Kyocera Jax S1300 (Virgin Mobile)

• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 21 reviews
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• 7 stars

  Good Value, but High Radiation output

  by rbarbosa on September 9, 2009

  Pros: Good value for the Money

  Cons: High Radiation Output (1.55 W/kg). The max. FCC allows is 1.6 W/kg.

  3 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 7 stars

  Great for it's price.

  by bettylynn on December 4, 2009

  Pros: A good phone for for it's cheap price.. great as a temporary phone. No major problems.

  Cons: Keys are very loud when texting. Phone is all plastic. Back cover and battery come out almost every time I drop it.

  Summary: Phone is simple and cheap.. though you may be annoyed by it if your a big texter.

  Summary: Phone is simple and cheap.. though you may be annoyed by it if your a big texter.

  1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 6 stars

  Nice basic phone, easy to carry, great calling features

  by JPhillips07 on July 26, 2009

  Pros: Calling Features, Battery Life, and Sleek Design

  Cons: LCD Display, Not many features that could have been offered through this phone, Volume/Speakerphone.

  Summary: 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 ...

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  Summary: 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.

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  1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 8 stars

  Nice little phone.

  by amandastarr89 on May 30, 2009

  Pros: Small, compact, nice screen, nice features, feels good in hand, easy to get used to.

  Cons: Clickety buttons

  Summary: 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 ...

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  Summary: 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.)

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• 7 stars

  One of the best basic phones.

  by losthighway1985 on May 29, 2009

  Pros: Easy to use, lightweight, good menu design, very easy to text.

  Cons: Feels a bit cheap.

  Summary: 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 ...

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  Summary: 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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• 10 stars

  A basic phone

  by magstudios123 on May 22, 2009

  Pros: Minimalistic design and great voice dialing feature.

  Cons: display has a low resolution and doubtful durability.

  Summary: Basic phone with not so great features. Ideal only for basic usage.

  Summary: Basic phone with not so great features. Ideal only for basic usage.

  1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 1 stars

  Worthless and Unreliable- STAY AWAY FROM KYOCERA

  by thishereguy on May 27, 2009

  Pros: Nothing. Absolutely aweful.

  Cons: NO INTERNAL CLOCK - lose the signal, you can't see what time it is, and your alarm won't go off if it is set.
  Keypad lock doesn't work for incoming calls- friends will wind up talking to your pocket.
  Poor sound quality
  Bad keyboard design.

  Summary: I didn't expect much for $15, but The Jax is a nightmare.
  There are two HUGE failures on this phone which make it completely worthless.
  1) The phone has ...

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  Summary: I didn't expect much for $15, but The Jax is a nightmare.
  There are two HUGE failures on this phone which make it completely worthless.
  1) The phone has NO INTERNAL CLOCK, it gets the time from the service provider. I called Kyocera, this is true on all of their phones. So if you lose the signal, say, because you're in a large hotel at a convention (as I was this weekend), you can't see what time it is, and your alarm will fail to go off if it is set. If you ever use your phone as a watch or an alarm DO NOT BUY A KYOCERA.
  2) Your friends will wind up muted or talking to your pocket. The phone has a "feature" called "any key" which cannot be disabled and which overrides the keyboard lock. It can be set to "any key answer" (pressing any key answers an incoming call) or "any key mute" (pressing any key mutes an incoming call) but it cannot be turned off. This virtually guarantees that if the phone is in your pocket, it will either be muted or answered IMMEDIATELY, as some button will probably be depressed at any given time.
  
  These are the less significant problems.
  3) The sound quality is very poor and low volume, as the cnet reviewer pointed out- if the room is at all noisy, you and the person on the other end of the call will not hear each other.
  4) The keys are all very flat, the same shape, and don't give much tactile feedback when pressed- it's virtually impossible to dial without looking at the phone, as you might while driving (obviously you shouldn't, but we all do, don't we?) . I haven't tested the voice dialing feature.
  
  I couldn't even get the thing to connect properly to virgin mobile's data network, even after talking to the company repeatedly (I could make and receive calls). Virgin mobile insists that it's a problem with the phone. I talked to Kyocera, and while they didn't have an explanation for my not being able to connect, the clock and "any key" problems are simply design issues. I'm taking this thing back, and finding another provider (since all of Virgin Mobile's phones are by Kyocera.)

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  1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 1 stars

  POS free dinosaur (circa 2009)

  by delta-delta- on September 8, 2012

  Pros: well the price

  Cons: everything else

  Summary: look elsewhere, this phone is straight trash

  Summary: look elsewhere, this phone is straight trash

• 6 stars

  Works good but uses odd connector.

  by AggressivePrefector on June 29, 2011

  Pros: Works. good sound.

  Cons: Uses a Micro B USB.

  Summary: Works good. Sounds good, But uses a Micro B USB. Good buy for $10.

  Summary: Works good. Sounds good, But uses a Micro B USB. Good buy for $10.

• 7 stars

  Good entry-level cell phone

  by segin on January 31, 2011

  Pros: It's a simple handset sold by Virgin Mobile with good feature set

  Cons: It's a CDMA handset, and thus limited to usage in CDMA countries, mostly the US, Japan, and some parts of Canada.

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