Kyocera X-tc - G2Go (Virgin Mobile)

• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 48 reviews
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• 2 stars

  Not worth the money

  by appleknifecake on July 22, 2009

  Pros: Large screen

  Cons: Slow, poor quality, poor battery life, tiny keypad

  Summary: Three weeks after I purchased this phone, the earpiece stopped working. I didn't drop the phone, I'm an adult who rarely uses my phone; when I am using ...

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  Summary: Three weeks after I purchased this phone, the earpiece stopped working. I didn't drop the phone, I'm an adult who rarely uses my phone; when I am using it, it's for text messaging. Now to make calls or answer the phone I have to use the speakerphone, which I hate, or use a bluetooth headset, which I am not walking around wearing, not to mention the fact it drains the battery even MORE to use bluetooth. I don't even care that the keys are so small that I sometimes smash them all at once, even though I have ridiculously small fingers. My husband couldn't begin to text message on this phone. I don't care that I have to wait and count the seconds when I try to open my inbox or reply to a text or, heaven forbid, I accidentally press the directional pad side that opens the internet. I don't care that the numbers are smooshed into the keypad vertically so I have to spin the phone if I'm adding numbers to a text, or trying to use the calculator. I only care that the phone ceased to fully function after three weeks of gentle use.

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  3 out of 3 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 8 stars

  Download Opera Mini for Improved Web Access

  by SeeNETT on May 27, 2009

  Pros: Pay as you go, no contract service for both voice and Web. Full keyboard. Nice appearance and form factor (fits in pocket well).

  Cons: Keys are small but usable. Menu system is a bit slow although Opera browser is relatively quick. Included ringtones are very basic, and mostly annoying.

  Summary: Virgin does not yet offer Opera Mini through its own site for the X-TC (they probably will soon), but you can use the included WAP browser to surf to mini....

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  Summary: Virgin does not yet offer Opera Mini through its own site for the X-TC (they probably will soon), but you can use the included WAP browser to surf to mini.opera.com, which will recognize the phone explicitly as the Kyocera M2000 X-tc, and will download the browser directly onto the phone. This free Opera browser is ten times better than the WAP browser included by Virgin.
  
  This is a very reasonable phone for someone who wants to occasionally access the Web. I bought a 20MB one month data pack for $10 to get started but for my purposes after this month the $5/month 5MB data pack will be plenty, as the Opera browser is very parsimonious in its use of bandwidth. If you don't buy the data pack at all you pay $1.50 each day that you use the phone, for up to 1MB, which isn't bad for an occasional user. I was able to surf the NY Times and a blog site there (Paul Krugman's) and also explore what films are available at the local multiplex and that entire process consumed less than half a MB. So, if you just want to be able to check fiilms or restaurants once in a while, while away from your home PC, this is a very economical phone and service.
  
  The keys are small, but usable with care. The volume is not very loud, but I would never use a cel without a headset - specifically, one with a hollow air tube to prevent the headset cord from becoming a waveguide for the cel radiation. And, you can always turn on the speakerphone for more volume. The menu system is a little slow.
  
  Overall, I'm pretty happy with this phone and service as a package. This kind of cel service gets you off the treadmill of monthly payments so that you only use the phone as much as you need to, and only pay for what you use. That reduces both distraction and radiation exposure, freeing your mind for better things, like living in the real world.

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  3 out of 3 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 1 stars

  Looks and feels great, but sadly awful

  by mister_g60 on May 28, 2009

  Pros: Apparent build quality
  Feature set
  Display size
  QWERTY keyboard (it's a pro and a con because it's cramped)

  Cons: Unreliable in the end - locked up and had the reboot-when-you-close-it problem
  Battery life
  OS/menus (to an extent)
  QWERTY keyboard (see above)

  Summary: I really wanted to like this phone, and I did - more or less - for the six weeks I had it. Once I heard it was coming I held ...

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  Summary: I really wanted to like this phone, and I did - more or less - for the six weeks I had it. Once I heard it was coming I held out and picked it up once a certain big yellow-signed electronics retailer, who I just returned it to yesterday.
  
