Easyfone Prime-A6 4G Unlocked Feature Cell Phone, Easy-to-Use Clear Sound GSM Dumbphone with an Easy Charging Dock

It is NOT easy to find a phone that can make calls and text that is incapable of accessing the web in any way. This is one such phone. I bought a Kyocera flip phone, but it had creepy firmware/ spyware terms you had to agree to for the device to function. Other basic phones often also come preloaded with its YouTube or Facebook apps that cannot be removed. Tricky! I added a line to my phone plan, and my local AT&T store installed a SIM card for me, free of charge, and it connects to 4G. It’s like a candy bar phone from 1997. Feels like a toy in your hand, but the battery lasts a long time, and NO internet access of any kind. It’s not even capable of running apps.

Well, EASYFONE isn't exactly accurate. I spent many hours trying to activate this phone. I had the miniscule nano sim card that is required, and it is just that: miniscule. Make that VERY miniscule? I must have dropped it 10 times. The instructions say to "insert it" and show a diagram of WHERE, but they don't say HOW. To anyone who is as ignorant as I am about such things, please stick something sharp and thin down in that metal "pocket" where the nano card goes, and lift it slightly, or like me, you'll struggle getting it inserted! I kept just laying it on top of that pocket, because it looked like that was where it went in the diagram. I'd put the back on and then discover that was WRONG. I defy you to remove that back 5 or 6 times like I had to, and have any thumbnails left. I finally wised up (?) and used a dull knife to slide in between the front and back to open it, and there were little pieces of the plastic all over the counter from cutting pieces when trying to prize it loose all those times. The phone is NOT easy to use, once you get it activated, (activating it is another whole ballgame, btw. That was fun... NOT!) I've spent hours trying to discover just how to make a call and type a text on the thing. Still not sure how either of those is done. I will say, the sound seems to be good and even with my hearing aids, easily heard. I use a p.c. and an iPad for hours every day, and have no problems with either. This phone is a very confusing, strange piece of technology, but I had to have it for certain tasks after my old cellphone became obsolete. It did everything, and never a problem till I couldn't use it anymore. Edit: I'm finally fed up with this NOT Easyfone, and am returning it. It wouldn't make even a simple call without problems--like letting Walmart know I was there to pick up my grocery order. Simply refused. Final straw was when I placed a call to a friend, and she said I sounded like I was underwater--and so did SHE! Then a few seconds later, the phone cut out completely and she had to call me back on my landline. Maybe it was just this phone or perhaps me, but I can't recommend this Easyfone. It's a piece of very poor, outdated technology--and seems to be a lot like the old Blackberry. 🙁

I got this phone, not for a senior, or because I am a senior. I got it because I wanted a simple phone that did the basics, like making phone calls, sending texts, setting alarms, calculator, etc. And I got it because I did NOT want maps, a bunch of apps, or internet distractions. This phone was almost exactly what I was looking for, but with one major problem: texting. Here’s what’s wrong with the texting software. First, when you go to the texting options, it gives you: 1. Abc 2. abc 3. ABC 4. 123 5. Writing language So it does not have the T9 option, which predicts words as you type, and makes texting so much easier and faster. With Easyfone, back are the days where you have to hit the number 7 four times to get the letter S. Second, the Abc function is supposed to capitalize only the next letter you type, making it somewhat easy to capitalize names. But with Easyfone, Abc was actually just the same as abc, leaving no way to easily capitalize words. Instead, you have to select ABC, type the first letter, then select Abc or abc, and type the rest of the letters, which is cumbersome and time-consuming. Ideally though, there should be a shortcut on the keypad for capitalizing the next letter, as with dumb phones from many years ago. Third, when I receive a text, a screen pops up that informs me I have a text. But I can’t just click a button to go straight to the text from there. Instead I have to exit out of that screen, then click 5 buttons to access the message. Fourth, each text you receive or send is in its own unique folder which makes it nearly impossible to read through a text conversation. This is opposed to the typical dumb phone which has one folder for each contact with all of your texts sent and received for that contact, and which makes your conversation history much easier. Fifth, sending group texts does not seem to be an option with Easyfone. I had a dumb phone about 4 years ago that did everything well, particularly with texting. That phone became obsolete though, and every dumb phone I’ve tried since then has become progressively dumber and less user friendly in their texting capabilities. Easyfone has certainly taken this decline to the next level. On the positive side, I loved that the phone was smaller and lighter than most dumb phones. If you don't care about texting, and want a very simple phone without a bunch of bells and whistles, this might be a good phone for you.

I have no use for a "Smart Phone" and when my old cell phone became unusable I thought I would have to pay up for something with a ton of features I didn't want. Not so. This phone is perfect for my old-fashioned, stone-age, basic cell phone operation. I went with Tello, for actually a lower monthly cost than I had before with Net10. The only snag was that I didn't know that I would have to buy a 16GB Micro SD card and install it in the phone. This seems to be a nearly outmoded small size for a Micro SD card, and was hard to find at a reasonable price. But installing it and the Tello Sim card was very easy and the phone works perfectly.

