Samsung SGH SGH-A137 Cell Phone
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- Screen Size (Diagonal): 2 inch
- Connectivity: Bluetooth
- Performance: Dual Band
- Design: Mobile
- Style: Clamshell
- Location: aGPS
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When all this phone business turns you into a minimalist...
Pros
It has the bare essentials of a phone. The price tag is amazing. $30!
Cons
The back fell off immediately for me. Not necessarily a con. No blue tooth.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Trash your iPhone and buy this. For the sake of humanity!
This is your grandad's pipe.Post modern phones/iphones is the newfangled generation's LSD.
Presenting you with a vast array of colors and confusion making you zone out into your own little virtual world.
This is your dad's '88 Camry. It's solid, it's reliable... sure I lost the battery cover to it within 48 hours of owning it, but doggonit no phone's perfect. The missing battery cover isn't actually that much of a burden because the battery almost never falls out. Plus, it makes turning off the phone a breeze. Perhaps this what rabbis would call a remez, which is a hint at something hidden deeper. I think that there was an improvising hero on the assembly line who knew that this was good decision making. We shouldn't be so into the externals of a phone. Usually the only people who have iPhones without cracked screens are CEOs who go through screen protectors like Cheetos. What's that supposed to mean? I don't know.
After blowing through 3 or 4 iPhones I decided to opt for this. Apps are just about useless if you think about it. This is the most raw phone you can imagine. It is the quintessence of what a phone should offer.
It makes calls.
You can make the voice on the other line very loud or very quiet.
The voice on the other line is clear.
The speaker phone is loud. It's not like the iPhone where if you get a piece of lint in the ear part you have to buy a new phone.
It is extremely easy to navigate, partially because it doesn't really do anything.
It has texting and the buttons bulge out so it's extremely easy to text.
You can get to your contacts FAST. You can text multiple contacts at a time.
It is a phone with an exoskeleton. The outside has nothing but hard plastic. You want a screen to see who's calling before you have to go through the work to open your phone? Too bad, but this disciplines you.
You can either have it answer the phone immediately when you open it, or answer after you check who's calling. For a while I just had it set where it answered automatically; it made things mysterious- plus it made it so I couldn't avoid anyone! That's something a phone should let you do. Teaches discipline.
It is a humbling experience.
You can load real songs in as your ringtones.
There are no games to distract you.
It comes preloaded with a picture of a barn as its wallpaper; it is honest about its market. It has instant messenger, a tip converter, currency converter, calendar, alarm, calculator, world time, stopwatch, timer, internet, vibration, and predictive texting. Amazing battery life. I can go days and days without charging. It says it has 5 hours of talk time.I've had it for probably around 3-5 months (time flies, perhaps the phone is what makes it fly) and it still has a screen that looks brand new.
But most important is its price tag. It is $30. Not with a contract. No. $30 flat. No contract. Just pop your sim card in and it will work. It's a gophone. It works with AT&T. You can get it at Radioshack. Trash your iPhone and buy this. Please! For the sake of humanity! Here's to a humbler generation. Clinks a glass.
Presenting you with a vast array of colors and confusion making you zone out into your own little virtual world.
This is your dad's '88 Camry. It's solid, it's reliable... sure I lost the battery cover to it within 48 hours of owning it, but doggonit no phone's perfect. The missing battery cover isn't actually that much of a burden because the battery almost never falls out. Plus, it makes turning off the phone a breeze. Perhaps this what rabbis would call a remez, which is a hint at something hidden deeper. I think that there was an improvising hero on the assembly line who knew that this was good decision making. We shouldn't be so into the externals of a phone. Usually the only people who have iPhones without cracked screens are CEOs who go through screen protectors like Cheetos. What's that supposed to mean? I don't know.
After blowing through 3 or 4 iPhones I decided to opt for this. Apps are just about useless if you think about it. This is the most raw phone you can imagine. It is the quintessence of what a phone should offer.
It makes calls.
You can make the voice on the other line very loud or very quiet.
The voice on the other line is clear.
The speaker phone is loud. It's not like the iPhone where if you get a piece of lint in the ear part you have to buy a new phone.
It is extremely easy to navigate, partially because it doesn't really do anything.
It has texting and the buttons bulge out so it's extremely easy to text.
You can get to your contacts FAST. You can text multiple contacts at a time.
It is a phone with an exoskeleton. The outside has nothing but hard plastic. You want a screen to see who's calling before you have to go through the work to open your phone? Too bad, but this disciplines you.
You can either have it answer the phone immediately when you open it, or answer after you check who's calling. For a while I just had it set where it answered automatically; it made things mysterious- plus it made it so I couldn't avoid anyone! That's something a phone should let you do. Teaches discipline.
It is a humbling experience.
You can load real songs in as your ringtones.
There are no games to distract you.
It comes preloaded with a picture of a barn as its wallpaper; it is honest about its market. It has instant messenger, a tip converter, currency converter, calendar, alarm, calculator, world time, stopwatch, timer, internet, vibration, and predictive texting. Amazing battery life. I can go days and days without charging. It says it has 5 hours of talk time.I've had it for probably around 3-5 months (time flies, perhaps the phone is what makes it fly) and it still has a screen that looks brand new.
But most important is its price tag. It is $30. Not with a contract. No. $30 flat. No contract. Just pop your sim card in and it will work. It's a gophone. It works with AT&T. You can get it at Radioshack. Trash your iPhone and buy this. Please! For the sake of humanity! Here's to a humbler generation. Clinks a glass.
