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"SOLID, BASIC AND EASY TO USE" on by frankandree62
Pros: Wanted a flip phone to replace my AT&T moto razor flip. I have a small mac-pro so all i really want and need is call and text. The phone is well made,STURDY and
has very useful basic features. VERY LOUD RING FOR OUTSIDE USE, LARGE KEY PAD for dial anCons: NONE, WOULD BE NICE TO SEE RUGGED FIELD VERSION.
Summary: BASIC USEFUL FEATURES, EASY TO NAVIGATE, VERY STURDY, SMALL FOR SHIRT-PANTS POCKET CARRY, VERY LOUD RING ALERTS SETTING. GOOD CALL QUALITY. BEST PHONE I HAD IN YEARS.
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"Perfect Phone" on by wbukovsky493
Pros: Large key board for texting, cant stand the little qwerty keyboards or touch screens. Great camera quality. Internet is decent. Great clear call quality. Never a dropped call. Always works. Long battery life, I only charge it every 2 or 3 days, I mostly t
Cons: Im still waiting for a flip phone thats Mil-Spec, come on T-Mobile get us a version of AT&t's Samsung Rugby.
Summary: Cant go wrong with this phone. Reliable and simple to use. If you cant figure out this phone you better go get a rotary phone.
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"Basic flip-phone, cannot customize" on by stephank1982
Pros: Multiple alarm settings, nice memory status menu, like clock on outside of phone
Cons: T9 is forced as default, cannot change default text input mode. Cannot remove menu icons you do not need or web2go option on main display, only way to re-display clock on outside of phone is to re-open, the clock is nice but difficult to access.
Summary: Mainly returning this phone because I hate T9 and this phone makes it so I have to switch to ABC every time I text something and I cannot change the default text input mode. Also, things like web2go cannot be removed from the main display or menu options. Internet access on a flip phone w/ small screen was cool back in the 1990s, were not buying a flip for web access anymore so leave it off the menu Samsung. Any phone that forces technology on you and doesn't give you the option to disable it is not a phone for me.
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"My Favorite Flip phone" on by Moneyman53
Pros: Micro SD card, Micro USB, 2 Megapixel camera, T-Mobile contacts back up, speakerphone, customizable, Google Maps, bluetooth, 3G
Cons: No IM software, Shared headphone/charger jack
Summary: The Samsung T259 is a good flip phone. There are many advantages of this phone, for example it is a 3G phone, it uses micro usb, has a microSD card slot, customizable, and it uses T-Mobile back up service for your contacts. The speakerphone on it is pretty good, the battery life is also pretty good. There is a 2 megapixel camera, you could take pictures and capture videos. This phone also features bluetooth, and it also has Google maps, but this requires data.
Some cons are you know when you are going through the menu and there is that beep sound, that beep sound could get annoying so I changed it to melody, I wish they added more sounds instead of just 2 options. Also this isn't really a bother for me, but on this phone there is no IM software at all. Also the shared headphone/charger jack, I don't like that.
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"Worse cell phone I've owned" on by gmt3010
Pros: Looks pretty
Cons: Poor quality all the way around
Summary: I'm blown away at CNET's good rating and the other glowing comments. From the start this phone had a problems with my voicemail messages breaking up. Try to get someone's message when the phone audio is breaking up. This happened with the three tmbile sent me.
Same for listening to any recorded greeting. Audio breaks up. I added a 2 GB mini card to the phone, just to try to get that to stop. I charged it every night, and recycled it, but still it would drop calls. I live in Tampa, Fla. It should not do that.
People would always say I was talking too loud though the phone. People who know me laughed silly over that: I have the softest voice and everybody says "speak up."
The phone itself has a cheap, plastic feel. The first one I got through tmobile died a month shy of its year long warranty. So, they sent me another. Well that one had to be cracked in the flip part because six weeks later the top came apart from the bottom, rendering the phone with no way to see the screen. Please know, I am NOT hard on phones. All I do is use them to make calls. I don't even text.
I have used the camera, but I fumbled around to much to find the camera setting. The quality the photos was nothing special. It is user-friendly to adjust preferences, and the speaker phone works well. I got this when there were few reviews. I saw them now, nothing but unhappy people who got this through TMobile. My Nokia before this phone lasted forever, as did my Samsung t309 (had to use that until I got a new, unlocked phone.
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