Motorola TracFone C139-4 Cell Phone

Pros: Cute as a button, FANTASTIC sound quality (amazing, really)
Cons: Limited extras

I've only had this phone about a week, and purchased it as my first foray into Tracphone service. I've had previous cell phone contracts with major carriers, but I'm a very light cell phone user (like less than 15 minutes a month) and I really don't ...

Pros: Cheap, modern body design, reliable, handy features
Cons: Overly complex interface, double texting charges, bad button layout

I purchased this phone from Wal-Mart as an upgrade from my old Nokia 1100. In general I found the interface unnecessarily complicated. For example, to simply select who you wish to text message in the Create Message screen, you must select Change, then ...

Pros: Phone works OK
Cons: If you call for service, it helps to speak Indian

Bought this phone from WalMart and found I could not add minutes to it. After 10 days and 8 calls to India they were finally able to add minutes. It's the moronic, scripted answers you get while calling that really aggravated me. So, after 10 days of a useless phone they offer me 10 bonus minutes by way of consolation. I told the agent I could get double minutes by using a code from the web and he relented to 20 mins. Thanks for nothing.

Pros: It's cheap and small. It has rubber grips on the side, but they wear down.
Cons: Poor composing, user hostile predictive text, terrible reception, short battery life, small 20-message inbox.

This phone has great potential with the features it has and the color screen, but wastes it all because of a poor interface. It has a composing feature where you can write your own ring tones, but the input is inefficient with too many repeated pieces of syntax. The Nokia phone I upgraded from had a much smoother, intuitive composing interface. The predictive text is a hassle how it ads spaces after every word you select. The color screen goes to waste because you can't receive pix messages.

Don't buy this phone.