Kyocera S2300 Torino User Reviews

I had the phone for about 9 months. i got it for my birhtday. i had many problems with charging it. And finally my phonee just completely wouldn't let me charge it anymore. I was sent a new battery and a new charger, and that still didn't help. So it was the phone. So i will deffinetly not be getting this phone again

ive had this phone about a week now great reception compared to my moto i290 the only problem im having is i cant download any games or ring tones what gives????? i was hoping that since i was able to download wallpaper that i could get some ring tones or games but i guess you get what you pay for this phone doesnt seem to be meant for that

This phone...man. I've had it for 2 days. There's good and bad.

Pros: nice design, nice to have a threaded convo. in texting, the camera is alright too.

Cons: hard to see when outside, the internet wasn't great when I tried it (it wouldn't load), the vibrate isn't that great on it, you can only have 130 characters in a text before you hit a max (and the phone won't make the SMS message into 2 seperate texts then). but whats absolute hell is the maximum number of sent messages in the "sent folder" is 50!!! thats absolute garbage! That is the main reason I might return this phone, because I had bought it for texting.

Overall review: If you can put up with the fact you can only have 50 messages max. in your "sent folder", its a fairly good phone.

I had it for almost a month, and i have done almost evreathing with this phone.
Navigation is not the best but it does it normally. only con does not have a music player or video capbality. Its difficult to useit out doors because screen is kind of dark. No extended memory.

I have just purcahsed my torino less than three hours ago, and ive done everything possible with it and its worked perfectly fine, i'm using it on metro, So of course the internet is slow thats metro for you........................ But i haven't had a porblem with any of its features and I LOVE IT i bought it for only 30 bucks brand new

As anyone since May has observed with Virgin Mobile, they have split up their offering into two different areas since dropping the remaining Helio service users: Pay.lo, and "Beyond Talk".  For Beyond Talk, this is the cheapest way to use Virgin Mobile with a new phone.And it's not a bad little phone.Granted, the post-paid cousins of Virgin Mobile, Sprint Nextel, all have EvDO Rev. A access and WiMAX as their data access ceiling, where as this phone is... 1xRTT.  This is prepaid: if you need to make your phone into a tool akin to what James Bond would use in the movies, Virgin Mobile isn't right for you to begin with.  And the memory onboard is uh... (mumbling) elefenty-seventeen megabytes.  You'll probably never know.  Space management is an afterthought: since it uses Java ME for it's apps, it only complains when it's full.  Text messages are only about 50-75 messages, depending on the length.  The call log loses info after 100 calls are made.  Transactions made on the Openwave browser end in either loading bar hell, or sheer disappointment as text on websites runs across each other.The keyboard is a bit nudgy with big hands, I find myself bending the knobby rubber keys by accident at times instead of pressing the button that I intend.  Not a terrible problem for me, but for an avid text user, I can see this to be a complication.  The navigation crosspad is as expected, but the six or so softkeys on the left and right are a little small to touch with big hands as well.  I use my nail to press the exact one, but it feels like if I put too much pressure my thumbnail is going to chip it right off.  Despite these niggles, it's light in your hand, and looks clean and presentable in all black.But for what it's not, it still does plenty.  Under the menu screen, you have apps for "Google Maps" to figure out where you are, "Opera Mini" so that 1xRTT connection is useable again, and the fact that with Opera, you don't have to settle for using that horrible Openwave WAP browser included), "Email + IM" which connects to Yahoo, Win Live, AOL, Google and POP/SMTP accounts), and a "Connect" app which shoehorns Virgin's equipment offering admittedly reminiscent of 2004/05 mobile access onto Social Networking sites including Twitter, Facebook, and the perennial teenager destination, MySpace.These apps all land on the MID section of the phone's memory, and have all the qualities of such apps: Middling to slow loading times, awkward controls (pressing a softkey and choosing a menu to edit text in a separate screen... instead of pressing the center button on where you want to type and just doing it), and limited "powers" (Apps can do little to nothing with your contacts and text messages.)  But the ones offered for free add features that the native phone UI doesn't offer at all, which is welcome indeed.The call quality is good, with clear and higher treble sound coming across quite well.  The call volume does tend to be on the quiet side a bit.  The ring volume's maximum setting isn't going to pass muster in the middle of a crowded shopping mall, but it's fairly able to catch your attention in a car blasting the radio about halfway.  There is few ringtones or alert sounds on the device (presumably to force you to go to their web store, VXL, to purchase custom tones of course), but the defaults are exactly as one would expect from a business phone.  The looks scream Blackberry, but the pricetag says otherwise.  In this case, you're meeting the expectation 2/3rds of the way, considering that most traditional Blackberry models don't use high-tier 3G or 4G service quite yet.In short, it's cheap enough in price to give to your daughter, but professional enough to make you look smart if you want the extra youthful noise turned off.  (Which you can, of course: a single radio button in settings is all that's needed to silence the noisy intro and outro graphics.)   If you're someone's daughter, or an hourly employee who isn't all about their status updates and looking at the Web for life-and-death level decisions, this is a good fit for you, good flash without any extra "bang".  If you're more into those things, a Blackberry Curve might suit you better.

