Cricket EZ

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not a bad phone

15 May 2009 jery

7.7 out of 10

i actually like this lil phone / ive dropped it many times on concret / woodfloors and even in a puddle once and itr still works / but then again im not a text junkie / or do i care what the ringtone is or what wallpapper it has / but as i said  its a good solid phone / besides it u want to email / text / or surf the web get a puter

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Ehhhh..... its okay

12 Jan 2009 Becca Babe

3.3 out of 10

It had been a while since I had a cell phone, and when I moved to Texas with my aunt and uncle they had to buy me a phone for contacting them when I was at school, just emergency stuff. But one thing I insisted on is unlimited text, so we found cricket eventually, la la da da.

 I was so excited when I got it home. It truley looks like an awsome phone, but I was soon sure that it wasnt. This phone is completley dull and there is just nothing to do with it to personalize it. You cannot take pictures with it, so that gives up making your own wallpapers, nor does it give you the option to order them online. The wall papers are... oh as soon as I was going to check it just froze and turned off. Nice. Anyhow the wallpapers are... some glass blocks, metal leaves, Cricket logo, 2 flower things, a blue wave thing, a pink wave thing, a blowfish (thats the one I use) green wave thing, planets, and that would be it. Oh, and the banner feature can barley fit my name and it's Becca. Nice, eh? The ringtones have a good selection, but u have to use the ones that come w/ the phone, because of course you cant buy any and there is no recorder. So your stuck with weird nursery rhyme melodies. I just have a boring ring for mine, I cant stand the rest of them. For texting I just have it beep, seeing as there is NO VIBRATE option. Its horribly annoying, because if your shopping and its in your pocket alot of times you wont hear the melody/beep and u miss out. ANNOYING. But speaking of texting... I am an obsessive texter. I am ALWAYS texting people non stop, so obviously I know all about the texing. I never get service half the time, or it takes me 4ever to send stuff out, or receive stuff in, and Im not sure if its Cricket or the phone... but anyhow, its extreamly inconvinent. Also, because I am always texting, Ive had it about 4 months, and the buttons are all worn down and cracky and so when I press the bottom right key, it squeaks. And the buttons are so small, that you always end up messing up. Seriously. your thumbs WILL hurt after a while lol. It only does outgoing calls when I have 2 bars, so if I only have one service bar I can just forget about placing a call. Also, no speaker phone or volume adjustment. Its so boring, Im getting a new phone this week haha.

 But I have to say that for me, it is impossible to break. Like, seriously. I have dropped it everywhere but in water, gotten water on it, nothing happend. I dropped it in the road. Ive sat on it. Ive thrown it. Mine just doesnt break. I reccomend it for a kid's 1st phone to see how they treat their stuff.

Pros

Doesnt break easy
Affordable
Not too ugly
Easy to use

Cons

No features
Dull
Performance issues
Lame buttons

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EZ - Cricket Killer

6 Nov 2008 clutch

1 out of 10

Ok folks,

I live on a budget and so I went for the EZ phone because of it's affordability. I even disregarded the sales reps advice; because I've come to see that any Cricket store reps try to squeeze more money from you with a "Well this phone is better" bit.

The biggest bit of advice I can give any of you is: Do your homework and review Cricket's low end phones online before you make any purchases!!

So for those of you that didn't take heed to my ealier advice this is what you get. You get a small phone that is so flimsy you could break it by giving it a dirty look, navigation buttons so small that thier a BITCH to use, three manuals of reading material that become very confusing or downright pointless, and a plug that lights up..........OOOOOOHH!! The only real highpoint to the phone was the fact that it had 30+ ringtones pre-installed, that sounded like a combination of a musical stuffed animal and fingernails on a chalkboard. Oh the last and most important thing is that fine print label afixed to the back of the phone that states: "do not hold, internal antenna."

After reading several reviews because I had a gut-feeling this phone was bad; I was lucky enough to get my money refunded. I'm not sure all Cricket dealerships are the same; mine has a thirty day or thirty minute usage time that voids a refund. The staff said "You've used the phone three hours and six minutes" when in actuality I made one call that lasted about thirty seconds and I was lucky to be out of a Cricket service area before returning the phone with incidentally a printed review dated as late as May 08 that the phones are on recall because of a glitch in 911 comunications. My reps tried to sell me a line of BS telling me that problem had been sorted out last year. Maybe-maybe not but I'm not taking the chance. In the end I had to cough up another $50 bucks for a different phone, a seething temper, and a headache. So again I state: Do your homework and review Cricket's low end phones online before you make any purchases!!

 

Pros

The online reviews from others, the fact that I was able to get a refund

Cons

To many confusing button options, tiny navigation buttons, poor design and antenna placement.

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