Assurance Phone Review

The Assurance phone most Assurance Wireless users will receive a Kyocera Jax candy bar styled cell phone. By today’s standards, the Kyocera Jax is a basic phone. The Kyocera Jax measuring 4.29 inches, by 1.73 inches, by 0.51 inches, and weighs a dainty 2.5 ounces is a light weight cell phone. You should have no trouble stowing the cell phone in a purse or your pants’ pocket. The phone does not have a camera or Bluetooth.

The Assurance phone features a black minimalist designed exterior and has a 1,8-inch LCD display that supports 65,000 colors at 160X128 pixels. The screen is not super bright and the colors displayed are some what muted.

The Assurance phone is easy to navigate with an intuitive gird or list style menu system. You can easily adjust the display’s brightness, contrast, and backlight timer. This is a great way to extend your battery life (lowering the backlight timer and decreasing the screen brightness). The Assurance phone has a volume rocker on the left side of the phone, which can be easily reached when on the phone. On the right, the Assurance phone has a 2.5 mm headset jack for connecting a headset and a microUSB charger.

The main circular toggle navigation control works well, but some of the other navigational buttons are quite small. It is clear that Kyocera had to make certain compromises in making the phone as small as it is. The keypad has raised keys, which are backlit for easy use in low light conditions.

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Real Users had this to say about the Assurance phone:

Bottom line the Kyocera Jax is for old people…just kidding. The Jax is a great phone for someone to have that just wants to be able to call friends and family hearing them clear and distinct on the phone, but I don’t recommend it if you want something that has a lot of features and quality speakers. The speaker system in the phone is kind of weird, its hard to get it play loud, especially when you playback your voice memos or whatever its just kind of nerve racking to have to hold it up to your ear to hear the speakerphone. All in all just a basic phone.

I just bought the Jax today and so far i’m in love with it. I used to have the VM Flare but the phone would constantly freeze up on me. So far, I have had absolutely no problems with the Jax. I love the way it feels in my hands, it’s small and I like that. It also has a lock so you can’t accidentally call people. Anyways, for me, this phone is perfect because I’m really only a texter and it’s great for texting. Not only that, when I do talk the sound is very clear, speakerphone is too. Also, when you download your own ring tones, they sound amazing for this little phone.

Bottom line, this phone is amazing for 15 dollars I would recommend it to anyone! (If you can have a phone w/o all the bells and whistles.)

I got this phone for $14.99 at Wal-Mart not expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised. I’ve had every type of phone from an expensive PDA device that did practically everything to the cheap basic phones without a camera even, and this is one of the better basic phones you can buy. The screens and menus are pretty cool, for one thing, but the best part about this phone is the ease of use when you text. It is incredibly easy to text on–even easier than some phones that have full keyboards. The buttons just work so well for it, and I find myself texting away on this little thing like crazy. I love it. On the downside, the phone feels like it’s made of pretty cheap plastic, and does not feel like it would withstand being dropped on a hard surface or be mistreated in any way. So take care of it. I had to get this phone to reduce my budget when switching to Virgin Mobile. No, it doesn’t have all those cool, fancy features most people want with their cell phones nowadays like a camera and applications, etc. So if you want a toy or something to “look cool” this, this won’t do it. But if you need a good phone for basic usage (talking and texting), this is one of the better inexpensive ones I’ve seen. After all, you can use your computer to get on the Internet and do all that other stuff at home.

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