Motorola i50sx Phone (Nextel)

Average customer rating: 3.0

Great phone, did its job well!

WARNING

Great quality, but very outdated

Motorola i50sx Phone (Nextel)

Manufacturer: Motorola
Product Group: Wireless
Binding: Wireless Phone
ASIN: B000067BEF

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Great phone, did its job well!.......2006-04-06

I loved this phone for the almost 4 years (as of April, 2006) I owned it. The ONLY reason I am getting rid of this phone is because it is starting to show signs of being 4 years old, mainly the keypad is starting to act up. The '0' '8' and '7' keys hardly work unless I push very hard, and the '1' and '3' keys are over-sensitive. When I try to dial 386, I get 3336 on the screen. Again, just signs of being used.

Aside from that, who needs color screens, cameras, games and all that on a stupid PHONE? It's a phone, not a computer. So this phone worked well and had all of the services I would EVER need from a PHONE.

It has a caledar/datebook, a calculator, a coupla cheesy games (fine for boring moments while deer hunting!) and web access, shouold you subscribe. I used the datebook and calendar quite a bit for business purposes when I was in a pinch. The datebook is nice for setting alarm reminders of events or to-do's for the day. Saved me quite a few times!

This phone does NOT have GPS ability, or a speakerphone for your phone calls or voicemail...although it does have one for the 2-way walkie-talkie....go figure. Why coudn't they just incorporate those features together? And it has the ability to recevie text messages, but not to SEND them? Again, why?...

A nice phone. Basically the top of the line for the year 2000, 2001. If it was good enough to brag about and show your buddies then, why does everyone think it stinks now?

I recommend this phone highly if you want it as a PHONE with a couple extra little options here and there. If you're 14 and must be as cool as your buddies, then look elsewhere.

WARNING.......2005-07-22

My problems with nextel did not stop when I canceled my service. I will get to the problems with the service. When I went to get a new phone a day before my contract expired, I of course wanted to keep my number. So as I went to get my Cingular phone (highly recommended), I had the old number switched to my new number. Today, I get in the mail my nextel statement for the month with a $200 early termination even though I had not canceled my service, but had simply got a new phone and switched my number over. This was on icing on the cake after 2 years of absolutely amazingy bad service from nextel. In my town, not a small town by any means, there are very few places that have any service. In the largest subdivision, you cannot get service anywhere. I constantly get comments from people trying to reach me that get the classic nextel line...Please hold while the nextel subscriber you are trying to reach is located. Most of the time I would not even recieve incoming calls, calls would go straight to my voice mail. Not only would I not get the calls, but often I would not even get the voice mails until days or even weeks later. When I did actually take calls (and call out), I cannot count the number of times I've had my call dropped. I recieved so many different error messages sometimes I wonder if they just spend all their time at nextel thinking of different error messages to program into their phones. That brings me to the selling point of nextel, the famed and well-loved direct connect feature. This is an absolute joke. Direct connect only works MAYBE half the time I tried to use it. Even then, in the middle of the conversation I would be greeted by the loud beep of my phone telling me I wont be talking to that person anymore. Of course, I would expect nothing less from the nextel network. Text messaging with nextel is next to impossible. If it did not take hours to send or recieve a message, it took days, or maybe didn't even come at all. The internet access was fine, it the rare instance that it worked. Of course, when you don't have service, you don't get the internet access either. I was constantly getting the message "network not available". Calling and trying to complain to nextel is futile. Trying to get through to customer service takes forever and once you get through they do nothing. My experience with nextel has been nothing short of a disaster and I write this trying to warn anyone considering nextel. Stick with Verizon or Cingular and you will be much happier in the end. Don't make the same mistake I did.

Great quality, but very outdated.......2004-10-16

This was a fantastic phone 3 years ago, and while it still has that high level of quality that makes Motorola so great, it is very outdated at this point. Without a color screen, a camera, a calculator or calander, this phone isn't good for much more beyond calling people. It has a strong signal with great audio quality, but it doesn't even have any games (oh no!) So while I wouldn't be too hasty to get rid of this phone if it still serves you well, I also wouldn't run out and buy this phone new.

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