man i love this phone. Dont go with what the other people say. This is a wonderful phone. In my experience, the porting took only one day. i was told it would take two but surprisingly it only took about five hours. And the customer service agents were great when i called about a minor problem of getting the phone to work.as far as the camera goes, i mean its not a canon =) but its not some crappy little rinky dink dollar store camera. in my opinion the camera is pretty dang decent so im not sure why peopole are saying that it sucks. overall its a really good texting phone there is a view wher you can see your whole conversation with someone in one screen. its so neat.and lastly the only bad thing is that you must continuously delete your sent messages seeing as it only stores about 50 messages at a time. that can get irritating if your a big texter but you learn to deel so watev.and it does not have a music player so  be prepared to download some songs from virgin mobile.

I had no trouble at all porting my old number to the Loft.  I dont think its the service  i think Virgin mobile has alot of customer service problems.  no one ever seems to know what is going.  Maybe it is a language barrier problem.  But if i dont get the results i need i have to keep calling until i get someone who knows what they are talking about. love the phone for texting but the camera phone sucks--BAD!  it's real blurry.

i have to disagree with last poster ... i had no problems at all... i did have to wait 24hrs.. but i expected that.
even when activated they put in wrong plan and all i had to do is call ... fixed in less than 5 min.

as for features ... good and reliable.. however the mapping program is 9.99 a month .. and should not be advertised with phone ... google maps is FREE ... ill use that :P

ken

I had a similar experience to the previous reviewer. I was porting numbers for 3 phones from a family account.  The old account stopped working within minutes. My kids' new phones started working within hours. My new Loft, however, took several days and many phone calls before it was functional.

I don't understand how they can get the information to my previous provider, yet take so incredibly long to port the number to the new phone! Once I finally got someone who seemed to know what they were doing, it took minutes on the phone and the phone was working in less than an hour.

During my many calls, they hung up on me twice.

Be sure that you won't need a phone for a few days before you port a number to Virgin Mobile!

I bought the Loft and tried to port my number over.  The short version, I pretty much had a choice of no phone service at all for perhaps a week or losing my old number.Long Version:  Virgin Mobile seems to have some MAJOR issues porting numbers. I am not sure it is specific to this phone but my many conversations with them seem to indicate this is the case.  As of this writing I had to abandon the port and lose my old number to get a functional phone with a new number.  Even though they successfully "ported" my old number to their system, thereby killing my other phone, they are still not able to activate my Loft and can't even give me a date or time.When I phoned to port I was told 24 hours...but in an hour my old phone went dead and my account was closed. I cannot understand why they need even 24 hours to port when every other time I changed carriers the port took less than an hour and I had service.My 95 YO mother relies on being able to call me on my cell. I am handicapped and can't afford to be driving around with no means to get help if I should have a break down on the road...and my customers rely on reaching me when I am out of the office.  Not having a working phone is not an option.The phone looks nice and seems to have a lot of good features...but Virgin does not have their act together on this phone with regard to porting.  If you just want a Loft with a new number you can do that almost instantly online...but DON'T try to port your old number to this phone unless you have a spare phone or don't mind being without service for an unknown period of time.Date/Time of my last contact with Virgin, May 29, 10 AM.  They promised to have me working on a new number in two hours.  Let's see.Virgin Mobile is owned by Sprint as is Boost, my former carrier at twice the cost.Be careful and ask a lot of questions before committing to buying their phones to port your old number too.Paul