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12:29 am
November 15, 2012
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starting nov 16 alcatel 365 phone is free w/$100 card purchase. not sure for how long..
edit: https://www.speakout7eleven.ca/prepaid-phones-promotions
"Fulfill your QWERTY wishes this holiday with the Alcatel 356 and type, tap, and scroll away during your holiday festivities. Act now and get the Alcatel 356 for free* with the purchase of a $100 Top Up. Can you say, easy gift giving? And because you've been extra good this year, we'll throw in an extra $25 Bonus Top Up with that $100 Top Up purchase*"
"* Free Alcatel 356 available only with the purchase of $100 SpeakOut top up. Plus applicable taxes. Offer subject to change without notice. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Limited time offer, while supplies last. Phone and top up must be purchased in the same transaction in order to receive the promotional discount. ** $100 Top Up must be activated by December 31, 2012 to automatically receive $25 bonus top up."
Add the $5 you get that's the phone+sim+$130 for your $100 (and a bit of aggrevation when figuring out txt to SMS and vice versa) not as good as I hoped for the services you get or the phone, but do able...
6:39 pm
January 3, 2011
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Web site says till Dec. 31/12. If you activate airtime by Dec. 31/12 you get a $25.00 bonus airtime.
7:08 pm
October 14, 2008
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December 30, 2010
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lovely, thanks.
12:48 pm
July 29, 2011
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I fully expect the Alcatel 356 is locked to the Speakout/Rogers network, but does anyone who has one know for sure please? Thanks.
1:03 pm
October 14, 2008
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You can practically guarantee it. All the phones sold by SpeakOut in the last couple years have been locked.
2:49 pm
December 30, 2010
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there seems to be unlock code available either free or at about 4 euro. However, for such a phone, even 1 euro may be too much. where else would one use it ? US ATT/T-mobile ? why carry such a phone when you go to the states ?
8:03 pm
July 29, 2011
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Yes, precisely. I can't think of much use for this Alcatel phone.
I can top up online and not bother with yet another free phone - or invest some additional time and effort going to the store and pick up one of these free. But I can't think of a use for it so why bother?
However, if it was unlocked ... then being able to put in a US SIM card in it would actually be very useful when crossing the border. All my other phones are locked to Rogers and/or Rogers' Speakout.
10:35 am
December 8, 2009
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... plus is only a dual band 850/1900MHz phone only. Would've prefer a quad band unit, then I can consider paying to get it unlocked (and use wherever I travel to). Still, it's a little X-mas freebie that Speakout put out every year (ie. last year it was te Nokia 1661).
1:16 pm
December 30, 2010
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it is a nice christmas present from SO every year. I just grab the thing and sold in on kijiji without even opening it, just an extra discount
there are people who may find good use of it
10:20 pm
December 1, 2009
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Obed said:
I fully expect the Alcatel 356 is locked to the Speakout/Rogers network, but does anyone who has one know for sure please? Thanks.
That's what I thought too.
But this phone (or at least the one I got) is completely unbranded and looks to be possibly already unlocked . . . or else impossible to unlock.
I jumped the gun and bought an unlock code for 1.50 US before even trying a different SIM, but then tried other sims, and they SEEM to work without prompting for unlock. Reason I say SEEM is because they are two deactivated accounts sim's.
When I try any way of entering the code to unlock nothing happens (that's why I say possibly impossible to unlock). And it doesn't pop up with "locked" or "unlock code:" or anything.
Can anyone else confirm?
5:39 am
November 24, 2012
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The Alcatel 356 I bought at 7-Eleven appears to be already unlocked. I inserted an active T-Mobile USA SIM and it works fine. I haven't had it in the US yet so it has only roamed on Rogers. I assume this means it will work on most networks throughout the Americas.
It's also interesting that in the gallery of wallpaper images that comes preloaded on the phone is the logo for H2O wireless, a US provider that uses the AT&T network.
5:03 pm
July 29, 2011
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Thanks eee and david754 for the updates.