  No the battery wasn't the best, and yes, the keyboard is cramped, but I was willing to live with that. I'll admit that after only six weeks I had the itch to jump ship on Virgin because their phones really are just so basic and often lousy. Good value if you have basic needs and/or just like to text. But after a year, I needed a real man's phone - my one serious weakness, but I digress ...
  
  You may have read that some people report that the phone will reboot itself if you close the keyboard too hard. I'd never experienced that until yesterday. I'm VERY good to my stuff, electronics especially, and I didn't drop or otherwise abuse my phone to the point where it may have had an excuse to freak out the way it did yesterday. Every time I closed the keyboard, almost regardless of how gently, it would reboot. Add to that the fact that the keys ALL froze up, and I was done. I had to leave all the data, phone numbers, whatever in the phone when I returned it, but at least I got my money back.
  
  So, I do NOT recommend this phone. I really do hope that Kyocera works out the bugs, because I do think this could be a great phone, considering what it is. But as-is, I definitely cannot recommend it to anyone. Instead, I'd suggest buying the Virgin Arc, it's a really great phone! I had that one before the X-TC, and it was very solid.

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• 8 stars

  This phone is good

  by lma111589 on May 27, 2009

  Pros: The REVIEWER IS WRONG. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO OPEN THE PHONE EVEN ONCE TO DIAL A NUMBER. All you have to do is press the center key and the screen's number selection menu pops up! It's the CENTER key, not the TALK button.
  This phone NEVER freezes.

  Cons: The slider thing will break and make it slide unevenly if you slide it fast.
  The screen will crack if u accidentally drop the phone even once and stupid kyocera doesnt sell face plates. idiots.

  Summary: This phone is good but even tho it is a 3g phone, stupid virgin mobile doesnt enable the 3g on this phone. idiots!

  Summary: This phone is good but even tho it is a 3g phone, stupid virgin mobile doesnt enable the 3g on this phone. idiots!

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• 8 stars

  Good phone for a texter

  by conap31 on August 23, 2009

  Pros: Very solid construction. 1 touch access to facebook, im, myspace, ect. mp3 player. The volume on this is the loudest i've ever heard! fun camera functions. huge phonebook. MiniSD slot, Mini USB slotBeautiful color screen. Unique from other phones

  Cons: Virgin mobile's interface is kinda bla. No video on the camera.. Keyboard takes some getting use to.

  Summary: I just got this phone yesterday, and it is by far the best virgin mobile phone out there. Even though the camera is only 1.3 megapixels, there are features ...

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  Summary: I just got this phone yesterday, and it is by far the best virgin mobile phone out there. Even though the camera is only 1.3 megapixels, there are features that let you touch up all your pics, along with different frames, negatives, sepia, and it will let u save them right to your SD card for quick transfer to ur PC. I was suprised to see that when i loaded pictures taken with my 8 megapixel camera on to my phone, they still held their quality and it would let me set them as my backround even though i didnt take them with the phone. The 3 buttons on the top of the phone for your music is a nice touch, and the media player works fine. One touch access to facebook is a great feature (although you have to go into settings and set up where you want each button to take you). The phone itself is sexy looking. People with much more expensive phones are askin to play with mine when they see it. Unfortunately, virgin mobiles interface is still bland and boring =( it definately needs some updating (can anybody say icons?) or at least an option to rearrange the lil menues you have. So far, the battery has held pretty true. (ive been playing with it nonstop for hours, using the camera, listening to music, not giving the thing a rest, and not one bar is missing from the battery.) I really wish you could take videos from the camera, that feature probably would have made me give it a five star rating. Bottom line: If you like texting, and dont necessarily care to spend $90 a month on some data package that you really dont even use, than this is a good phone for you! Its durable, sleek, and gets the job done.

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  1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 3 stars

  Good for texting, but not voice

  by ndtovent on November 18, 2011

  Pros: Pretty good battery life, at least for my phone. Sends/Receives txt msgs fast and timely.