Phone itself is fine but very difficult to switch the number of the old phone to this new one, couldn't get it to work so ended up having to get a whole new number which stinks,

This phone worked ok for our needs as a basic call/text only phone at first but eventually had too many problems for us to continue using. The first major issue was a frequent need to be hard reset (power off, sim card removed, etc.). When this issue popped up, the phone was unusable until it was reset. This made the phone a liability for emergency use purposes. Most recently, the microphone has stopped working making the phone effectively useless. It can still text, but calls do not work. Support: Assume you will get no support on the device. There are 2 "Easyfone" companies you will find when looking for support. The one in India is responsive but does not support this phone. The specific seller of this phone FamFun Direct is based in China and their support email is invalid.

Easyfone's functionally is unique because it combines the the old school functionality of a feature phone with some features to make it make it modern like 4g LTE, micro SD card and Bluetooth. This feature phone has no internet capabilities which is one of the special securities. But it could still get minor hacks through the SS7 Protocol Phone System like screen hacks and a shutdown the phone hack will turn into either a shutdown the mic hack or shut down the speaker or disrupts the speaker but for smartphones it just shut it down and the only way to override that is to get pair of wired earbuds with a mic to put it in the 3.5 mm jack. To help keep these minor hacks down you can when have too shut it down immediately which also reduces the chance of an illegal program from getting a trace. A feature phone can be turned off with the SIM card in it versus the smartphone. Because the smartphone has to be shut down and the SIM card is be taken out because it's standby mode it's still actually gets power .Bluetooth does work on the this phone but if you turn it on it can compromise the feature phone. Granted it has different Operating System than IOS or Android. It's Operating System is called an Interface. The feature phone will work with different GSM cellular SIM cards. The catch is to prevent cellular phone account erasings by not accepting cellphone providers app because that puts your phone account online to be erased. Only certain cellphone providers like AT&T (GSM) have two authentication to keep this from happening. Verizon wireless has three authentications but they're CDMA which won't work on this feature phone. The texting is still very old school , it's not like a smartphone. I wish I could find either a wireless keyboard or USB wired keyboard to override that to make it easier but I haven't been able find one yet that's compatible. It can send receive text including receiving picture text but it's very small you can only see it with a really times 10 powered magnifying glass or if you have a computer hook it up to a computer to go through its files. It does have a micro SD slot I haven't checked that one out. Also once in awhile they'll be a light clear screen saying it can't find files on the side of the screen All you have to do is pop one into the battery out and then put it back in and then it'll actually function again. That doesn't happen a lot. Yeah you can set up ring and vibrate but some of these phones once in a while it might be touchy and you'll be wondering why it won't ring you got to look for the icon if there's a speaker with a slash through it and then go in there and turn it back on with that occurs. It does have alarm clock alarm clock settings and they do work. It does have a phone book that you can put contacts into. You could read missed calls through the green phone icon. Certain types of metal siding buildings prevents you from making calls in, you have to go outside the building to get a signal. If you make a phone call and for some reason it says, "You're unable to make calls to this phone number." just hang up and just redial again and it'll just make the call so long it's not international. The FM radio does work. It just has to do a search and it just starts working or preset FM radio channels to be saved. There's an option to play in background and you can manually search channels also. It does have an SOS feature for elderly people. people. It has a future called human voice which reads out phone numbers to you. Now if you don't want that playing to so people here phone numbers make sure it's shut off. And settings you can always reset the date and time and settings, set language, set sound settings, display settings, call settings and it has a setting for network settings and security settings. Overall for for basic functionality it does work but it can protect you long enough till you can get portable internet and a portable internet phone number from Vonage if your smartphone you doesn't have Wi-Fi calling. Vonage does have a two authentication process to log in to its app to prevent account erasings. But but some smartphones have to wait for an update and who knows when the update will come. If you have Wi-Fi calling as a feature built into your smartphone phone then you can go to Ooma home Wi-Fi and get an app and have home Wi-Fi with with Wi-Fi calling. It's about abandoning the cellular providers SIM card because it has a lot of vulnerabilities and going to portable internet which you only have a data only SIM card which drops the the SS7 protocol system keeps the SS7 protocol attacks from happening.

I purchased this for my 90 year old mother and activated it on Mint. It worked great for 3 months and didn’t want to power up. Easyfone support was easy to work with and assured me they will make it right. It turns out the sim card went bad. I put in a new one and the phone is back up and running again. Their support made me feel confident they were there with me along the way. Great support is hard to come by those days.. specially on warranty work and Easyfone set the bar high.