Cricket announced early October of last that it would offer the Kyocera M1000 rebadged as Lingo. It’s a neat-featured phone geared towards people who likes text. The QWERTY keyboard is large and comfy to use. I like the handset’s dual personalities; candy bar form factor for when I need to use it as a phone and flipping it open for instant text messaging or surf the web.
Click over to watch the unboxing video.
The Lingo’s aesthetics could use a few tweaks, otherwise I don’t mind the boxy chassis too much. When opened horizontally, it reminds me of the LG enV but lacks many of the enV’s 3G multimedia features. It has support for Bluetooth, a 1.3-megapixel camera, voice recognition, pretty decent speakerphone, and productivity tools like tip calculator, calendar, stopwatch, alarm clock, and a countdown timer and voice memo. As far as emails go, it supports POP3 and IMAP4.
I haven’t had enough time to test out the talk and standby time, but according to Kyocera, it should give me around 195 minutes of talk time and 150 hours of standby time.
I was surprised to see that the Lingo’s gold accent wasn’t bad looking at all. Cricket is running a $20 web-only discount off the retail price of $199.99. Your grand total is $179.99. Make sure to check back for a more thorough review in a few days.
I had bought the same phone from cricket, and it rounded around 250 dollars
and It broke about two weeks after i’ve had it.
I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone.
look the truth is cricket suuuuuuuuucks period no way would i recommend or ever sell one period.Read the fine print look at the service area.See how many roaming minutes you get i don’t get free text another lie.I cant even understand the people on the phone and to top it off i paid a month in advance they shut my phone off bitches!i couldnt get a local # for a frekin year.The guys on the commercial look like dope dealers and probly are.F cricket.If i go to the store today and im gonna they better fix the problem.Im an artist i will make a good hd video of the problems with them.I have had it.Not everyone has gold teeth and all that mo money they stole from people like me!!
omg virgin mobile has this exact phone for 90 dollars! crikets is a rip off virgin mobile is better. but be carefull wit da phone cuz it can break easily… (u could buy the phone at best buy or radio shack)
comfortably numb
my mom will not let me get it she says it is way to exspensive!11
To be honest, the phone sucks… I don’t have Cricket, but I’m with a local dealer in Hawaii, called Mobi, who is like a sister phone company as Cricket witht he same kind of plans, but anyway, the phone SUCKS. I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone. I LOVE that it’s a QWERTY phone, but the ringer when is so soft, even when it’s on it’s HIGHEST VOLUME! It can’t even wake a sleeping baby. I can’t hear it ringing when I’m like not even more than an arms length away from it. It sucks, ugh!!!! SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS! And I thought I was cool, cause I had a nice, QWERTY phone but no wayyy! I want to GET RID OF IT ASAP! I’ve had it for a year now almost two and it’s like broken, but still works. The part where I flip it open to use the board to text, can’t stay closed. It flips open easily which SUCKS! ha ha ha. UGH! To conclude, this phone sucks!
HEy people listen:
ashley- u must be a kluts cuz i have this phone for like almost a year and it is in perfect condission.
daniel- hey cricket does suck so put pocket its much better trust me a proud customer for 2 years.
jenna- virgin mobile sucks its way to expensive for each montha and u have to buy the stupid card for minutes and pocket and cricket have it unlimited talk and text for $25.
jordyn- no offense but i think ur deapth. i was at a party and everyone heard it maybe u have a low ringtone.
amanda- it is expensive, but if u need it then u wouldnt be in ur problem. if u dont need an expensive phone then get a cheap one.