a pain. Phone acts like it is going to call, but no audio is sent either direction. In other words, you have no idea that the call isn't going to work before you call.
2) Phone will not allow you to use recorded audio as a ring tone.

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Nokia Intrigue 7205 Phone, Black/Silver (Verizon Wireless)

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First I had the LG8300 no complaints, and the rest of the phones I reutrned. Which amounted to the LG choloclate3, LG8360 Motorola W755. Then I found Digital voice in the Samsung Renown which had lousy audio quality. Then Today I picked up the Intrigue.

I actually tested this phone out for about an hour before I committed to it. It sounded much better than the Samsung but not quite os good as the LG 8300 on hand however I was willing to give it a try because I really want visual voice mail. I was excited I actaully found a phone with some features that had nice voice quality and features.

My dreams were broken. When I called someone while traviling about 15 miles on the phone. His voice was either too loud (and my volume was at it's lowest) or it was low the way I wanted it. I returned it to the store and the tech was able to reproduce the problem. I got another phone from another store and tested it out of the phone in the store for about an hour and it was strange inside the store the other party was lower (not touching the volume button) and when I went outside the other party was too loud for me to keep my ear to the phone.

I have a feeling even though it's not memtioned that Nokia trys to adjusst the phone volume acording the the backgroud noise but does a lousy job of that. ( this is not a fact but just a thought) Well it's back to my LG VX 8300

WHY WHY WHY CAN'T THEY JUST MAKE A PHONE THAT HAS THE FEATURES AND HAS GOOD SOUND QUALIITY AND LET ME ADJUST THE VOLUME THE OLD AND IS THAT IS A FLIP PHONE i DON'T NEED A PHONE THAT PLAYS MUSIC THATS WHAT i HAVE A STEREO FOR. BUT WHATEVER

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LG enV Touch VX11000 Phone, Black (Verizon Wireless)

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This phone is simply brilliant. I agree with everything the other reviewer said - mainly that text message sentences don't start in caps. But by no means a big deal! This phone is so easy to use - with the touchscreen or the keyboard. I was worried about the touchscreen and didn't want a touchscreen only phone because of the stories I had heard. This phone has the best of both - full keyboard and touchscreen, but I can tell you the touchscreen works flawlessly. I am really impressed at how easy it is to use. Web browsing is easy too, no need to buy an expensive data plan to surf the web. I use mine for work and play. I was a diehard motorola man, but LG has won me over. When I go shopping for appliances or a TV I will look closer at LG, they just seemed to get all the little details - well most of, the details right. You can't say that about motorola, there phones were starting to slip.

This one is a keeper, my only worry is how are they going to make the next one better? This one is that good.

p.s. - When shopping for a phone make sure if your a polarized sunglasses wearer like me that you can read that screen! This phone is TOTALLY readable wearing sunglasses. I traded in a samsung alias 2 for this LG - samsung was nice, but in landscape mode the screen was black, portrait it worked fine. Just something you probably wouldn't think of checking for in the store! And again this LG is great with polarized lenses.

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Nokia 5610 XpressMusic Phone, Red (T-Mobile)

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I was looking for a new cell phone which had to have two best qualifications: great camera phone and great graphics. It was esential for me to be able to send high quality pictures. Also, I can't live without playing chess and chess program I had in my old Samsung T-429 had poor graphics and used to freeze up very often while playing.

PICTURE QUALITY with this Nokia is exceptional- I took with it a picture of a local park and you couldn't tell while viewing with Windows gallery on my pc- that the picture was taken with cell phone, not with high quality point-n-shoot camera. I like this feature also: when sending picture, if it takes too many KB's, it allows you automatically to make it smaller. Very minor thing is- it would have been nice for Nokia to put small mirror so one could see himself/herself while taking picture.

GRAPHICS are excellent! Very pleasant to the eye and NEVER freezes up on me while I am playing chess. Never!

PLAYER functionality and sound quality is very good. External buttons are easy to use. When you play a piece of downloaded music from Amazon on loudspeaker- high notes are sometimes too much to handle, but one cannot expect sound quality equal to high end stand alone sound systems; quality through earphones is fine. But overall, music player sound quality, again- is very good. My only complain is that when you play music and press cell phone red end button- music does not stop- you have to press stop/pause button for the player itself, otherwise if you play music and slide down phone or press red stop button or both- music will keep playing and you will have go back to player to stop the music.

