Samsung T401g Pre-paid Cell Phone For Net10 With Bluetooth - Black On Sale
Get the excellent Samsung T401g Pre-paid Cell Phone For Net10 With Bluetooth - Black. This highly desirable item is currently in stock. For this reasonable price, the Samsung T401g Pre-paid Cell Phone For Net10 With Bluetooth - Black comes widely recommended and is a popular choice amongst lots of people. With so many available recently, it is great to have a name you can recognise. The item is certainly that and will be a superb purchase. The distributor have provided some excellent touches and this means great value for money. You can believe this review, i hope you can try to buy this product if you want know this product. i've been a person who has signed alot of contracts for phone service w/ all kinds of carriers (Alltel, Cingular, CellOne, Verizon, T-Mobile). I wanted to get away from contracts, let's face it, they suck, as do early termination fees. I wasn't thrilled about buying another cellphone just so i could have pre-paid service - that is the downside. Not to mention i bought a Samsung Gravity 2 - used it for 6 months and upgraded/bought the Gravity 3. Used the G3 for a few months before switching to Net10 - Samsung T401g. Luckily i found a refurb model selling for $40 on amazon. Let me list the pro's & con's for you ppl thinking about going over to this service:
PRO's:
- no contract, no credit check (pretty much everything the website tells you - […] )
- slight variety of phones (flip, slider, imitation blackberry model, regular no flip/no slider models). The less fancy the phone, the cheaper the cost of the phone - i.e. flips and non-flip models should be under $20 (and on amazon, some selling for as low as $4!!)
- pretty easy to use service
- pretty easy to use phone (if you are used to Samsung Gravity models - t401g is almost exact - only diff color and thicker)
- easy to add airtime (can buy the cards at various locations - gas stations, best buy, etc - or buy them from the net10 website, or even from your phone)
- accessory kit is cheap (usually $14.99) and comes with alot of stuff - car charger, earpiece (handsfree), wall charger, different adapters
- texting is cheaper - .30 a text to send and recieve
- activation can be done online thru net10 website
- you can keep an existing number from one of your other cellphones, but you do have to keep that other cellphone service active in order to keep that number
CON's:
- REFURB MODELS: DON'T BUY A REFURB unless you are very tech savvy and have some patience to deal with various issues that may pop up
- CUSTOMER SERVICE: Net10's ONLINE customer service is a complete joke and waste of time! Trust me when i say --> call the customer service number, and you will have your problem(s) solved within 20-45 min (depending on the problem) other then waiting days and weeks for online tech's to help you. if you have a facebook account - don't even bother with Net10 online tech's there for help - they are UBER SLOW!
- T401G PHONE: the t401g phone is kinda flimsy - you can tell that this is a cheap made phone. (i'm just comparing it to the other phones i've had over the yrs - Samsung Gravity 2 & 3, LG models, Motorola RAZR, etc)
- TEXTING: be aware that while it costs .30 to send and recieve - if you don't delete your message after you read it, and say you delete the next day - it will charge you another .30 just to delete it... it only does that cuz it thinks you are reading it again. Unlike features on the Gravity 2 & 3 and most phones where you can just go to inbox, see your list of msg's and click delete on them - the t401g does not let you do that.. in order to delete a msg you have to go back to it, and then you can delete it. Hence the repeat .30 charge. So if you want to avoid a repeat charge, just delete them as soon as you read them.
Also be advised that you may have to speak to customer service in order to activate the .30 charge rate for texting - not all of them do it automatically.
- PICTURE MESSAGING: major downer for this phone - i know it's not the signal where i was - i had good signal - but it took forever for a pic msg to come thru - i retrieved about 4-5 times - each time you retrieve it costs like .50 - but as it does the process and is downloading or retrieving - it keeps hitting you every so often w/ repeat .50 charges, and then you never get the pic. maybe the pic my friend was sending was too big of a file - i'm not sure. i had one pic get thru just fine and only got charged .30, this other one - i lost patience and just deleted it. if i had to pay more then 5.00 in charges to see it, not worth it. pic retrieving time varies - can be slow and sometimes can be fast
- PORTING NUMBERS: keeping a number from another cellphone you may have w/ another carrier - i.e. t-mobile, at&t, etc... yes you can port the number to your net10 phone, but that # will only be able to be ported and remain as your net10 number so long as the other service stays active. so if you got at&t or what not and 678-093-1124 as a number and you port it to your net10 phone, it will port. but if you cancel your at&t service, you will lose that # as your net10 number and have to change to a diff one. (May work well if you have other tracfones or net10 phones for porting - i wouldn't reccommend using a contract service number to your pre-paid - for obvious reasons - you're probaly wanting to terminate your contract so you can go pre-paid and pay less, so why port the contract # and pay for 2 phones. that's just stupid and ridiculous.)
Additional comments: I'm not really too disappointed with the net10 service or the phone - i am paying cheaper then what i was w/ contract carriers. My biggest peeve was getting it activated and the zillions of codes i had to enter into the phone from cust. service in order to troubleshoot all the issues i was having. That's why i gave it a 4 star rating.
Suggestions: If you don't use your phone much and you do want to keep the cost low - i suggest buying the airtime cards that give you more days then minutes. a 300 min card gives you like 60 days i think. while a 750 min card gives you only 30 days, and you have to buy a card each month to keep the service active if you buy the monthly cards. you can switch over anytime to the other cards - the pay as you go ones- but if you do that, it will erase whatever monthly min you have from the monthly cards.
The only way you get the rollover minutes from Net10 (and yes they do rollover) - are if you buy the Pay As You Go Cards - these are the ones that cost as low as $15. These are the ones that are your 150 min, 300 min, 1000 min, etc... and you can keep buying these and entering in the code and it will rollover any unused so long as it is pay as you go cards.
However if you buy the monthly cards - 750 min $25/unlimited $50 - you have to reload either w/ another monthly, or you can delete any remaining monthly min if you buy a Pay As You Go card and reload with that.
I made the mistake of buying the 750min card - i'm a huge texter, but not a huge talker - so i am going to switch over to the pay as you go so i can get more service days out of my phone. buying the monthly cards is like being on a contract almost - got to reload every month. i'd rather reload every couple months or more, or not have to worry about if i buy the 1000 min card for example.
hope that helps ( i will also upload images of the phone and accessory kit)
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