Customer Reviews

Nokia 7705 Twist Phone, Black (Verizon Wireless)

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I am 10 years old and got this phone for x-mas. It is light, portable and small. It has a built in mirror,and a qwerty key board.You can even put a video that YOU take as your home screen, though I find it annoying.

GREAT PHONE

I got this phone for Christmas of '09.
The phone is everything I'd want from a phone and more.
It's small, unique, and relatively easy to use.
However, problems soon arose just after a few weeks of using it.


PROS:
-Easy to use QWERTY keyboard.
-Interesting light-up ring
-Interesting "habitat" mode
-Unique design; this phone never fails getting attention from peers
-Small, compact shape makes it easy to slip into a pocket
-Excellent call quality
-GPS is the bomb

CONS
-Unique "swivel" joint broke after just 2 months. The screen and keyboard completely separated into 2 pieces. However, under the warranty I was able to get another. So far I've had my new phone for a month and a half without it loosening like the first one did.
-When "habitat" mode was activated, it froze the screen when I received texts or calls.
-Camera sucks. Flash sucks.
-Menu is a bit confusing/disorganized
-Talking on the phone is a little awkward

I'd recommend this phone to someone who likes to text, but who doesn't do it too often. The constant open/close motion of the phone wears on the joint of the phone, making it easy for it to break. That's why my first phone broke. I really do like this design of the phone. It's really sleek and innovative, but I can see room for improvement.

Got this phone for my 16-year-old daughter. She loved it - small, easy to use, cute. But then it broke only 18 days after we got it - half of the display is completely unreadable, making the thing useless for text messages. Didn't even have it for a month! No problem, I thought, it is still under warranty so Verizon will replace it. No such luck. According to Verizon, it is a "pressure crack" that is not covered under warranty. Our only solution, according to the helpful folks at Verizon, is to pay Assurion for a refurbished, second hand phone. They accused us of dropping the phone (it has NOT been dropped or hurt in any way) and told us this type of crack happens when it is carried in the user's pocket. Really? A cell phone that can't go in a pocket? As it happens, my daughter was super careful with this phone, so much so that she didn't even put it in her back pocket but carried it in an interior purse pocket. So unless you want a phone that has to be carried in bubble wrap on a velvet cushion, get something else. Either the phone is a badly made, low quality piece of junk, or Verizon corporate is unwilling to admit this one is defective. Or perhaps both. As soon as our contract is up we will no longer be Verizon customers, that's for sure.

I just wanted a phone that said hi and goodbye .. Very simple . I had a blackberry and took this phone from my girlfriends daughter .. I love this phone . Yes the camera is not great. But texting is fine and the loud ring is great ! Mine broke because i had dropped it a few times and I was crazy because people told me they did not make these anymore . I got on internet and here i am !!! I was sooooo happy . I got a new one with covers and all ! love my nokia twist !!!!!!

This phone is durable, waterproof, loud, awesome.

Great earpiece volume, great speakerphone, clear audio.

You can check your gmail from it, log into facebook, use VZ Navigator, surf the mobile web.

It has voice dial that works great, even Droid doesn't have that! Battery life is amazing. I go on average 8 days between recharges, with calls, texts, etc. throughout.

The MP3 player works good, although the interface is a bit klutzy.

The only major downside is it is completely impossible to find a data cable for this phone. Verizon keeps spinning lies as to when it will exist.

When I first got this phone, I loved it. I've only had it for around 6 months and I HATE it. I actually just purchased an older model Blackberry 8330 on ebay because I can't stand to use this phone for another month!

The worst part? The camera. The only time I've gotten decent photos is outside, in direct sunlight, when my subject wasn't moving. I thought it would have a good camera because it's 3MP but it just sucks. Photos come out blurry and washed out 99% of the time. Plus, the boxy shape of the phone can make it difficult to take photos - it's very easy to accidentally get a finger or thumb on the lens. My old enV (the 1st one) took awesome photos and made this phone's photos look like poo. The lack of photographic capabilities is a big deal for me because there are MANY many times when I'm with my family and my daughter and I don't have my Nikon with me. So, I use my phone's camera a lot for quick, memory making snapshots and I save them to a microSD card so that I can print them later. I can't even see what half the photos are when I use my Nokia, and I wouldn't waste the money on printing any of them.

The second-to-worst-part: This phone is S-L-O-W! A rep at a Verizon store gave me the run around about how my phone would be faster if I deleted text messages and such. That is BULL. I deleted all my messages - sent, drafts, inbox, everything - and nothing changed. My enV was always super fast and this phone is slow with everything! I don't even use habitat mode because it's slower than just going to messages and sending texts from there. Habitat mode is a cool idea, and it would be awesome on a better and faster phone (especially a smart phone) but on this phone, it's just annoying. And with Habitat, you can only choose 3 different themes, which kind of stinks. I would pay to download cuter and more fun themes - on a faster phone, of course.

This phone also crashes a lot. I've had it replaced once because it kept crashing when I'd get picture messages. I was hoping that maybe my phone was seriously defective and when I got the new one, it would be a lot faster and work better. Everything was the same except that it didn't crash as much.

I love the look of the phone - it's very sleek, cute, stylish, and fun. However, the design is also a major flaw. I have never had problems with dropping phones until I got this thing. It slides off of everything. It's difficult to hold on to. It scratches easily too - it looks like I've had it for a lot longer than 6 months.

The light ring is pretty cool though - you can change the colors of the light and you can have different colors for different contacts. It serves a similar purpose to customizing your ringtones but if you're like me and leave your phone on vibrate, it is kind of handy. The light still lights up on vibrate. It also can stay lit up for a few seconds after a text, so if the phone's screen goes black (because it's going into standby) you will still know that you got a text or a call or whatever.

The keyboard is very scrunched and if you have bigger fingers, this is NOT the phone for you. I've always used my nails when texting so it doesn't bother me too much, but it's still really easy to type in the wrong thing. And it's really annoying that you have to push the symbol key every time you want to enter a symbol. There are also 2 touch buttons under the screen and it's extremely easy to accidentally touch one and totally mess up everything - whether you're texting, calling, or just looking a photos.

I bought this phone because it looks kind of like a BlackBerry when opened - I wanted a BB but was told I'd have to pay $45 extra a month. Now, we've had to change plans (a cheaper, much better plan) and the unlimited data only costs $30 a month. Since I was able to find a new BB curve on ebay, I decided to bite the bullet and get it. I would NOT recommend that anyone buy this phone unless you want to be endlessly frustrated.

i got this fone for chrismas. i havent had it long but it already gets on my nerves.! battery life sucks.! doesnt take that great of pics. n if u text alot like i do dont qet it. the touch pad on it is slow to respond and it often freezes n shuts off.