CALL QUALITY is also very good. Sound is crisp and clear. The downside, I think, is when you slide up the phone to answer the call and and after the call is over (from either party) phone locks within three seconds and that means when you want to use phone again you have either to slide phone down and up again or press ok and star function. I think it is a mistake by Nokia. I think they should have left the choice to a customer- if they wanted to use the cell phone after the call- let them do so, if they wanted to lock- let them just slide it down. I'd say it is a medium grade anoyance.

LOUDSPEAKER is good, but not excelent. Samsung T429 had a slight advantage here.

APPEARANCE is superb. I am a slider cell phone guy and this one looks so so cool! It feels solid and well built, not a flimsy piece of plastic like so many other cell phones. Combination of red and black colors are blended very well and beautiful to look at. And those two 1mm high and 3mm wide lights at the mid-lower part of the front of the phone that come up slowly and then goes away slowly- it is so cool especially at night.

OVERALL i would definitely recommend to anyone especially who is looking for exceptional graphics, ability to take and send highest quality pictures. 5 stars. Definitely.

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Nokia 7510 Phone (T-Mobile)

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I've owned cell phones since they first arrived on the market. In fact, my very first cell phone was a Nokia. This might be the best phone I've ever owned. It might be a little "industrial" for some folks; I love that about it. Sturdy and feels like quality. If you are looking for a sleek, slim, light-as-a-feather phone, you probably will not like this one. If you want a phone like feels like it might work as a weapon, and has some awesome features for the price, this is for you!!

I was a die-hard Blackberry fan for years but the BB plans just got too expensive for me (sudden change in financial situation).

Features I like the most: The interface on this phone is awesome, and you have several ways to customize that. I like the overall size of the phone. It has an FM radio....I've been wanting that on a phone forever! It takes a micro SD card. It syncs with my laptop just like a Blackberry, using Nokia PC Suite (free download) so I can use Outlook with it. It has Wi-fi, and switches phone usage back and forth from air to wi-fi depending on what is available!! How cool is that?? It has Bluetooth, 2 megapixel camera, takes video....both of which I have yet to explore much. The media player has awesome sound just through the phone speaker!!

I wasn't expecting much from email after owning a BBerry, but this is fine for me. Setup was non-existant. Somehow it set up itself. I had trouble finding the speakerphone feature; To use the speakerphone while on an active call, press the Right Soft key to select Loudspeaker.

I have only owned this phone for a day, but I put it through it's paces pretty well so far. Amazon has it on sale right now with a T-mobile plan for free, plus you get a $50 rebate back!! They pay you to take it!! For that kind of money, this is an awesome phone.

It does not come with a needed micro-usb (not mini-usb) cable for syncing with a PC. That is about the only thing I don't like about this phone.

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LG Decoy VX8610 Phone, Silver/Blue (Verizon Wireless)

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I went from my ever-trusty LC Chocolate (1st generation) to this. My main selling point were the similiarities ,in design to the Chocolate. The other selling point was the built-in Bluetooth, which says something being that I never used a Bluetooth device before. Needless to say, I think this phone is great. Nice, sturdy design without being too heavy or bulky. Great response when I touch the top buttons as well as the keypad. The display is absolutely gorgeous with it's 2.2", 262K color screen. The interface is Flash-based and comes with 4 different themes to choose from and looks great. Pictures come out surprisingly clean as well (as with any camera phone, a steady hand does help) and the larger video option (320x240 as opposed to 176x174) is a nice bonus as well. I'm absolutely fascinated by the Bluetooth headset. Ridiculously easy to setup and use. And EVERYONE I talk to was not able to tell I was on a headset, let alone a Bluetooth headset of this size. The ONLY cons I have against this phone are 2 things. I may have found a software bug (at least, that's what I'm hoping) in where I received a Video message from a friend and was not able to play it. It came from an LG phone (the Chocolate) and is the same file type. When I hit Play on my phone, it takes me to the Reply menu commonly found on LG's menus (1. TXT Message, 2. Picture message, etc.) I have still not been able to view it because I can't even save the video. Hoping this will be in the software update. My primary gripe is the music player. Coming off of the Chocolate, I loved the fact that I could play music while receiving text messages, going online, view pictures. Unfortunately, this phone has the standard VZW music player which means if I get a call, receive a text or, at any time, want to go back to my original menu, the music stops. Kind of annoying and a drag and probably something I'll have to get used to. But that's one thing where the Chocolate ruled. In terms of everything else, I'm very pleased with this phone

