Motorola V195 (T-Mobile)
Why it's a best pick:
The Motorola V195s is the best basic phone offering from T-Mobile. It has good phone quality, a long battery life, and even Bluetooth connectivity. It has a small, simple monochrome external display that shows the time, battery, signal strength, and caller ID. The keypad is spacious and has great tactile feedback allowing for easy dialing. There are several programmable buttons for creating shortcuts to menu items. If you want to be part of the T-Mobile network while having a basic phone, the V195s is the way to go.
Manufacturer Description: The Motorola V195 strikes the perfect balance between style, power, fun and affordability. This quad-band mobile is your ideal companion for communications around the globe, offering an unbelievable range of features from a vivid color display, MP3 ringtones, integrated speakerphone, synchronization capabilities and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) -- all set in a...read full description
Average Customer Rating:
(12 total reviews)
Served us well, June 15, 2009
I bought this phone for my daughter to use during a two week school trip to France. Together with a SIM card purchased from Roam Simple, this was all she needed to receive and make calls while in France. It cost less than renting a phone, and now we own the phone for the next time a family member goes to Europe. The sound quality was as good as...read full review
cell phone, August 1, 2009
First one failed after one day. Amazon was great as usual and shipped me a new one with 1 day shipping and paid the return on the failed one. 2nd one works fine
dead battery, August 6, 2009
The battery was dead from from the beginning, phone shuts down intermittently. On the flip side, signal reception is very good - for the few minutes that the phone actually works
Easy to use, November 10, 2009
A rugged, easy to use phone. No complicated extra buttons that will accidentally activate camera etc. Exterior rubberized texture makes the phone easier to hold and it will not easily slip from your hand. Large and legible display. "Unlocked" makes it relatively easy to transfer SIM card from another phone.
cellular phone, October 27, 2009
the celular phone its okay but the company service its bad they promise some articules but they never send so the not take care of the customer issues .
