Alcatel QUICKFLIP 4044C | 4G LTE | HD Voice FlipPhone | Cricket Unlocked for T-Mobile & AT&T, Grey, 4GB

Take your time and read the directions and warnings with the SIMM card and the phone. The think I liked immediately about the phone was the opening and closing action and the overall quality' I'm using it with a Speedtalk $5 /month SIMM and the set up and registration worked without a problem. Opening the phone cover is the most difficult part, but it works if you look at the small drawing in the instruction sheet. The thing I mainly needed was a Nokia phone replacement, and this phone is ideal for travel and emergency use. It fixes the things I didn't like about the Nokia phone and T-Mobile pay as you go plan. It has a much larger battery, better range with 3G 4G, and the keyboard and screen are protected when closed. Also the Speedtalk plan allows for running over the monthly limits and not being left stranded with a non working out of minutes phone. The keyboard and display are larger and make the phone a pleasure to use. Note: Speedtalk available at Amazon uses the T-Mobile network, but it is not owned by T-Mobile. Update: It is s-l-o-w to power up if you keep it normally off like me (use for emergencies). If you just use it for making phone calls/answering phone calls and use no other features, it's a good phone.

I would say you get what you pay for, but I bought a $20 phone from walmart in 2014 that worked better than this and lasted 6 years. This phone drops calls, has low transmitting volume (people on the other end have a hard time hearing me), frequently freezes, and garbles texts. When texting it frequently inserts random numbers of its own accord or loses track of the T9 prediction while I'm still hitting keys and, as a result, spits out gibberish that I then need to delete. This happens every time I send a text. I don't need a lot of features on a phone, I really just need a phone. And this doesn't do that well. I wish I hadn't wasted my money on it and now I'm stuck with it until it breaks. I suspect that won't take as long as my last phone, given the overall quality of it.

I don't know why there are so many complaints about this phone. Once you understand that it only works with GSM carriers (ATT and T-Mobile and their variants), there's really nothing to it. I was looking for a stupid phone (as opposed to a smart phone) to use with my Wal-Mart prepaid service, a T-Mobile variant. I opened the package, put my Wal-Mart SIM card in, put the battery in and turned on the phone. It works in every way. For $33 refurbished, it's a great deal! UPDATE - IMPORTANT!!! While I've been very happy with this phone since I bought it, using it on WalMart's Family Mobile prepaid service, I've now run into problems. I used Family Mobile because it uses the T-Mobile network, I needed that for several reasons I won't go into here. As of January 2021, T-Mobile is requiring that any phone used on their network be not only 4G LTE compatible but VoLTE compatible too. This phone is not. I only found out by trying to top up my phone and not being able. WalMart didn't notify me and won't refund what I spent on the top-up. So, as of Jan 2021, you need to look for a different phone just like I'm doing. In summary, this is an unlocked GSM phone that will only work with a SIM card from a GSM carrier. To all those that complain and scream bloody murder and fraud, I can only say you must not know what you're doing.

This is a good basic phone for talk, texting, & e-mails. Has nice big buttons which is good for seniors such as myself. Works very well with my provider, Consumer Cellular. Also, it is very slim which is good for carrying in your front pocket. The display needs more pixel density as small letters are somewhat blurred. Navigation is simple & direct. I have The volume & ring loudness at maximum setting which is OK for me but for someone with any amount of hearing impairment would need more volume in my opinion. The loudness on speaker is sufficiently loud. The battery life could be better. If you talk & text a lot (more than 2 hours) you will need to charge it daily. If you don't talk more than maybe an hour a day you will need to charge it every 4-5 days or so. This is no biggie to me as I charge mine every 3 days anyway. Overall, I am happy with this phone & recommend it.

Pros 1. It's a flip phone easy to open up to answer and hang up with real keypad to dial number. 2. Very light weight and long battery life. 3. It's a 4g LTE network, the true is ATT shut down 2g, and T mobile will also shut down the 2g network soon, so most of the old GSM phone no longer work soon. It must have a phone that's have 3g or 4g to use. 4. It has a basic 2mp camera to take some pictures for fun. 5. It has a media player and you can add a micro sd card to play the music with that phone, also it has a FM raido. Cons 1. The number keypad is not good to dial, you have to press it hard sometimes. 2. Because there are more and more scam or commercial phone calls, it's important to have the features to block the numbers you don't recognize. However that phone doesn't have that feature. 3. That phone is simple to young people, but a bit trouble to the older people, especially sometimes the keypad doesn't work very well. 4. Although it has Wifi and 4g, it's useless. There's a built in browser but it's hardly to type and use the internet, the cursor is hardly to move. If you have data plan, you will only use small amount of data on this phone, but you can not share the data out by tethering or hotspot. I bought it for my senior family member to use, it's easy to just open up and close the phone for basic features, but the menu and features not so easy to use by the older people. Eventually have to return it.

