Customer Reviews

Samsung a167 Prepaid GoPhone (AT&T) with $15 Airtime Credit

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We were looking for an attractive, pre-paid cell phone and this fit the bill. It's easy to use, has good battery life, and includes a serviceable camera. The phone is comfortable to use (something that couldn't be said for the Motorola flip phones), snaps closed with a solid feel, and the menus are straightforward. Call quality with AT&T is very good. There are two things that could be improved: there should be a way to get photos off the phone without having to send a video text message, and it would be nice to be able to import phone numbers from a PC. For the price though it's no big deal. Other than those quibbles we're very happy with the phone.

If you are looking for something simple that has great call quality this is the phone. I researched low SAR (absorbed radiation) and this was the cheapest most simple phone available. My other phone was ancient, so this feels like a huge step up. Love the speakerphone, internal antenna. The camera doesn't take super clear pictures, but my other phone didn't have a camera at all - so still a step up. Overall pleased with how it functions and quality of calls.

HIGHS- good sound quality, good reception, and decent battery life LOWS- VERY small cheap feeling plastic buttons, confusing menu, no flash

I opted for the pre-paid plan that charges $2.00 for only the days I use the phone. Sounded like a cheap way to have a cell phone without a monthly bill. Wrong.

First, the packaging fails to advertise that your pre-paid minutes expire if not used within certain time frames and non-use will deactivate your phone which can never be reactivated or used with another provider. So if you let it lie dormant for 3 months, you can throw it in the garbage.

Second, the packaging fails to advertise that AT&T will call my phone every few days and leave voice mail messages. You cannot tell who left a voice mail until you retrieve it, so I must "use" the phone to retrieve the voice mail, and get charged $2.00 to find out that AT&T left a baloney message about billing cycles ending or beginning -- I DON'T HAVE a billing cycle since I'm pre-paid!!! Or they leave messages "reminding" me that the money I have left is "getting low" and other useless baloney messages.

Customer service refuses to have AT&T stop calling or texting my phone, since they say it's their policy.

Third, I live in a metropolitan area, yet the sound is lousy. Voices cut in and out, sound warbly, people can't hear me and I must repeat myself.

Overall, I HIGHLY DO NOT RECOMMEND. Seriously, don't even consider this. When I finish up my minutes, mine goes in the trash.

I was told on the phone, by Amazon customer support, that this phone had Bluetooth capability. The Amazon website even shows you bluetooth headsets as "available accessories". However, this phone doe not support either bluetooth or wireless headsets. I guess that is why it is so cheap.

I had to return the phone. Inside the packaging, Samsung had a picture of a "corded" headset you could purchase for this phone.

Got this phone for temporary use while travelling in the US. Difficult to activate - had to call AT&T when the online activation wouldn't work - took 20 minutes on the phone with a very friendly AT&T associate to activate, mainly because I didn't save the plastic box it came in so didn't have the UPC number! Texting is a nightmare with cheap keys and no Qwerty keyboard. Menus are difficult to follow and aren't logical. I even found it difficult to answer when someone called. Can't wait to get home to my iPhone... BEst just to go to a store and buy one there already activated and ready to go. It's now known in my family as the StopPhone.

A friend was using one of these phones, then gave it me about 6 months ago. A few days back, I just switched my sim card and went online to at&t change the "make" of my phone, this phone wasn't available in the list. But it works just fine, only been using it for a few days, long battery life. I just use it for the occasional call so I can't comment on the features. I do not know if there is anything else needed to get it working since mine was already used, and I would get another because I have seen some decent prices around.

Brand new - out of the box - I charged this phone as instructed (four hours - I gave it six) and when unplugged - black screen. I am returning to Amazon.

I saw this phone at Best Buy for the same price but with $30 included air time