Pantech Crossover Go Phone, December 15, 2011

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James A. Marusek (Indiana) –

  

The phone works fine. It meets my expectations. There was no $25 Airtime Credit. But Amazon made good by crediting my account for the amount of the credit.
We live out in the boonies. As a result we have zero bars on the cell phone, that is why we do not own a cell phone but rely on a landline phone. But it is nice to have a portable phone when we are up and about. We use a go-phone and that works well except there is no reception near our house.
I heard that Blackberry/iPhones type phones can get better reception. So I thought it was worth giving this type of phone a try as a second go-phone (for the wife) so we can find each other when we are separated in the mall or large mega store. Well it worked. I can now even get one or two bars at my home.
I talked to the AT&T representative and he said this type of phone can take advantage of the newer towers and that is why the reception is better than a normal go-phone.
There was no $25 airtime credit even though it is clearly identified on the box. I followed the directions given in the instructions. The credit should have appeared within an hour after phone activation, except it didn’t. When you call AT&T, you need to have the phone’s IMEI number handy. This is buried inside the phone. You need to remove the battery to see it. AT&T uses this number to determine if the phone has a credit or not. I found out later that sometimes phones are part of a promotion but after the promotion is over the credits disappear. The buyer (in this case Amazon) may be unaware that the purchased phones no longer support the promotion’s airtime credit. Thus the mix-up. Amazon refunded a credit for the lost airtime minutes. So all worked out in the end O.K. except it takes time to work through the problem.

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a great way to do smart phone without data, November 29, 2011

This is a neat phone. It’s biggest problem seems to be a lack of battery power, but in part that’s because it has some real power using features including GPS and a brilliant touch screen. But for someone like me, who is simply replacing by dumb gophone, I’ve added a GPS, an MP3 player, a WIFI enable internet browser, and any android ap that I want, all without having to spend more than $8 bucks a month I currently spend for my emergency phone. In fact, I was able to simple switch my SIM card–easy–and I even kept my phone number and cash balance. I do not do data, but rely on WI-FI for surfing the internet.

For people who can’t justify for themselves spending hundreds if not thousands on a phone over the course of a contract, this is a fabulous way to go!!!!

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