  Cons: Poor reception for voice, awkward making calls without pre-loaded contacts, delayed vm msgs, slow to power up/down, takes too long to charge, screen scratches too easily. Txt ringtone volume too low, keyboard/screen font too small/no way to enlarge

  Summary: I've had the phone for 2.5 years, so I've owned it for awhile now. It's ok for brief, quick texting. I get pretty good battery life ...

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  Summary: I've had the phone for 2.5 years, so I've owned it for awhile now. It's ok for brief, quick texting. I get pretty good battery life with mine, even though I've read a lot reviews to the contrary from other owners. Voice reception is below average. Texting is fast for send/receive but the keyboard/keys are too small as is the font with no way to enlarge it, and no option for switching to virtual keyboard (number pad only). The font is very difficult to see outdoors in daylight. I would not recommend this phone to anyone. I had my previous kyocera for 5 years (I forget the model name/number), and I liked it much better than this one and it was a $20 phone.

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• 1 stars

  Be aware of return policies!!! limited exchanges

  by anka30 on August 16, 2011

  Pros: fine as long as you are willing to do exchanges and loose all your data every time it stops working

  Cons: I am not one to easily get upset and write a review, but we have had now 5 of this model (thanks to exchanges) and all have the same problem. Now the warranty is up and virgin won't exchange the phones any more. On top of that it's back to school and what

  Summary: Don't buy this phone, if you did make sure to exchange it! Hopefully you'll get the one that's working : )

  Summary: Don't buy this phone, if you did make sure to exchange it! Hopefully you'll get the one that's working : )

• 6 stars

  NOT BAD BUT WILL RESTART OCCASIONALLY

  by narn3049 on July 29, 2011

  Pros: read summary

  Cons: read summary

  Summary: Once and awhile, when the phone is shut off it turns itself back on??? Don't know why, but here are the pros and cons
  
  Pros:
  touch
  qwerty which is ...

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  Summary: Once and awhile, when the phone is shut off it turns itself back on??? Don't know why, but here are the pros and cons
  
  Pros:
  touch
  qwerty which is pretty good for texting
  big screen
  good camera
  durable
  
  cons:
  battery life was suckish
  the phone restarted

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• 7 stars

  Good but has many glitches

  by JenBen94 on July 23, 2011

  Pros: This phonehas all the accessoties i want and need in a phone. Its not too complicated but not too simple either.

  Cons: The buttons on my phone only work sometimea and i just got it. If i close it even slightly fast it restarts. AND it doesnt even have a recent calls or call history on it. I get calls but never kno who to call back if i missed it.

  Summary: Good phone. Bad quality.

  Summary: Good phone. Bad quality.

• 1 stars

  This is ridiculous

  by Darkpelt on July 3, 2011

  Pros: Pictures app is alright

  Cons: Receives text messages when it feels like it, Shuts down a lot, Have to continuously reprogram it so it will work, keyboard is at most 80% useable, ect;

  Summary: This phone is ridiculous. I have called Virgin mobile for the same reason more than 10 times for the same reason. My phone decides it doesn't want to receive ...

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  Summary: This phone is ridiculous. I have called Virgin mobile for the same reason more than 10 times for the same reason. My phone decides it doesn't want to receive text messages anymore. I mean like wth!? This is a phone built for texting people and it only does it when it feels like it? This phone is not worth the money. The first time i got it i was happy enough with it but 2 months later it continuously beeped and refused to send/receive text messages. I had a simple txt phone before this one and I had never had a problem with it. I had to call Virgin and they could not do a thing about it so they sent me a new one. This time the keyboard bugs out and for the first 2 months i had it half the time i would receive a message full of random symbols so i would have to kindly ask them to send it again. This got annoying real fast. Then it just stopped receiving them all together for 3 weeks and i had reprogrammed it 5 times in that time. My conclusion is If your not a texter go for it otherwise this phone is not even worth close to the $100 you had to pay for it.

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