The Kyocera Marbl K127 (Virgin Mobile)

The Kyocera Marbl K127 has received a good response from the editors of the cell review site but the general users are not quite fond of the phone. Still the phone is a good one for basic use and is quite decent for making calls the basic purpose of any phone. This is a flip phone which lacks an external display. The phone is not too big and it easily fits into the pocket and hence easy to carry. The phone has a nice design and is attractive; it has a logo of the virgin mobile inscribed in its body. The display of the set is 1.5 inch. The text size is small and cannot be adjusted, while the contrast and backlight time can be adjusted. The keypad has large buttons which are a bit big for the phone’s size. And the backlight of the keypad is a bit too bright.

The phone’s contact book can store limited contacts of at the most 200 contacts. Each contact entry can hold up to six other phone numbers, two web, two email, and two street addresses. It can also support notes against each entry. There are only 4 polyphonic ring tones. Caller groups can be formed and a ring tone can be assigned to each of them. Photo can be paired with each group for caller ID purpose but this is to be done without the help of camera or multimedia messaging options, so it is a bit useless. The phone also offers two games, Race 21 and Brick Attack. The phone also comes with a WAP 2.0 web browser which helps in downloading and browsing the net. Other regular features of the phone are alarm clock, tip calculator, speakerphone, stopwatch, a voice memo recorder, scheduler, text messaging and a countdown timer.

The call quality and volume is pretty good and the battery supports 3.8 hours talk time.

The phonebook and ring tone selection is too small.

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