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GREAT PHONE!!!,
I purchased this phone a little cheaper online through walmart. What a great buy. This phone actually made me disconnect my service from Verizon. Obviously this can’t/couldn’t work for everybody (especially if you HAVE TO HAVE internet wherever you go.. ) but here it goes..
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**I primarily use wifi either at my home (I have a 30mbps connection) or at my Job. I have no need for data when im “on the go”.
**I purchased an app called “GrooveIP” for 4.99. This app allows you to make/recieve calls through wifi using Google Voice. Usually Google voice only works on a computer but this app lets you make the calls on your phone.
**Call quality is EXCELLENT! (Make sure you turn on “adaptive echo canceller and audio processing. leave sync voice off”)
**I bought a 100$ pre-paid card from at&t. This card lasts an entire YEAR!
Here’s basically how it works..
1) MY google voice phone number is forwarded to the ATT number which was given to me when I activated the SIM card.
2) I have an app called AUTOAP that turns off 3g when im connected to wifi.
3) What this means is when i’m home, if someone calls me, the call will go through wifi (grooveip) and will be free. When im not home and someone calls me, the call will get forwarded to the ATT number and my phone still rings. I have the option of answering the phone or letting it go to voicemail!
4) If I decide to answer the call, I’m billed at .10c / min. Same rate if I decide to call out when I’m not in a wifi zone.
I have a house phone that I pay 20$ for unlimited calls. This plan made me eliminate my 120$ bill from Verizon!
To wrap it up. I pay about 28$ (20+ 100 card/12) per month to have a great phone with unlimited calls in my home and wherever I have wifi.
***Other notes***
I rooted the phone fairly easily and put a custom rom on it. This has made the phone have 90mb free of ram and removed all of the bloatware. The phone is zooming fast now. The camera is good for a phone (lets be honest, a cell phone is not a great camera)
The sound of the earpiece is good. It could be better. It also has GPS on the phone. I got an app called NAVIGON which allows you to use GPS without using data. Now I have another use for this phone!!
I really have nothing bad to say about this phone. It looks great too, very sleek. Very good midrange smart phone
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Update 6/18/12
Phone still working great! I have been trying different roms to see which one works best but I haven’t really found one that is perfect. Some roms mess up grooveip’s voice quality while others are very slow. Will post another update when I find the “winner”.
Battery life is VERY good. If im using wifi ocassionaly to surf the web and check email and make a few 10 min calls I can have a full charge for a few days!
Build quality is also excellent. The phone has survived many falls/drops and still works excellent. Touch screen is very responsive
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Update 11/09/12
Phone has since bene lost! I am going to buy the upgraded fusion 2 since it is the SAME PRICE and is a dual core processor and has 2gb internal ram.. what this means is a much faster phone that has much more space internally that the previous iteration.
As of right now.. there is very little to no reason in getting this version as the fusion 2 is superior in every regard
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|Good basic smartphone, don’t expect too much,
I bought this phone a few weeks ago and was told by 2 retailers that I could use my existing ATT SIM card with this GoPhone, which was true. But they didn’t tell me that ATT would detect that I was using a smartphone and then add a data plan to my account. That bothered me. I went to the ATT store and they said that that’s their policy. Fine. Of course they added me the $30/3GB of data, so I downgraded to the $20/300MB, since I plan to use Data sparingly. Why give them an extra $10 per month?
As the title of my review says, it is a good, basic smartphone running Android 2.3. Compared to the more advanced smartphones, this one feels a bit slow, but acceptable in my opinion. There is no camera flash so if you would like to use your phone for lots of picture taking, I’d highly recommend that you pay more for a better phone with flash feature. The picture quality is slightly less than average.
The battery life so far has been very good. If I don’t run WiFi or Data much, I can go almost 2 full days without re-charging. I certaily can go 1 full day with higher than moderate use. I am not a heavy user so I would imagine that heavy users would have to charge their phone before the day is up.
WiFi connection is a bit flaky. Whereas my HP Pavilion g4 laptop has excellent connect speed at home, this phone has 1 maybe 2 bars of signal strength. At times it seems to lose the connection. Thus if you are far from the WiFi router, you might have these issues as well. But I didn’t expect much in terms of WiFi signal reception, given that it’s a small device (i.e. antennas are smaller than in a laptop).
My biggest complaint has been that internal memory is essentially non-existent. After I upgraded the built-in apps, there was NO MORE space for additional Apps!! This is my first smartphone, so I am not app-dependent as most smartphone users, so this hasn’t been a problem as much as just a limitation to try and learn different apps. I did add a memory card, but it seems that apps need to use the smartphone’s internal memory, and cannot be installed in the micro SD card, no matter what size it is. Don’t let sales people tell you otherwise. Facebook App and other useful apps are already installed so you don’t have to worry about those, at least.
Bottom line, if you need internet access on the go and want to get a decent basic smartphone for that, for whatever reason, this is one phone you should consider. But if you have been spoiled by the more capable smartphones, this one will probably disappoint you.
UPDATE: After having the phone for 29 days, I decided to return it for a refund. The phone began to constantly give me the error of low memory. I could not ever try to install an app from Google Android store. Browsing the internet would cause crashes more and more frequently. There are a few other bugs I would encounter which by themselves are just minor, but after you begin to dislike a product, they really become annoying. I change my rating for this phone from 3 stars to 2 stars. I do not recommend it!!
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|I purchased this because I wanted an android phone without a contract and data plan. Boy did it deliver!!
I’m a previous Verizon prepaid customer, but they were just too expensive. I was paying $20 a month JUST for texting, I had to pay an extra $15 to be able to make phone calls.
I was going to try a Verizon prepaid android, but they were asking $70 a month and that was their cheapest plan.
I started to do some research and found the almighty go-phone and immediately fell in love with the at&t fusion.
It’s an android smartphone running a 2.3 os. It’s a full touch screen and is fully customizable(with up to 5 home screens)
I bought it straight from the at&t store where they activated it for me, so I was able to use it immediately.
It has very good battery life. I started using it as soon as I left the store at 12:30 pm with a 50% charge and continued using it until I got home at 4:00pm and put it on the charger (without it dying).
Texting is a breeze with the options of 3 different keyboards, including swype(you can download more keyboards from the android market.
The best part is I am only paying $25 a month!! That’s only 5 more dollars than my Verizon text plan (not including what I payed for calls) and not only do I get unlimited text, but also 250 talk minutes and that’s with a significantly better phone(I previously had the Verizon blitz, which wasn’t a bad phone, I’ve just had it for four years and felt the need for a change).
And contrary to what most people say, a data plan IS NOT required with this phone. You can disable the data feature(so you can’t get charged by accidentally using it) and just use wifi, which is what I do.
Though, If you want a data plan, they start as low as $5 a month.
I have to say, at&t knows what they’re doing!
All in all, I definitely recommend this phone:)
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