The Motorola C139 is a no nonsense phone free of most of the hassles of today’s fancy high end phones. The positive features of this Net 10 cell phone are:
- The phone includes 300 minutes and 60 days of service on activation.
- It is a Single Rate phone charging 10¢ per minute for every call whether local, nationwide long distance or roaming. International calls to over 60 destinations 15 are available for just 15¢. Messaging charges are only 5¢ per message.
- Airtime Minutes allows you to buy ringtones of your choice.
- Its compact (4.0 by 1.8 by 0.9 inches) and easy to carry being lightweight, weighing just about 3 ounces.
- External antenna is also absent and the rubberized slider gives it a comfortable grip.
- The vivid color screen supports 65000 colours.
- The menu is pretty user friendly and can be arranged in the order that suits you.
- You can personalize the C139 screen with wallpapers and screensavers of your choice that are included in the phone.
- It surprisingly packs the feature of composing your own ringtone if you want choices beyond the 20 monophonic tunes.
- The talk time provided is exceptional lasting as long as 6 hours as is the standby time of 12.5 days.
- It comes with three simple games; Maze, Spring Ball and Soccer that are easy to play and entertaining.
- You get most of the essentials, including a vibrate mode, speed dialing, text messaging, a calculator, a currency converter, a stopwatch, a calendar with a day and week views, and an alarm clock.
- Also the dual-band (GSM 850/1900) is decent and offers little interference ad disturbance.
Some of the negative features of this phone are:
- The phone lacks a speaker phone, a very essential and basic feature present in even the most low end phones available today.
- There are no volume buttons on the side which makes adjusting the volume difficult while talking.
- The menu design is not convenient enough and takes time to navigate. Also the menu key does not double up as the OK button making for frequent shift of buttons.
- The phonebook can only hold 100 entries which is hardly enough for most users. Although the SIM card hold an additional 250 contacts, the lack of multiple numbers per contact is a real let down.
The Motorola C139 phone easily scores over the Nokia 1600 in design and function and is a good choice if you want a basic phone with the essential features but no hassles.
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