Pros: Comfortable keyboard for email/texting. Nice sized screen and pretty good web browser for mobile web. Decent build quality and nice look/feel.
Cons: Cover keypad auto-locks too quickly during a phone conversation – can be quite annoying when you need to enter numbers. No advanced productivity features. Very poor app support.
Bottom line: A good phone if you just use it for browsing/texting/email. The browser is good, and the email interface (with common mail servers such as Google and Yahoo!) is easy to use. This phone is clearly designed for a younger group of customers who mainly text, browse, use Facebook and Tweeter. It is not designed for professionals at all. If you want a smartphone that loads Google Maps with full features, runs various productivity softwares and is great for voice calling and multimedia, look elsewhere.
I purchased this phone not from Spring but from Boost Mobile for its pay as you go plan with wireless 3G data service at a very, very reasonable price. If you are like me, someone who spends a lot of time in front of computers at work and at home, mostly make internet voice calls on computers, doesn’t need so many minutes as on regular monthly cell phone plans and doesn’t want to pay for the over-priced data plan for mobile web… then for you this would be a good little extra device for mobile web browsing when you don’t have a computer or WIFI connection on you main cell phone.
If you need a monthly calling plan with data service and are willing to pay for it, many other phones are much, much better. Featuring a unique external glow-thru keypad that disappears when not in use, the Sanyo Incognito mobile phone for Sprint also flips open to reveal a . continue reading.