This is a great flip phone. It can even connect to wifi. But don't expect it to be a smart phone. There's no qwerty keyboard, so texting is inconvenient. It doesn't have a touch screen. You have to click through a couple different menus to get to your phone book (contacts list). But if what you want is to be able to pick it up and dial, or answer it when it rings just by opening it, this is the perfect phone for you. If you have a child that you want to communicate with but not have them constantly plugged in to the Internet, this is perfect for them too. They can even text, if they have the patience to do it on a keypad. Receiving text is no problem at all. There are a few useful tools--camera, alarm, calendar, radio, etc. We use it as our "home phone", as adding an extra line to our cell service (Ting) that uses few minutes and texts and no data is far cheaper than paying for a land line. Turning it on is counter intuitive though--you have to push and hold the red hang up button. I had to laugh at some of the reviews insisting that the phone was broken and couldn't even be turned on right out of the box--it's likely that they just couldn't figure out how and didn't bother to Google it. My one complaint is that the exterior screen (so you can see who's calling before you open it and answer) is too light and hard to read. Adjusting the brightness settings didn't do much. I don't know if that's just a problem with mine or if it's common to all of them. The inside screen that gets used most of the time is just fine.

Bought for my 12 year old to replace her former smart phone, which it's been decided she's not responsible enough for, but I still want her to have a way of communicating with me when need be. This is not a smart phone. First and foremost. However I needed to find a phone which would work with a Mint Mobile SIM card, and had 4g service at a minimum. Most of the flip phones out there are only 3g. So this one fit my basic requirements. Even though it is branded Cricket, the device I received IS unlocked. Con: the back cover which you need to remove to add the battery, sim, and optional SD card is VERY difficult to remove. I don't plan on swapping out any of that any time soon! Pros: not at smart phone. It does have I ternet access but you're not going to downloading apps. But you can get to sites like YouTube and many others. Downside: if you're in my boat where you're trying to limit your child's YouTube usage ... This can be a little of both. But hey, if you tell your kid to Google something that is possible. Has a built in music player and capability for up to a 32 gb SD card. Daughter was happy that she can listen to music. Kid has to learn T9 texting. That's a learning curve. Capable of talk and text. Durable. Without need to buy a protective case. Bluetooth enabled. So using it with wireless headphones is a possibility. Wifi capable so if you're trying not to use your data it's an option. Very difficult to turn off the wifi however. When it's in standby mode the battery lasts FOREVER it seems. I left it over a week without charging since kid wasn't using it for anything else at one point. Overall. If you're looking to simplify things this is a good pick.

TOTALLY DISGUSTED WITH THIS PHONE!!! I purchased this phone from Amazon.com (supplied by HTF Toys) specifically to take to England. Advertised as: Flip Phone 4G LTE GSM Alcatel QuickFlip (Cricket 4044C) Unlocked BIG BUTTONS + Extrenal LCD Bluetooth WIFI Mp3 Camera SOS Elderly Phone Works on At&t Cricket Metro Pcs Tmobile Any Gsm Provider in USA LATIN Caribbean Europe Found out that you have to be a Cricket customer for 6 months before you can get an Network Unlock Code. Paid $49.99 for the phone … the cheapest Cricket plan was $25.00/mth … which would add $150.00 … making the total cost of the phone $199.99 just to take the phone to England. Unless you are prepared to spend $200 on a flip phone … stay away from this. It is a total and utter rip-off. Don't waste your time contacting Cricket Customer Services, they will apologise and tell you basically that they cannot help .. but please have a nice day!! Not exactly what you would call "customer service". They appear to be happy to condone a misleading advertisement for their product. NOT ACCEPTABLE. Why not just be truthful up front to avoid such bad reviews!!