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(More customer reviews)This seemed like an Ok phone...for the three hours I was able to use it. It arrived with an initial charge on the battery, which allowed me to play with it for a few hours and test out the features. The touch screen worked well, but the qwerty keyboard was very small, which made texting difficult. I'm sure this is less of an issue once you get used to it, but I have pretty small hands/fingers and had to correct one out of every four letters while texting, so if you have large fingers, this probably isn't the phone for you. Other than that, it is a good basic phone. I don't use my phone for internet, email, or social networking, so I didn't try out these features. If you care about those features and like to customize your phone, definitely read the reviews. I noticed that a lot of people complained about not being able to change things like the screensaver - I don't care much about that, but some of the pictures that pop up on the screensaver are truly cheesy. I didn't care for the standard ringtones on this phone, but I'm sure you can download something.
The real problem to watch out for is charging problems. When the initial charge died and I tried to charge it for the first time, I got an error message saying 'charging stopped due to irregular battery.' I tried it with several different chargers in several different outlets and got the same error message. If I tried charging it when the phone was off, I got a different error message, saying 'charging paused. Phone temperature too high or too low', though my phone was at room temperature. A new battery did not solve this problem, so I sent the phone back. In the course of trying to solve the problem, I did some searching online and discovered that many owners of this phone had the same problem - some when the phone was new, some after a few months, some after the phone went for a swim. The phone I purchased was supposedly brand new, so it should not have had any swimming experience. I guess I'm thankful that the charging problem occurred immediately, when I could still send it back, rather than randomly after a few months like some of the reviews I have read.
I don't ask much from my cell phone - only that it work when I need it, send and receive texts when I need it to, and hold a charge reasonably well. Unfortunately, this phone didn't measure up and I'm not ordering another one. It's just not worth the hassle.
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