TracFone My Flip 2 4G LTE Prepaid Flip Phone (Locked) - Black - 4GB - Sim Card Included - CDMA

I ordered this basic flip phone for my 74 year old father. I liked that the phone is affordable and it has bigger buttons. I also like the SOS button on the exterior of the flip phone. I was able to fully customize it to accommodate my father's needs and set it up to be easier to use for him and more user-friendly. It wasn't exactly user-friendly at first until I changed half of the settings on it. The instructions that came with the phone are not that well-written to understand if you aren't good with setting up cellphones, but fortunately I set up my entire family's smartphones and flip phones so I would say that I am an expert at it. This is the third flip phone from tracfone that I have had to set up for my father so I knew what I needed to do regardless of the poor instructions. His 1st flip phone from Tracfone was discontinued, his 2nd flip was a little complicated for him to use well, and this 3rd flip phone is way better than his LG class flip phone. Typing the alphabet on this Alcatel phone is a little complicated (took me 5 minutes to realize it's new typing style) until I went into Settings and changed it to the old typing style of older flip phones. Once you change it to the older typing style, it is easier to setup his contacts and to use text messaging. If you only want to make calls, it is perfect...just type in the number and hit the green button to call or hit to the red button to hang up. I set it up to automatically answer calls when he flips his phone open and hang up when he closes the flip. I like how it tells you on the exterior display of the phone who is calling you. You can change the text to larger text in settings to make it easier to read for the visually impaired. I had to set up his entire contact list which is easier to type his contacts if you mess with the typing/keyboard in Settings first like I already mentioned. It was easy to change the display, volume, brightness, ring tones, and notification tones. You can set it to "read aloud" but I disabled it because I found it to be annoying but it may be useful if you are hard of hearing. I like the SOS button on the outside which I programmed it to my phone number. You have to press the SOS button 3 times in order to make the SOS call. You have to press it 4 times if the phone is currently sleeping. The 1st press is to wake the phone up, then hit it 3 times until you see the green dot which means it is calling your emergency contact. I suggest getting your phone set up by someone technologically savvy with phones who can make it as simple as possible for you to use. Overall, I like this flip phone after changing its settings. It is better than the previous 2 flip phones that he owned.

I thought I had the original My Flip before being handed a company iPhone at a news agency I worked. In any case, I had one that was very similar, and it was from Alcatel. I missed that little phone the whole time I had the iPhone, which I never warmed to because it I knew I'd have to give it back one day.That day came, and I knew I wanted a pre-paid Tracfone and Googled "Tracfone." This was one of the first things I saw, and I was like "My old phone!" I didn't even look at anything else. I read a lot of reviews that mention difficulty with setting it up. I had no trouble. In fact, it all felt so familiar. But I had an advantage. I bought it a whole week before I had to give up the iPhone, so I had plenty of time to set it up the way I wanted before registering it.I guess this would be classified as a dumb phone, but I'd call it more of a hybrid smart/dumb phone. It does have some smartphone capabilities, like talk-to-text using Google Assistant. It also comes preloaded with some decent apps. I'm on Facebook a lot, and there's an app for that, which I appreciate. There's also a little suite of Google apps, including Google Maps, Google Assistant, the Google search engine, and YouTube. Browsing the internet is a pain because you have to use the number pad to navigate. But some of the preloaded, apps as well as some that I downloaded from the KaiOS app store, provide a slightly more user-friendly experience and are designed for small screens.When I think about the iPhone, I know I didn't tap into half of what it was capable of. But everything I did with it I can also do with the My Flip 2: make calls, send texts, send and receive pics and videos, check my mail, and surf the net. If texting with the number pad was the only option, that would be frustrating, but I'm used to it and use it for quick texts and responses. But Google Assistant is super easy to use and convenient. When you're in the text field, press and hold the center OK button until Google Assistant comes on. Say exactly what you want the text to say, then hit send.As part of my daily routine now, I turn on the activity tracker I downloaded from the app store so I can log the number of miles I walk per day, turn on the phone's FM radio, tune into my favorite local jazz station, and head out the door. The activity tracker gives me updates on my progress about every 20 minutes or so. Pretty cool. I love this quirky little phone, perhaps more than I should.

Much like a flip-phone I had many years ago, but with more cool stuff. So, about $20.00 with sim card. I bought this as a backup/secondary device. Charged the device and installed a 32GB SD card with music. Not a bad music player. (+). Connected to my home wifi (+). Meh camera and video, but at this price point; not terrible.A lot of handy features for $20 flip-phone. Navigation is pretty straightforward given the limited inputs.Online activation did not go well for me. I had to call to activate the phone and get the basic talk/text plan. Then, as a new Tracfone customer I had one heck of a time creating an accessible Tracfone account. Still hasn't happened. Talked with John regarding not being able to enter my password multiple times (min. 8 characters). Thanks to Ella and John for trying their best to help me. Phone works well in making calls and texts...and as a music player. I may end up just calling Tracfone to add minutes. Your experience may be different.