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11:36 pm
June 18, 2013
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I'm still waiting to buy a Speakout cellphone for only emergency purposes. Is the Huawei Ascend Y215 worth the $149 price or should I settle for the Alcatel 356 for $49?
3:59 am
April 22, 2009
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neither are very good. Look for a cheap Rogers phone on kijiji instead.
12:09 pm
October 14, 2008
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Totally agree. That is a crap phone. Much better options out there.
12:49 pm
June 18, 2013
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Is the new iPhone 5c possible to use with Speakout?
1:11 pm
April 22, 2009
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It is possible. You have to cut the Speakout SIM to size to fit the iphone 5 though.
7:44 am
September 22, 2009
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emergency said:
I'm still waiting to buy a Speakout cellphone for only emergency purposes. Is the Huawei Ascend Y215 worth the $149 price or should I settle for the Alcatel 356 for $49?
I wouldn't recommend the Huwaei Ascend. The Alcatel 356 has the advantage of being dirt cheap, and since it's a feature phone, the battery life will be better, which for an emergency only phone, may be more important. If you're going to leave the phone in the car, for example, go with the Alcatel.
Personally, I picked up a Rogers Lumia 520 back in August (it was on sale for $99, sadly, it's $149). For the same price as the Ascend, it's a solid phone, and has a terrific offline (ie. no data connection required) GPS, which makes it a great phone to keep in the car for emergencies.
2:57 pm
June 18, 2013
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Thanks for the replies. Since I'm not in much of a hurry, maybe I'll just wait for Speakout's next free phone offer.
7:17 pm
October 14, 2013
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I'm using the Alcatel 356,an to be honest, it is "basic." But I have found it to be fine for my needs. It has good call quality (clarity and volume) and texting is quite easy for my larger than average fingers. I can easily recommend it as a simple "emergency" phone.
10:00 pm
January 6, 2014
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well... before i bought the huawei phone, i think it is a lousy product as there are too many people saying this. However, after I purchased it (like a gambling), I can tell you that it is a really good phone.
it is a nice pretty fast phone. It also has GPS, I installed 20+ new apps to it and it can send half the files to memory card and save up more space for other apps. Good!
I am not a frequent user who need to use high end apple and samsung.
If you are just a regular user of phone and internet and apps, it should be enough for you.
7-11 speakout is not stupid. do you think it will use a "garbage" phone to destroy its brand name?
NO!
1:07 am
April 22, 2009
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Speakout has from it's inception, been selling awful phones. It never really hurt their reputation that much, because the phone may have been awful, but they were cheap. These phones, for the most part, did their job.
The Huawei Ascend Y215 is getting panned because it is a rather expensive phone for what you get. You can get the Huawei Ascend Y300 using a Jelly Bean OS for $60 at future shop/Best Buy/Walmart etc... and it is a much better phone than the Y215. I gave the Huawei Ascend Y215 a drubbing mainly because I had my hand on a Bell version, which only had Gingerbread OS 2.3.3, and the experience was truly awful. At least the Speakout version uses ICS 4.0.4 But again, the price is too high for what you get.
10:50 pm
January 6, 2014
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I changed my mind after I buy and use the Acer phone on May 1.
Check my other post about the Acer phone!
The Acer phone is powerful compared to the junk Huawei! That is what i think now.
i'll not buy huawei or lenovo or motorola phone again. they are all the similar china products.
so junk!
Taiwan Acer is great!
