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Summary: Poor Poor Reception
Review: I tried this phone out - and it didn't take me more than a few days to figure out...yes, it's cute, and has cute little bells and whistles. But the reception is horrible! I've heard that this phone has some internal problems with soldering that can be fixed - but who wants to deal with that. Also, the phone seems quiet. The ringtone, and volume of calls didn't meet my satisfaction. The one pretty good thing was the battery life did seems to hold the way explained to me.
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Summary: I Know What the Problem Is...
Review: I recently read several reviews for this phone. I could not believe how many of you blame this great product for your own inability to properly read the instructions and for your inability to properly budget your time and money towards it. A majority of these bad reviews seem to be coming from teenagers who either spend too much time watching MTV or wander aimlessly at the mall. You kids seem the type that want things to work the moment you take the product out of the box. That only happens in cartoonland. Here's an idea: Why don't you turn the boob tube off and take out the instructions and slowly follow the simple rules to operate this phone. Perhaps you won't be so quick to blame the product for not working. As Abraham Lincoln once said, "Nothing valued is lost by taking time." For those teens who whine that the phone is expensive to maintain, I say learn to budget your money properly towards using it. Yes, it's expensive because you want such b.s. accessories as text messaging, fancy shmancy ringers, and so forth. Add the fact that most of you are blabbermouths who seem to have this item dangling from your ears as if it was your latest lobal piercing and the result is a very generous donation to the Virgin people every week/month. Just because Coral from "Real World" or Jack Osbourne has the latest gadgets on their cel phones doesn't mean you have to get them too. Just get hooked up and keep your conversations at a minimum and you'll see how much money you'll be able to save. And those savings may be spent on other youthful necessities such as a bikini, the new Dave Mathews CD, or, dare I say, a college education. I am 40 years old and recently bought this phone for emergency/appointment/travel use. It is very easy to hook up, simple to set up your voice mail, and doesn't weigh heavily on my budget. Other than learning which buttons to press, this is a really great toy when used properly. By the way, this is the first time I ever bought a cel phone. If this latecomer can use it, then so can some of you stubborn teenagers out there.
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Summary: Love my phone!
Review: I received this phone as a gift and almost returned it for a regular cell phone with a contract. I'm really glad I kept it. The reception has been great and the phone is easy to use. I really like the features that allow you to track the balance and minutes used. My firm doesn't pay for mobile phones, but it will reimburse the cost of phone calls. I don't have to be distracted by trying to keep track of my minutes while I'm on a call and trying to calculate how much each call cost. No more trying to bum a cell phone off someone else or trying to find a pay phone, but, at the same time, I'm not stuck with a monthly bill. I love the etiquette feature. It allows you to use the phone without having all those loud button sounds when dialing.
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Summary: hi tech phone
Review: this phone is awsome. i bought one for christmas, and its gotten me out of going to different places that i didn't want to go, and i can stay at different places for longer periods of time. also, my parents don't have to worry about me anymore, they can just call to check up on me.
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Summary: Very good phone,but the vibration mode sucks.
Review: The phone has very good features for a pre-paid phone, but one of the biggest things that annoys me is that the vibration mode is so weak, almost useless. I need a phone to use while in school and I need a phone with good strong vibration and if you need a phone with good strong vibration, you will be dissapointed with this phone. I missed several calls while I had this phone in my pocket in vibration mode because I barely even feel it. But the vibration is the only bad thing I found in this phone. I get perfect reception here in California and I like the polyphonic ringtones very much. The phone doesn't have a camera or games, but who cares! I don't play cell phone games and don't take pictures with cell phones anyways! If you look at the cell phones with builtin cameras and games, they are over $200 and average at around $400 and the games suck, and the camera pictures suck also. The very best cell phone games suck and aren't even worth playing, and also the very best digital camera cell phones has crappy picture quality anyways, so why would you spend hundreds of dollars extra for those crappy features anyways? If you want to play handheld games, get a Gameboy Advance, and if you want to take pictures, get a real camera, a GBA and a real digital camera would be cheaper than a cell phone with these featuers, and yet the GBA and a real camera has better quality.
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Summary: Do not attempt to buy this poor phone!
Review: I purchased this phone with Virgin Mobile. The good things about it are fairly easy navigation and the keys are very easy to read and type text messages. The bad: this phone's earpiece is used when you have an incoming call, thus this phone's music/ringtone quality are literally down the drain. When you have an incoming call and the volume of the ringer is loud enough just to barly hear through a pocket, the ringer speaker (earpiece) is very bad and sounds like it's pumping too much volume for what it can handle. Another thing, the keybad and badlights are not bright at all, making it hard to see. This phone is CHEAPLY made and by far has the worst service and SIGNAL. The signal quality had NOTHING when I was in the rual area of where I live. VERY TERRIBLE. I would suggest that you do not pay $100 for this junk. You can get a WAY BETTER PHONE for a WAY BETTER price. I promise you will be UNSATISFIED if you purchase this "phone".
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Summary: Poor reception
Review: This phone has a very nice design. It is small and fits well into any purse or pocket. However, I have experienced nothing but horrible reception with the phone. I miss dozens of calls because of the poor reception in many areas. The phone was sent back to the manufacturer once to check for defects and to be 'fixed.' It was returned stating there were no defects and that it was fixed, but the phone still has very poor reception.
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Summary: VirginLuver
Review: I love the phone and the Virgin Mobile Service. I have the Audiovox 8500 and I love it. The only thing I dont like anout it is that there are no games. BUt you can play games through daily dose. I like that you cna listen to clips of realy songs and download ringtones that everyone knows. I strongly reccomend this phone to anyone who doesn't want a phone to use for hours everyday but occasionally to call long distance or while you are somewhere where there is no phone. This is a great phone for younger people like me only because it is small compact and has alot features.
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Summary: Good phone, bad service
Review: I resently perchased this phone and it's great. The phone has tons of cool features and even though it's not color, the backlighting choices make up for this. However, the first day I activated it, I couldn't make calls or receive any. I called customer service, and apparently, they assigned me a number that is actived on someone else's phone. Well, so far, they fixed it so I can now send out calls, but I'm still waiting to receive them. I can't send or receive text messages and I actived the International Calling, that doesn't work either, "go figure!" It's been about 7 days now I'm patiently waiting for some kind of service.
25 cents a minute is pretty pricy, but it's perfect for me since I only need a phone for emergencies. So I love the phone, love the plan, BUT STILL WAITING FOR THE SERVICE TO KICK IN, GETTING EXTREMELY ANNOYED WAITING!!!
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Summary: Weak Vibration.
Review: Though the phone is an ok phone, the vibration mode is very weak and I can't really feel it even when it is in my pocket touching me. If you are planning on needing the vibration feature, look for another phone, but if you don't need the vibration feature, it's a good phone if you buy it under $80 bucks, but anything over $80 would be too expensive and if you are going to spend over $80 on a phone, I suggest to get a better one.
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