Customer Reviews

AT&T Quickfire Phone, Orange (AT&T)

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I don't expect cell phones to do everything but make me some waffles, so I am not as much of a "I want it to do everything perfectly for no money" like the other reviewers.

I have not had any battery life problems. I work for a hospice and receive text messages and calls all day long and it takes 3 days for the battery to wear down with my boss and coworkers calling and texting me all the time, and it only takes 2 hours to charge up.

The internet is much faster on this phone that it was on my old Moto Razr. It works a lot better. The phone is overall very fast--you click a button it moves instantly, there isn't any lag.

I like the keyboard--it makes texting much easier, which in my case is necessary since I respond to so many text messages from work.

Now for what I do not like about this phone. It is a pain to end a call. You have to press the end call button twice to end a call. This should not be the case--I want to touch the end call button once and have the call end. Just like all the other cell phones I've owned.

The picture quality with the camera is surprisingly pretty good. The only bad part is that the camera is hard to access and it is very easy to accidentally put your finger in the picture since the button is so small and is right there. You have to watch where you put your fingers to use the camera.

Changing a ringtone or changing profile settings also requires many steps and it is hard to find.

Overall, this is a good phone for work. I could care less about the stupid bluetooth and I have had no problems with battery life.

I got a pair of these for my wife and I and have really enjoyed the texting experience. The combo of qwerty with touchscreen are a natural fit. I've quickly fallen into a habit of mixing typing with screen tapping, it makes so much sense I can't imagine texting w/o it. It's much easier to scroll through contacts, photos, etc with the touchscreen at any point I'm typing. My wife hardly used text messages on her last phone, but is texting all the time with the Quickfire.

Using the touchscreen solo, unfortunately, isn't so great. Don't expect this to be an iPhone-quality interface; getting to where you want can be tedious and clunky. For me, it's a trade-off I can live with for the great texting experience.

Touch recognition can also be hit and miss. I haven't had any problems on my phone, but my wife's often doesn't detect when you click on something. We're planning on returning it in for for a new one.

I'm really disappointed in this phone.

The Bluetooth implementation is very dumbed-down: You can't transfer files (there's no excuse for that, it's why I left Verizon) and some computers have a hard time connecting to it.

Industrial design looks nice, but is functionally poor: A classic example of emotional design factors trumping functional design factors. Examples:

The backlight on the keycaps shines through the FN value, not the text value, so it's more or less impossible to use the phone for texting in a darkened room.

The color contrast on the keycaps is so poor that even in normal room light, it's difficult to tell what the letters are on each keycap.

Touch required to actuate the power button is quite light. The phone has switched off by accident several times while just hanging on my belt.

The UI is clumsy and can't be customized. On most "dumb phones" you can add shortcuts to the opening screen or the top level menu, that let you dig in more quickly to buried options. The "more sophisticated" Quickfire has no capability for creating shortcuts of any kind. This is a problem, because the path to actuate many features takes about twice as many clicks as on comparable "dumb" phones.

While in principle this is a "texting phone", I even see issues w/ the texting UI, in that it takes about three times as many clicks to select a phone number ot send to as it did on my last "dumb" phone or than it does on my wife's "dumb" phone.

I'm personally having SEVERE stability issues with the unit I have, and am about to get it replaced under warranty. Judging by the product forums, while my worst problems aren't common, my routine problems (unresponsive touch screen, slow response time to commands) are common.

I strongly recommend you look to other options if you're looking for a good texting phone. And as anything but a texting phone, this is a dead loss.

I owned the phone for about 2 weeks, and I'm a heavy texter, in the 5k+/month club, and this phone takes 2.5-3 hours to fully charge, yet I can drain it from full in the same time it takes to charge.

They advertise this phone as a texting phone, but if I text for 3 hours, it dies.

I returned it, and bought for 20$ less, a blackjack 2, and I can literally text all day, with powersave features turned on.

I got the first one and it was crashing and rebooting on it's own. So I returned it to ATT. They sent me the new one. The second one was not rebooting, but could not make a call...
This product was simply not working...

I loved the phone until I realized that you can not bluetooth from one phone to another! AT ALL!!!! I love the size and very simple to use but if you like to connect to other phones for ringtones, pics, or themes this phone is NOT for you.

it is the best phone ever if u are planning on getting it then get it. i just got it for chrismas and it rox.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!