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Great little phone for the money. Color screen, mobile web browsing capability & even a small led flashlight. Perfect pre-pay phone for people like me who don't talk much but still want a cell with some good features like text, mobile web, and downloadable games images and ringtones. Yeh it doesn't have a camera or mobile instant messaging but if you can part with those things this phone is great. Retails for $20 at the Virgin online store so it's a great bargain & I'm sure that you can find a brand new K10 on eBay for less than that.
Okay... Okay... So I'm no "Geeky Phone Junkie". But I've been toting around the identical twin of this Kyocera K-10 "Royale" to the one offered in this sale since they first came out around 2005 as a "Pay-by-the-Minute" utility phone for that express purpose. Since then, I've managed to beat the Hell out of this "Royale" (You know ...They serve Fries with Mayo in France?... Pulp Fiction) and I've worn out the plastic fascia, cover plate and keys as well. So, since it was in dire need of a facelift... well La-Dee-Dah..."Welcome to eBay" for the solution! For just under 25 Beans with S&H included... this was a steal. It only took me about ten minutes to remove the six, Tiny Torx Screws from my old unit and the six from this new one...and simply swap all the original electronics over to the new case. Along the way, I swapped out the old colour screen,the button speaker and the power connector off the new chassis onto the old one and... Voila! The unit works perfectly and functions as advertised... even with my old but identical gear inside. The newer screen is brighter and now I can simply use the old case and new chassis with my original battery and the old charger fully charged back-up battery... and use the new charger on this amazing little "Re-Built Royale". The idea of doing this translates well I'm sure to many other archaic cell phones...so even if you have some other type or kind of cell-phone...give eBay first dibs on finding you a "DBOM" (Dead Balls On Match) to your own and give your older phone a brand new lease on life. All in all... this is a splendid solution for anyone who is not in love with the latest, greatest cellular telephone technology on older phones that do not have the ability to swap out their precious and established phone number. Even with just a scintilla of technical skill with the special screw driver needed and the patience to keep the parts from dropping off the counter and down into the carpet pile. This story ends well with the idea that this turned out to be one "Royale" deal. PS... I just bought a second, identical one from the same vendor for the same Real Deal Price!Read full review
Excellent features and performance for an entry level pre-pay phone. Neat LED flashlight comes in handy and has predictive text capabilities. Color screen could be better, but for $10 or so, you can't really go wrong. Good battery life too.Can leave in drawer or glove compartment w/o activating and use for emergencies by dialing 911.
5.0 for this. I used this phone with the Virgin Mobile service. It has never broken or anything with all the things I've done to it. Needless to say it still works, but it is in poor shapes, have been through 3 keyboard covering thingys because I dropped it in a store once and all the keys like snapped away and I lost 3 or 4 of them and so I got a new one, that one is starting to wear slowly away, but it's not that big of a biggie. I got the phone in 2004 and it still has SUPERB battery life. The rubber is coming off the side and the phone isn't so pretty anymore, but I have it still as a backup. I man this phone has been tested ultimately. Because I left it outside once all night on the deck and the phone survived. The flashlight proves handy, and helped in many occasions. I hope to you understand that if you can get this phone then it is also a good phone to get. I also had the Kx433 for a short time on Virgin Mobile service. The battery life sucked with that phone and I ended up selling it on the web because of the problems. But I must say that phone got a 5.0 in durability.Read full review
I got this phone because it was cheap. Wow what a surprise I was in for. Not only was it cheap but it was rugged too. Hubby left it on top of a car, it fell off, got run over AND still works. It went flying at a brick wall before too, went into 3 pieces, the main phone, the back, and the battery, put battery and back on again and it worked just like new! cute little color screen easy navigation and the battery is not a piece of crap either. It lasts longer than most of my phones. If you are planning a prepay and don't care about the cameras or other extras this is the way to go!
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