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.

The Kyocera Oystr

The phone has been rated as good by the editors of cell review site and the general verdict of the people or the users is average. The phone is pretty attractive with its pearly white exterior. The phone has smooth corners and is quite compact which easily fits into the pocket. It has a short antenna at the top which looks quite good. This flip top phone does not have an external display and to make the screen visible and to know the identity of the caller one has to open the flap which is the upper part of the phone. The screen of the phone is 1.75 inches diagonally. The font size and the brightness of the display of the screen cannot be changed and adjusted but on the other hand the contrast and the backlight timer can be adjusted. The phone comes with games like Brick Attack and Race 21 and more can be downloaded with the help of Virgin XL.

The other important features of the phone are text messaging, wireless web, automatic redial, tip calculator, stopwatch, calculator, voice dialing, scheduler, voice recording, timer and also a speakerphone. Through the Virgin XL one can personalize one’s cell and get as many screensavers, wallpapers, ring tones and many greetings courtesy media outlet. The set has a phone book which can store up to six numbers against each contact entry, it can also store two email, two web and two street addresses and notes. The phone has only four polyphonic ring tones. Each entry can be assigned with a photo and one of the ring tones, but the pictures are the graphics which are already inbuilt in the phone’s memory as there is no camera or multimedia messaging.

The phone supports 3.6 hours of talk time. It comes with a web browser and is quite well designed with easy to use buttons.

The phone lacks an external screen and the display is quite lackluster.

The LG Aloha –LX140 (Virgin Mobile)

This phone has been rated as good by the editors of the cell review site. But the users seem to be quite happy with the phone. Many have rated it as perfect. This is a flip phone with no external display. The screen can be seen when the front flap is opened. There is a red light on the phone which blinks to confirm that the phone is on, it can also be switched off. The size of the phone is average and it is of quite light weight. The internal screen is relatively small according to the size of the phone, it’s only 1.5 inches, and it only supports a text of 8 lines. The backlight and the font size can be changed and adjusted. The keypad is well designed, the buttons are large in size and there is a backlight to have a better view of the keypad. The buttons are at a distance which makes it easier to dial and type. The phone does not have space for a large phone book. It can only support 199 contacts; five phone numbers, three email addresses, one web address and notes can be supported against each contact entry. There are a total 10 polyphonic ring tones. Caller groups can be formed and each group can be assigned with one of the ring tones. There are two games included in this set, the games are, ZooZooClub and Battle Reverse. More games can be downloaded with the help of the phone’s wireless browser. The phone provides a space of 3.5 MB for storing any downloaded content. Other features are a voice memo recorder, speakerphone, alarm clock, a notepad, a scheduler, world clock, text messaging and a tip calculator. It also has voice dialing facility.

The phone is quite a simple one and is very much user friendly. The battery supports three hours of talk time.

The call quality is not too good and lacks external display.