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| Kyocera Marbl Prepaid Phone (Virgin Mobile) | 
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| Brand: Kyocera
Category: Wireless
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $29.99
You Save: $70.00 (70%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 4243
Color: White
Media: Wireless Phone
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
Model: MARBL
UPC: 836182001272
ASIN: B000P1QP8K
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Intolerably Slow!! Only use as a backup or if you absolutely cannot afford anything else. April 28, 2008
This phone is absolutely unusable. Depending on what you're doing there is a 2-6 second pause between actions. In other words, if you save a contact and then want to make a call ... you ... have ... to ... ... ... wait. Useless!! You've been warned!
 Virgin Mobile marbl (I have the Grass Green version!!) April 6, 2008
Pro's: pre-paid, cheap minutes & texting fees, you can add plans (like, for ex; $5 a month for 200 texts, or $20 for 1000 texts). Virgin Mobile itself has really good coverage, it has a plan with Sprint for that.
I really like the phone, I like the 'flip phone' feature, I originally had a 'candy-bar' phone, I liked that one, but since upgrading to a flip phone, i like the flip way better! A lot of people have rated the VM Marbl really low, on many reviews. Since I have the green version (called "green grass--limited edition", perhaps that is an upgraded version? because I love mine!) The texting is fast, easy, and battery life is good. Of course, to get the maximum battery life, you have to completely drain the battery before recharging, this way, you conserve the energy, it charges faster and lasts longer. It doesn't have internet on this specific phone (other virgin mobile phones do) but then again, this phone is $15 in stores. I bought mine at Walmart. The minutes (called Top-Up cards) are reletively cheap. 200 minutes is $20, 400 is $30, and 1000 minutes is $50. TracFone is double that ($40 for 200 minutes, and etc. I don't mean to put down TracFone, I had them previously, and loved it! no complaints, just more expensive. Trying to weigh out the pro's and con's of both of them.
Its really light, durable, bright screen, the WORST ringtones i have ever seen, I bought some online, because...they were BAD... trust me. Online they're just 2.50...so not bad. the wallpapers are pretty good, but I still bought one online, just for fun... :)
Thats about it. I added pictures of the green version to the website page, so you can see it. it's a little greener in person though. it looks more teal in the picture... maybe it's just me though.
 Good phone for the price September 13, 2007
If you want a whiz-bang phone loaded with LOTS of features that can be run over by a truck and still work, then go spend $100. I only spent $20 and really like this phone a lot. It has everything I need, which admitedly isn't much. I wanted a small phone with a color display, a speakerphone and a battery that lasted longer than just a few hours. It's perfectly good for my light-use situation, only needs to be recharged every 3-4 days and it looks like it's from this decade, compared to my previous phone. I've had it for about 2 months and love it!
 Cool-looking, easy to use, but very slow September 10, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just got this at my local Radio Shack store for 30 bucks. Activating on Virgin Mobile USA's website gave me $2.50 in starter airtime. BTW the activation page appears to only work IE 6.0; I'd tried IE 7 and other browsers before I realized only IE 6 would work.
The phone itself is stylish and very lightweight. I find the battery life acceptable - but then, I only use this for occasional calls and I don't access the Internet (VirginXL) at all.
What I don't like about the phone is it's painfully slow. Even checking balance (by pressing the "up" key on the navigation pad) takes 30 seconds, vs. 5 seconds or so on my 7-Eleven Speak Out Wireless-running RAZR. Sometimes, even pressing the End key to return to the standby screen takes a full second, which is really slow for such an easy operation.
This is an inexpensive but useful phone, if you don't mind its being on the slow side. You can still find it in Radio Shack, Virgin and many other stores, as well as on Virgin Mobile USA's website.
Nice, Cute Phone, Horrible Batterly Life September 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was holding off on writing this review because I wanted to see how this, my very first cell phone behaved battery wise, after reading the neg. reviews here. Yep, the other reviewers are absolutely right. I turned on the powersaver as recommended, but they're right, my battery died out in less than 24 hours; 15 to be exact. Not that charging each night would be a problem, but come on, if you forget, this could be a real handicap and charging isn't always possible. I do like the company's customer service and the fact that the cus. ser. lady didn't try to strong arm me into buying anything. Being that I have never had a cell phone before, I was clueless as to how to set this up, but I found the cus. ser. pretty good. I don't know how long I will use this phone exclusively, as I bought it just for emergencies, but given the terribly short battery life, I may just get the Cyclops instead. Other than the batterly angle, this seems like a pretty cool little phone.
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