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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2024
I bought this renewed Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 phone because most other phones on the market were getting so large they barely fit in my pants pocket. This one being foldable easily fits. There were some big differences in this phone compared to all of my previous cell phones. For starters, there is no phone jack. Not a deal breaker if you have Blue Tooth ear buds. Second big difference, there is no slot of a micro SD memory card. I worked around that by buying a phone with 128 G of internal memory. That's more than enough for all of my music, games, photos and apps. The third big difference is there are 2 batteries, and they aren't easy to replace. Instead of just removing a cover, there is some disassembly involved to get to them. I may leave that to the "Pros" when the time comes to replace them. There are tons of videos out there demonstrating all of the features of this phone, so I won't go into detail about it. I will say that I watched a few of them to tweak some display and battery settings to extend the life of the battery such at limiting the percentage of charges. I just found out it's not good on a battery when you charge it 100%. Didn't know that before. For you Tracfone users, I will confirm that you can take this unlocked phone to Tracfone, put your sim card from your old phone in it, and with a little help from a Tracfone tech, be ready to use it in under 15 minutes. I thought I needed a Tracfone Sim card kit, and I didn't. In the past I had to wait a few hours up to a day for the new phone to be fully functional - not this time. Like I said, within 15 minutes it was working. I wear a hearing aid, and once I configured the phone to work with my hearing aid app, it used the Bluetooth to send audible notifications to my hearing aid. My wife is thrilled she doesn't have to hear my phone announce email and phone calls while we watch TV. I can also play music on my phone and hear it through my hearing aid. Cool! I'm 76 years old, and I found this phone relatively intuitive in its operation. It only took me a day or two of playing with it to learn my way around. So far I like it. I ordered screen protectors and a case to give it protection. As a renewed cell phone it arrived in excellent shape, like new. UPDATE 7/8/24 I did find one thing I really don't like about the Android 14 operating system - it's very difficult to turn on the Data setting. It's a convoluted path to reach a setting that offers only 1 option, to keep "data turned on when wi-fi isn't available" all of the time. For someone who uses prepaid Tracfone services that don't have unlimited data, I have to limit my usage of data. It took me a half hour to find directions how to access that setting, not fun!
