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1.0 out of 5 starsStupidest Thing Ever
Reviewed in Canada on September 28, 2022
I love the big buttons, and I love the fact that I get to show off this honkin' big red brick of a phone (I even get to pretend that it's a "harmoni-phone" when I perform Blues songs at karaoke).
But it is stupid.
SOME of the things about this FAR-FROM-EASYPHONE that I can't stand are the broken English instruction manual; the broken English prompts on the phone; the fact that I have to hit a million buttons to change from lower case to upper case and vice versa in when I enter names in my contacts or in mid-sentence when I text; the fact that I can't view my IN and OUT messages in one spot (instead, my INBOX and OUTBOX are separate entities, even when messages are to and from the same person); the fact that I cannot receive multimedia messages; the fact that, instead of selecting one day to add a weekly event on my calendar, I have to DESELECT other days; the fact that, when I want to change the volume setting of something, I have a three-second window to do it; the fact that it flicks back and forth from "chatr" and "Rogers," so if somebody calls while it says "Rogers" it goes to voicemail; AND THE MYSTERY BEEPS IT GIVES ME AT LEAST TWICE A DAY, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE READ ALL OF MY MESSAGES.
There are more stupid things, but these are the top ones.
If at least many of these things do not make sense, it is because they don't. I have had this phone for four months now, and it is a joke--good thing I have a sense of humour. The only thing more inconvenient than this mentally-delayed phone is the inconvenience of dealing with a return and refund through the mail (been there done that in the past and do not wanna have to deal with that). I consider this a punishment for all of my sins in life. But, like I said earlier, it looks cool. I like props.
I tried really hard to refrain from leaving a review, but the freaking beep has put me over the edge. Even the customer-care specialist who contacted me right away (as if they new that whoever is not a rocket scientist would have trouble with this phone) has no idea why these beeps exist.
I am certain that it is just a matter of time before I just go ahead and by a new flip phone from a legitimate retailer.
This is the about the fifth flip phone that I have ever owned, and THIS IS BY FAR THE LEAST-EASY PHONE EVER.
**December 6 Update: the outer screen just died--stupid phone...I did not even do anything to it. On the bright side, because it is so big and red, more people have been noticing it and freaking out about how cool I am.
***January 5, 2023 Update: I thought that maybe I was imagining it the first two times; however, it did it again last night, and I am positive that this phone has randomly shut itself off three times since I purchased it.
****January 11, 2023 Update: thanks to the stupid calendar on this stupid phone, I am still getting weekly reminders on days that USED to have reminders but no longer have reminders. When I click on the date, I get told that I have nothing scheduled, but I still get the messages. It is time for a new phone...
*****January 13, 2023 Update: I was still putting it off, but I finally just ordered a new phone. It might still be risky, but I had to. I needed the light on this stupid phone, but it would not shut off when I tried to shut it off. I had to turn off the stupid phone in order to turn off the light. In all fairness, after I turned the phone on again, I turned on the light and was able to turn it off--but it is still stupid.