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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not the greatest phone but I would recommend it, August 11, 2009
Boost Mobile stinks compared to other services that is a fact. The Clutch phone is not Motorola's best work. Yet it is all to lower cell costs to the consumer. For what you save it is well worth it. Other companies charge way to much for their services, thus they can offer the fancy phones, yet you need to sign your rights away for 2 to 3 years. I hope Boost will catch on so the other companies will have to drop their prices and contracts in fear of losing customers. I would love to go back to AT&T, they were the best, but $50.00 with them didn't get me much. Unlike other services, cell phone costs should be getting cheaper as their networks are paid for. All cell phones in my book should have a fee like Boost or like any land line phone company like Verizon.
The Clutch offers web service, it works and you can get on-line and check mail, its not a G1 or 3 network but its online unlimited for 1 cost of $50.00 a month. Texting is the same as rest, the keyboard feature is nice on this phone. The only thing with the service is you get in dead zones, but its weird once your connected I have never had a dropped call with it, even going through a dead zone. The phone is a little difficult to navigate and the manual doesn't really help, with time and use you learn all the features. There are a lot of small features the phone does not have that you just expect it to.
For the money you save it is well worth it. No its not a great phone but it works and its cheap and you can cancel whenever you want, or pay as little a 10 a month. I have one and I get by fine. Use it for 6 months and it pays for itself.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
i465 clutch, October 2, 2009
Before you read this keep in mind i've never spent more than $30 for a phone before.
I've had previous experience with both ATT go-phones and Virgin Mobile. I bought this phone to finally replace my home phone line since the Boost service offers unlimited everything for $50.oo a month, which is a pretty awesome price for a pre-paid phone.
The service:
L-o-v-e it! I mean, the talking & texting is just like any other phone, nothing special, but I like not having to keep track of minutes or texts or kilobytes in my head when i'm trying to talk to someone or do something on my phone. I stick to main roads and downtown areas mostly so I don't have many problems with dead zones, though as i watch the bars traveling around i can see how some people might.
The phone:
Little disappointed for my first phone that i paid enough for so that i be concerned if the screen got scratched or it fell in the toilet. Other than the camera, which is webcam quality at best, it seems to look, feel, and act like any other cheezy phone i've ever had. The only difference is that its got a keyboard (which is a given positive for texters). Oddly enough though (and it kind of annoys me), you know how most phones have an alarm clock and a calander built into the phone's software? Well, with this phone, its a pre-installed java app. On the up-side though, the speakerphone is rediculously loud, clear, and easy to acivate, to the point where i find myself using it for most of my calls.
Side notes:
One main thing i bought this phone for was to replace my dial-up internet (netzero) because i had to shut off the phone line and the internet service in order to pay the $50 bucks a month for the boost service. Well, this review is proof that its possible (and rather simple) to do that because i'm using the phone's internet from my computer right now to write this. Just buy the cable off amazon.com for a buck (of course theres an eight dollar shipping charge), download MotoConnect from [...](freeware), and when the cable arrives you might have to reshape the plastic part around the connecter with a pocket knife so it will stop popping out of the phone, but it works. Don't know what the exact speed is, but it loads webpages at a similar speed compared to 56k dialup and downloads files at about 2.5KBps. The computer will recognize the phone as an "iDen" modem and you set up a new dialup connection with the phone number "S=#777". The username and password don't matter and BAM! your online, no extra ISP (like aol or netzero) necessary. Whats really cool is it connects in like 8 seconds. This feature is also supposed to be possible without the cable if you have a bluetooth-enabled laptop or one of the little USB bluetooth adapters available at amazon for like 5 bucks with shipping.
I know one thing that your all probably going to be interested in is the GPS service from boost. Well, sadly, it doesn't come with the $50 a month unlimited plan. its another java app, that cost $2 a day or $10 a month to subscribe to. However, the phone has a built-in software that will tell you your geo-graphic quadinates, just no map.
All-in-all, i'd recommend the service, but the only thing that is going to make the phone worth its price is the keyboard & bluetooth compatability. Whether or not its worth the extra 80 bucks is up to you.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
ok for the money, July 30, 2009
this phone is ok for the money it has one of the best speaker phones ever the service is better then cricket and i have not missed a call yet what do you expect for 50 a month for every thing gold well you get silver and that is good enough for me
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