Kyocera S1000

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Solid Performer at Low Price

16 Dec 2007 Frederic A. Moritz

7.2 out of 10

This is a solid "emergency phone," available through Tracfone, as the K126C.

In the same price range the Motorola C139 (GSM) is much stronger on battery. This Kyocera is stronger on other features lacking in the C139. It has both voice activated dialing and a speaker. Plus a sophisticated multiple entry phone book extremely easy to use.

Much depends on how much one wants a CDMA candy bar with wide roaming coverage. The desirability or need for that depends on where one lives and travels.

Once GSM is upgraded to work in more places, all this may be academic. In the meantime this could be a good, cheap backup phone for a traveling GSM'er.

Compact, slim construction makes this an easy phone to handle, text and talk. Standard headset jack makes it handy in car. EZI predictive texting is very similar to T9.

Once you COMBINE talk and standby, the battery life quickly goes down. If you use it largely for standby -- and a small amount of "emergency," fine. If you intend to use it regularly as a talk phone, it will require frequent recharge, perhaps once a day or once every two days.

(Standby without talk tests at six to seven days)

A car charger will cut its recharge time to two hours or so. Standard charger is just over four hours.

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