6:50 am
March 12, 2009
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So, could any of you who have this phone give us a little review of it?
Also, how long do you have before you have to activate the $100 voucher? I really don't need to add money to mine for several months.
OK, I did my duty and searched the forum, and it appears that the voucher is good for one year. However, do I have to activate during the promotion period in order to get the extra $25 credit? If I activate it in the spring, do I lose the bonus?
10:39 am
April 23, 2009
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** $100 Top Up must be activated by December 31, 2012 to automatically receive $25 bonus top up.
https://www.speakout7eleven.ca/prepaid-phones-promotions/free-alcatel-356
This is a great deal. For $100 + tax = $112.00 you get
$100 air time + $25 bonus air time + $10 sim + $5 included air time = $140.00 value
The phone is basically disposable, that's my review.
Enjoy =)
11:32 am
December 27, 2011
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Picked it up last night, quite impressed by this little phone so far. The thing that got me to want to keep using it is that it's super light. 80 grams only and pretty thin. Sure, it's wide as it has the full size keyboard but it fits in the pocket nicely. I hate using a numerical keypad for sending short text msgs, so this full keyboard is great. it is a basic phone but it has some nice features, while lacking some important one. Very hard to find reviews on it online so here's a few things you should know:
- It DOES NOT have bluetooth, so in order to copy your pictures to your computer you need to use a micro SD card (not included). I can't find info if it accepts SDHD cards, so if someone can please confirm this, let us know. I'd like an answer before I go out and buy a card.
- It has a VGA only camera that I think only takes stills. Can't testify to the quality as stated above, I don't have a micro SD card to transfer the pics to my computer and, well, it has no bluetooth
- it has a speakerphone
- it has FM radio and comes with headphones that connects to to the USB port (same used for charging the unit with the wall plug). Also lets you play music files that you add to the micro sd card.
- has calculator, calendar, 500 contacts, alarm, stopwatch, converter, fake call, games and seems to be a very good lasting battery.
- Internet browser and email, although I don't know if this can be used with Speakout. Someone please confirm.
- don't know if the phone will accept sims other than Speakout. Someone please confirm.
All in all a great little phone, it seems, the best end-of-year package from 7 Eleven I've seen. Seems durable enough and well, so lightweight. A huge step up I think, from the other crappy Nokia offerings. I'm now getting another as wife's minutes are over. Worst case I'll put the second phone up for sale on kijiji for a few bucks, along with one or two of the $5 worth of minutes with their sims.
6:09 pm
March 12, 2009
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- don't know if the phone will accept sims other than Speakout. Someone please confirm.
I got the free phone with my $100 top-up and I can assure everyone that the phone is unlocked. I put my Mobal sim card (which has its phone number in England) in and it connected to Rogers.
But I do find those tiny keys hard to press accurately.
10:29 am
May 15, 2012
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You can also charge the phone with a usb cable from your phone to your laptop (as well as the wall plug charger that comes with it) I charge this phone in my car from a usb port in the radio.
3:18 pm
December 27, 2011
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46jumbo, that is very true, those keys are tiny to the point that dialling is difficult. Last night when I left a Pizza Hut angry as they didn't have my pizza order ready (second time this happens, that stupid 310-1010 number is useless - what a pathetic company, Pepsico is) it was my intent to call up the wife to let her know I was going elsewhere for pizza - it was impossible to dial while walking. I had to first get inside the car to be able to see the super tiny keys and the even smaller numbers printed on them. That is certainly an annoyance for someone with good eyesight but a sure disaster for those that can't see well or have fingers as thick as bananas. Still though, I'm all for light phones and this thing is truly remarkably light, so for the time I'm going to continue using it. Although I do suspect it won't be long till I toss it out the window, so we'll see how long the vanity lasts.
Anyone can confirm if this phone will accept micro sdhc cards? Manual says sd but it also says a max size of 4 gig, which I thought is what sdhc are.
