The Kyocera Wild Card M1000 (Virgin Mobile)

The phone has a look of a box. The phone has been rated as very good by the editors of the cell review site and it has received 7.0 out of 10. The screen of the phone is 1.5 inches. The brightness of the screen can be adjusted as well as the screen savers can be set at the back of the display. The keypad is located just below the display. The keypad buttons are quite large and slippery and the navigation toggle is internal. The Wild Card offers a 1.3 mega pixel camera which takes pictures in four resolutions. There is a facility of zooming and a flash is also present. There are other features like self timer, night mode, three color tones, adjusting brightness, 10 shutter sounds, 8 fun frames, and multishot mode. The quality of the picture is pretty good but sometimes the colors are slightly faded. The memory of the phone has space for six phone numbers against each entry in the contact phone book. It also supports two email, web and street addresses and has space for notes. There are only 9 polyphonic ring tones. Caller groups can be created and photo and ring tones can be assigned against each group for caller ID purpose. Separate personal and business ring tones can be set. There is a Bluetooth and voice dialing feature included. The other features of the phone are the text and multimedia messaging as well as instant messaging and emails. Calculator, alarm clock, tip calculator, event scheduler, stopwatch, timer, voice memo are some of the important features. Speakerphone is also available with the phone. The phone is equipped with 2 games Pc-Man and Ms. Pc-Man.

The battery life of the phone supports 3.25 hours of talk time. The phone is user friendly and messaging features are well set. The alphabetic keyboard is designed in a nice manner.

The speakerphone is not good. The navigation controls are poorly designed.

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