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T-Mobile Wing Phone (T-Mobile)

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The good
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+The keyboard is pretty good - it could have more height on the key domes but it works okay. Probably one of the best of the qwerty - or any phone keyboards.

+The Screen is nice - 2.8 inch diagonal

+The Device is small- smaller than the MDA which is almost the same

+The coating looks and feels good

+Some helpful programs

+My faves might save you some money

+Battery life is decent

+T-Mobile customer service is about as good as phone companies get. Usually tied with Verizon for the best (JD Power) or just barely behind Verizon (Checkbookdotorg).

+T-Mobile rates are cheaper than Verizon and ATT, and usually are as good if not better than Sprint.


The not so good
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-Edge - it is okay but T-Mobile does not have 3G or faster connection yet. Sprint, Cingular/ATT and Verizon all have comparable or better devices with 3G / Ev-Do speeds. (May 2008 3G on T-Mobile NYC and soon to spread)

-Memory - usable memory gets low pretty fast. You need to close programs before you open other programs usually and remember to restart it every other day. Also there is some lag time when turning on programs or waiting for the screen to change to horizontal when you open the keyboard. (UPDATE - go to howardforums to find free programs to speed up your Wing and a procedure to fix some of the memory issue. These fixes make it a four star phone I think).

-Phone buttons get pushed easily in the provided holster (even with lock screen enabled - the green and red phone buttons are still active and they stick out and so you will answer calls without meaning to, or hangup occasionally).

-Processor is a slow 201mhz by todays standards. While this makes for good battery life, it is disappointing to see Cingular with the 400mhz Hermes/8525 and Sprint with the 6700 and set to release the upgrade to the Hermes - the 6800 in October. (Verizon has the XV6800 now as well). All are faster machines with faster connections. And, of course, there is the iPhone with a 600+mhz processor.

-T-Mobile help just told me that the darn phone will not always sync recurring appointments correctly. This is of course not a T-Mo or an HTC problem but a WM6 problem. Apparently if you put a time limit on the recurring appointments it solves the problem. Say - this recurring appointment will end after 999 ocurrences.

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Bottom line (so far for me): if you have a Dash or MDA (ATT 8125) or something comparable that is still working - save your money and wait for the next ppc. Certainly the various 6800s are better than this.

If you want a qwerty ppc with touch screen - you might be pleased. It may be the best T-Mobile could do given their limited technology (no 3G in my city yet) and customer preferences (small phones are more popular)

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Nokia 5610 XpressMusic Phone, White (T-Mobile)

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I love this phone. It looks cool, I have 400 songs with me at all times, and it's easy to use! I text all the time and the buttons are easy to hit the ones you want. The speakers are amazing! I was so suprised by how loud they were. I can play music out loud to other people or in my car if I forget my transmitter. The sound quality is as good as an ipod (if the music file is legitimate.)The only issue I have is the battery life. It usually lasts for five days with rgular/normal use. It runs out a lot faster when I listen to music a lot, but I just have to remember to charge it up at night which is no big deal. Also, i get internet on mine, and i have had it freeze a few times (that might just be the sites problem, not the phone.) I spent a hundred dollars on mine, but i don't mind since i needed a new phone, but maybe try to wait to see if the price goes down. I am very happy with it however. Just make sure you buy a case to protect the screen and body. Oh, and the display is beautiful, downloaded videos are okay (again it may not even be the phone with the issue). the screen is kinda small for videos, so movies ect. probably won't be so good, but music videos look great. I highly recomend it if you are looking for an everyday phone for calling, texting, music! It practically replaces an ipod, since i bring my phone evrywhere and not my ipod. I just put my favorite songs on it since I can only fit about 500-600:)I heard you can buy a bigger micro sd and fit around 1000-1500 depending on the size! thats the size of an ipod nano! one more thing! :) try to get a thin case, otherwise the phone is looks too bulky (even though its not!) and it doesn't fit in your jean pockets so well!

