Virgin Mobile, one of the cheapest Sprint, prepaid brands, you can still use mobile phones. Samsung Eco-restoration (3 stars) is a very good phone text messages in his incarnation of Sprint, and does most but not all of its virtues to Virgin Mobile. For $ 79.99 and reasonable monthly fee, get a degree, a messaging device with QWERTY keyboard. However, this version of the restoration has not worked as well as the Sprint model did.Design, call quality, and Applications
First, a brief summary: Samsung Restore measures 4.6 by 2.1 by 0.6 inches (DRC) and weighs 3.7 oz. Given the large QWERTY keyboard form factor, is quite compact, but feels a little big in the hand. It seems, however. On the positive side, food is one of the greener phones from Sprint, is 83 percent recyclable materials, excluding the battery, but Sprint loses custom packaging recycling.
As a result, this version does not qualify for our price GreenTech Approved. The 2.4-inch screen offers 240 by 320 pixels, which is standard for this type of phone. The sliding mechanism feels solid Restore and QWERTY keyboard with four rows is a gem, with good space, flat rubber keys have just the right amount to give.
The restoration is a dual-band, 3G EV-DO Rev A (850/1900 MHz) device without Wi-Fi Voice quality is good, callers sounded almost the same as they did on version Sprint and had no trouble understanding me. The reception was a bit on the low side, Recover dropped a few calls during the test battery and the 3G signal was hard to find. I live in a Sprint coverage area very marginal, but other Sprint phones I usually do not have these issues. Invite sounded fine through an era Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth headset ($ 129, 4 stars), and voice dialing via Bluetooth worked perfectly without any education. Speaker fist above his weight with a lot of volume and a dedicated button to the left of useful Submit button. Battery life was good for 5 hours and 39 minutes of talk time.
The main menu consists of 12 icons arranged in a grid. Access NetFront Browser 3.5.1 is very slow to WAP pages. However, the charge office instead of CNN took about four minutes, and the results look awful. The social network icon contains shortcuts to sites Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and WAP sites, non-dedicated applications. The restoration is compatible with GPS, and works for Virgin Mobile Navigator and Google Maps. VM Navigator costs $ 1 per day or $ 5 extra per month, while Google Maps is a free download. Virgin Mobile customers usually e-mail and instant messaging are also available.
Plans, multimedia, and conclusions
Virgin Mobile has three service plans: $ 35 per month with 300 minutes, $ 45 a month with 1200 minutes and an optional $ 55 month unlimited voice calls. All three plans come with unlimited texting, email, data and Web access and the phone runs on Sprint's network. These are good deals that will save you money compared to the business plans of Sprint, Sprint, but threw voice-activated navigation with a free unlimited supply. But here's the curious thing: a really smart phone that's excellent, much more powerful V LG Optimus ($ 149, 4 stars) costs exactly the same each month. While it is 70 dollars more up front, but it is a very small difference, when recognized for several years. What phone would you rather have?
On the multimedia side, there are 85 MB of user memory for ringtones and applications free, but the media player does not fire without a microSD card installed. The site is under the battery cover and outside, my SanDisk 32 GB worked fine. Music sounded good through headphones Bluetooth Stereo Samsung HM6450 Modus ($ 99, 4 stars).
2 megapixel camera without flash or autofocus has. Test pictures were mediocre, good lighting, which was fine, but the shadows of darkness descended Inky. Shutter speeds were below average, I lost several shots and motion blur. Does not save a shot, which was odd, because the receiver auto-save every image, is not something to choose from. The recorded videos were useless, the thumbnail-sized, 176-by-144 pixels wide variety, are an average of about 15 frames per second, and was even lower than that of restoring Sprint is already marginal, video 320 x 240 pixels.
Samsung Recovery is still a decent texting phones, Virgin Mobile even in disguise. But the problems of video recording and photo-snapping bug are new issues that do not concern the Sprint version. Therefore, we have to vote against the "fair" category. I'd rather put my money on Touch LG Rumor ($ 99.99, 4 stars), our editors choice today "according to a Virgin Mobile phone. It provides better audio and video playback and a larger touch screen on the front panel, plus a sliding QWERTY keyboard. Finally, when the monthly fee are the same, think seriously about this idea Optimus V LG Android.
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Talk Time: 5 hours 39 minutes
