What a crappy phone!
Written: Feb 08 '03
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Pros: Light, Good Battery Life, Easy to Use
Cons: Several...
The Bottom Line: TREAT IT LIKE THE PLAGUE! I wouldn't recommend this phone to my worst enemy, well, maybe...
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| jaybee8107's Full Review: Sprint TouchPoint 2200 Cell Phone |
OK, let me explain myself. I did not own this phone, but my mother did, and I spent some time using it.
The phone came out of a big bulky package. It was the Summer of '01, and my mother got sick and tired of "Pay-as-you-go" phones. She decided that it was just too uneconomical to keep buying those stupid phone cards, since she never really used that phone, and after a while, those stupid cards would expire, and your phone would be disconnected.
So, on to Best Buy we went, for something that I really can't remember. Then, my sister and I tried to get my mother to buy a new cellular phone. Since everyone else had denied her, and told her that she had to pay $500-700 for activation, she decided to try Sprint PCS. She had heard the commercials, and all the hype. What made it worse, is that my sister had bought the same phone, a month earlier, and my mom seemed to like it.
So, there was this phone, still available for sale. It offered Wireless Web, a Speakerphone, Phone Book (Something her OLD Motorola Tele-Tac 250 didn't have, or if it did, I never knew how to use it), Ringers! (Not downloadable, but Customizable), and several other features.
Now, enough with the story, here's the major reliability problems with the 2 Sprint Touchpoint 2200s that we had...
After about 5 1/2 months, I dropped the phone. Well, when I picked it up, it had no screen (LED Lights, but no LCD Screen). How undurable. I had dropped that big bulky Motorola so many times, it had shell cracks, but he screen was still operating. So, since it was still under the year's warranty, we sent it back in for a replacement. We recieved a reconditioned phone, and we thought all was well... Until November of '02. The reconditioned phone had lasted a year, and we were geeked. We THOUGHT it was going to last forever. That's when the problems happened again...
This time, it was the reception. Several calls would be dropped, some would take over 5 minutes to go through the Sprint PCS system, and in some spots, no service at all. Things seemed to clear up, in December, so she didn't buy a new phone. Then January of '03 struck. NO SERVICE ANYWHERE! No signal bars, and it was ALWAYS Searching for service. ALL possible calls that could be made were dropped. People began to get angry (Me.) at my mother, because they (Me.) thought that she had hung up on them (Me.). So, this led to a new phone. Then, the screen died...AGAIN! This time, no LED lights, or LCD screen.
Now, what a crappy phone. The first one's screen DIED, with no possible way to recover it. The second one's screen just died, after the signal started to drop, so, nothing could be seen.
Now, they have stopped production on this phone, and for good reason. I still see them on eBay though, and if you are thinking about buying one, STOP THINKING, and find another phone.
Oh yeah, my sister's phone? The exact same model? Is in the trash for the same reasons.
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Amount Paid (US$): 129.99
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Location: Detroit, MI, USA, North America
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