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LG VX8360 Phone, Silver (Verizon Wireless)

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After many months of searching for a basic phone to replace our aging Motorola e815's, Verizon released the LG VX8360 -- no frills cell phone that has good phone reception at a reasonable price. Data and text messaging are not features I am interested in. I have those functions completely blocked on my service. After 48 hours of use, here are my observations:

Pro:
* Phone reception test -- my basement is a dead zone for many callers -- In a word: GREAT.
* Reception is equal to my old Moto e815, as a comparison.
* Installed and formatted a 2 GB micro-SD card -- works perfect.
* LG's menu system is far better than Verizon/Moto's menu system.
* Camera has increased functions -- better white balance, 3 resolutions of pictures, separate store soft key.
* ICE menu with important notes capability.
* Now able to transfer picture and music files to and from my Palm T5 via BT without firmware hacks.
* My old Moto BT headset paired right up.
* Speakerphone is louder than my old e815 -- the front facing speaker is also larger.
* Full duplex Speakerphone -- a real nice change.
* Phonebook is feature filled in comparison to my older phones.

Con:
* Ringer is much quieter than all of my previous cell phones.
* The phone has to be open in order to use the speaker phone.
* Vibrate mode is weaker than my e815.
* Pulling the phone out of a holster -- too easy to press the side voice memo button.
* LG has an option to change the front small screen in the menu, but selecting a new screen fails to change the default.
* Music files transferred by BT are placed in the My Sound directory, not in My Music directory.
* Non-standard 5 pin micro-USB charging/data port -- a standard mini and micro USB cable will NOT work.

The camera on this phone is better than all of the prior cell phone cameras I have owned. Comparing 1.3 MP from this phone, my Motorola e815 and a old MX-1200 1.3 MP Fujifilm camera, this phone took the best pictures. Having the ability of exposure control, multisegement light metering and corrective white balance with EV adjustment in the fly, pictures come out clear and clean. I'm pleased with these results, but the quality is not the same as a modern, higher megapixal dedicated digital camera. For the convenience . . . .

Overall, I'm pleased with my upgrade. I have recommended this phone to others who are looking for an upgrade at a reasonable price.

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Novatel MiFi 2200 Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspot Modem (Verizon Wireless)

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I had read positive reviews about this product and talked at length with Verizon personnel- I had planned on replacing our Verizon wireless broadband card with it. Bought one as soon as available (May 17, 2009). Unfortunately the installation never got to the activation stage, it reported an error that it couldn't get a strong signal. Strange since each member of my family has a Verizon cell phone and use them in our home with no problem, it must require a very strong signal. Verizon has a "30 day, no worries" return policy so I shipped it back immediately.

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Samsung Gravity t459 Phone, White/Aqua (T-Mobile)

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I've always thought the 30bucks for the data plans are a waste, and tried the sidekick with and without the data plan. I've never used to surf the web with it, and without it the sidekick (or any smart phone) is severly handicapped. To my knowledge if you have any smart phone (blackberry, G1, sidekick), unless you have the data plan, you can't get emails or chat (yahoo/AIM).

Enter Samsung Gravity for people who doesn't need to surf the web[...].For t-mobile users, it's the ONLY qwerty kb phone tailored to these people.

With a basic plan plan I can do gmail (yahoo, etc) and chat (aim, yahoo, icq). I have the qwerty keyboard that makes it easy as well (not to mention text). And the extras! I'm getting a 2gig memory card for this phone that'll let me play mp3's.. Voice recorder, camera, video recorder, organizer, etc.

The battery does go a bit fast, but I've read that it's a software problem that incorrectly reads the battery life (It tends to read quickly from 5 to 2 bars, and then it tends to stay alive on 1 bar for quite a bit).

A little glitch.. whatever. I don't really have any issues with it.

Love this phone.

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Motorola Renew W233 Prepaid Phone, Green (T-Mobile)

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This phone is not very well supported by Motorola. The latest Motorola Phone Tools does not even support it, so there is no way to upload your saved contacts from your old phone. You have to type in all your phone numbers manually, which really, really sucks.

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