Good inexpensive phone
Written: Mar 06 '01 (Updated Mar 07 '01)
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Pros: Good reception, good battery life.
Cons: Poor durability & menus can be difficult
The Bottom Line: The Kyrocera 2035 / 2027 is a good phone to go with if your budget isn't too big.
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| Draggar's Full Review: Kyocera QCP 2035a Cell Phone |
The Kyrocera 2035 (same as the 2027) is a newer that has been put out within the past few months.
The phone itself is a dual band phone (allowing you to pick up a digital signal and an analog signal). This is a great feature to have, just in case your car breaks down where there is no digital coverage. (Without it, calling AAA can be a loud scream away!).
It also has wireless web access, giving you access to email, AOL Instant Messenger, Games, jokes, news, weather, sports, etc...
The menu structure itself can be easy to get through, but will take a little getting used to, and learning how to activate it isn't as easy as it seems. (But once you get it, you won't forget!).
The phone itself does about as good as a job picking up a good signal as the average phone, but is a little sensitive to dead zones (small areas of no coverage).
The nice feature of this phone (very appealing to younger users) is that you can get different colored face plates. he 2035 Comes in Charcoal or Blue, and I have seen the 2027 in Frost. Face plates are also available in frost, blue, "infusion" (purpleish), red, and orange, and they usually retail about $10, which isn't too bad.
A drawback is that the power plug in the phone and the headset jack look almost identical. The power being on the bottom, and the headset jack being on the side, near the display. This usually isn't too big of a problem, but plugging the headset into the power jack bends (and usually breaks) a cord inside the jack, and Kyrocera has decided NOT to have this covered under warranty. I don't know what happens if you plug the power into the headset jack.
Other than that, the phone is good, face plates are a little flimsy, but mounted on the phone properly, this shouldn't be an issue. I have seen a small issue with broken antennas (weather or not it is covered onder warranty all depends on who you talk to!).
In its price range (usually about $100) this is probabally one of the better phones to go with.
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 99
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