Kyocera Marbl K127 (Virgin Mobile)

reply on May 11, 2007 by BklynGirl2

I had to return the first Marbl I recieved because its battery wouldn't hold a charge. They replaced it with a new phone that seemed to do better for a while. That was about 1 month ago. Now, the new phone's battery is holding a (supposedly full) charge for barely 24 hours before it goes dead (I charged it twice overnight in the last two days).<br><br>I also was disappointed at how bad and how few were the ringtones the phone came with. It also has very bad and limited (4) display options for the wallpaper and the screensaver. I am not very picky about those things, so if I complain it is pretty bad.<br><br>Now I have to figure out if I can return the phone again now that I have thrown away the packaging. Also, it is interesting that the phone (which went for $29.99 one month ago) is now selling at a cut-rate $19.99. Were it not for the battery problem, the phone would be tolerable, but that problem seems to be a design defect, not just the case of one or two bad batteries (see other reviews). As such I cannot recommend buying this phone even though it is fairly nice looking and and otherwise serviceable.